ENTOMOLOGY

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• Party in Indianapolis

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 555
  Yes. It will TOTALLY be like this It’s time for the Entomological Society Annual Meeting –who wants to party with Bug Girl in Indy? I’ll be there from Dec. 13th to the 15th, and return on the 16th. I promise, I will wear pants this time. I’d love to have a NatureBlogger meet up, or chat to local ...
  1 day ago

• Cicadetta kansa in Oklahoma

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 458
  Another of the insects that I saw this past June at Four Canyon Preserve in northwestern Oklahoma was this small cicada, Cicadetta kansa. Though not as small as the diminutive Beameria venosa (see North America’s smallest cicada), their barely audible call – a soft buzz – makes them even more difficult to ...
  3 days ago

• Vote! (on my identity)

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 555
  I keep getting more and more interesting things coming my way as Bug Girl…but the problem is, I like being Bug Girl, and not ( fill in real name here ).  Keeps life simpler, and boss happy. What do you think? Should I give up and come out? View This Poll survey software Posted in Entomology Tagged: ...
  4 days ago

• Word of the day: Egregious

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 555
  egregious : Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion. Outrageously bad. Example: this headline from Science Daily: Fruit Fly Sperm Makes Females Do Housework After Sex Seriously. How freakin’ embedded in your culture do you have to be to project your heteronormist, ...
  5 days ago

• G.H. Bloodworm (gwilym hughes midge larva pattern)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 138
  GHBloodworm Make sure the ribbing is strong enough to cinch down, but not too thick (a red wire could work too). Also, keep the ribbing wraps tight to avoid a loosely bound over lay of the glass rib; otherwise the top of the body will rotate and weaken. Posted in Bugs, entomology, Fish, flies, fly pattern, fly ...
  6 days ago

• A bid for OpenLab

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 458
  I’m going to do something I’ve not yet done before—ask for your support.  OpenLab is an annual compilation of the year’s best science-blog writing, as determined by a panel of judges, and the closing date for submissions for 2009 is December 1st—this coming Tuesday.  I’ve vacilated about whether to ...
  6 days ago

• Shiny Taxonomic Key is SHINY!

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 555
  There is now an online key to the 86 species of Chrysididae in North America! It is, of course, quite useful, but the best parts are all the detailed photos of these lovely Hymenopterans. Thanks go to Nigel Jones for his lovely photo which you must view at full size, and to the Patuxent Wildlife Research ...
  6 days ago

• Oops! Ants

  
  The ko Box — Authority: 127
  Sometimes when you cut up bamboo for kindling (for the wood stove fire) ya might find a lil family living inside the hollow & cozy stalk! This whole colony of black ants fell out of a piece of bamboo onto the floor... In order to get them back together, I took a broom and gently swept them into a dust pan. Bort ...
  1 week ago

• Flying Things

  
  urban daisy — Authority: 110
        It’s butterfly time.  : )
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• A “Really” Big-headed Tiger Beetle

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 458
  In my recent summary of the latest issue of the journal Cicindela, I included a scan of the cover of that issue and its stunning image of the 3rd-instar larva of Megacephala megacephala¹ from Africa.  This otherwordly-looking, four-eyed beast was photographed with jaws agape at the entrance to its burrow in ...
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• Tying the Carey Special (Stillwater Dragon or Caddis Imitation)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 138
  This a great stillwater pattern popular in the Pacific NW and B.C. and for all I know beyond. I have never fished it for stream born insects but imagine it could serve well as an October Caddis. The dubbed body can be replaced by a wound body of yarn, chenille or the classic…peacock herl. The hardest part of the fly ...
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• Update on the Donors Choose Challenge!

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 555
  The Donors Choose Challenge is now over, and the project to get more nature bloggers involved was a success!! The total amount given for the Nature Blogs Group was $5,170.  That put our group at #11–not quite in the top 10, but still pretty darn good!  That also is quite a bit more than I managed by myself last ...
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• Photo From You: Insect Identification

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 127
  This comment and photo were emailed to us on the blog a few days ago. “My friend was out on the Katy prarie the other day and left her window down. Upon her return to the vehicle, she discovered nearly 100 of these little guys swarming inside her Tahoe. Can you please tell me what they are?” The insect in ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Longing: Bugs and the Victorians

  
  Pickle Me This — Authority: 129
  After reading this review in the LRB , I am dying to read Bugs and the Victorians . My own interest in literary entomology (because believe it or not, Ive got one!) arose via Virginia Woolf, who wrote about bugs a lot, and also wrote a wonderful fictionalized biographical sketch of Eleanor Ormerod in The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stinky chemical might be key to trapping mosquito

  
  Science and Environment — Authority: 130
  Why do mosquitoes love us so much? It turns out humans and birds emit a volatile chemical that draws in the species of mosquito known to carry West Nile Virus . University of California, Davis researchers spent three years figuring out that the culex mosquito is attracted to both birds and people by the scent of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ugly Bugs?

  
  Myrmecos Blog — Authority: 424
  Andy Deans of NCSU rightly rakes ASU over the coals for their Ugly Bugs contest: Denigrating insect species, broadly labeled here as bugs does a disservice to those of us who fight daily to convince a skeptical public…
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• Two New Endangered Species in Kentucky

  
  Pajamadeen.com — Authority: 114
  An unassuming-looking Kentucky wildflower that grows nowhere in the world but Bullitt County and Jefferson County is on track for federal designation as an endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has released its latest list of candidates eligible for protection under the Endangered Species Act ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2010 Native Bee Calendar!

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 555
  Just in time for the holidays–Xerces has a new native bee calendar! “The Xerces Society and the Great Sunflower Project are happy to offer the 2010 Native Bee Calendar , which was created by Celeste Ets-Hokin. With magnificent close-up photos by Rollin Coville, this calendar takes you on a tour of twelve ...
  2 weeks ago

• Moustached Tiger Beetle

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 458
  In my previous post, I featured the rare Cicindela highlandensis (Highlands Tiger Beetle), restricted entirely to sand scrubland and pine woodland habitats along the Lake Wales Ridge in central Florida (Choate 2003).  However, that would not be the only Florida endemic tiger beetle that I would encounter during my ...
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• Wheel Bug

  
  The ko Box — Authority: 127
  Wheel Bug!!! I never thought I would see another one of these again- the first time I encountered one I got a call from my neighbor in Asheville saying "Leslie, CoMe SEe ThIS CraZy BuG On My PorCh!" We had no idea what it was till a commenter on this blog identified it as the rarely (or never) seen by humans wheel ...
  2 weeks ago

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