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Category: Arthropoda

Cryptorhynchus lapathi (Poplar-and-willow Borer)

January 2, 2022 Dan Nelson Leave a comment

I just never get to see enough dung imitating bugs, and the ones that imitate bird poop, like the weevil…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Coleoptera (Beetles), Cryptorhynchus, Curculionidae (True Weevils), Insecta, Species Profiles Filed under: Cryptorhynchus lapathi, Poplar-and-willow Borer

Givira cornelia

January 1, 2022 Dan Nelson 2 Comments

For a variety of reasons, most of which have, in some manner, to do with ‘clearing the decks for action’…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Cossidae, Givira, Insecta, Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies), Species Profiles Filed under: Givira cornelia

Brochymena affinis

December 22, 2021 Dan Nelson 8 Comments

This stink bug (Pentatomidae) in the genus Brochymena (rough stink bugs) represents the end of an era, because it is…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Brochymena, Hemiptera, Heteroptera (True Bugs), Insecta, Pentatomidae, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Brochymena affinis

Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach Horse)

December 20, 2021 Dan Nelson 4 Comments

One of my favorite critters to find whilst on the clock was Ocypus olens, the Devil’s Coach Horse. I fact…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Coleoptera (Beetles), Insecta, Ocypus, Plants, Species Profiles, Staphylinidae Filed under: Devil's Coach Horse, Ocypus olens

Rhyparochromus vulgaris

December 19, 2021 Dan Nelson 5 Comments

This is another of the true bugs (Hemiptera) that I found under the loose bark of a decaying apple snag…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Hemiptera, Heteroptera (True Bugs), Insecta, Rhyparochromidae, Rhyparochromus, Species Profiles Filed under: Rhyparochromus vulgaris

Xanthochilus saturnius (Mediterranean Seed Bug)

December 18, 2021 Dan Nelson 13 Comments

Thursday was my last day within the arena of gainful employment. It wasn’t a bad job driving people in wheelchairs…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Hemiptera, Heteroptera (True Bugs), Insecta, Rhyparochromidae, Species Profiles, Xanthochilus Filed under: Mediterranean Seed Bug, Xanthochilus saturnius

Pterostichus lama

December 14, 2021 Dan Nelson 4 Comments

This big carabid beetle taxa is probably the only Pterostichus I’ll ever be able to identify in the field, because…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Carabidae, Coleoptera (Beetles), Insecta, Pterostichus, Species Profiles Filed under: Pterostichus lama

Polyxenus sp., possibly P. pugetensis

December 11, 2021 Dan Nelson 4 Comments

It appears that Polyxenus is the only western North American genus in the order Polyxenida, and it is beyond my…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Diploda, Diplopoda (Millipedes), Polyxenida, Polyxenidae, Polyxenus, Species Profiles Filed under: Polyxenus pugetensis

Nicrophorus nigrita (Black Burying Beetle)

December 6, 2021 Dan Nelson 13 Comments

In spite of (okay, let’s be honest- at least in part because of) their disgusting lifestyle, I kind of love…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Coleoptera (Beetles), Insecta, Nicrophorus, Silphidae, Species Profiles Filed under: Black Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus nigrita

Ceratophysella sp.

December 3, 2021 Dan Nelson 3 Comments

The other day when I dropped the Lepista nuda on my workbench preparatory to doing a spore print, dozens of…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Certophysella, Collembola, Hypogastruridae, Poduromorpha, Species Profiles Filed under: Ceratophysella sp.

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