Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / July 2009

I live in Hutto, Texas, and have a strange thing going on with a Bur
Oak I planted two years ago. Every year the thing seems to attrack
wasps. This year there seem to be more than in previous years. There
are definitely mud daubers and yellowjackets and a black wasp that

I would greatly appreciate any ideas on the identity of these two
beetles. If not the species, then the genus or even just the family
would help. The first photo was taken back in April of this year;
the second was taken this week; both in Virginia. The first one

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Hello! I'm Michele From Italy.
This morning, when I toke my breakfast I've seen this microscopic insect on
my bread and I've taken a draw. Can someone help me to identify it?
That's the link:

Here is a spider I found upon disassembling a computer screen that had
been sitting on the porch for a while:
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What kind of spider is this? It held its ground on top of its pile of

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Grammia (Arctiinae) has just appeared in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean
Society (156: 507--597).  90 pages of color plates, range maps, DNA -- all the
good stuff!