Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / July 2008

A limited number of copies of a new monograph by George Austin and
Patrick Leary
/*Larval Hostplants of Butterflies in Nevada*/
published by Association for Tropical Lepidoptera

please have a look at the pics I've posted below:
http://bolognini.net/bug/
Do you know what insect is this? Could you help classify it?
Thanks,

Hi, I would appreciate your help about this matter.
I found at home some of these insects shown in the pictures below..
It's darkbrown-black coloured ( in the last 2 shoots  it appears red-
orange due to the flash light of my camera).

...in my closet yesterday. I have never seen anything like it. At
first I thought it was a regular fly, but when I waved my hand in the
air to make it fly away - it was sitting on some clothes in my closet
- it didn't fly, but just crawled on. I then thought that it was the

I live in SW AZ. This year, unusually, I am pestered by very tiny insects
(they look like leaf hoppers a bit but much smaller) that come through my
screen, evidently attracted to the yellow bug bulb in my reading light.
They don't bite but land on my arms and face and irritate. ...

This spider has been living on my french doors for about 6 to 8
months. It appears to shed its skin (do all spiders?) which is evident
in this image.
The location of the spider is 50 miles directly east of Los Angeles,

I live on Okinawa, Japan and am fighting an infestation on our beloved
orange tree. I won the battle with the larvae in the trunk.  The tree
stopped dropping it's leaves, flowered in the spring and has borne immature
fruit. My battle now is how to keep the mature beetles from ...

UMs Bee Whisperer Tells of Honeybees Military Potential
http://www.newwest.net/city/article/ums_bee_whisperer_tells_of_honeybees_militar
y_potential/C8/L8/
{EXCERPT} New West, MT - By Alaina Abbott, 7-21-08 The US Army is collaborating
with honeybees, via Scott Debnam and other ...

The group "Coleoptera" of my friend Richard Bejak has been closed by yahoo, error or technical problem, nobody knows.
Anyway, the group is opening newly on Domeus.
Richard Bejak invites you, if you are interested by beetles, to subscribe into the group on the web page :
http://www ...

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This little black winged insect was found resting on a wild pea flower in a
field in Northeastern Ohio July 2008.  Can anyone tell me what it is? It is
posted on Flickr at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpal/2690816134/

Found in field in Northeastern Ohio USA.
Black winged creature with white spots on wings.
Less then 3 cm body length. Sitting on pea flower.
See attached picture.

Those interested in the case of the woman who died from stepping on
caterpillars might like to see the medical report:
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/179/2/158
Ernest Williams