Month: October 2016

Beetles, of course!  These are tiny (1-6 mm long), black-brown, elongate-oblong beetles that resemble click beetles (Elateridae). See photos here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/14532.  The family is not at all diverse, 152 species known in the world, and poorly known.  We know they are usually founded in decaying trees, where they may be eating mold.  They even have mycetomes…

Dr. Barbara Hayford and Dr. Kelly Dillard, Professors at the Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska, have expanded the core canvasses of the past exhibition with scientific illustrations by Sara Taliaferro, Lawrence, KS (including many of larvae I study, for my manuscripts) and Tierney Brosius of Augustana College, Illinois. Thus we have a third U.S. iteration of the…

Every four years, the entomology community gathers for the world meeting, the International Congress of Entomology, which is held in different locations around the world.  I was last at ICE in Brisbane, Australia in 2004, a great excuse to roam OZ with my beetle girlfriend, Ainsley Seago. We started in Melbourne collecting beetles with Nick…

Earlier this year, we took our daughter for her birthday to Disney World. Five parks in six days was a whirlwind, especially so since my husband and I had not grown up on a Disney menu and this was our first visit. But Epcot (=Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) was interesting for this science nerd.…