My first experience with Prionus lure
Our quick stop in Hardtner, Kansas to see “Beetle Bill” Smith at the beginning of our Great Plains Collecting Trip had already produced one unexpected success—the long-sought-after Buprestis...
View ArticleHow to catch “bucket loads” of Prionus fissicornis!
Fresh off our unexpected success at finding Prionus integer in the shortgrass prairie of southeastern Colorado, field mate Jeff Huether and I made our way down into northeastern New Mexico to see if...
View ArticleSpring beetles on Coreopsis flowers
The WGNSS Entomology Group takes in the view of rhyolite glades from atop Hughes Mountain. Each spring the Entomology Group of the Webster Groves Nature Study Society takes a field trip to one of the...
View ArticleSummer Insect Collecting iRecap
At the beginning of the season I was planning to spend the first week of June collecting insects in southeastern New Mexico. Family issues intervened, however, and left me with a week of vacation time...
View ArticleNorth America’s most “extreme” jewel beetle
When Chuck Bellamy passed away two years ago, he left behind a remarkable legacy of study on the family Buprestidae (jewel beetles) that includes not only his insect collection—surely one of the best...
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