…an inordinate fondness for beetles!
It seems therefore that a taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!--Charles Darwin
I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capture of rare beetles.--Charles Darwin
The Creator, if He exists, must have an inordinate fondness for beetles.--J. B. S. Haldane
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Ted C. MacRae is an agricultural research entomologist with "an inordinate fondness for beetles." Primary expertise includes taxonomy and host associations of wood-boring beetles, with more recent interest also in tiger beetle survey and conservation. I am currently serving as Managing Editor of the The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, Layout Editor for the journal Cicindela and Newsletter Editor for the Webster Groves Nature Study Society. Read my interview at Nature Blog Network, and visit me at these other sites:
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Scripturae Novae
- Cover Photo—The Coleopterists Bulletin 71(4)
- Ellipsoptera lepida – ghost tiger beetle
- Cicindela scutellaris flavoviridis (chartreuse tiger beetle)
- New paper: Buprestidae from El Limón de Cuauchichinola, Mexico
- Cicindela formosa pigmentosignata (the “reddish-green sand tiger beetle”)
- Cicindela scutellaris rugata (the “wrinkled tiger beetle”)
- The “black bringer of light”
- Fun with eucraniines!
- 2015 Texas Collecting Trip iReport—Fall Tiger Beetles
- Super duper June bugs
Insecta Populus
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- Don't Forget the Roundabouts by Simon Leathers
- Dragonfly Woman's Blog A blog by an aquatic entomologist
- EntomologyToday The latest news about entomology, brought to you by the Entomological Society of America
- flyobsession …for those who live and breathe Dipterology
- Gil WIZEN Entomologist and Photographer
- Life Unseen …the art in nature
- Myrmecos Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
- pterostichini and other entomological goodies
- Rove Beetle Musings
- SpiderBytes This blog is about spiders
- Splendor Awaits Bug photography, bug science, bug wonder.
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Friday Flower – Cleft Phlox
In a recent edition of my Friday Flower series I featured Tradescantia longipes (dwarf spiderwort or wild crocus), an exquisite Ozark endemic found scattered in dry igneous woodlands of the Missouri’s St. Francois Mountains and Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains and that I had … Continue reading
Vicarious Friday Beetle Blogging
Despite the fact that I have a beetle blog and Alex has an ant blog, it is the latter where the regular series Friday Beetle Blogging resides (hmm, I wonder if I should start a Myrmecine Monday series?). Alex has perhaps … Continue reading
Hunting the Great Plains giant tiger beetle
In the early 1980s, I was a young, green entomologist, fresh out of school with a budding interest in beetle taxonomy, a zeal for collecting, and a desire to meet other like-minded individuals. Among the first collectors I had the … Continue reading
Amblycheila success!
I love it when a plan comes together! Another one was caught after these photos for a total of five individuals. They’ve been setup for now in a container of native soil. I hope you’ll forgive these rather rushed photos … Continue reading
The Power of Impulse
Since figuring out a couple weeks that I had the larva of North America’s largest tiger beetle (Amblycheila cylindriformis, or Great Plains giant tiger beetle) in a rearing tub in the lab, I haven’t been able to think about anything except how … Continue reading
Call for paratypes!
Earlier this year, I featured this small jewel beetle in the genus Acmaeodera (family Buprestidae). It was collected a few years ago in southeastern Arizona by my hymenopterist friend Mike Arduser, who over the years has given me a great variety … Continue reading