This month's destination for the WGNSS Natural History Photography Group was Orchid Valley Natural Area in Hawn State Park. This natural area is south of the main park and not normally open to the public,...

Last Saturday, the Webster Groves Nature Study Society (WGNSS) Nature Photography Group was joined by several members of the WGNSS Botany Group and Missouri Native Plant Society to look for one of Missouri's...

Last night the Webster Groves Nature Study Society (WGNSS) held their 2019 Nature Photo Contest , and I was fortunate to have a 1st place winner in the ‘Plants and Fungi' category! This photograph of...

In my previous post , I talked about a day trip to a sand scrub remnant in the Lake Wales Ridge of central Florida to find and photograph the endemic Highlands tiger beetle ( Cicindelidia highlandensis...

In September 2016, I had the opportunity to attend the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Orlando, Florida, which was being held in conjunction with the International Conference...

My love affair with the bumelia borer, Plinthocoelium suaveolens , has been well-chronicled on this blog. The combination of its large size, striking iridescent green elytra, brilliant coppery head and...

Hot on the heels of the previous installment in this series, I present the sixth “Collecting Trip iReport”; this one covering a trip to Arizona during July/August 2018 with Art Evans and—like the...

This is the fifth in a series of Collecting Trip “iReports”—so named because I've illustrated them exclusively with iPhone photographs (see previous articles for 2013 Oklahoma , 2013 Great Basin...