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• New book series hopes to inspire research in worlds hottest biodiversity hotspot

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 120
  Entomologist Dmitry Telnov hopes his new pet project will inspire and disseminate research about one of the worlds last unexplored biogeographical regions: Wallacea and New Guinea. Incredibly rich in biodiversity and still full of unknown species, the region, also known as the Indo-Australian transition, spans many of ...
  1 week ago

• Cyborg Beetles: Future Military Spies

  
  FinestDaily | Tech News, Gadgets, How To, Download, Games & more — Authority: 112
  American scientists are on the verge of making cyborg beetles a reality. Researchers from theUnited Statesare getting close to successfully creating cyborg insects that may serve purposes like spying and recon operations. This project was made a reality with the funding received from theUSAarmy, cyborg beetles being ...
  2 weeks ago

• Help me build up a Louis Wain art collection.

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 643
  Help me build up a Louis Wain art collection. Late last year I was browsing the Chapters Indigo website and on one of their holiday recommendations lists I came across the newly-published Louis Wain art book Louis Wains Cats by Chris Beetles. I liked the books description and performed a Google Image Search for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 103
  Great Sand Dunes National Park | Saguache and Alamosa Counties, Colorado (click for 1680 x 887 version) Last year’s Annual Fall Tiger Beetle Trip  entered its last day as an unqualified success. Travel partner Jeff Huether and I were doing the “Great Western Sand Dune Tour” on a quest to find and photograph ...
  2 weeks ago

• Memories of summer – Neoclytus scutellaris

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 103
  Neoclytus scutellaris | 9 July 2011, Wayne Co., Missouri During the short, cold days of winter it’s nice to take a break from the curatorial activities that dominate the season and look back on some of the insects seen during the previous summer. This is Neoclytus scutellaris , a longhorned beetle associated ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chelsea Pines Inn – New York

  
  College Debt Tips and Advice — Authority: 133
  Over the summer I made plans to spend four fall days in New York City. True to my hopes the weather was absolutely perfect this October weekend. Booking a flight was the easy part. Finding a place to stay was not. I have a few friends in NYC, but like many New Yorkers their places are small and or shared. I didn’t ...
  2 weeks ago

• Something for Adrian

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 103
  Miscellaneous North American Cerambycidae - click for larger version (1680 x 1120). In a comment  on my Buprestidae exchange  post, Adrian Thysse  asked to see hi-res images of specimen drawers from my own collection. Like any good North American entomologist, Adrian was a little bothered by the card-mounting ...
  2 weeks ago

• My Favorite Music: Beetles?

  
  Abnormalogue — Authority: 107
  Okay, so you’ll notice there’s no list.  That is not by accident.  There will be a list but this will be a difficult chore for me. You see, I am musically retarded.  Yes, I’ve finally admitted it.  I discovered The Beatles in college in 1988 and I got into them.  Red faced, embarrassed. So I do have music ...
  2 weeks ago

• Predators too prefer food with nutritional value

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Sydney, Jan 13 (IANS) Predators can also be quite finicky about food, preferring that which offers high nutritional value rather than calorie content.A new study has found that such insect predators, given a choice of food, will select a diet that maximises their chances of reproducing. “Contrary to standard dogma, ...
  2 weeks ago

• 10 Common Garden Pests And How To Deal With Them

  
  TH Services Blog — Authority: 107
  A garden requires a lot of work to keep it beautiful or/and to harvest plenty of delicious fruits and vegetables. Letting it being destroyed by the pests is therefore something a gardener simply cannot afford. Providing garden plants optimal conditions for growth and taking care of pest prevention measures such as ...
  2 weeks ago

• ID Challenge #15

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 103
  Who am I, and where do I live? It’s been almost a month since the last challenge, and since Alex got back to his roots  I think I’ll do likewise. This is a straight up identification—the order and family are obvious (or should be), so I’m going to limit ID points to genus and species. However, to make up ...
  2 weeks ago

• Extreme sexual dimorphism in Buprestidae: Xenorhipis hidalgoensis

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 103
  Yesterday I received in the mail a package of specimens for identification from Dan Heffern in Houston, Texas. I first began corresponding with Dan about 25 years ago—not long after I myself became interested in Coleoptera, and as an avid collector of longhorned beetles (family Cerambycidae) Dan knows a thing or ...
  3 weeks ago

• Flower Longhorn, Probably from Wisconsin

  
  The Backyard Arthropod Project — Authority: 98
  In the summer of 2011, we all took a weekend trip to Madison, Wisconsin[1]. When we got back, on July 11, we found this beetle in the car, crawling on our luggage. It could have been picked up anywhere along the way, but most likely it got into the car either when we stopped to [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Best of BitB 2011

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 103
  Welcome to the 4th Annual BitB Top 10, where I get to pick my 10 (more or less) favorite photographs of the year. As an insect macrophotographer I still feel like a relative newcomer, although with three seasons under my belt fewer and fewer people seem to be buying it anymore. Granted I’ve learned a lot during ...
  4 weeks ago

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