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• A “Really” Big-headed Tiger Beetle

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 528
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• 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 ...
  2 days ago

• Update on the Donors Choose Challenge!

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 546
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Photo From You: Insect Identification

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  5 days 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Stinky chemical might be key to trapping mosquito

  
  Science and Environment — Authority: 127
  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 ...
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• Ugly Bugs?

  
  Myrmecos Blog — Authority: 423
  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: 104
  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 ...
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• 2010 Native Bee Calendar!

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 546
  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 ...
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• Moustached Tiger Beetle

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 528
  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: 128
  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 ...
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• Bug-Blogging Galore

  
  Myrmecos Blog — Authority: 423
  Over at IB401 , the entomology students are blogging faster than a swarm of locusts in a candy shop*: Caterpillars I have known Beetle’s Threat to Baseball Ants on Stilts Pink Mantids! Keeping a Praying Mantis Fig Wasp Beats Deforestation Hungry Crickets Drop by and leave them some comments! ...
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• Fruit Fly Pheromones

  
  Sound Medicine — Authority: 127
  Lets take a break from human medicine and talk about bugs for a few minutes.Were talking fruit flies. More precisely, were interested in what female fruit flies do after theyre done mating.Theres a serious reason were talking about this: this pheromone research could lead to new ways of controlling insect populations, ...
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• Highlands Tiger Beetle

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 528
  When my wife and I made plans to spend a week at her sister’s condominium in Florida this past summer, I began making a list of the tiger beetle species that I wanted to see.  I would be happy to see anything, since I had never before tiger beetled in Florida, but early August was [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Dragons & Damsels (State by State)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 138
  “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) ...
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• Book Review: At Large and Small

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 546
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Monday Moth: White-tipped Black Moth

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 528
  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 weeks ago

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

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 138
  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). ...
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• Fly Tying…the Dredging Pupa (Chuck and You Better Duck)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 138
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Beetle Research Roundup

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 528
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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