Air's Wild Acres
Small goats and small batch cheesemaking on a small farm, all with big laughs.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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