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Silk on Stink Bug Eggs, Part 2

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Charley Eiseman

In my last post I wrote about a little wasp in Mexico that apparently spins silk over stink bug eggs after it inserts its own eggs inside them. Several people had told me confidently that it was a pteromalid, so I … Continue reading →

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Silk on Stink Bug Eggs

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Charley Eiseman

Last week I got an email from a reader named Kelly in Brazil, asking if I could help unravel the mystery of these stink bug eggs (Pentatomidae) covered with silk: I was at a loss, and simply responded: “Interesting find… I’m … Continue reading →

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Space Debris

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Charley Eiseman

I just came across this photo from July.  It’s a bunch of stink bug hatchlings on a window, clustered around the eggs from which they hatched, viewed from the other side of the glass.  But the black background and white … Continue reading →

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Arizona Bugs

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Charley Eiseman

In my photo sorting I’m now up to early November of last year, when Julia and I spent a day at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument at the southern edge of Arizona.  Although we found some interesting leafminers there, what … Continue reading →

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Some Sedge Bugs

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Charley Eiseman

On April 5 I wandered onto a sunny knoll to see if I could find any leafminers in the various plants with new or overwintering basal leaves.  I found several, one of which was a moth larva in a woodland … Continue reading →

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Halloween Bugs

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Charley Eiseman

Two weeks ago on Mary’s Peak in Oregon’s Coast Range, Julia and I found a couple of these caterpillars sporting a striking Halloween color scheme: A quick internet search for “orange and black caterpillar” revealed them to be larvae of … Continue reading →

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Contortionists

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Charley Eiseman

Well, as promised, I’m thoroughly impressed!  Four of you correctly (and independently) guessed that the face in my last post belonged to a walkingstick nymph.  I suppose Matt gets the prize for identifying it to species: Diapheromera femorata, the northern walkingstick. … Continue reading →

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Stink Bug Egg Parasitoids

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Charley Eiseman

Back in May I shared this image of a platygastrid wasp guarding the stink bug eggs into which she had inserted her own eggs: A few days later, I found a cluster of stink bug eggs that were unattended, but … Continue reading →

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Crazy Eights

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Charley Eiseman

When Noah Charney and I give a presentation about invertebrate tracks and sign, we like to spend a little time staring at the outside walls of the venue and see what we can find there.  The wall at yesterday’s talk … Continue reading →

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