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https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/a-sorry-state-of-affairs/

https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/a-sorry-state-of-affairs/

https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/beetle-art/

https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/beetle-art/

https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/adventures-in-beetle-barcoding/

https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/adventures-in-beetle-barcoding/

Can anyone tell me whether this is honey mesquite (Neltuma glandulosa) or something else? I'm interested, of course, because a leaf mine...

Can anyone tell me whether this is honey mesquite (Neltuma glandulosa) or something else? I'm interested, of course, because a leaf mine was found on it... https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/128407179

The idea is to collect these mystery mines for rearing. Here's a page where I explain how I do that:...

The idea is to collect these mystery mines for rearing. Here's a page where I explain how I do that: https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/rearing/

If you like looking at #plants and the #insects that eat them, maybe you'd like to help solve some leafminer mysteries. I recently made...

If you like looking at #plants and the #insects that eat them, maybe you'd like to help solve some leafminer mysteries. I recently made a public post on my Patreon page that includes a downloadable spreadsheet of over 1000 mystery mines from all over North America, which can be sorted by host plant, geography, and phenology: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mystery-and-to-104456120

Also see this iNaturalist journal post about some mines to watch for on asters and dogwoods: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/leafminers-of-north-america/journal/94686-some-more-miners-to-watch-for-on-asters-and-dogwoods

The idea that anything having to do with insects requires a content warning makes me not very excited about posting anything on Mastodon,...

The idea that anything having to do with insects requires a content warning makes me not very excited about posting anything on Mastodon, but anyway, here's my latest blog post, which is about weevils and other things that live in hickory phylloxera galls.
https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/hickory-gall-interlopers/

Anybody good with scorpions? My niece's friend just got stung by this one in Kazakhstan and they want to know how worried they should...

Anybody good with scorpions? My niece's friend just got stung by this one in Kazakhstan and they want to know how worried they should be. iNat's AI is suggesting Mesobuthus, which I gather is one of the deadlier ones. From what I can tell, scorpion stings are rarely fatal for adult humans, but trying to do my due diligence here...

Finally finishing a manuscript on leaf-mining beetles that I meant to submit five years ago.

Finally finishing a manuscript on leaf-mining beetles that I meant to submit five years ago.

Leafminer course in Maine this summer! For more information, see: https://www.eaglehill.us/programs/sems-weeklong/general-info.shtml

Leafminer course in Maine this summer! For more information, see: https://www.eaglehill.us/programs/sems-weeklong/general-info.shtml

https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/life-in-a-dead-tall-blue-lettuce-stem/

https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/life-in-a-dead-tall-blue-lettuce-stem/

The latest from my front yard: https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/03/12/phlox-fauna/

The latest from my front yard: https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/03/12/phlox-fauna/

I had to change the names of a dozen sawflies and a spider. https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/02/04/the-name-game/

I had to change the names of a dozen sawflies and a spider. https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2024/02/04/the-name-game/

Here's the presentation about leaf-mining flies I gave at the International Congress of Dipterology this summer:...

Here's the presentation about leaf-mining flies I gave at the International Congress of Dipterology this summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqF6BS-js3U&list=PLAgh5E0fAQ5o1W1MHk60M4jw4jgWP4bse&index=17

A few updates, including a new leafminer calendar, the third edition of Leafminers of North America, and a leafminer field seminar at Eagle...

A few updates, including a new leafminer calendar, the third edition of Leafminers of North America, and a leafminer field seminar at Eagle Hill next summer! https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2023/11/02/announcements-3/

Anybody out there good at IDing plants from Nevada? Like this little asteraceous(?) shrub with narrow, somewhat sticky leaves, which is the...

Anybody out there good at IDing plants from Nevada? Like this little asteraceous(?) shrub with narrow, somewhat sticky leaves, which is the host of some as yet unidentified insects?

Acarodomatia! https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2023/06/22/acarodomatia/

Acarodomatia! https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2023/06/22/acarodomatia/

There's an undescribed leafminer on hickory that is only active RIGHT NOW (plus or minus a couple of weeks, depending on where you are)....

There's an undescribed leafminer on hickory that is only active RIGHT NOW (plus or minus a couple of weeks, depending on where you are). Please collect it for rearing if you can! Here is a larva found yesterday in Virginia: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/156989639. It occurs at least as far north as Pennsylvania, where it has been found in mid-May (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78500340).

https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2023/04/01/hazelnut-sawflies/

https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2023/04/01/hazelnut-sawflies/

A parasitized sawfly larva munching on a hazelnut leaf in my yard last October. An adult ichneumon wasp emerged yesterday (see below).

A parasitized sawfly larva munching on a hazelnut leaf in my yard last October. An adult ichneumon wasp emerged yesterday (see below).