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• Dragons & Damsels (State by State)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  “First things first.  The scientific name for the order to which the dragonflies and damselflies belong is called Odonata .  Entomologists like me often call the insects belonging to this group odonates .” “The American odonates are divided into two groups, the damselflies (scientific name = Zygoptera) ...
  4 hours ago

• Book Review: At Large and Small

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 452
  Ann Fadiman. At Large and Small: Familiar Essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2007. Bug Rating: I freely admit to being an Anne Fadiman fan-girl. Ex Libris is easily one of my favorite books. The Spirit Catches You is an amazing book about culture, epilepsy, immigration, and they way we don’t ...
  1 day ago

• Monday Moth: White-tipped Black Moth

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 514
  When is a ctenuchid moth not a ctenuchid moth?  When it’s a White-tipped Black Moth (Melanchroia chephise) in the family Geometridae!I may be a beetle guy, but I also consider myself a competent general entomologist.  What is a competent general entomologist?  Someone who can identify any insect to order at ...
  2 days ago

• Tying a Hairwing Dun-Emerger (But, a Well Known Caddis Pattern too)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  I frankly never remember to tie these patterns. How simple while churning out dozens of Elk Hair Caddis (EHC) to simply tie the Hairwing Dun. Whether, the tail is a traditional split tail of hackle fibers or as I tied it with Zelon/Antron fibers, the pattern does well as a mayfly dry pattern (and a caddis too). ...
  4 days ago

• Fly Tying…the Dredging Pupa (Chuck and You Better Duck)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  The pattern is a heavily weighted and meant for lobbing and dredging on a short, controlled drift..ala Czech Nymphing. The fly possesses all the weight required to sink to the bottom of any deep drift. I did not weight the hook, but instead bought hooks with molded lead (they come with titanium). Such hooks are ...
  5 days ago

• Beetle Research Roundup

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 514
  The latest issue of the journal Cicindela arrived in my mailbox today, and as usual some interesting papers are included.  For those of you unfamiliar with it, Cicindela is “a quarterly journal devoted to the Cicindelidae,” publishing papers dealing with any aspect of the study of tiger beetles. Founded in 1968 ...
  5 days ago

• TwitCause Tweet-a-thon for Bees

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  TwitCause is helping honeybees this week!  For every tweet this (starting at 12:01 AM ET, Thursday November 5th to 11:59 PM ET, Wednesday November 11th) that includes #HelpHoneyBees, Häagen-Dazs will donate $1 to the Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. They are doing amazing research into the causes of ...
  5 days ago

• Teachers, Astronauts, and butterflies

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 452
  A cool opportunity for teachers!! WANTED: Up to 20 schools (in the U.S., east of the Rocky Mountains) to follow the development of monarchs on the International Space Station. Background The next Space Shuttle launch is scheduled for November 16th. Atlantis will carry three 4th instar monarch caterpillars to ...
  5 days ago

• Britains Worst Serial Killer Arrested

  
  The Global News Terrorists — Authority: 124
  The Merseyside Police Force is currently investigating a local man in connection to a string of disappearances over the last 30 years.50 year old Albert Fish was arrested at his home on Tuesday evening after a tip off that a string of girlfriends have disappeared under very suspicious circumstances.Mr Fish who was ...
  6 days ago

• Meet the Savior of the Brown Water, the Oil Spill Gordon

  
  Singlebarbed — Authority: 469
  There’s a certain contentment knowing coarse fish will be around to confuse and entertain future generations of fly fishermen. They’ll be speaking with the same awe of “Silver’s”, “Grass”, and “Common’s” that we’ve reserved for Brown, Brook, and Rainbow. … and while they’ll continue to ...
  6 days ago

• And now for something completely different

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 452
  Sorry to be a downer lately…I’m realizing that I have to go look for a job soon, and it’s rather a bummer. How about a pretty picture?  Ursja has uploaded more beautiful beetle photos! OMGSHINY!! Posted in Entomology, Insects Tagged: coleoptera, photo, pretty, shiny
  1 week ago

• Winding CDC as a Wing (Too Much…Just Right)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  Two things here: First, I over hackled or wrapped the CDC feather and it is a bit too busy. Second, how cool does that CDC feather look!? Look at all the mini-barbs on each individual barb. Amazing capability to gather water droplets. Now here is how the fly should look properly dressed. Just Right (Sooty Dry by ...
  1 week ago

• Tying a Dark Nymph w/ Beard

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  This is a nice nymph pattern I have tied for years. Size 14-16 hook, 8/0 black thread. Dark dun hackle barbs are used for the tail and the wingcase. A copper wire rib is tied in at the bend. A dry fly quality dun hackle is tied in at the bend by the tip and tightly palmered up the shank of the hook in the abdomen ...
  1 week ago

• Berry Go Round #21

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 514
  Welcome to Berry Go Round issue #21.  As a first time host of this – or any – blog carnival, I can tell you that it has not only been more work than I could have imagined, but also a lot more fun!  I’ve read, learned, and marveled at the diversity of knowledge presented by [...]
  1 week ago

• The Last Goldenrod: Bugs Gone Wild

  
  The ko Box — Authority: 127
  This is one of those wild things that is difficult to convey through a picture and maybe even a story - but this here is the last bursting with yellow, not killed by the frost, healthy goldenrod plant on the property here. Being that most other flowers were soaked, wilted and half dead - the entire world of flying ...
  1 week ago

• More Jumping Spiders! (Hairy Brown and Black w/ Blue Teeth)

  
  The ko Box — Authority: 127
  Meet Miss Martha... she once dated Texas (the most handsome jumping spider eva), but they had to break up & she kicked him out because he was just too wild for her! She couldnt handle all his showing off, shes extremely shy. She can also be a bit crabby and no fun... I chased Martha in literal circles around a ...
  1 week ago

• Researchers Identify Dominant Chemical That Attracts Mosquitoes to Humans

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified the dominant odor naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmit West Nile virus and other life-threatening diseases. The groundbreaking research, published this week in the early online ...
  2 weeks ago

• Body odour attracts mosquitoes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Oct 27 (IANS) A dominant odour given off by humans and birds tempts mosquitoes to prey on both, transmitting the West Nile virus and other lethal diseases, a new study has found.The study paves the way for key developments in mosquito and disease control.Walter Leal, entomology professor and postdoctoral ...
  2 weeks ago

• Florida Metallic Tiger Beetle

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 514
  In my previous post, I showed some photographs of the larva of an undetermined species of tiger beetle that I collected from its burrow in dry ground adjacent to a coastal salt marsh near St. Petersburg, Florida. I had assumed the larva belonged to the genus Cicindela or one of its former subgenera and was [...]
  2 weeks ago

• October Caddis (Where Does Time Go?)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  Over a year ago, I was waving a two hander on the Deschutes R. in search of steelhead and incidentally noticing the October Caddis clinging to streamside trees in the afternoon breeze. I vowed to be there again for the steelhead and if time allowed or focus waned, a little trout fishing as well. Life has conspired to ...
  2 weeks ago

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