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Strange twins
August 19, 2020 - Net-winged Beetles are the moth-lookalikes of the Coleoptera world, and around here, they often come in variations on th...
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Stag party
July 24, 2020 - My favorite strategy for posting images is to go with the first sighting, but this shot of a stag beetle, a commoner amo...
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Lyin' eyes
July 17, 2020 - As far as I'm concerned, no summer is complete without an appearance by the master deceiver known as the Eyed Click Beet...
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First class rover
June 07, 2020 - British biologist J.B.S. Haldane once suggested that God had an inordinate fondness for beetles, and given how many memb...
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False eyes
July 10, 2019 - I'm always on the lookout for one of my favorite "fakes": an insect known as the Eyed Click Beetle. Alaus oculatus is a...
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Longhorn arrival
June 25, 2019 - When I saw this beetle on the cedar shingles by the kitchen porch tonight, I knew that it was a member of the Cerambycid...
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Another mystery
February 22, 2019 - One of the genuine joys of my life is the simple fact that there's always something new to discover. So it was that when...
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Hitchin' a ride
September 20, 2018 - I truly love beetles, and though I am not even close to being an expert on the identity of local members of the order Co...
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Hydrangea station
July 16, 2018 - I'm in the middle of a raft of deadline projects, so my walking schedule is off. Still, there's always a bit of time to...
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Bold beetle
June 08, 2018 - Some discoveries happen on ambitious treks; others occur closer to home. This one, of a beetle known as the Chestnut Bar...
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Lampless
February 20, 2018 - The temperature is now pushing into the 50s, and I had an idea: maybe, just maybe, a species of exceedingly early firefl...
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Beetle walkabout
February 11, 2018 - The temperatures were well into the 50s, the rains had swollen the creeks and rivers, and any traces of snow and ice wer...
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The un-woodpecker
January 17, 2018 - Spotting the Pileated Woodpecker I wrote about a couple of posts back was something of a surprise—the great birds are mo...
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Beautiful winged
September 06, 2017 - When it comes to an identification, this almost everyday insect is more than a bit confusing. At first glance, it appear...
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Sand tiger
June 28, 2017 - According to lore, British evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane declared that God had an "inordinate fondness for beetl...
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The Light Show debuts
June 24, 2017 - In my somewhat misspent youth, I once went to Alaska in the hope and expectation that I would be an emergency forest fir...
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Well-armed pest
August 17, 2016 - Some discoveries do not fill me with something approaching joy, but when I discovered this rather rotund beetle defoliat...
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Light show
June 23, 2016 - Whenever my granddaughter Stasia is staying with us in early summer, one activity is guaranteed to be on the agenda: a n...
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Here's clicking at ya, kid
June 15, 2016 - Nature can sometimes be startling. Indeed, sometimes nature is designed to be startling. And if you ever needed proof of...
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The last flasher
July 30, 2015 - As has been too often the case in recent years, there have been very few fireflies lighting up the dusk and the night. T...
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Apres swinging
July 27, 2015 - When my granddaughter Stasia is visiting and we're not spending hours hiking through the woods or swimming in the lake,...
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Pelidnota on post
July 18, 2015 - I'd seen plenty of Spotted Pelidnotas, those large but not especially showy members of the Scarab Beetle family, by the...
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In constant motion
September 24, 2014 - The drought is deepening—according to the US Drought Monitor, we've made the frightening transition into the light green...
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Goldenrod gem
September 15, 2014 - I am woefully deficient when it comes to identifying members of the vast insect order Coleoptera, but earlier this summe...
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