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On the way back from work I popped in my local wildlife garden. I was looking for dragonfly exuviae in the small pond when I gasped: A female Southern Hawker had materialised like out of nowhere and was...

This morning I watched several males of the Small Red-eyed damselfly at North Cave Wetlands, a YWT nature reserve with a diversity of large lakes, shallow reed bed lakes and dragonfly ponds (top shot)....

Every knowledgeable PMP knows that assessment and monitoring is a crucial part of integrated pest management (IPM). Yet practically no one in the mosquito control business monitors mosquitoes. Why is that?...

After egg laying, female damselflies and dragonflies can be exposed to males trying to mate. Females will then be unreceptive and in order to avoid a lengthly and potentially costly copulation, they have...

Crossidius hirtipes allgewahri LeConte, 1878 I've been busy processing photos and a preparing a write-up of an insect collecting trip to New Mexico this past June—look for a series of posts about the...

If you work in the pest control industry, and are even a little geeky about insects, you would probably like the National Conference of Urban Entomology. Held May 21-23 this year in Raleigh, NC, the NCUE...

Back in the summer of 2015, I made an early August trip to the White River Hills region of extreme southwestern Missouri. I was actually looking for one of Missouri's more uncommon cerambycid beetles –...

The biannual National Conference on Urban Entomology (NCUE) is always a treat. It's a relatively small conference with a personal feel. Many attendees know each other personally, and new students get to...

Dr. Phil Hamman was a consummate teacher with a gift of making dry subjects interesting. He trained many of the previous generation of pest control professionals in Texas, and is still remembered by more...

I went to the wildlife garden on my walk to the school run. I was lucky to find a just emerged damselfly. It was sitting on top of its larval skin (top shot) on a leaf. There were other dry exuviae on...