Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / March 2007

I am interested in starting my first insect collection, so I am
searching for display boxes that are reasonably priced. I prefer ones
with a clear front film and for pinning. Would anyone have any
suggestions to offer? Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I've been seeing these bad boys in our basement ever since we moved into
this house.  I don't see them frequently (or less frequently than I used
to) and I don't have any particular fear or hate of spiders, but I want
to make sure that it's not dangerous.

Can someone tell me what kind of animal this is?
1,5 mm long, the body is transparant.
They don't like the light.
I found it at the bathroomwall.

It's tough to Google for "Brown & Black bug that I think is a
cockroach," so I decided to try to post here to see what you guys
think.  I've put a couple of pictures up of the things.  The only one
that's remained close to intact is this one: www.gabeknuth.com/bug1.jpg

    The binomial (coined by Linnaeus, I gather)  for the monarch butterfly
is, of course, Danaus plexippus. No lepidopterist, I am puzzled by this
pair, which suggests in the butterfly some sort of recollection of the
Greek mythological figure in the role of "horse-lasher."

G'day folks
A few weeks ago I found a large ant in our house with a very small
huntsman spider in its jaws, and I just killed it on the basis that we
have a 6 month baby in the house and I'd prefer not to have such