Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / February 2005

Does anyone have know the current teaching location or email address for
Phil De Vries?
Sincerely,
Jim Hanlon

I have 2 photographs of skippers on a web page at
http://www.missouri.edu/~dabf31/www/index.html
I'd appreciate any id assistance.
Thanks,

Can anyone help me identify an insect I saw.  It was so weird no one
believes I saw it.
This was in England, it was flying around my bedroom.  It looked like a
dragon fly with a shiny green ball about the size of a billiard ball

Harvard researchers have worked out part of the secret to Venus flytrap
movement, the mechanical and hydraulic spring action is better
understood now:
http://glikglik.com

Last night I saw mention of "sterile maggots" for wound therapy on a
TV show. This means sterility in the medical treatment sense - no
germs - as opposed to being unable to reproduce. I found a website for
the supplier at http://www.larve.com, but while there is lots of info

Is there a binary group for sharing images of insects?

Hello, I'm a high school student working on a project about the rosy
maple moth (Dryocampa rubicunda) for my biology class. I haven't been
able to find any resources that list any predator of adult or immature
dryocampa rubicunda. Does anyone know any?

Interesting abstract, be sure to check out Fig. 1...
Mike Quinn, Austin
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Texas Entomology

Just a reminder that I'm always interested in posting any collecting tips
and/or Techniques you might wish to share to the community on my
Collecting and Curation Techniques website,
http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zEEB/butterflies/techniques.html

I was wondering if it is possible to catch a butterfly, and then train
it to stick with you whenever you go places...train it not to fly off.
And what is the best way to catch a butterfly.

In case you think taxonomists take their work too seriously:
Miller and Wheeler (in Coleopterist Bulletin 58(4), 2004, pg 466) have named
a new genus of leiodid beetle, Gelae (pronounced "jelly").
new species placed in the genus:

Hello from frigid mid-Missouri...
A couple of years ago I had a bit of a box elder bug infestation, and
several kind folks in this group assisted me in the identification from
a scan of one of the recently-departed specimens.

I'm looking for help identifying some very small (~1mm length) beetles
(I think) that have infested the rattan seat of an old chair in my
Southern California home. As I say, they're very small, and I lack the
equipment to get a good look at them; here's the best I can do in terms