Air's Wild Acres

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

Category: Conservation

Latest posts

  • Patterns and pastures.

    In the recent weeks, I passed my comprehensive exam, visited with a fantastic Carabidae specialist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (another #loveyourtaxonomist post is likely to follow about this trip), and camped at one… Read more

  • Ground beetles are so beautiful.

    I haven’t looked at these beetles across the years yet… This, is amazing. The activity-density of the beetles, as well as the diversity, is increasing over the years of a three year organic, reduced-tillage corn-soybean-wheat… Read more

  • Renaissance women being scientists!

    When I was living in Mexico last year, I spent most of my time working (as I should have since I was there conducting research for my dissertation). However, I was able to take a few… Read more

  • #NowReading – 5/24/14

    In trying (and this week, not doing such a great job of it) to be more active on my blog, I have started to follow several other blogs that I really appreciate. One of my… 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

  • 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… 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… 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… Read more

  • A few days at CIMMYT

    I spent a lot of time planning research and a lot of time meeting people this week.  It was awesome.  Being at CIMMYT is something dreams are made of, and no one ever told me… Read more

  • Habitat Partitionining in Tiger Beetles

    Loving the white tiger beetles, and the infographic showing habitat distribution. Habitat Partitionining in Tiger Beetles. Read more