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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 heart (♥) denote some of my personal favorites.
Complete bibliography of references cited on this website.
(Note: click here for a pictoral collage of links to my first 500 posts)
May 2013
April 2013
- Giving me the weevil eye!
- Group mimicry in Cerambycidae… and more
- Battle of the Bug Blogs
- And the results are in… ♥
- Ceti Eel offspring?
- My favorite of Missouri’s milkweeds
March 2013
- Bollworms rising!
- The true Ombú
- The 213-year old “Gran Gomero”
- ID Challenge #21
- These bugs rock!
- The “little soybean weevil”
- Field of Dreams
- Fun at Salinas Grandes
- Greetings from Argentina
- Baffling beetles
February 2013
- Brazilian Bike Adventure ♥
- T.G.I.Flyday: Argentine robber
- The “silky-bellied humpbacked” ant
- Another happy customer!
- Featured Guest Photo: A Spectacular Case of Mimicry
- A jewel of a beetle
- Raining spit
- Backyard gems
- Super Crop Challenge #15
January 2013
- Diffusion versus post-processing, or perhaps something even better?
- The Texas Prick
- How to collect larvae of Amblycheila cylindriformis ♥
- You know what bugs me about dung beetles?…
- These are a few of my favorite trees
- His name is Ralph!
- An elegant living fossil…
- Cicindela 44(3–4) is issued
- Diffuser comparisons for 100mm macro lens
- It’s always a happy day…
- Mr. Phidippus gets his loot
- Ovipositing Pigeon Horntail ♥
- The ultimate jaws on a longhorned beetle!
- Let’s make a deal!
December 2012
- Best of BitB 2012 ♥
- More Eocene insects
- Virtual Mantle 2012
- Happy Holidays from BitB
- The 2nd-oldest Known Myrmicine Ant ♥
- T.G.I.Flyday: Tachinomyia sp.
- A 50-million-year-old midge
- Eye to eye to eye to eye with a tiger beetle larva ♥
- An elegant Eocene fly
- Beautiful box of Buprestidae
- Beetle, orthop or something else?
- The gloriously dichromatic Dasymutilla gloriosa
- Spider, insect or something else?
- Dainty, delicate, little fairies
- Friday Editor’s Tip: Lose the formatting!
- Book Announcement: Field Guide to the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of Northeastern North America ♥
- Life at 8X: MPMI Cover
- One Bad Beetle
November 2012
- Another autumn oedipodine
- Mother and daughter (perhaps)
- Where siblings mingle: Ellipsoptera marginata vs. E. hamata ♥
- Araneus marmoreus encore
- Super Crop Challenge #14
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- It’s a Mayfly…It’s a Moth…It’s Thyridopteryx
- Approaching the unapproachable ♥
- Persistence Pays
- Black olives with legs
- Hand-held caddisflies
- Black is beautiful!
- Gulf Fritillary in southern Missouri
- Life at 8X—hibiscus flea beetle
- Monster in the Night
October 2012
- Happy Halloween!
- Beetle Collecting 101: How to pin a beetle
- The hardest EASIEST ID Challenge in like ever!
- Why are this beetle’s elytra outstretched? ♥
- PPE Call For Submissions
- Have you googled yourself lately?
- Frustrating Emerald
- How to deal with a crappy photo of a beautiful beetle ♥
- The “Other” Marvelously Monstrous Microstylum
- The Third of Florida’s Three Metallic Tiger Beetles
- A visit to the Dallas Arboretum
- Post processing—then and now
- Life at 8X—Bandedwinged Whitefly
- Tiger lovin’
- Sexual Profiles
- Just repanda… er, wait a minute…
- Some recent publications
- Wasp Wednesday—Not!
- Consolation Crossidius
September 2012
- An uncommon fall-active Acmaeodera
- Photographing the Limestone Tiger Beetle ♥
- Sneak Peek
- Inchworm, Inchworm, Oh So Small
- Dressed in black ♥
- 9th Annual Fall Tiger Beetle Trip: Day 3.2
- The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 88(2)—Penrose Memorial issue
- 9th Annual Fall Tiger Beetle Trip: Day 3.1
- 9th Annual Fall Tiger Beetle Trip: Day 2
- 9th Annual Fall Tiger Beetle Trip: Day 1
- A classic fall ‘bycid ♥
- Not quite a one-shot
- The very dirty tiger
- Life at 8X—Guide to lepidopteran eggs on soybean
August 2012
- Unexpected visitors
- Ghosts in the night ♥
- Program Announcment: 2012 ESA Annual Meeting
- Life at 8X—soybean aphid
- ID Challenge #20
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Shooting 8X hand-held in the field
- A Day Maker!
- Very wary tigers! ♥
- A non-black background is better… often!
- A black background is better… sometimes
- And the winner is…
- 2013 ESA World of Insects Calendar Selection
July 2012
- Even a 12-year old can discover the larva of a rare, endemic species! ♥
- Planet’s Coolest Critters – Tiger Beetles
- Working with Cerceris fumipennis—Epilogue
- Palmetto Tortoise Beetle, Hemisphaerota cyanea
- One-Shot Wednesday—Proctacanthus fulviventris ovipositing
- Working with Cerceris fumipennis—Part 2 ♥
- Working with Cerceris fumipennis—Part 1 ♥
- Cicada killer on the fly
- The importance of background and apparent light size
- ID Challenge #19
- One-Shot Wednesday: two-striped grasshopper nymph
- Sea Grape Flatid – Petrusa epilepsis
June 2012
- West Indian seagrape sawfly
- Super Crop Challenge #13
- More on Chalcosyrphus
- T.G.I.Flyday – Chalcosyrphus?
- Fathers Day at the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Beetle botanists
- Damon diadema—Tanzanian giant tailless whip scorpion
- Welcome “Baby Damon”!
- Poised for the bounty
- “Dear Author”
- Just published: Cicindela 44(1) March 2012
- Dicerca pugionata – safe and sound! ♥
May 2012
- Cosmetid harvestman with parasitic/phoretic mites in Argentina
- Holy conglobulation, Batman! ♥
- ID Challenge #18
- Science Outreach in Action
- Dr. Charles L. “Chuck” Bellamy – 12th Honorary Member of The Coleopterists Society ♥
- Milestone: Half a million page hits for BitB!
- Maddening mutillid
- One-Shot Wednesday: Upside down bee fly
- Aglaoschema rufiventre in Chaco, Argentina
- Friday Flower: Phacelia purshii
- One-Shot Wednesday: Panorpa helena scorpionfly
- Desmiphora hirticollis: Crypsis or Mimicry? ♥
- More fly got eye!
- Adult male Hentzia palmarum jumping spider
April 2012
- Out with the old (but on a good note) (by Chris Brown)
- Traffic Jam Treehoppers
- “Cochinilla australiana” in Argentina
- ID Challenge #17
- My response to “Can you talk to 10-year-olds about science?” ♥
- Inaugural “One-Shot Wednesday”
- Fly got eye!
- I fear no weevil…
- Bicho palito, or “My longest post ever!” ♥
- The Ups and Downs of Bug Collecting ♥
- Super Crop Challenge #12
- Pseudomyrmex in Corrientes, Argentina
- “Is blogging dead?” – Another view
March 2012
- Animals Alarmed!
- The backwards firefly
- Seeing the unseen
- A tortoise beetle gift
- Retrachydes thoracicus – times four!
- Two more winners
- Chicharra que canta, calor adelanta
- The most common beetle in Argentina
- Eriopis connexa on soybean in Argentina
- ID Challenge #16
- Lord of the flies! ♥
- Sharpshooter
- Me encanta Argentina!
- Tucuras, langostas, y saltamontes
- Crazy Eyes 2
- Pollen Bath
February 2012
- The “Big 3″ of corn in Argentina
- Leafcutter ants on corn
- To the land of Gauchos
- Chrysobothris viridiceps
- Grampus and go-devil
- Tiger beetles in southeast Missouri
- The World’s Largest Tiger Beetle
- Of Bots and Warbles (by Chris Brown)
- MacRae Entomology Museum Expansion ♥
- My favorite Super Bowl Commercial
- Pollen Bath
January 2012
- A Living Jewel – Madecassia rothschildi
- Super Crop Challenge #11
- Another cover photo
- “My peripatetic quest for North America’s rarest tiger beetles”
- Return to Calico Rock ♥
- A Modest Model for Mimicry (by Chris Brown)
- BitB’s Newest Contributor – Chris Brown
- Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle ♥
- Memories of summer – Neoclytus scutellaris
- Something for Adrian
- ID Challenge #15
- Buprestidae exchange
- Extreme sexual dimorphism in Buprestidae: Xenorhipis hidalgoensis ♥
- 2,171 pieces of chitin…
- I am an Entomologist ♥
December 2011
- Best of BitB 2011 ♥
- Hover fly on mallow flower
- Santa Jaws…
- A Riot of Colors
- Super Crop Challenge #10
- Sometimes the best collecting…
- Swift Tiger Beetle: Species on the Brink
- Cycloalexy in tortoise beetle larvae ♥
- ‘Beetles in the Bush’ T-Shirts now available!
November 2011
- Speaking of cover photos…
- Arriving now in a mailbox near you…
ZygogrammaDesmogramma leaf beetles in Argentina- A day of milestones and thanks! ♥
- Return to La Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur
- “Puente de la Mujer”
- “Sunflower looper” – Rachiplusia nu ♥
- ID Challenge #14
- A Brazilian longhorned beetle – Oxymerus aculeatus
- New comment policy
- Cicindela albissima—The Coral Pink Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle ♥
October 2011
- Isn’t she splendid?!
- ID Challenge #13 results and Session #4 final standings
- St. Anthony Dune Tiger Beetle ♥
- ID Challenge #13 – Addendum
- ID Challenge #13
- Lytta vulnerata cooperi
- The Methocha
- Different Jaws for Different Jobs
- Ozark Landscapes – White River in northern Arkansas
- Crossidius coralinus fulgidus
- Cicindela scutellaris yampae – Yampa Festive Tiger Beetle
September 2011
- Cicindela formosa gibsoni… or not!
- ID Challenge #12
- My Canon 8X Macro Lens
- A cicindelophilic wish list
- Not all Florida tiger beetles are rare
- Two things I love about glades during fall…
- Crazy Eyes
Featured: Freshly Pressed: Nature - Mini-review of the Cicindelidia abdominalis species-group ♥
- Return to Nowhere
- Another account of the recently rediscovered Cicindelidia floridana
- Bee Fly Parasitism of Tetracha virginica ♥
- BugShot 2011 – Final Thoughts
- ID Challenge #11
- BugShot 2011 – Lesson 2
- BugShot 2011 – Lesson 1
- Bumelia borer on white
- Super Crop Challenge #9
August 2011
- Peek-A-Boo!
- Use of extension tubes for better lighting
- Charming Couple revisited
- Gnom, Gnom, Gnom…
- Why I Roamed the Marsh at Night
- Creepy Crawly Crustaceans
- Super Crop Challenge #8
- The (almost) Florida-endemic Cicindelidia scabrosa
- Predator or Prey?
- 80 Beetles
- Photographing the Newly Rediscovered Cicindelidia floridana ♥
- ID Challenge #10
- Tiger Beetle Nocturnal Perching
- Charming Couple
- Cylindera cursitans (Ant-like Tiger Beetle) in Arkansas ♥
July 2011
- Speaking of Graphisurus…
- Graphisurus triangulifer in Missouri
- Elytrimitatrix at my window
- Hook-faced Conehead – Pyrgocorypha uncinata
- Super Crop Challenge #7
- T.G.I.Flyday – Triorla interrupta
- Lined Jewel Beetle
- More on ‘Conspicuous Crypsis’
- Oedipodine Rex ♥
- Vinerunt, futuerunt, ierunt (by James Trager)
- Burrowing Owl in Argentina
- Diminishing Stag Beetle
- Four-humped Longhorned Beetle
- ID Challenge #9
- A “Giant” Pygmy
- T.G.I.Flyday – Andrenosoma fulvicaudum
June 2011
- Sugarcane Weevil in Brazil
- Tracking Tetraopes texanus with Terry ♥
- Bichos Argentinos #14 – Flies!
- Brazil Bugs #16 – Royal Moth Larva
- Super Crop Challenge #6
- My Dad (reprise)
- Forgotten Foto Friday: Eudioctria sp.
- A Missouri hotspot for Cylindera unipunctata ♥
- Predator Satiation
- Do you think I’m tasty?
- Eye to eye with a copperhead ♥
- Pardalophora phoenicoptera – Orange-winged grasshopper
- They’re baaaaack… finally!
- Wrong lens
- Mite on White ♥
May 2011
- Sawfly larva – Periclista sp.
- Super Crop Challenge #5
- Dromochorus pruinina is not extirpated in Missouri… yet! ♥
- Friday Flower – Spring Coralroot Orchid
- Stink Bugs on Soybean in Argentina
- Bichos Argentinos #13 – Spotted Maize Beetle
- ID Challenge #8
- Bichos Argentinos #12 – Lace Bugs
- Big, Bold, and Beautiful ♥
- Friday Flower – “Palo Borracho”
- Feasting on the bounty
- Love is in the air!
April 2011
- “They’re baaaaack!”
- Bichos Argentinos #11 – Takes Two to Tango
- Itty bitty tiny little flies
- Friday Flower – Hedychium coccineum
- Bichos Argentinos #11 – I’m out’a here!
- Rediscovery of Cicindela scabrosa floridana ♥
- Cylindera celeripes – Fig. 1
- Bichos Argentinos #10 – Friday Formicine
- Bichos Argentinos #9 – Membracido
- The Pan-Pacific Entomologist
- Agelia lordi (Walker)
- Friday Flower – Ceibo
- Au Bon Marché
- Bichos Argentinos #8 – ”Mosca de la Carne”
- Super Crop Challenge #4
- Enormous Unknown Bug! ♥
March 2011
- Bichos Argentinos #7 – Naupactus xanthographus
- Bichos Argentinos #6 – Jumping Spider ♥
- BitB Does CoO
- Bichos Argentinos #5 – Cyrtocoris egeris
- ID Challenge #7
- A thrips is a thrips…
- ID Challenge #6
- Brazil Bugs #16 – Outro Percevejo
- Bichos Argentinos #4 – Balancing Act
- Bichos Argentinos #3 – “Bicho Torito”
- Bichos Argentinos #2 – Pseudomyrmex sp.
- Bichos Argentinos #1 – Eristalinus taeniops
- La Reserva Ecologica Costanera Sur
- Saludos de Argentina
- A Room with a View
- North America’s largest scarab beetle ♥
- Brazil Bugs #15 – Formiga-membracídeos mutualismo ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #60
Featured: Freshly Pressed: Nature
February 2011
- Monday Moth – Polka-dot Wasp Moth
- Brazil Bugs #14 – Fusquinha
- Frenatae 2011 Calendar
- Is Missouri’s disjunct population of Johnson’s tiger beetle extirpated? ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #60 - Friday Flower – Orquídea bambu
Featured: Berry Go Round #37 - Brazil Bugs #13 – Gorgulho do fungo
- Featured Guest Photo – Dromica kolbei
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - Answers to ID Challenge #5 – Artrópodes em casca de árvore morta
- Brazil Bugs #12 – Desafio de identificação #5
- Brazil Bugs #11 – Formigas cortadeiras
- Brazil Bugs #10 – A mosca mais legal que eu já vi!
- Brazil Bugs #9 – Formiga hostil
- Recent literature – The Coleopterists Bulletin
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - Answer to ID Challenge #4 – Aetalion reticulatum
January 2011
- Brazil Bugs #8 – Desafio de identificação #4
- Brazil Bugs #7 – Cigarrinhas
- Brazil Bugs #6 – A mosca
- Brazil Bugs #5 – Lagartixa
Featured: House of Herps #15 - Brazil Bugs #4 – Mais dos percevejos
- Brazil Bugs #3 – Gorgulho Enorme!
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - Brazil Bugs #2
- Rain Over Campinas, Brazil
- Rush skeletonplant pea gall wasp
- Brazil Bugs #1
- ID Challenge #3
- Calm waters, frenzied beetles
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - Diversity in Tiger Beetle Larval Burrows ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - Red-eyed Devil ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #59 - ID Challenge #2
- Monroe Canyon epilogue – Audubon’s tiger beetle
- BitB Top 10 of 2010
December 2010
- North America’s largest stag beetle ♥
- Super Crop Challenge #3
- My MT-24EX flash diffuser ♥
- The 12 Years of Christmas
- Cicindela denverensis – green claybank tiger beetle
- ID Challenge #1
- Pseudoxycheila tarsalis – remounted ♥
- AIF #11, HoH #12
- ESA in absentia
- A First Class Box of Beetles
- Cleaning Tiger Beetles
- Eye of the Turtle ♥
Featured: Freshly Pressed: Nature - Monroe Canyon – A Tiger Beetle “Hot Spot”
- Answer to Super Crop Challenge #2
- Super Crop Challenge #2
- Tiny little slivers of life
- Kirby’s Tiger Beetle
November 2010
- Litaneutria minor – agile ground mantid
- Answer to Super Crop Challenge #1
- Super Crop Challenge #1
- Desmocerus palliatus – elderberry borer
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #11 - The “best” Eleodes suturalis
- Cicindela pulchra on white
- Amblycheila cylindriformis on white ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #58 - Forgotten Foto Friday: Centruroides vittatus
- Cicindela nebraskana – Prairie Long-lipped Tiger Beetle
- Halloween ID challenge answer –Argiope trifasciata
October 2010
- Halloween ID challenge
- Flash solutions for the beautiful tiger beetle ♥
North America’s most beautiful tiger beetle ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #10 - Phreaky Phalangid
- Euhagena nebraskae… again
- An Inordinate Fondness #9
- A “leafless” leaf-footed bug
- Saltatorial sidetracks
- Missouri’s disjunct population of Cicindela obsoleta vulturina ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #57 - Jeepers Creepers, where’d ya get those multilayered retinae? ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #56 - “Colorfull Cockroach” discovered in Panama
September 2010
- Sweet Sixteen!
- Promiscuous Plants (by James Trager)
Featured: Freshly Pressed: Nature - 2 days, 6 localities, 10 species…
- First tiger of the trip…
Featured: House of Herps #11 - Reunion in the Badlands… and beyond
- The last survivor
- An Inordinate Fondness #8 – Meet the Beetles
- …the “better” Eleodes suturalis ♥
- The real Eleodes suturalis…
- Lens and lighting comparisons
- New blogs of note
- Rearing the Prairie Tiger Beetle (Cicindela obsoleta vulturina) ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #8 - North America’s largest centipede ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #55 - Flaming the debate
- Friday Flower – green fringed orchid
Featured: Berry Go Round #33
August 2010
- Trichodes bibalteatus in Oklahoma
- Rejoicing the end of summer ♥
- Clown beetle surprise
- “A good photographer is invisible…”
- Cicindela – A quarterly journal devoted to Cicindelidae
- Bruneau Sand Dune tiger beetles caught in the act!
- What’s so special about this beetle?
- What’s more difficult to see…
- Manduca vs. Amblycheila
- The marvelously monstrous Microstylum morosum ♥
- Eastern Red-Bellied Tiger Beetle
July 2010
- Merci!
- Six beetles Ted still needs for his collection (by Rich Thoma)
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #8 - A wiley wasp (by Alex Wild)
- The joys of ecological restoration (by James Trager)
- Collecting in Australia’s remote McIlwraith range (by Alex Wild)
- Guest Blogger: Dogbane for Dinner (by Anne McCormack)
- Special Delivery ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #7 - Friday Flower – Cleft Phlox
Featured: Berry Go Round #32 - Vicarious Friday Beetle Blogging
- Hunting the Great Plains giant tiger beetle ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #54 - Amblycheila success!
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #6 - The Power of Impulse
- Call for paratypes! ♥
June 2010
- Typocerus lugubris
- Friday Flower – Sedum pulchellum
Featured: Berry Go Round #31 - Nomenclatural changes in Phymatodes
- North America’s largest tiger beetle (I think!) ♥
- June beetles, moths, and herps
- Future Entomologist
- Swift Tiger Beetle – good news, bad news ♥
- Where’s Ted now?
- Friday Flower – Dwarf Spiderwort
Featured: Berry Go Round #30 - An irresistible sight!
- When is a locust borer not a locust borer?
- Are we loving our prairies/glades/woodlands to death? ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #54 - Critters, and berries, and trees! (Oh, my!)
- “Trying” to photograph whirligig beetles
May 2010
- Do you know what I’m doing?
- Long Weekend Bug Collecting Trip!
- Cylindera celeripes Larva Revealed ♥
- Introducing Chrysobothris caddo ♥
- The marvelously cryptic Dicerca lurida
- May beetles and herps
- The Moth and Me #11 ♥
- BitB gets a facelift
- Waiter, there’s a fly on my fungus…
- A Horridus Birthday
Featured: House of Herps #8 - Hitchin’ A Ride
- Friday Flower – Pawpaw
Featured: Berry Go Round #29 - Beetle Collecting 101: Dress for Success ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #5 - CotS #50 – the Mantis Shrimp Edition
- Monday Moth – Simple Maiden (Amata simplex)
Featured: The Moth and Me #12
APRIL 2010
- Friday Flower: Red Buckeye
Featured: Berry Go Round #28 - Rough Green Snake
Featured: House of Herps #7 - My first jumping spider ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #52 - Pseudomethoca simillima – a model forEnoclerus ichneumoneus?
- Revision of the Formicidae of North America ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #51 - North America’s second-rarest pine
Featured: Festival of the Trees #48 - Orange-banded checkered beetle
- Hello World! ♥
- Taum Sauk Mountain – Missouri’s High Point
- Two ladies from Ontario
- Josef Knull was wrong! ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #4 - Mylabris oculatus in South Africa
- Winter Botany Quiz #6 – answers and a checklist
- Winter Botany Quiz #6
- Monday Moth: Arniocera erythropyga
Featured: The Moth and Me #10 - The “New” Gromphadorina portentosa
- New Bug Blogs of note
- Bicycle ride around Lake Tahoe
- Tuesday Teaser
- Gromphadorina portentosa
- Carnival of Evolution #22 ♥
MARCH 2010
- Up the Glacial Staircase
- Lampetis drummondii larva?
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #3 - Friday Flower – Ozark Witch Hazel
Featured: Berry Go Round #27 - Lake Tahoe – 2010 Preview
- Pismire Puzzle ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #50 - The Inexorable March of Spring! (by James Trager)
- March moths, herps, and beetles
- Clubmoss along the Ozark Trail
Featured: Berry Go Round #26 - BitB on NBN
- North America’s largest jewel beetle ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #2 - Tuesday Tarantula ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #49 - Acmaeodera carlota in northern Arizona
- March Carnivalia
- A Tiger Beetle Aggregation
FEBRUARY 2010
- Euhagena nebraskae in Kansas
Featured: The Moth and Me #9 - Monday Ménage – Brachyleptura rubrica
- Beetle Love
- Alkali Tiger Beetle
- Who am I?
- Hawn State Park – Winter Hiking at its Finest
- Aaack!-maeodera ♥
- “Cicindelophilically”
- Ants invade Beetles in the Bush! (by James Trager)
- BitB’s Newest Contributor
- Circus of the Spineless #47 ♥
JANUARY 2010
- Triple Quiz
- A matter of diffusion
- Friday Flower: Crystallofolia (“Frost Flowers”)
- House of Herps #2 ♥
- Me and my buds!
- Habitat Partitionining in Tiger Beetles ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #1 - Mass Grave
- Publications Available
- Sunday Matinée: Buzzed Creep Cockroaches
DECEMBER 2009
- BitB Best of 2009
- Badges are up at AIF
- The 12 Years of Christmas (encore)
- Tiger Beetles at Florida’s “Road to Nowhere”
- Tiger Beetles Agree—It’s Hot in Florida! ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #48 - Do You Have “An Inordinate Fondness”?
- Creepy Crawly Spiders
- Give the Gift of Green
- Newest Blog Carnival: House of Herps
- Great Plains Ladies’-tresses ♥
Featured: Berry Go Round #25 - Friday Flower: Yes, it’s an orchid…
- CotS #45
- Cicadetta kansa in Oklahoma
NOVEMBER 2009
- A bid for OpenLab
- Thanksgiving
- Oh, and by the way…
- A “Really” Big-headed Tiger Beetle ♥
Featured: Carnival of Evolution #19 - “This is a big horse!”
- Florida Scrub Lizard ♥
Featured: House of Herps #6 - Moustached Tiger Beetle
- Highlands Tiger Beetle
- Monday Moth: White-tipped Black Moth
Featured: The Moth and Me #8 - 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 ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #45 - (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 ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #44 - Assassin ate
- North America’s largest robber fly
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #46 - Prey bee mine
- Ant-like Tiger Beetle ♥
- A bit of housekeeping
- North America’s smallest rattlesnake
Featured: House of Herps #5
AUGUST 2009
- Friday flower – Sabatia angularis
- The ubiquitous tiger beetle ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #43 - North America’s longest insect
- Ospriocerus abdominalis
- Overlooked, needle-bellied, thick-headed fly
- The last tiger beetle ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #42 - Friday flower – Krameria lanceolata
Featured: Berry Go Round #20 - North America’s smallest cicada
JULY 2009
- Western hognose snake
Featured: House of Herps #4 - Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge
- Oklahoma is for lovers
- Dromochorus pruinina in Oklahoma
- Typocerus deceptus in Missouri ♥
- North America’s most bizarre lizard
Featured: House of Herps #3 - North America’s most beautiful lizard
Featured: House of Herps #1 - Revisiting the Swift Tiger Beetle – Part 3 ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #41 - Revisiting the Swift Tiger Beetle – Part 2 ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #41
JUNE 2009
- Revisiting the Swift Tiger Beetle – Part 1 ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #41 - Friday flower
- A Silver Anniversary ♥
Featured: Carnival of Evolution #16 - Four Canyon Preserve, Oklahoma
- The “obscure” Dicerca
- Treatise of Western Hemisphere “Cicindelitae” ♥
Published: The Pan-Pacific Entomologist - Beetle News: a new, online publication
- Pyromorpha dimidiata
Featured: The Moth and Me #4 - Third time’s a charm!
- Brachys on oak
- On the road again!
- Goldenrod Leaf Miner
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #40 - 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 ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #39 - 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 ♥
Featured: Festival of the Trees #36 - 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 ♥
Featured: Festival of the Trees #35 - Winter botany quiz #4
MARCH 2009
- Tiger Beetle Safari
- Trees of Lake Tahoe – The Pines ♥
Featured: Festival of the Trees #34 - 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″
Featured: Berry Go Round #15 - Expanding blogroll
- Winter botany quiz #2
Featured: Berry Go Round #15 - Magodo – giant twig wilter
- Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network
FEBRUARY 2009
- Ship-timber beetle
- Sanctuary for the Betulaceae ♥
Featured: Festival of the Trees #33 - Winter botany quiz #1
- Millipede assassin bug
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #37 - Bizarre, beautiful extremes
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #38 - How to fail a test with dignity
- “Armoured tank beetle”
- Tempting tok-tokkies ♥
Featured: Linnaeus Legacy #16 - 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 ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #36
Published: The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 85(1):26-28 - Afrikaans ants
- Top Ten of 2008 ♥
DECEMBER 2008
- Cicindela lengi vs. Cicindela formosa
Featured: Linnaeus Legacy #15 - 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!”
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - The Loess Hills in Missouri ♥
AUGUST 2008
JULY 2008
- Sand Prairie Conservation Area ♥
- Dicerca pugionata
- Cicindela cursitans in Missouri
- Glades of Jefferson County ♥
JUNE 2008
MAY 2008
APRIL 2008
MARCH 2008
FEBRUARY 2008
JANUARY 2008
DECEMBER 2007
- Pickle Springs Natural Area ♥
- Rockwoods Reservation, Lime Kiln Loop Trail
- Ozark Trail, lower Trace Creek Section
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