I just never get to see enough dung imitating bugs, and the ones that imitate bird poop, like the weevil…
For a variety of reasons, most of which have, in some manner, to do with ‘clearing the decks for action’…
This stink bug (Pentatomidae) in the genus Brochymena (rough stink bugs) represents the end of an era, because it is…
One of my favorite critters to find whilst on the clock was Ocypus olens, the Devil’s Coach Horse. I fact…
This is another of the true bugs (Hemiptera) that I found under the loose bark of a decaying apple snag…
Thursday was my last day within the arena of gainful employment. It wasn’t a bad job driving people in wheelchairs…
This big carabid beetle taxa is probably the only Pterostichus I’ll ever be able to identify in the field, because…
It appears that Polyxenus is the only western North American genus in the order Polyxenida, and it is beyond my…
In spite of (okay, let’s be honest- at least in part because of) their disgusting lifestyle, I kind of love…
The other day when I dropped the Lepista nuda on my workbench preparatory to doing a spore print, dozens of…