This very common millipede is in the order Polydesmida (flat-backed millipedes) and the family Xystodesmidae. It is sometimes called by…
Oniscids in the family Armadillidiidae (order Isopoda) are the woodlice that are properly called pillbugs, rolypolies, and potatobugs, due to…
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.…
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…
These beautiful moths in the family Erebidae are not native to our continent. Instead they were imported as biocontrol for…