…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. Visit me also at these other sites:
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Western hognose snake
Another herp interlude… Photo details: Canon 100mm macro lens on Canon EOS 50D, ISO 100, 1/250 sec, f/14, MT-24EX flash 1/4 power w/ diffuser caps. During my visit to Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Oklahoma this past June, tiger … Continue reading
Posted in Reptilia
Tagged behavior, Great Plains, herpetology, nature, Oklahoma, predator avoidance, reptiles, salt flats, snakes, taxonomy
29 Comments
Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge
I’ve written quite a few posts about my June trip to northwestern Oklahoma. Four days at the ruggedly scenic Four Canyon Preserve and nearby Packsaddle Wildlife Management Area yielded a few interesting jewel beetles (though not many tiger beetles), but … Continue reading
Posted in Cicindelidae, Coleoptera
Tagged beetles, entomology, Great Plains, insects, landscapes, nature, Oklahoma, salt flats, science, tiger beetles
12 Comments
Oklahoma is for lovers
A few rather risqué photos from my June trip to northwestern Oklahoma. Photo details: Eleodes suturalis: Canon 100mm macro lens on Canon EOS 50D, ISO 100, 1/250 sec, f/13, MT-24EX flash 1/4 power through diffuser caps. Chrysobothris ignicollis: Canon 65mm … Continue reading
Posted in Buprestidae, Cicindelidae, Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae
Tagged beetles, behavior, darkling beetles, entomology, Great Plains, insects, jewel beetles, nature, Oklahoma, science, tiger beetles
24 Comments
Dromochorus pruinina in Oklahoma
As my colleague Chris Brown and I continue to study the tiger beetle fauna of Missouri, one of the species we have become very interested in is Dromochorus pruinina (frosted dromo tiger beetle). This is another of North America’s more … Continue reading
Posted in Cicindelidae, Coleoptera
Tagged beetles, behavior, conservation, entomology, Great Plains, insects, Missouri, nature, Oklahoma, prairies, science, taxonomy, tiger beetles
9 Comments
Typocerus deceptus in Missouri
It has been fifteen years now since I published an annotated checklist of the longhorned beetles (families Cerambycidae and Disteniidae) of Missouri (MacRae 1994). That publication (and a similar one on Buprestidae) was the product of eight years of collecting … Continue reading
Posted in Cerambycidae, Coleoptera
Tagged beetles, entomologists, entomology, forest, insects, longhorned beetles, Missouri, nature, new state record, Ozarks, science, taxonomy, trees
16 Comments
North America’s most bizarre lizard
Hmm, something funny going on here. This is a bug blog – specifically a beetle blog, yet it’s a post about a lizard that generates a flurry of comments. I don’t know if lightning will strike twice so quickly, but … Continue reading
Posted in Reptilia
Tagged behavior, conservation, crypsis, Great Plains, herpetology, lizards, nature, North America's most..., Oklahoma, prairies, predator avoidance, reptiles
32 Comments
North America’s most beautiful lizard
Whew! My fingers and keyboard are still smoking after that long series on Cylindera celeripes (parts 1, 2, and 3). Exciting as my celeripes finds were, there were other “tiger beetle moments” from the Oklahoma trip as well that I … Continue reading
Posted in Reptilia
Tagged Great Plains, herpetology, lizards, nature, North America's most..., Oklahoma, prairies, reptiles
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Revisiting the Swift Tiger Beetle – Part 3
…continued from Revisiting the Swift Tiger Beetle – Part 2. The Oklahoma trip had been an unqualified success. Not only had I managed to find the rare Cylindera celeripes (swift tiger beetle) at Alabaster Caverns, I had also determined the … Continue reading
Posted in Cicindelidae, Coleoptera
Tagged beetles, conservation, entomology, habitat management, insects, landscapes, Loess Hills, Missouri, nature, new state record, prairies, science, tiger beetles
18 Comments
