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| | ecologyisnotadirtyword.com
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| | What insect is this? If you said a European honey bee, you are wrong. But you wouldn't be alone in your mistake. It is, in fact, a drone fly (Eristalis tenax) from the Diptera family Syrphidae (the hoverflies). That's right, a fly. Not even related to the honey bee. Eristalis tenax is quite easily mistaken...
| | askentomologists.com
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| | Spring and summer time bring out all the interesting bugs! Over the years (and recently) we've had a few people ask what these insects are and why they have "fuzzy butts." These insects are broadly called planthoppers. Why do they have these fluffy projections out of their abdomen? Let's look closer at their group. A...
| | beetlesinthebush.com
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| | ...is in other people's collections! Buprestidae (plus one Elateridae) selected from specimens in the insect collection at the Illinois Natural History Survey sent for identification. I've been working hard the past couple of weeks on one of three batches of Buprestidae in the insect collection at the Illinois Natural History Survey sent to me for...
| | www.clayandlimestone.com
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| What this garden needed was more blooming plants. The intense heat of the last month has burned out the bloom of many of the pla...