Air's Wild Acres

Small goats and small batch cheesemaking on a small farm, all with big laughs.

  • Podcasts, selfies, and specimens

    Podcasts, selfies, and specimens

    One of my entomology colleagues, Brittany Dodson, and I were recently discussing the idea of starting a blog. I had commented that I rarely post anything in my actual blog, and the most recent post I had done was something about pinning beetles (it was actually about a Facebook game a few of us had… Read more

  • Pinning!

    It’s been 9 months since I’ve done any pinning, and I had a few Bembidions to do today. I was definitely nervous about it, but they came out fine. Read more

  • Snow

    The snow makes getting a burrito much more difficult. Read more

  • Sentinel Waxworms

    I expanded my sentinel waxworm sampling to include more samples early in the Spring. While we’ve been sampling with waxworms after crop emergence for several years, this year I wanted to see if we could capture what was happening prior to crop planting. I was worried that since we had a long, cold, wet Spring… Read more

  • Insect IDs

    Recently, I was asked why entomologists spend so much time google image searching arthropods for something similar to a specimen they are trying to ID.  I can’t speak for anyone else, but for me, it seems like there are many, many families I am less familiar with, and google images are an excellent way to… Read more

  • Echinopla melanarctos

    Echinopla melanarctos I want it.  Came across this guy randomly while trying to ID a minute beetle with fossorial legs (in part, by googling “Minute beetle with fossorial legs”).  HT Splendor Awaits. Nobile, April, photographer (2009).  Specimen: CASENT0178497.  Available from: http://www.antweb.org/bigPicture.do?name=casent0178497&shot=p&number=1&project=allantwebants.  Accessed 16 July 2013 Read more