Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / July 2007

Hi there, I am on holiday for a month here on Aruba, Netherlands
Antilles.
Some names of dragonflies are uncertain.
Who can help?

I agree with Mike that this pie doesn't seem fully baked and it will be
interesting to see just how this benefits the society. The letter could
certainly have used some work before it got a premature public airing ("we
are old and irrelevant - please join us!").

I was helping my son fix his bicycle tire the other night on the back
porch.
I had the deck light on which is like 200 Watts.  It attracted a lot
of moths.

I'm starting to see these bugs on a sink counter with increasing
regularity. I'm not sure where they are coming from and why that
particular sink counter -- perhaps they're attracted to the night
light above it?

Has been a good summer in Minnesota this year.  Butterflies are in good
numbers.  I could use a little help.  We think this might be a Thymelicus
lineola (European skipper)  or a Atrytone logan    (Delaware Skipper) What
are your ideas on what this is?

Hi again
What is your ideas of these are?  We are thinking that they are Euphyes
vestris (Dun Skipper)  Data: Chisago county , Minnesota, USA
Pictures:

Here's another request for ID I received and I'm just not up on small  
moths, especially east coast ones. This was taken near Boston I believe.
http://images.aa6g.org/small_moth.jpg
Thanks!

This year, after 25 or so, I am having a problem with little insects
pestering me while I'm trying to read in bed at night. No holes in the
screen; I think these are small enough to crawl through the mesh. Most
look like very tiny leafhoppers - long wings held along the back

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Still trying to get a 100% positive ID on the wormies/bugs that have
invaded my rugs, clothing and furniture. Getting closer! I found a NEW
species of adult! If you look at the pics below, you'll see one looks
like a black beetle, the other like a brown.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=833717456&context=set-72157600862193326&
size=l
Just curious. Thanks in advance.
Greg Guarino

I can see they're definitely similar to carpet beetle larvae (though
less hairy it seems?), but having done research on this bug, I know
what the various species of adult carpet beetle look like. I have
never seen even anything that remotely looks like an adult beetle in

Oscar the Grouch:
**Do you think adult carpet beetles are 4 X larger than their larvae?
They aren't. They are as tiny as you would think a larva that size
would produce.**

Got some new, better pics of the mystery worms in my apt. Hope this
helps!:
PIC 1:
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1PxxwSdZ9g9EtaqizGILcaviwla89d0

My father passed away a year ago and I "inherited" some of his
furniture. His place was infested with these tiny dark brown worms
that are about the size and shape of a grain of rice (they move faster
than you'd think though...). They have lines across the body. I tried