Below is a complete listing of the 929 posts published to date on Beetles In The Bush. Click on any title to view that post, or click on a month to see excerpts from all posts for that month with links to individual posts. Titles followed by a heart (♥) denote some of my personal favorites. Complete bibliography of references cited on this website.
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- “62nd” Annual “Season-Opener-Birthday-Bug-Collecting-Trip”
- When hardcore botany meets hardcore nature photography—nature geekery at its finest!
- 2019 WGNSS Nature Photography Contest
- T.G.I.Flyday—Black horse fly (Tabanus atratus)
- Revisiting the Highlands tiger beetle (Cicindelidia highlandensis)
- Another look at North America’s most beautiful longhorned beetle
- 2018 Arizona Insect Collecting Trip “iReport” ♥
- 2018 New Mexico/Texas Insect Collecting Trip “iReport” ♥
- “The Botanists Among Us: Host plant specialization in insects”
- “Highlights from Nearly 20 Years of Chasing Tiger Beetles in Missouri”
- A plea for comments on ICZN Case 3769
- Cicindela scutellaris flavoviridis (chartreuse tiger beetle)
- New paper: Buprestidae from El Limón de Cuauchichinola, Mexico
- Cicindela formosa pigmentosignata (the “reddish-green sand tiger beetle”)
- Cicindela scutellaris rugata (the “wrinkled festive tiger beetle”)
- The “black bringer of light”
- Fun with eucraniines!
- Beetle Collecting 101: Fermenting bait traps for collecting longhorned beetles ♥
- North America’s most “extreme” jewel beetle
- Spiney, scaley distractions
- A flower visiting jewel beetle that is not an Acmaeodera
- Crypsis? Mimicry? Crypsimicry?
- Redux: Now you see me…
- Spring beetles on Coreopsis flowers
- A cicada that snaps, crackles, and pops!
- Why is this male carrion beetle “biting” one of the female’s antennae?
- Virtual Mantle 2014
- Holiday Greetings from BitB!
- Cactus beetle redux!
- Missouri Master Naturalists Seminar
- Two endemic Jamaican jewel beetles: one known, one not?
- First internet image of Phaenops piniedulis
- Scorching plains, screaming cactus ♥
- I got Thomas Shahan to image my Chrysochroa corbetti!
- Guess who just turned 7?
- How to catch “bucket loads” of Prionus fissicornis! ♥
- Missouri’s largest planthopper
- Guest Post: Burrow Hole Blues
- My first experience with Prionus lure ♥
- North America’s Most Beautiful Agrilus Jewel Beetle
- A Buprestis hat-trick! ♥
- Orange and black on gold
- Amorpha borer on goldenrod
- 2014 Great Plains Collecting Trip iReport ♥
September 2014
- Sunset beetles
- A truly disturbed garden spider
- The lesser of two jewels
- A striking mallow caterpillar
- Not quite adult
- First-ever BitB “Reader’s Poll”
- One-shot Wednesday: swamp milkweed leaf beetle
- My, what busy palps you have!
- Super Crop Challenge #16
- Southern armyworm feeding on soybean
- Digger wasps in action
- Pretty, little, no-name spider
- Stag and “stagette” beetle
- A time of reckoning ♥
- The Buprestis tree
- Proof that it’s possible to ship large, pinned beetles safely!
July 2014
- Chrysobothris orono in Tennessee
- Big, black (and red), and beautiful!
- When is a stag beetle not a stag beetle? ♥
- ID Challenge #23
- One-shot Wednesday: Mallodon dasystomus
- Black is beautiful!
June 2014
May 2014
- Turbo Testudine
- Mrs. Monday Jumper
- Monday Jumper
- One-shot Wednesday: pale green assassin bug
- Baby box turtle on white
- “Picudo negro” (black weevil) on soybean in Argentina ♥
- An arboreal fishing spider
April 2014
- The importance of post-processing
- Not all soybean caterpillars are ‘ugly’!
- Seminar on Oklahoma’s Glass Mountains
- Tortoise beetles on the job ♥
- A Crossidius hirtipes subspecies blend zone…
- Introducing Acmaeodera chuckbellamyi
- Tiger beetles in Argentina’s Chaco forest
March 2014
- ID Challenge #22
- Crossidius hirtipes rhodopus in Adobe Valley, California
- Beetle Collecting 101: How to rear wood-boring beetles ♥
- The sublimely beautiful Crossidius coralinus caeruleipennis
February 2014
- Clouded beetles amidst spectacular scenery
- What was that insect?
- Help! Can you identify this insect?
- Earth’s oldest living things! ♥
January 2014
- GBCT Beetle #6: Crossidius ater
- Receiving a shipment of insects for identification…
- Pop! goes the beetle ♥
- Beetles by Chuck
- Review of North American Chalcophora
- I’m a fun guy!
December 2013
- Best of BitB 2013 ♥
- Virtual Mantle 2013
- Hairy milkweed beetle
- Felizard Navidad 2013!
- How to be an “iPhone nature photographer” ♥
- A polypipin’ we will go!
- Skulls on my desk ♥
- ID Correction: Megaloxantha bicolor palawanica
- ID Challenge #22: The Bone Collector
- Why did it take 30 years to collect these beetles?
- The wondrously and eerily beautiful Mono Lake
- Stalking tigers in Argentina
- Party on a pin oak
- A belated Happy Birthday
- Pedantic Sunday: Blister beetles don’t suck
November 2013
- T.G.I.Flyday: Soybean nodule fly
- One-shot Wednesday: Hawk moths suck!
- A winter longhorned beetle
- Q: How do you photograph cactus beetles? ♥
- Red-eyed poop!
- Hooray for iStock—I finally have an ID for my photo
- The “Dagger Butt Weevil”
- Sunday scarab: Phileurus valgus
- Fire ant winged reproductives: male and female
- ESA Insect Macrophotography Workshop
- The Darwin Beetle ♥
- Midget male meloid mates with mega mama
- One-shot Wednesday: The “other” hibiscus jewel beetle
- Honey Locust Borer
- How to pack and ship pinned insect specimens ♥
October 2013
- GBCT Beetle #5: Crossidius coralinus monoensis
- The Festive Tiger Beetle in Southeast Missouri
- INHS Seminar: Tiger Beetles of Missouri
- GBCT Beetle #4—Crossidius hirtipes rubrescens
- Just another ‘bug on white’
- October’s Bounty
- Quick Guide to Armyworms on Soybean ♥
- ATTACK OF THE KILLER TIGER (beetle)!
- Under Blood Red Skies ♥
- Twig tethered to a twig
- GBCT Beetle #3—Crossidius coralinus temprans
- Cover Photo—The Coleopterists Bulletin 67(3)
September 2013
- Sunday Spider: Backlit Araneus
- Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area ♥
- GBCT Beetle #2: Agrilus walsinghami
- Teeny, tiny, timid tot of a toad
- GBCT Beetle #1: Crossidius hirtipes immaculatus
- Great Basin Collecting Trip iReport ♥
- Arizona collectors: Have you seen this beetle?
- T.G.I.Flyday—fuzzy wuzzy wuz a…
- Sunset for another great collecting trip
August 2013
- Dr. Charles L. “Chuck” Bellamy—Tribute to a friend ♥
- Flown the coop
- An interesting flightless May beetle
- The one that got away!
- Rattlesnakes may be present!
- Tips for photographing shiny beetles on yellow flowers ♥
- Another new record for northwestern Oklahoma ♥
- Bee Assassin on Coneflower
- Mexico 1992—Gang of Ten
- <a title=”Haldeman’s shieldback katydid (Pediodectes haldemani)” href=”https://beetlesinthebush.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/haldemans-shieldback-katydid-pediodectes-haldemani/”>Haldeman’s shieldback katydid (Pediodectes haldemani)
July 2013
- <a title=”The perfectly polyphagous Chrysobothris purpureovittata” href=”https://beetlesinthebush.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/the-perfectly-polyphagous-chrysobothris-purpureovittata/”>The perfectly polyphagous Chrysobothris purpureovittata
- Relaxed comment moderation policy
- The ever-increasing diversity of Oklahoma beetles ♥
- Registration is now open for my ESA Webinar
- Where do BitB readers come from (and why I like Facebook better than Twitter and Google+)?
- “Rare jewel beetles discovered in Mexico by team of scientists!” ♥
- Observation and Bias in Biology
- “Blue-sky” tips and tricks
June 2013
- Cover photo for the June 2013 issue of The Coleopterists Bulletin
- Plionoma suturalis in Oklahoma—a new state record! ♥
- A chalcidid jewel beetle parasitoid wasp
- Agrilus fuscipennis on Persimmon
- Flatfaced longhorn: Leptostylus transversus
- Oklahoma Collecting Trip iReport ♥
- Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
- Meet Enus’ Meal
May 2013
- Meet Enus
- North America’s itsiest bitsiest longhorned beetle ♥
- Spring Unfolding
- Field photographs of insects can be deceiving
- Big, Bold and Beautiful—Redux
- Oversized, double-concave diffuser for MT-24EX twin flash ♥
- A Tale of Two Blogs
April 2013
- Giving me the weevil eye!
- Group mimicry in Cerambycidae… and more
- Battle of the Bug Blogs
- And the results are in… ♥
- Ceti Eel offspring?
- My favorite of Missouri’s milkweeds
March 2013
- Bollworms rising!
- The true Ombú
- The 213-year old “Gran Gomero”
- ID Challenge #21
- These bugs rock!
- The “little soybean weevil”
- Field of Dreams
- Fun at Salinas Grandes
- Greetings from Argentina
- Baffling beetles
February 2013
- Brazilian Bike Adventure ♥
- T.G.I.Flyday: Argentine robber
- The “silky-bellied humpbacked” ant
- Another happy customer!
- Featured Guest Photo: A Spectacular Case of Mimicry
- A jewel of a beetle
- Raining spit
- Backyard gems
- Super Crop Challenge #15
January 2013
- Diffusion versus post-processing, or perhaps something even better?
- The Texas Prick
- How to collect larvae of Amblycheila cylindriformis ♥
- You know what bugs me about dung beetles?…
- These are a few of my favorite trees
- His name is Ralph!
- An elegant living fossil…
- Cicindela 44(3–4) is issued
- Diffuser comparisons for 100mm macro lens
- It’s always a happy day…
- Mr. Phidippus gets his loot
- Ovipositing Pigeon Horntail ♥
- The ultimate jaws on a longhorned beetle!
- Let’s make a deal!
December 2012
- Best of BitB 2012 ♥
- More Eocene insects
- Virtual Mantle 2012
- Happy Holidays from BitB
- The 2nd-oldest Known Myrmicine Ant ♥
- T.G.I.Flyday: Tachinomyia sp.
- A 50-million-year-old midge
- Eye to eye to eye to eye with a tiger beetle larva ♥
- An elegant Eocene fly
- Beautiful box of Buprestidae
- Beetle, orthop or something else?
- The gloriously dichromatic Dasymutilla gloriosa
- Spider, insect or something else?
- Dainty, delicate, little fairies
- Friday Editor’s Tip: Lose the formatting!
- Book Announcement: Field Guide to the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of Northeastern North America ♥
- Life at 8X: MPMI Cover
- One Bad Beetle
November 2012
- Another autumn oedipodine
- Mother and daughter (perhaps)
- Where siblings mingle: Ellipsoptera marginata vs. E. hamata ♥
- Araneus marmoreus encore
- Super Crop Challenge #14
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- It’s a Mayfly…It’s a Moth…It’s Thyridopteryx
- Approaching the unapproachable ♥
- Persistence Pays
- Black olives with legs
- Hand-held caddisflies
- Black is beautiful!
- Gulf Fritillary in southern Missouri
- Life at 8X—hibiscus flea beetle
- Monster in the Night
October 2012
- Happy Halloween!
- Beetle Collecting 101: How to pin a beetle
- The hardest EASIEST ID Challenge in like ever!
- Why are this beetle’s elytra outstretched? ♥
- PPE Call For Submissions
- Have you googled yourself lately?
- Frustrating Emerald
- How to deal with a crappy photo of a beautiful beetle ♥
- The “Other” Marvelously Monstrous Microstylum
- The Third of Florida’s Three Metallic Tiger Beetles
- A visit to the Dallas Arboretum
- Post processing—then and now
- Life at 8X—Bandedwinged Whitefly
- Tiger lovin’
- Sexual Profiles
- Just repanda… er, wait a minute…
- Some recent publications
- Wasp Wednesday—Not!
- Consolation Crossidius
September 2012
- An uncommon fall-active Acmaeodera
- Photographing the Limestone Tiger Beetle ♥
- Sneak Peek
- Inchworm, Inchworm, Oh So Small
- Dressed in black ♥
- 9th Annual Fall Tiger Beetle Trip: Day 3.2
- The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 88(2)—Penrose Memorial issue
- 9th Annual Fall Tiger Beetle Trip: Day 3.1
- 9th Annual Fall Tiger Beetle Trip: Day 2
- 9th Annual Fall Tiger Beetle Trip: Day 1
- A classic fall ‘bycid ♥
- Not quite a one-shot
- The very dirty tiger
- Life at 8X—Guide to lepidopteran eggs on soybean
August 2012
- Unexpected visitors
- Ghosts in the night ♥
- Program Announcment: 2012 ESA Annual Meeting
- Life at 8X—soybean aphid
- ID Challenge #20
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Shooting 8X hand-held in the field
- A Day Maker!
- Very wary tigers! ♥
- A non-black background is better… often!
- A black background is better… sometimes
- And the winner is…
- 2013 ESA World of Insects Calendar Selection
July 2012
- Even a 12-year old can discover the larva of a rare, endemic species! ♥
- Planet’s Coolest Critters – Tiger Beetles
- Working with Cerceris fumipennis—Epilogue
- Palmetto Tortoise Beetle, Hemisphaerota cyanea
- One-Shot Wednesday—Proctacanthus fulviventris ovipositing
- Working with Cerceris fumipennis—Part 2 ♥
- Working with Cerceris fumipennis—Part 1 ♥
- Cicada killer on the fly
- The importance of background and apparent light size
- ID Challenge #19
- One-Shot Wednesday: two-striped grasshopper nymph
- Sea Grape Flatid – Petrusa epilepsis
June 2012
- West Indian seagrape sawfly
- Super Crop Challenge #13
- More on Chalcosyrphus
- T.G.I.Flyday – Chalcosyrphus?
- Fathers Day at the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Beetle botanists
- Damon diadema—Tanzanian giant tailless whip scorpion
- Welcome “Baby Damon”!
- Poised for the bounty
- “Dear Author”
- Just published: Cicindela 44(1) March 2012
- Dicerca pugionata – safe and sound! ♥
May 2012
- Cosmetid harvestman with parasitic/phoretic mites in Argentina
- Holy conglobulation, Batman! ♥
- ID Challenge #18
- Science Outreach in Action
- Dr. Charles L. “Chuck” Bellamy – 12th Honorary Member of The Coleopterists Society ♥
- Milestone: Half a million page hits for BitB!
- Maddening mutillid
- One-Shot Wednesday: Upside down bee fly
- Aglaoschema rufiventre in Chaco, Argentina
- Friday Flower: Phacelia purshii
- One-Shot Wednesday: Panorpa helena scorpionfly
- Desmiphora hirticollis: Crypsis or Mimicry? ♥
- More fly got eye!
- Adult male Hentzia palmarum jumping spider
April 2012
- Out with the old (but on a good note) (by Chris Brown)
- Traffic Jam Treehoppers
- “Cochinilla australiana” in Argentina
- ID Challenge #17
- My response to “Can you talk to 10-year-olds about science?” ♥
- Inaugural “One-Shot Wednesday”
- Fly got eye!
- I fear no weevil…
- Bicho palito, or “My longest post ever!” ♥
- The Ups and Downs of Bug Collecting ♥
- Super Crop Challenge #12
- Pseudomyrmex in Corrientes, Argentina
- “Is blogging dead?” – Another view
March 2012
- Animals Alarmed!
- The backwards firefly
- Seeing the unseen
- A tortoise beetle gift
- Retrachydes thoracicus – times four!
- Two more winners
- Chicharra que canta, calor adelanta
- The most common beetle in Argentina
- Eriopis connexa on soybean in Argentina
- ID Challenge #16
- Lord of the flies! ♥
- Sharpshooter
- Me encanta Argentina!
- Tucuras, langostas, y saltamontes
- Crazy Eyes 2
- Pollen Bath
February 2012
- The “Big 3″ of corn in Argentina
- Leafcutter ants on corn
- To the land of Gauchos
- Chrysobothris viridiceps
- Grampus and go-devil
- Tiger beetles in southeast Missouri
- The World’s Largest Tiger Beetle
- Of Bots and Warbles (by Chris Brown)
- MacRae Entomology Museum Expansion ♥
- My favorite Super Bowl Commercial
- Pollen Bath
January 2012
- A Living Jewel – Madecassia rothschildi
- Super Crop Challenge #11
- Another cover photo
- “My peripatetic quest for North America’s rarest tiger beetles”
- Return to Calico Rock ♥
- A Modest Model for Mimicry (by Chris Brown)
- BitB’s Newest Contributor – Chris Brown
- Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle ♥
- Memories of summer – Neoclytus scutellaris
- Something for Adrian
- ID Challenge #15
- Buprestidae exchange
- Extreme sexual dimorphism in Buprestidae: Xenorhipis hidalgoensis ♥
- 2,171 pieces of chitin…
- I am an Entomologist ♥
December 2011
- Best of BitB 2011 ♥
- Hover fly on mallow flower
- Santa Jaws…
- A Riot of Colors
- Super Crop Challenge #10
- Sometimes the best collecting…
- Swift Tiger Beetle: Species on the Brink
- Cycloalexy in tortoise beetle larvae ♥
- ‘Beetles in the Bush’ T-Shirts now available!
November 2011
- Speaking of cover photos…
- Arriving now in a mailbox near you…
ZygogrammaDesmogramma leaf beetles in Argentina- A day of milestones and thanks! ♥
- Return to La Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur
- “Puente de la Mujer”
- “Sunflower looper” – Rachiplusia nu ♥
- ID Challenge #14
- A Brazilian longhorned beetle – Oxymerus aculeatus
- New comment policy
- Cicindela albissima—The Coral Pink Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle ♥
October 2011
- Isn’t she splendid?!
- ID Challenge #13 results and Session #4 final standings
- St. Anthony Dune Tiger Beetle ♥
- ID Challenge #13 – Addendum
- ID Challenge #13
- Lytta vulnerata cooperi
- The Methocha
- Different Jaws for Different Jobs
- Ozark Landscapes – White River in northern Arkansas
- Crossidius coralinus fulgidus
- Cicindela scutellaris yampae – Yampa Festive Tiger Beetle
September 2011
- Cicindela formosa gibsoni… or not!
- ID Challenge #12
- My Canon 8X Macro Lens
- A cicindelophilic wish list
- Not all Florida tiger beetles are rare
- Two things I love about glades during fall…
- Crazy Eyes
Featured: Freshly Pressed: Nature - Mini-review of the Cicindelidia abdominalis species-group ♥
- Return to Nowhere
- Another account of the recently rediscovered Cicindelidia floridana
- Bee Fly Parasitism of Tetracha virginica ♥
- BugShot 2011 – Final Thoughts
- ID Challenge #11
- BugShot 2011 – Lesson 2
- BugShot 2011 – Lesson 1
- Bumelia borer on white
- Super Crop Challenge #9
August 2011
- Peek-A-Boo!
- Use of extension tubes for better lighting
- Charming Couple revisited
- Gnom, Gnom, Gnom…
- Why I Roamed the Marsh at Night
- Creepy Crawly Crustaceans
- Super Crop Challenge #8
- The (almost) Florida-endemic Cicindelidia scabrosa
- Predator or Prey?
- 80 Beetles
- Photographing the Newly Rediscovered Cicindelidia floridana ♥
- ID Challenge #10
- Tiger Beetle Nocturnal Perching
- Charming Couple
- Cylindera cursitans (Ant-like Tiger Beetle) in Arkansas ♥
July 2011
- Speaking of Graphisurus…
- Graphisurus triangulifer in Missouri
- Elytrimitatrix at my window
- Hook-faced Conehead – Pyrgocorypha uncinata
- Super Crop Challenge #7
- T.G.I.Flyday – Triorla interrupta
- Lined Jewel Beetle
- More on ‘Conspicuous Crypsis’
- Oedipodine Rex ♥
- Vinerunt, futuerunt, ierunt (by James Trager)
- Burrowing Owl in Argentina
- Diminishing Stag Beetle
- Four-humped Longhorned Beetle
- ID Challenge #9
- A “Giant” Pygmy
- T.G.I.Flyday – Andrenosoma fulvicaudum
June 2011
- Sugarcane Weevil in Brazil
- Tracking Tetraopes texanus with Terry ♥
- Bichos Argentinos #14 – Flies!
- Brazil Bugs #16 – Royal Moth Larva
- Super Crop Challenge #6
- My Dad (reprise)
- Forgotten Foto Friday: Eudioctria sp.
- A Missouri hotspot for Cylindera unipunctata ♥
- Predator Satiation
- Do you think I’m tasty?
- Eye to eye with a copperhead ♥
- Pardalophora phoenicoptera – Orange-winged grasshopper
- They’re baaaaack… finally!
- Wrong lens
- Mite on White ♥
May 2011
- Sawfly larva – Periclista sp.
- Super Crop Challenge #5
- Dromochorus pruinina is not extirpated in Missouri… yet! ♥
- Friday Flower – Spring Coralroot Orchid
- Stink Bugs on Soybean in Argentina
- Bichos Argentinos #13 – Spotted Maize Beetle
- ID Challenge #8
- Bichos Argentinos #12 – Lace Bugs
- Big, Bold, and Beautiful ♥
- Friday Flower – “Palo Borracho”
- Feasting on the bounty
- Love is in the air!
April 2011
- “They’re baaaaack!”
- Bichos Argentinos #11 – Takes Two to Tango
- Itty bitty tiny little flies
- Friday Flower – Hedychium coccineum
- Bichos Argentinos #11 – I’m out’a here!
- Rediscovery of Cicindela scabrosa floridana ♥
- Cylindera celeripes – Fig. 1
- Bichos Argentinos #10 – Friday Formicine
- Bichos Argentinos #9 – Membracido
- The Pan-Pacific Entomologist
- Agelia lordi (Walker)
- Friday Flower – Ceibo
- Au Bon Marché
- Bichos Argentinos #8 – ”Mosca de la Carne”
- Super Crop Challenge #4
- Enormous Unknown Bug! ♥
March 2011
- Bichos Argentinos #7 – Naupactus xanthographus
- Bichos Argentinos #6 – Jumping Spider ♥
- BitB Does CoO
- Bichos Argentinos #5 – Cyrtocoris egeris
- ID Challenge #7
- A thrips is a thrips…
- ID Challenge #6
- Brazil Bugs #16 – Outro Percevejo
- Bichos Argentinos #4 – Balancing Act
- Bichos Argentinos #3 – “Bicho Torito”
- Bichos Argentinos #2 – Pseudomyrmex sp.
- Bichos Argentinos #1 – Eristalinus taeniops
- La Reserva Ecologica Costanera Sur
- Saludos de Argentina
- A Room with a View
- North America’s largest scarab beetle ♥
- Brazil Bugs #15 – Formiga-membracídeos mutualismo ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #60
Featured: Freshly Pressed: Nature
February 2011
- Monday Moth – Polka-dot Wasp Moth
- Brazil Bugs #14 – Fusquinha
- Frenatae 2011 Calendar
- Is Missouri’s disjunct population of Johnson’s tiger beetle extirpated? ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #60 - Friday Flower – Orquídea bambu
Featured: Berry Go Round #37 - Brazil Bugs #13 – Gorgulho do fungo
- Featured Guest Photo – Dromica kolbei
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - Answers to ID Challenge #5 – Artrópodes em casca de árvore morta
- Brazil Bugs #12 – Desafio de identificação #5
- Brazil Bugs #11 – Formigas cortadeiras
- Brazil Bugs #10 – A mosca mais legal que eu já vi!
- Brazil Bugs #9 – Formiga hostil
- Recent literature – The Coleopterists Bulletin
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - Answer to ID Challenge #4 – Aetalion reticulatum
January 2011
- Brazil Bugs #8 – Desafio de identificação #4
- Brazil Bugs #7 – Cigarrinhas
- Brazil Bugs #6 – A mosca
- Brazil Bugs #5 – Lagartixa
Featured: House of Herps #15 - Brazil Bugs #4 – Mais dos percevejos
- Brazil Bugs #3 – Gorgulho Enorme!
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - Brazil Bugs #2
- Rain Over Campinas, Brazil
- Rush skeletonplant pea gall wasp
- Brazil Bugs #1
- ID Challenge #3
- Calm waters, frenzied beetles
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - Diversity in Tiger Beetle Larval Burrows ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - Red-eyed Devil ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #59 - ID Challenge #2
- Monroe Canyon epilogue – Audubon’s tiger beetle
- BitB Top 10 of 2010
December 2010
- North America’s largest stag beetle ♥
- Super Crop Challenge #3
- My MT-24EX flash diffuser ♥
- The 12 Years of Christmas
- Cicindela denverensis – green claybank tiger beetle
- ID Challenge #1
- Pseudoxycheila tarsalis – remounted ♥
- AIF #11, HoH #12
- ESA in absentia
- A First Class Box of Beetles
- Cleaning Tiger Beetles
- Eye of the Turtle ♥
Featured: Freshly Pressed: Nature - Monroe Canyon – A Tiger Beetle “Hot Spot”
- Answer to Super Crop Challenge #2
- Super Crop Challenge #2
- Tiny little slivers of life
- Kirby’s Tiger Beetle
November 2010
- Litaneutria minor – agile ground mantid
- Answer to Super Crop Challenge #1
- Super Crop Challenge #1
- Desmocerus palliatus – elderberry borer
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #11 - The “best” Eleodes suturalis
- Cicindela pulchra on white
- Amblycheila cylindriformis on white ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #58 - Forgotten Foto Friday: Centruroides vittatus
- Cicindela nebraskana – Prairie Long-lipped Tiger Beetle
- Halloween ID challenge answer –Argiope trifasciata
October 2010
- Halloween ID challenge
- Flash solutions for the beautiful tiger beetle ♥ North America’s most beautiful tiger beetle ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #10 - Phreaky Phalangid
- Euhagena nebraskae… again
- An Inordinate Fondness #9
- A “leafless” leaf-footed bug
- Saltatorial sidetracks
- Missouri’s disjunct population of Cicindela obsoleta vulturina ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #57 - Jeepers Creepers, where’d ya get those multilayered retinae? ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #56 - “Colorfull Cockroach” discovered in Panama
September 2010
- Sweet Sixteen!
- Promiscuous Plants (by James Trager)
Featured: Freshly Pressed: Nature - 2 days, 6 localities, 10 species…
- First tiger of the trip…
Featured: House of Herps #11 - Reunion in the Badlands… and beyond
- The last survivor
- An Inordinate Fondness #8 – Meet the Beetles
- …the “better” Eleodes suturalis ♥
- The real Eleodes suturalis…
- Lens and lighting comparisons
- New blogs of note
- Rearing the Prairie Tiger Beetle (Cicindela obsoleta vulturina) ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #8 - North America’s largest centipede ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #55 - Flaming the debate
- Friday Flower – green fringed orchid
Featured: Berry Go Round #33
August 2010
- Trichodes bibalteatus in Oklahoma
- Rejoicing the end of summer ♥
- Clown beetle surprise
- “A good photographer is invisible…”
- Cicindela – A quarterly journal devoted to Cicindelidae
- Bruneau Sand Dune tiger beetles caught in the act!
- What’s so special about this beetle?
- What’s more difficult to see…
- Manduca vs. Amblycheila
- The marvelously monstrous Microstylum morosum ♥
- Eastern Red-Bellied Tiger Beetle
July 2010
- Merci!
- Six beetles Ted still needs for his collection (by Rich Thoma)
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #8 - A wiley wasp (by Alex Wild)
- The joys of ecological restoration (by James Trager)
- Collecting in Australia’s remote McIlwraith range (by Alex Wild)
- Guest Blogger: Dogbane for Dinner (by Anne McCormack)
- Special Delivery ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #7 - Friday Flower – Cleft Phlox
Featured: Berry Go Round #32 - Vicarious Friday Beetle Blogging
- Hunting the Great Plains giant tiger beetle ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #54 - Amblycheila success!
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #6 - The Power of Impulse
- Call for paratypes! ♥
June 2010
- Typocerus lugubris
- Friday Flower – Sedum pulchellum
Featured: Berry Go Round #31 - Nomenclatural changes in Phymatodes
- North America’s largest tiger beetle (I think!) ♥
- June beetles, moths, and herps
- Future Entomologist
- Swift Tiger Beetle – good news, bad news ♥
- Where’s Ted now?
- Friday Flower – Dwarf Spiderwort
Featured: Berry Go Round #30 - An irresistible sight!
- When is a locust borer not a locust borer?
- Are we loving our prairies/glades/woodlands to death? ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #54 - Critters, and berries, and trees! (Oh, my!)
- “Trying” to photograph whirligig beetles
May 2010
- Do you know what I’m doing?
- Long Weekend Bug Collecting Trip!
- Cylindera celeripes Larva Revealed ♥
- Introducing Chrysobothris caddo ♥
- The marvelously cryptic Dicerca lurida
- May beetles and herps
- The Moth and Me #11 ♥
- BitB gets a facelift
- Waiter, there’s a fly on my fungus…
- A Horridus Birthday
Featured: House of Herps #8 - Hitchin’ A Ride
- Friday Flower – Pawpaw
Featured: Berry Go Round #29 - Beetle Collecting 101: Dress for Success ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #5 - CotS #50 – the Mantis Shrimp Edition
- Monday Moth – Simple Maiden (Amata simplex)
Featured: The Moth and Me #12
APRIL 2010
- Friday Flower: Red Buckeye
Featured: Berry Go Round #28 - Rough Green Snake
Featured: House of Herps #7 - My first jumping spider ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #52 - Pseudomethoca simillima – a model forEnoclerus ichneumoneus?
- Revision of the Formicidae of North America ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #51 - North America’s second-rarest pine
Featured: Festival of the Trees #48 - Orange-banded checkered beetle
- Hello World! ♥
- Taum Sauk Mountain – Missouri’s High Point
- Two ladies from Ontario
- Josef Knull was wrong! ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #4 - Mylabris oculatus in South Africa
- Winter Botany Quiz #6 – answers and a checklist
- Winter Botany Quiz #6
- Monday Moth: Arniocera erythropyga
Featured: The Moth and Me #10 - The “New” Gromphadorina portentosa
- New Bug Blogs of note
- Bicycle ride around Lake Tahoe
- Tuesday Teaser
- Gromphadorina portentosa
- Carnival of Evolution #22 ♥
MARCH 2010
- Up the Glacial Staircase
- Lampetis drummondii larva?
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #3 - Friday Flower – Ozark Witch Hazel
Featured: Berry Go Round #27 - Lake Tahoe – 2010 Preview
- Pismire Puzzle ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #50 - The Inexorable March of Spring! (by James Trager)
- March moths, herps, and beetles
- Clubmoss along the Ozark Trail
Featured: Berry Go Round #26 - BitB on NBN
- North America’s largest jewel beetle ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #2 - Tuesday Tarantula ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #49 - Acmaeodera carlota in northern Arizona
- March Carnivalia
- A Tiger Beetle Aggregation
FEBRUARY 2010
- Euhagena nebraskae in Kansas
Featured: The Moth and Me #9 - Monday Ménage – Brachyleptura rubrica
- Beetle Love
- Alkali Tiger Beetle
- Who am I?
- Hawn State Park – Winter Hiking at its Finest
- Aaack!-maeodera ♥
- “Cicindelophilically”
- Ants invade Beetles in the Bush! (by James Trager)
- BitB’s Newest Contributor
- Circus of the Spineless #47 ♥
JANUARY 2010
- Triple Quiz
- A matter of diffusion
- Friday Flower: Crystallofolia (“Frost Flowers”)
- House of Herps #2 ♥
- Me and my buds!
- Habitat Partitionining in Tiger Beetles ♥
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #1 - Mass Grave
- Publications Available
- Sunday Matinée: Buzzed Creep Cockroaches
DECEMBER 2009
- BitB Best of 2009
- Badges are up at AIF
- The 12 Years of Christmas (encore)
- Tiger Beetles at Florida’s “Road to Nowhere”
- Tiger Beetles Agree—It’s Hot in Florida! ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #48 - Do You Have “An Inordinate Fondness”?
- Creepy Crawly Spiders
- Give the Gift of Green
- Newest Blog Carnival: House of Herps
- Great Plains Ladies’-tresses ♥
Featured: Berry Go Round #25 - Friday Flower: Yes, it’s an orchid…
- CotS #45
- Cicadetta kansa in Oklahoma
NOVEMBER 2009
- A bid for OpenLab
- Thanksgiving
- Oh, and by the way…
- A “Really” Big-headed Tiger Beetle ♥
Featured: Carnival of Evolution #19 - “This is a big horse!”
- Florida Scrub Lizard ♥
Featured: House of Herps #6 - Moustached Tiger Beetle
- Highlands Tiger Beetle
- Monday Moth: White-tipped Black Moth
Featured: The Moth and Me #8 - Beetle Research Roundup
OCTOBER 2009
- Berry Go Round #21 ♥
- Proof that I am out standing in my field
- Florida Metallic Tiger Beetle
- Anatomy of a Tiger Beetle Larva ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #45 - (My) Introduction to Florida Tiger Beetles ♥
- Cold and wet
- A face only a mother could love
- Do you know what time it is?
SEPTEMBER 2009
- North America’s most beautiful longhorned beetle ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #44 - Assassin ate
- North America’s largest robber fly
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #46 - Prey bee mine
- Ant-like Tiger Beetle ♥
- A bit of housekeeping
- North America’s smallest rattlesnake
Featured: House of Herps #5
AUGUST 2009
- Friday flower – Sabatia angularis
- The ubiquitous tiger beetle ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #43 - North America’s longest insect
- Ospriocerus abdominalis
- Overlooked, needle-bellied, thick-headed fly
- The last tiger beetle ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #42 - Friday flower – Krameria lanceolata
Featured: Berry Go Round #20 - North America’s smallest cicada
JULY 2009
- Western hognose snake
Featured: House of Herps #4 - Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge
- Oklahoma is for lovers
- Dromochorus pruinina in Oklahoma
- Typocerus deceptus in Missouri ♥
- North America’s most bizarre lizard
Featured: House of Herps #3 - North America’s most beautiful lizard
Featured: House of Herps #1 - Revisiting the Swift Tiger Beetle – Part 3 ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #41 - Revisiting the Swift Tiger Beetle – Part 2 ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #41
JUNE 2009
- Revisiting the Swift Tiger Beetle – Part 1 ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #41 - Friday flower
- A Silver Anniversary ♥
Featured: Carnival of Evolution #16 - Four Canyon Preserve, Oklahoma
- The “obscure” Dicerca
- Treatise of Western Hemisphere “Cicindelitae” ♥
Published: The Pan-Pacific Entomologist - Beetle News: a new, online publication
- Pyromorpha dimidiata
Featured: The Moth and Me #4 - Third time’s a charm!
- Brachys on oak
- On the road again!
- Goldenrod Leaf Miner
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #40 - Springtime Acmaeodera
MAY 2009
- Osage copperhead
- A new look at an old friend
- BitB Goes dSLR
- Tiger Beetle Rearing
- Trilogy of Terror
- Saving endangered species with herbicides ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #39 - Blackjack oak “flower”
- Now you see me…
- Body Invaders
- Newly emerged rabbit bot fly
- Wednesday “What the heck?”
- A festive (tiger beetle) birthday ♥
APRIL 2009
- Bon appétit!
- I Brake for Dung Beetles!
- Trees of Lake Tahoe – The Deciduous Trees ♥
Featured: Festival of the Trees #36 - Library expansion
- Winter botany quiz #5
- An extendable handle for insect nets
- Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle – range map
- Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle on ARKive
- Myths about why Lake Tahoe does not freeze
- Trees of Lake Tahoe – The “Other” Conifers ♥
Featured: Festival of the Trees #35 - Winter botany quiz #4
MARCH 2009
- Tiger Beetle Safari
- Trees of Lake Tahoe – The Pines ♥
Featured: Festival of the Trees #34 - Winter botany quiz #3
- Sand Harbor Overlook, Nevada ♥
- Pyramid Creek Geological Area
- Emerald Bay State Park – Vikingsholm and Rubicon Trails
- Born of glaciers
- A journey through time
- Answers to “Winter botany quiz #2”
Featured: Berry Go Round #15 - Expanding blogroll
- Winter botany quiz #2
Featured: Berry Go Round #15 - Magodo – giant twig wilter
- Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network
FEBRUARY 2009
- Ship-timber beetle
- Sanctuary for the Betulaceae ♥
Featured: Festival of the Trees #33 - Winter botany quiz #1
- Millipede assassin bug
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #37 - Bizarre, beautiful extremes
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #38 - How to fail a test with dignity
- “Armoured tank beetle”
- Tempting tok-tokkies ♥
Featured: Linnaeus Legacy #16 - What’s bugging you?
- Tragidion confusion
JANUARY 2009
- Done with dung, meat please
- Christmas in January ♥
- We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot
- Lions in South Africa ♥
- Welcome new insect/invertebrate enthusiasts
- The “buzzard signal fly”
- Tyrant ground beetles
- Review of Calodema and Metaxymorpha ♥
Featured: Circus of the Spineless #36
Published: The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 85(1):26-28 - Afrikaans ants
- Top Ten of 2008 ♥
DECEMBER 2008
- Cicindela lengi vs. Cicindela formosa
Featured: Linnaeus Legacy #15 - The 12 Years of Christmas
- You messin’ with me?
- Welcome to the “new” Beetles In The Bush
- “Bugged on the Ozark Trail”
- Buppies in the bush(veld) ♥
- Cicindela limbata – epilogue
- “My favorite bettle”
- “Dungers and Chafers – a Trip to South Africa”
- Superior Scribbler Award
NOVEMBER 2008
- Two new species of Agrilus from Mexico
- The Five Things Meme
- Pardon my introspection
- A new species of Xenorhipus from Baja California
- Magnificently Monstrous Muscomorphs ♥
- Cicindela scutellaris lecontei x scutellaris unicolor intergrades in southeast Missouri
OCTOBER 2008
- Happy Halloween!
- A sand prairie autumn ♥
- New species and a review of the genus Tragidion
- Deciding on science ♥
- It’s a girl!
- Tigers in the Nebraska Badlands ♥
- Collection Inventory update
SEPTEMBER 2008
- Megacyllene comanchei revisited
- Lucky 13 ♥
- Sand Hills Success
- Rattled in the Black Hills ♥
- In Memorium – Gayle H. Nelson
- Goin’ fishin’
- Digging tiger beetles
- A hunting we will go!
- “All the better to see you with, my dear!”
Featured: An Inordinate Fondness #13 - The Loess Hills in Missouri ♥
AUGUST 2008
JULY 2008
- Sand Prairie Conservation Area ♥
- Dicerca pugionata
- Cicindela cursitans in Missouri
- Glades of Jefferson County ♥
JUNE 2008
MAY 2008
APRIL 2008
MARCH 2008
FEBRUARY 2008
JANUARY 2008
DECEMBER 2007
- Pickle Springs Natural Area ♥
- Rockwoods Reservation, Lime Kiln Loop Trail
- Ozark Trail, lower Trace Creek Section
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