Tag Archives: predation

Acorn Plum Galls (and friends)

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Charley Eiseman

Hey, this blog now has over 1000 subscribers! Thanks everyone for your continued interest in my esoteric natural history investigations. I’m still slowly working my way through the photos I took last summer, during which one of my several jobs … Continue reading →

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Something you don’t see every day

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Charley Eiseman

Last week Julia and I conducted a survey for leaf-mining moths at Black Rock Forest in New York’s Hudson Highlands region. I think we identified around 70 species, but as is often the case with fieldwork, some of our most … Continue reading →

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Life and Death on Mt. Greylock

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Charley Eiseman

This past weekend I attended my third Berkshire BioBlitz. At my first one in 2011, I barely left the parking lot at the summit of Mt. Greylock and photographed 166 different species of insects and arachnids. This time, Julia and … Continue reading →

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Smooching Salamanders

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Charley Eiseman

The other day I was perusing my folders of salamander photos to find some my sister-in-law could use in a slideshow. I came across the ones below, which I took in March 2004. They are maybe the worst photos I … Continue reading →

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Monthly Mystery #10: Bees in a Mud Nest

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Charley Eiseman

An interesting series of photos was recently moved to BugGuide’s “Frass” section (a place where rejected submissions are held temporarily before being deleted forever), so I thought I would salvage them and post them here so they can continue to … Continue reading →

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Goldenrod Rosette Galls, Part 3

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Charley Eiseman

Last August I mentioned I was heading off to do some work in Maine and that I might bump into some more of the seaside goldenrod rosette galls that were only known from a single example I had collected on … Continue reading →

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Spider vs. Spider, part 2

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Charley Eiseman

There’s something I find compelling about an image of a spider eating another spider, so here’s another one.  I found this little scene on a lady fern frond while taking the compost out late last July.  The spider doing the … Continue reading →

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Name That Organ

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Charley Eiseman

I just came across this month-old question from Kathie Hodge on Facebook, and after 20+ comments, she seems no closer to getting an answer: Dear cat people, For years I’ve been wanting to know the answer to this one question: what … Continue reading →

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More Drama by the Back Door

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Charley Eiseman

This spring I wrote about a feather-legged orbweaver that subdued a jumping spider in the stone wall by my back door.  Around the same time, while I was watching the sweat bees digging their burrows in the soil between the … Continue reading →

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Disappearing Squirrel

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Charley Eiseman

Today I found some squirrel parts lying in the woods.  A red fox had killed a gray squirrel and had done a pretty good job eating it, leaving just the tail (left), the stomach (right, largely covered by a chunk … Continue reading →

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