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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Cryptic
It’s winter, and I now live in a place where it actually gets rather cold at night. That unfortunately means that I don’t have my usual access to mid-winter insects and I can no longer make you all...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Surprise!
The last evening of Bug Shot 2012, I was in the “toy room” helping clean up. I had set up an aquarium for photographing aquatic insects the first night and hadn’t put it away, so I scooped everything...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Fuzzy
Sometimes I think there aren’t nearly enough plush moths in the world. This one would make a marvelous stuffed animal: Fuzzy yellow moth It’s so cute and fuzzy! I would much rather have a cute little...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Tortoise
Tortoise beetles are some of my very favorite beetles. There’s something about their shape that really appeals to me. Imagine my pleasure when we saw several of these in Florida during BugShot 2012:...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Cactus Bugs
This is one of my favorite shots from Bug Shot 2012: Opuntia bugs Someone had brought in a prickly pear cactus paddle with a bunch of these bugs on them and I thought they were quite beautiful. This...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Leggy
When I went to Bug Shot in August, I came across dozens of different spiders. I almost walked into the web of this one, and caught sight of it just before I ended up with a spider on my face: Spider...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: 4 Views of a Cicada
A while back I went collecting with a friend in one of my favorite places in Arizona right when the very large cicadas in the area (Tibicen cultriformis) were active. You could hear their grand songs...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: A Dearth of Insects
Apart from the occasional wayward ladybug that makes it into the trailer where my office is at work, there has been a shocking lack of insects out and about for me to look at/document recently. It...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: On Bug Bloggers
I really enjoyed getting to hang out with some of my fellow bug bloggers at Science Online at the beginning of the month! I feel like we’ve got a great community online, a very supportive group of...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Edible Ladybugs
One of my coworkers, an archivist for the museum where I work, is super crafty and a wonderful cook. She works at the field station one day a week most weeks and brings delicious food to share....
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: I Don’t Do Cold
Though it has been beautiful out in Raleigh recently, it got quite cold several times this winter. Coming as I did from several years of living in Arizona, I’m not used to cold, particularly cold with...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Something in My Shirt
Ever find yourself sitting at your desk, chipping away at e mail responses after everyone else has left for the day, only to feel something moving on your back? It happened to me a few weeks ago. I...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: First o’ the Year Odonate
I saw my first damselfly of the year yesterday! A coworker and I went down to the pond to listen to the toads calling and I saw it as we walked along the trail. It was chilly out and the damselfly...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Future Mantids
They may be hard to find among the vegetation as soon as they hatch, but it is VERY easy to find the egg cases of mantids, like this one… Mantid egg case … where I work at Prairie Ridge. In Arizona, I...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Pollinator
The cherry laurels at work are blooming and I don’t think I’ve ever seen quite as many pollinators on a single shrub before! It’s crazy! We unfortunately have a ton of wind whipping across the...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Escapee
One of the hazards of bringing dragonfly and damselfly nymphs into your house overnight is that they sometimes molt into adults and fly away when you’re not looking. That’s what happened with this...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Enormous
You know an insect is BIG when you can get it to fill most of the frame of an iPhone shot without any sort of macro lens attachments. Check this crane fly out! Crane fly That’s enormous for a crane...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Pests on Green Background
I’ve had massive problems getting photos uploaded from my camera’s memory card to my computer (think the card is on its last legs…), so I haven’t been able to do the last few posts I’ve wanted to do....
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Eggs on Pipevine
In my post on Friday I mentioned that I got to see a pipevine swallowtail laying her eggs on the woolly pipevine at work. Here’s proof! Pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor, laying eggs on woolly...
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Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: First Dragonfly Photo of the Year
Well, this is it: my first dragonfly photo of the year. I’ve seen loads of dragonflies, but I am often busy teaching when I am at the pond and never seem to have a chance to get photos. I got this...
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