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The Festive Tiger Beetle in Southeast Missouri
Cicindela scutellaris lecontei x scutellaris unicolor (male) | Holly Ridge Conservation Area, Missouri This past spring I returned to the lowlands of southeastern Missouri in an effort to find and...
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Stalking tigers in Argentina
Brasiella argentata | banks of Rio Paraná, Corrrientes, Argentina Most of you know that I have spent a lot of time in Argentina over the years, and while most of my time there has been for work I have...
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A polypipin’ we will go!
A polypipin’ we will go, a polypipin’ we will go Heigh ho, the dairy-o, a polypipin’ we will go A polypipin’ we will go, a polypipin’ we will go We’ll catch a tiger beetle and put him in a vial And...
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Best of BitB 2013
Welcome to the 6th Annual “Best of BitB”, where I pick my favorite photographs from the past year. Like last year, 2013 was another year of heavy travel. For work I did my annual tour of soybean field...
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Tiger beetles in Argentina’s Chaco forest
The day after I photographed Brasiella argentata on the mud/san banks of the Rio Paraná in Corrientes, Argentina, I decided to drive westward into the heart of Chaco Province. The destination: Chaco...
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Guest Post: Burrow Hole Blues
For today’s post, I am pleased to introduce nature writer and guest blogger Sharman Apt Russell. Epitomizing the increasingly important role of citizen scientists in conservation and natural history...
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Cicindela scutellaris rugata (the “wrinkled festive tiger beetle”)
During last year’s Fall Tiger Beetle Collecting Trip, I visited several rural cemeteries in northeastern Texas. No, this was not a diversion from my beetle collecting—cemeteries in rural areas can be...
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Cicindela scutellaris flavoviridis (chartreuse tiger beetle)
In previous posts I have discussed some Texas subspecies of Cicindela scutellaris (festive tiger beetle) and C. formosa (big sand tiger beetle)—two widespread and geographically variable species that...
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Ellipsoptera lepida – ghost tiger beetle
In the early 2000s, Chris Brown and I were beginning our general survey of Missouri tiger beetles. Our goal was to characterize the occurrence and distribution of all species within the state. At the...
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Last night, Chris Brown—my longtime field companion and fellow tiger beetle aficionado—and I gave a presentation to the Entomology Group of the Webster Groves Nature Study Society at Shaw Nature...
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2018 Arizona Insect Collecting Trip “iReport”
Hot on the heels of the previous installment in this series, I present the sixth “Collecting Trip iReport”; this one covering a trip to Arizona during July/August 2018 with Art Evans and—like the...
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Revisiting the Highlands tiger beetle (Cicindelidia highlandensis)
In September 2016, I had the opportunity to attend the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Orlando, Florida, which was being held in conjunction with the International Congress of...
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