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Dr. Charles L. “Chuck” Bellamy—Tribute to a friend 27 Aug 2013 | 01:08 pm
Dr. Charles L. ”Chuck” Bellamy Early this week I lost a good friend. Actually, just about everybody who has ever studied jewel beetles in any serious way lost a good friend. Dr. Charles L. Bellamy, a...
Flown the coop 25 Aug 2013 | 11:45 am
Ted has flown the coop and will be roaming the vastness of the Great Basin for the next week or so to collect and photograph beetles and other insects. Ted has asked me to watch over BitB while he is ...
An interesting flightless May beetle 21 Aug 2013 | 11:04 am
I suppose you are an entomologist? Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name. No man can be truly called an entomologist, sir; the subj...
The one that got away! 17 Aug 2013 | 05:50 am
It was disappointing to reach Black Mesa, the furthest west destination for my June collecting trip through northwestern Oklahoma, only to discover that the whole region was dry as a bone. I spent an ...
Rattlesnakes may be present! 15 Aug 2013 | 12:52 pm
I don’t know what it is, but even though I am first an entomologist I am also a sucker for snakes. Well, not just any snakes, but rattlesnakes. It must have something to do with my psyche—my favorite ...
Tips for photographing shiny beetles on yellow flowers 11 Aug 2013 | 12:24 am
I really hate starting off this post with the following photo—typically it is the first photo in a post that readers see in syndicated feeds; however, I use it in this post to make a point. This photo...
Another new record for northwestern Oklahoma 8 Aug 2013 | 11:49 am
You would think that finding two new state records on the first day of my June collecting trip to northwestern Oklahoma would be fortune enough—it is rare to get two new state records on an entire tri...
Bee Assassin on Coneflower 5 Aug 2013 | 11:07 am
Apiomerus spissipes? on coneflower (Echinacea sp.) | Gloss Mountain State Park, Major Co., Oklahoma While looking for longhorned beetles on prickly pear cactus (Opuntia phaecantha) at Gloss Mountains...
Mexico 1992—Gang of Ten 3 Aug 2013 | 01:24 pm
As a young collector attracted to woodboring beetles, my interests were split evenly between the families Buprestidae and Cerambycidae. In those early days, I actively sought the counsel of experts in...
Haldeman’s shieldback katydid (Pediodectes haldemani) 2 Aug 2013 | 01:56 am
During my visit to Gloss Mountain State Park (Woodward Co., Oklahoma) this past June, I found an area of prickly pear cactus (Opuntia phaecantha) on the west flats below the main mesa. A few days earl...
