It's the time of year when swarms of mayflies and midges arrive in the Erie area. These insects have short lifespans, ranging from a couple hours to a few weeks. While not quite of biblical plague ...
Wouldn’t it be great if the visitor sporting a finely fitted tuxedo in your living room was James Bond? No such luck – it’s an insect dressed in nature’s formalwear. Meet the tuxedo bug, a critter ...
“So the collection consists of around a million specimens of just these ichneumonid wasps. So just this one family of wasps. And in it there’s, it's really hard to say exact figures, but there's ...
It's a true longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae): adults have very long, segmented antennae-often about body length or longer in males (Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; BugGuide). It's a true longhorn beetle ...
Wingspan is typically 70-140 mm, making it one of North America's largest moths (e.g., BugGuide; Tuskes, Tuttle & Collins 1996). Wingspan is typically 70-140 mm, making it one of North America's ...
According to top lepidopterists, no one knows more about Inland Northwest moths than Carl Barrentine. Barrentine became the authority by scrutinizing well over 100,000 individual moths that have ...
UC Davis entomology doctoral candidate Charlotte Herbert Alberts with her husband, George, son Griffin, then 2.5, and Marcy, then a week old. (Image taken Oct. 28, 2022) UC Davis doctoral candidate ...
In December 2021, a former FBI agent previously posted to Guangzhou in China began legal proceedings against the US government. The agent claimed the US Secretary of State and the State department ...
So here's this lady beetle patrolling a rosebud. It's early spring--April 15--in Vacaville, Calif.--and our little subject is looking for some tasty aphids. Or perhaps a mate. Oh, a visitor is on my ...