Well, I can guarantee you folks that I never expected to be writing a profile for this site about a…
I love flipping a log or rock and finding these large beetles in the family Carabidae (which are also sometimes…
I thought it was fortuitous that I found a Woodlouse Hunter whilst working on my Oniscus asellus woodlouse post so…
Let’s just get this common name stuff out of the way. Woodlice is the standardized common name for the Oniscidea.…
As if snail identification wasn’t difficult enough, the taxonomy of Vespericola (family Polygyridae) is somewhat up in the air, with…
I’ve been avoiding doing any field cricket posts because there are many species and they are difficult to tell apart.…
Millipedes are in the same subphylum, Myriapoda, as centipedes, but they belong to their own class, Diplopoda. Within this class…
For many years Collembola (springtails) were grouped with Protura (coneheads) and Diplura (two-pronged bristletails) in the class Entognatha, since they…
According to a paper (Duran/Gough;2020) that came out last year and cited molecular data, tiger beetles are no longer a…
This fascinating polypore fungus would appear to have been a member of the family Meruliaceae, but seems to have been…