During last Sunday’s nature stroll on the Cape Horn Trail, in addition to the thrill of finding that rare, vagrant…
The first time I saw one of these Pale Green Weevils I managed to get a photo, but couldn’t collect…
This is an interesting little Buprestid (jewel beetles). This genus has an unusual structure where the elytra are fused in…
Ditylus gracilis is a member of the family Oedemeridae, also known as false blister beetles, because they have a strong superficial…
I was photographing Bryophytes in a friend’s courtyard when I saw this lady beetle on a patch of Homalothecium fulgescens…
For my first post about the fascinating family Meloidae (blister beetles) I am profiling Nemognatha lutea, a relatively common denizen…
Tiger beetles in general get my juices flowing in a different way than other insects, because they really have to…
It was surprising to me that this apparently relatively common Tenebrionid beetle was not represented on BugGuide from the state…
Nebria brevicollis was first found in the US, in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, in 2007. By 2010 it had more than…
Chrysolina quadrigemina are leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) that are native to Europe and North Africa. They were imported in the mid…