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Complete leafminer guide now available!
This weekend I finished the first edition of my Leafminers of North America e-book—1857 pages long (plus a 54-page table of contents, 20-page glossary, and 68-page bibliography), and illustrated with thousands of color photographs. To purchase it or learn more about … Continue reading
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Tagged Agromyzidae, Argidae, beetle, Calycomyza, Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Curculionoidea, Diptera, fly, Hymenoptera, larva, leaf mine, leafminer, new species, Orchestes, Orchestes pallicornis, sawfly, Sterictiphora, weevil
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Connecticut BioBlitz
A month ago Dave Wagner got in touch with me and Julia, saying we were needed at the 2016 Connecticut State BioBlitz on June 3 and 4. He wanted to make sure leafminers were properly represented in this attempt to break … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 Connecticut State BioBlitz, Agromyzidae, Aleiodes, Amelanchier, Argidae, aster, Asteraceae, bee, beetle, BioBlitz, black cherry, black locust, Braconidae, Bucculatrix, Bucculatrix angustata, caterpillar, Cerambycidae, Ceresa, Coccinellidae, cocoon, Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Curculionoidea, Cydia, Cydia nigricana, Diapheromera femorata, Diapheromeridae, Erigeron, Fabaceae, Fagaceae, flea weevil, Gracillariidae, Hymenoptera, Hypera, Hypera rumicis, lady beetle, larva, leaf mine, leafcutter bee, leafminer, longhorned beetle, Mantura, Mantura floridana, Marmara, Mathildana newmanella, Megachile, Megachilidae, Membracidae, Metriorrhynchomiris dislocatus, Miridae, Nematus, Nematus tibialis, Nemorimyza posticata, northern walkingstick, oak, Oecophoridae, Orchestes, Orchestes pallicornis, parasitism, parasitoid, Periclista, Phasmida, Polygonaceae, Propylea quatuordecimpunctata, Prunus, Prunus serotina, Quercus, Robinia pseudoacacia, Rosaceae, Rumex, Rumex acetosella, sawfly, shadbush, snail, Sterictiphora, Strangalepta abbreviata, Symphyotrichum, Tenthredinidae, Tortricidae, treehopper, Viburnum dentatum, walkingstick, weevil
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Things To Look For This Spring, Part 2
Another thing on my wish list for this spring is a leaf-mining lauxaniid fly larva. The Lauxaniidae are very common flies, with over 150 species occurring in North America, yet as far as I know there are no common names … Continue reading
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Tagged Camptoprosopella, Diptera, fly, Homoneura, Lauxaniidae, leafminer, Minettia, Sapromyza, Sapromyza brachysoma
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Updates On Some Mystery Moths
This month’s issue of the Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society includes an article of mine* discussing two leaf-mining moths I’ve written about here previously. The first is an oak-mining eriocraniid that I had expected to be Dyseriocrania griseocapitella when I collected the … Continue reading
Posted in Solved Mysteries, Uncategorized
Tagged Acanthopteroctetes, Acanthopteroctetidae, chalcid, Colorado, currant, Eriocraniella, Eriocraniella platyptera, Eriocraniidae, Eulophidae, Fagaceae, larva, leafminer, Lepidoptera, moth, Nantucket, oak, parasitoid, Pnigalio, Quercus, Quercus gambelii, Quercus ilicifolia, Ribes, wasp
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Spring is Coming!
…he said hopefully, from beneath several feet of snow, as the mercury struggled to rise above 0°F. Which is to say, the sedge leafminer I collected two months ago decided it was springy enough in my house to complete its … Continue reading
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Tagged Carex, Cyperaceae, Elachista, Elachista cucullata, Elachistidae, leafminer, Lepidoptera, moth, sedge
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Winter Leafminers
Happy New Year! As I mentioned before, now that winter is upon us, I get to take a break from collecting and raising leafminers and focus on writing about them. At least, that was the plan. On December 25, while … Continue reading
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Tagged Carex, Cyperaceae, Elachista, Elachistidae, larva, leafminer, moth, sedge
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February Moth
The night before last, as I was brushing my teeth, I caught the twirling of a little antenna out of the corner of my eye. I turned so see this 5.5-mm moth perched on the bathroom wall: As you can … Continue reading
A Closer Look
I’m working on a little paper summarizing observations I’ve made of leaf-mining chrysomelid beetles, and this has caused me to spend some time scanning through a few years’ worth of photos. One of the species involved is Odontota scapularis, which specializes … Continue reading
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Tagged Apios americana, beetle, chalcid, Chalepini, Chrysomelidae, Closterocerus, Coleoptera, egg, Eulophidae, excrement, Fabaceae, groundnut, leafminer, Odontota, Odontota scapularis, parasitism, parasitoid, wasp
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Kleptoparasite
This morning was a good time for insect photography–it was chilly enough that a lot of things that normally would have jumped, flown, or scurried away were sluggish enough that they let me get my lens right in their faces … Continue reading
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Tagged aphid, Argyrodinae, Caloptilia, Cicadellidae, cobweb spider, Coelidia olitoria, Drapetisca alteranda, filmy dome spider, Gracillariidae, harvestman, kleptoparasitic cobweb spider, leafhopper, leafminer, Linyphiidae, moth, Neriene radiata, Odiellus pictus, Opiliones, Phalangiidae, sheetweb spider, spider, Theridiidae, web
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