Category Archives: Arthropoda

Arthropods – insects, arachnids, crustaceans, myriapods, & relatives

Love is in the air!

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

My first tiger beetle photograph of the season. There’s nothing more adorable than Spring love! Photo details: Canon 50D w/ 100mm f2.4 macro lens (ISO 160, 1/200 sec, f/16), Canon MT-24EX twin flash w/ DIY oversized concave diffuser. Copyright © … Continue reading →

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“They’re baaaaack!”

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

The recent run of seemingly interminable rains and HF4 tornadoes may have delayed the Annual-Birthday-First-Bug-Collecting-Trip-of-the-Year™, but it could not cancel it.  On Thursday this week, for the first time since the same time last week, a strange ball of hot gas appeared … Continue reading →

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Bichos Argentinos #11 – Takes Two to Tango

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

Another of the insects that I photographed at La Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina during my early March visit.  I found quite a few of these beetles feeding on the newly sprouting growth from cut stumps of a small, multi-stemmed tree.  At first … Continue reading →

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Itty bitty tiny little flies

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

Saturday was my birthday, and for most of my adult life it has been tradition to take the day off for the Annual-Birthday-First-Bug-Collecting-Trip-of-the-Year™.  At Missouri’s middlin’ latitudes, late April is normally a tad early—at least for the groups that interest … Continue reading →

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Bichos Argentinos #11 – I’m out’a here!

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

Neither of these photos are very good, but it’s the firefly’s fault.  I saw it last month in a soybean field in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. I got off the first shot, but the flash disturbed it and it started … Continue reading →

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Rediscovery of Cicindela scabrosa floridana

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

In refreshing contrast to the more usually heard reports of declining and extinct species, a new paper by Dave Brzoska, Barry Knisley, and Jeffrey Slotten (Brzoska et al. 2011) announces the rediscovery of a tiger beetle previously regarded as probably extinct.  Cicindela scabrosa floridana was … Continue reading →

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Cylindera celeripes – Fig. 1

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

One of the plates from our recently submitted manuscript on Cylindera celeripes (swift tiger beetle).¹  For the record, this is my first official attempt at assembling a plate in Photoshop for electronic submission – I sure hope I get quicker … Continue reading →

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Bichos Argentinos #10 – Friday Formicine

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

One of the insects I saw abundantly during my visit last month to La Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur (Buenos Aires, Argentina) was this species of black ant that looks well enough like one of our typical North American species. They were quite … Continue reading →

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