9th Annual Fall Tiger Beetle Trip: Day 3.2
My plan to retrieve beetle-infested wood in Oklahoma’s Glass Mountains has morphed from a quick stop to an all-morning affair, and by the time I loaded up the bundles it was well past noon....
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Pyrota bilineata on flowers of Chrysothamnus viscidflorus | San Juan Co., Utah While looking for longhorned beetles in the genus Crossidius on flowers of yellow rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus...
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Nemognatha cribraria cribraria on flowers of Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus | Millard Co., Utah The beetle featured in today’s photo is the blister beetle (family Meloidae), Nemognatha cribraria...
View ArticleBest of BitB 2013
Welcome to the 6th Annual “Best of BitB”, where I pick my favorite photographs from the past year. Like last year, 2013 was another year of heavy travel. For work I did my annual tour of soybean field...
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Acmaeodera immaculata? (family Buprestidae) | vic. Vogel Canyon, Colorado. Regular readers of this blog know that I am fond of natural sky backgrounds for insects found during the day on flowers and...
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