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How to be an “iPhone nature photographer”
My passion for insect macro-photography is well known, so it may come as a surprise to learn that I have, during the past year or so, also become an avid “iPhone photographer”—i.e., I actually use my...
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Earth’s oldest living things!
A view down towards Westgaard Pass. I’ve mentioned before that I am never happier than when I am in the field, especially when it’s an extended insect collecting trip. One problem I face on these...
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Crossidius hirtipes rhodopus in Adobe Valley, California
Crossidius hirtipes rhodopus Linsley, 1955 | Adobe Valley, Mono Co., California On Day 7 of last August’s Great Basin Collecting Trip, we left Bishop and headed back north to the Mono Basin to look for...
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A Crossidius hirtipes subspecies blend zone…
…or, “There’s something fishy going on here!” After a day in the vicinity of Yearington, Nevada looking for (and eventually finding) a population of Crossidius hirtipes longhorned beetles assignable...
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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...
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How 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...
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Spring 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...
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Summer 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...
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Spring 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...
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Summer 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...
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Spring 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...
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Summer 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...
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North 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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