Monthly Archives: December 2015

Virginia Creeper Weevils, Revisited

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Charley Eiseman

You may recall that last year I wrote about an interesting weevil I found one day while at work in some horrible swamp in southeastern Massachusetts. Or rather, what I found were pairs of mysterious yellow larvae mining side by … Continue reading →

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Introducing Megaselia nantucketensis

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Charley Eiseman

In my ongoing survey of gallmakers and leafminers on the island of Nantucket, I have been trying where possible to verify the identities of these insects by actually rearing them to adults. And so in May of 2012, I collected … Continue reading →

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