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I popped at the YWT local wildlife garden after work. The staff alerted me to the presence of a Broad-bodied chaser on a patch of Red Campion. I popped out to find it there straight away. It sat on the...

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,...

The dragonfly season is already under way, although here I still haven't seen any dragonflies and damselflies in the south of the country. It's time to prepare though, as during May, several species emerge...

Following on my project last year Yorkshire Dragonfly Quest 2018 , with the aim of observing all the breeding species of Yorkshire dragonflies, this year I'm spearheading a collaborative, citizen science...

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...

Entomologists get excited over the strangest things. This morning I got my first bat bug sample ever, and I'm still all aflutter. The pronotal fringe hairs on these common bed bugs (see arrow) are short,...