Last Friday I did my weekly walk with my nbo Morgan and my granddog Junior. Afterwards, as we were driving…
I can find almost no natural history information about this species (or even the genus) of springtails (class Collembola) in…
This very interesting member of the family Chrysomelidae, which, in Europe, also goes by the common names bloody-nosed beetle (because…
Only recently, because of a burgeoning interest in Myxogastria(slime ‘molds’) and Myriapoda (millipedes and centipedes), have I begun to explore…
This member of the family Ligiidae was a particularly satisfying woodlouse to document, although they are far from rare, because…
I was lucky on my first two millipedes. Tylobolus uncigerus is the only species in its order (Spirobolida) in our…
It was a very pleasant surprise when I peeled back a bit of exfoliating bark on a willow tree and…
This was the springtail I did find when I also found the Pinodytes sp. that I profiled yesterday. I thought…
I found this interesting member of the family Leiodidae (round fungus beetles) whilst searching a colony of Trichia varia for…
These little ironclad beetles in the family Zopheridae (cylindrical bark beetles) do not have a common name. I found them…