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Beetles In The Bush

Experiences and reflections of a Missouri entomologist

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Below you can find a complete list of the posts that have appeared on Beetles In The Bush. Click on any title to view that post, or click on a month to see excerpts from all posts for that month with links to individual posts (excerpts can also be seen by holding the cursor over the post title). Titles followed by a green heart (♥) denote some of my personal favorites.


NOVEMBER 2009

  • Beetle Research Roundup

OCTOBER 2009

  • Berry Go Round #21 ♥
  • Proof that I am out standing in my field
  • Florida Metallic Tiger Beetle
  • Anatomy of a Tiger Beetle Larva ♥
  • (My) Introduction to Florida Tiger Beetles ♥
  • Cold and wet
  • A face only a mother could love
  • Do you know what time it is?

SEPTEMBER 2009

  • North America’s most beautiful longhorned beetle ♥
  • Assassin ate
  • North America’s largest robber fly
  • Prey bee mine
  • Ant-like Tiger Beetle ♥
  • A bit of housekeeping
  • North America’s smallest rattlesnake

AUGUST 2009

  • Friday flower – Sabatia angularis
  • The ubiquitous tiger beetle ♥
  • North America’s longest insect
  • Ospriocerus abdominalis
  • Overlooked, needle-bellied, thick-headed fly
  • The last tiger beetle ♥
  • Friday flower – Krameria lanceolata
  • North America’s smallest cicada

JULY 2009

  • Western hognose snake
  • Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge
  • Oklahoma is for lovers
  • Dromochorus pruinina in Oklahoma
  • Typocerus deceptus in Missouri ♥
  • North America’s most bizarre lizard
  • North America’s most beautiful lizard
  • Revisiting the Swift Tiger Beetle – Part 3 ♥
  • Revisiting the Swift Tiger Beetle – Part 2 ♥

JUNE 2009

  • Revisiting the Swift Tiger Beetle – Part 1 ♥
  • Friday flower
  • A Silver Anniversary ♥
  • Four Canyon Preserve, Oklahoma
  • The “obscure” Dicerca
  • Treatise of Western Hemisphere “Cicindelitae” ♥
  • Beetle News: a new, online publication
  • Pyromorpha dimidiata
  • Third time’s a charm!
  • Brachys on oak
  • On the road again!
  • Goldenrod Leaf Miner
  • Springtime Acmaeodera

MAY 2009

  • Osage copperhead
  • A new look at an old friend
  • BitB Goes dSLR
  • Tiger Beetle Rearing
  • Trilogy of Terror
  • Saving endangered species with herbicides ♥
  • Blackjack oak “flower”
  • Now you see me…
  • Body Invaders
  • Newly emerged rabbit bot fly
  • Wednesday “What the heck?”
  • A festive (tiger beetle) birthday ♥

APRIL 2009

  • Bon appétit!
  • I Brake for Dung Beetles!
  • Trees of Lake Tahoe – The Deciduous Trees ♥
  • Library expansion
  • Winter botany quiz #5
  • An extendable handle for insect nets
  • Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle – range map
  • Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle on ARKive
  • Myths about why Lake Tahoe does not freeze
  • Trees of Lake Tahoe – The “Other” Conifers ♥
  • Winter botany quiz #4

MARCH 2009

  • Tiger Beetle Safari
  • Trees of Lake Tahoe – The Pines ♥
  • Winter botany quiz #3
  • Sand Harbor Overlook, Nevada ♥
  • Pyramid Creek Geological Area
  • Emerald Bay State Park – Vikingsholm and Rubicon Trails
  • Born of glaciers
  • A journey through time
  • Answers to “Winter botany quiz #2″
  • Expanding blogroll
  • Winter botany quiz #2
  • Magodo – giant twig wilter
  • Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network

FEBRUARY 2009

  • Ship-timber beetle
  • Sanctuary for the Betulaceae ♥
  • Winter botany quiz #1
  • Millipede assassin bug
  • Bizarre, beautiful extremes
  • How to fail a test with dignity
  • “Armoured tank beetle”
  • Tempting tok-tokkies ♥
  • What’s bugging you?
  • Tragidion confusion

JANUARY 2009

  • Done with dung, meat please
  • Christmas in January ♥
  • We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot
  • Lions in South Africa ♥
  • Welcome new insect/invertebrate enthusiasts
  • The “buzzard signal fly”
  • Tyrant ground beetles
  • Review of Calodema and Metaxymorpha ♥
  • Afrikaans ants
  • Top Ten of 2008 ♥

DECEMBER 2008

  • Cicindela lengi vs. Cicindela formosa
  • The 12 Years of Christmas
  • You messin’ with me?
  • Welcome to the “new” Beetles In The Bush
  • “Bugged on the Ozark Trail”
  • Buppies in the bush(veld) ♥
  • Cicindela limbata – epilogue
  • “My favorite bettle”
  • “Dungers and Chafers – a Trip to South Africa”
  • Superior Scribbler Award

NOVEMBER 2008

  • Two new species of Agrilus from Mexico
  • The Five Things Meme
  • Pardon my introspection
  • A new species of Xenorhipus from Baja California
  • Magnificently Monstrous Muscomorphs ♥
  • Cicindela scutellaris lecontei x scutellaris unicolor intergrades in southeast Missouri

OCTOBER 2008

  • Happy Halloween!
  • A sand prairie autumn ♥
  • New species and a review of the genus Tragidion
  • Deciding on science ♥
  • It’s a girl!
  • Tigers in the Nebraska Badlands ♥
  • Collection Inventory update

SEPTEMBER 2008

  • Megacyllene comanchei revisited
  • Lucky 13 ♥
  • Sand Hills Success
  • Rattled in the Black Hills ♥
  • In Memorium – Gayle H. Nelson
  • Goin’ fishin’
  • Digging tiger beetles
  • A hunting we will go!
  • “All the better to see you with, my dear!”
  • The Loess Hills in Missouri ♥

AUGUST 2008

  • Trichinorhipis knulli
  • The hunt for Cicindela celeripes ♥

JULY 2008

  • Sand Prairie Conservation Area ♥
  • Dicerca pugionata
  • Cicindela cursitans in Missouri
  • Glades of Jefferson County ♥

JUNE 2008

  • Saving Missouri’s tigers
  • My Dad ♥
  • The Chrysobothris femorata “problem”

MAY 2008

  • Ozark Trail – Marble Creek Section ♥
  • Saving turtles, one by one…

APRIL 2008

  • Pipestone National Monument ♥

MARCH 2008

  • Muir Woods National Monument
  • Lake Tahoe, California
  • Ozark Trail – lower Courtois Section

FEBRUARY 2008

  • “Entumalejust”

JANUARY 2008

  • Ozark Trail – upper Trace Creek Section

DECEMBER 2007

  • Pickle Springs Natural Area ♥
  • Rockwoods Reservation, Lime Kiln Loop Trail
  • Ozark Trail, lower Trace Creek Section

NOVEMBER 2007

  • Hawn State Park

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