Some of the ones I've seen have accents of minty green!
(not my photo)
(not my photo)
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Some of the ones I've seen have accents of minty green!
(not my photo)
(not my photo)
Temps in the 50s and raining steadily, this means I should go turn some rocks tomorrow.
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Temps in the 50s and raining steadily, this means I should go turn some rocks tomorrow.
Some nice staphylinid gems from the unsorted drawers - Xenodusa, Lissobiops, Megalopinus, Trichophya.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Some nice staphylinid gems from the unsorted drawers - Xenodusa, Lissobiops, Megalopinus, Trichophya.
Finally sat down and figured out how to use the 25-year-old imaging system at work this afternoon. There's a dance in the old dame yet!
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Finally sat down and figured out how to use the 25-year-old imaging system at work this afternoon. There's a dance in the old dame yet!
pretty sure this Afrogehringia was right at 1mm, not counting the extended abdomen
November 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
pretty sure this Afrogehringia was right at 1mm, not counting the extended abdomen
almost lost the vial containing the beetles when I saw this four-toed salamander
#Plethodontidae
#Plethodontidae
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
almost lost the vial containing the beetles when I saw this four-toed salamander
#Plethodontidae
#Plethodontidae
an undescribed eyeless Lathrobium was under the same rock
#Paederinae
#Paederinae
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
an undescribed eyeless Lathrobium was under the same rock
#Paederinae
#Paederinae
Another undescribed species of Arianops, and only the second sp. known from West Virginia!
#Pselaphinae
#Pselaphinae
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Another undescribed species of Arianops, and only the second sp. known from West Virginia!
#Pselaphinae
#Pselaphinae
headless horseman tachyine
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
headless horseman tachyine
A well-timed emergence from a day spent in a windowless building.
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A well-timed emergence from a day spent in a windowless building.
Nice early fall foliage, and
the beautiful / kinda-rare Pterostichus trinarius (usually more of a spring species in my experience).
#Carabidae
#WestVirginia
the beautiful / kinda-rare Pterostichus trinarius (usually more of a spring species in my experience).
#Carabidae
#WestVirginia
October 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Nice early fall foliage, and
the beautiful / kinda-rare Pterostichus trinarius (usually more of a spring species in my experience).
#Carabidae
#WestVirginia
the beautiful / kinda-rare Pterostichus trinarius (usually more of a spring species in my experience).
#Carabidae
#WestVirginia
Highlights:
Rotten hay: tons of Holoparamecus adults and a maybe-larva (Endomychidae)
Field grass: decent series of Tachyura "granaria", in quotes because there are 2 or 3 spp lumped under the current concept of that name (Carabidae)
Rotten hay: tons of Holoparamecus adults and a maybe-larva (Endomychidae)
Field grass: decent series of Tachyura "granaria", in quotes because there are 2 or 3 spp lumped under the current concept of that name (Carabidae)
September 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Highlights:
Rotten hay: tons of Holoparamecus adults and a maybe-larva (Endomychidae)
Field grass: decent series of Tachyura "granaria", in quotes because there are 2 or 3 spp lumped under the current concept of that name (Carabidae)
Rotten hay: tons of Holoparamecus adults and a maybe-larva (Endomychidae)
Field grass: decent series of Tachyura "granaria", in quotes because there are 2 or 3 spp lumped under the current concept of that name (Carabidae)
The Box O' Beetles is my favorite "outreach" tool. These are mostly specimens without data from our collection, but I snuck in some goodies.
"Find the blind cave beetle" might be a fun activity.
"Find the blind cave beetle" might be a fun activity.
September 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Box O' Beetles is my favorite "outreach" tool. These are mostly specimens without data from our collection, but I snuck in some goodies.
"Find the blind cave beetle" might be a fun activity.
"Find the blind cave beetle" might be a fun activity.
Aw yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about.
#Osoriinae
#Osoriinae
September 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Aw yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about.
#Osoriinae
#Osoriinae
I set these beetles on the couch so I wouldn't forget them tomorrow, and if this isn't a cozy sight to behold, I don't know what is...
September 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I set these beetles on the couch so I wouldn't forget them tomorrow, and if this isn't a cozy sight to behold, I don't know what is...
The first specimen I keyed was the mercifully distinctive Panorpa mirabilis, a new state record for WV. A single male collected 21 years ago, gotta go look for more.
September 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The first specimen I keyed was the mercifully distinctive Panorpa mirabilis, a new state record for WV. A single male collected 21 years ago, gotta go look for more.
This quietly got published amongst all the horror of late 2020, and I feel like it got overlooked. Beautiful color plates for every mecopteran in Virginia!
Flint et al 2020. The Insects of Virginia Number 16.
Flint et al 2020. The Insects of Virginia Number 16.
September 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This quietly got published amongst all the horror of late 2020, and I feel like it got overlooked. Beautiful color plates for every mecopteran in Virginia!
Flint et al 2020. The Insects of Virginia Number 16.
Flint et al 2020. The Insects of Virginia Number 16.
It's getting to be Harpalus (Pseudoophonus) season, nocturnal grassy lawn carabids that eat your weed seeds. Just surveyed my yard here in WV with a headlamp and got a surprising diversity. You'll have to take my word for it, but there are four species here!
September 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It's getting to be Harpalus (Pseudoophonus) season, nocturnal grassy lawn carabids that eat your weed seeds. Just surveyed my yard here in WV with a headlamp and got a surprising diversity. You'll have to take my word for it, but there are four species here!
Stenus, with its deadly labium protruded
#Staphylinidae
#Staphylinidae
September 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Stenus, with its deadly labium protruded
#Staphylinidae
#Staphylinidae
I've wanted a standing scope setup ever since seeing one in Ichauway's ent lab a few years ago, and today I made it happen.
Won't work for everything, but for perusing vials/trays and sorting raw samples it is mighty nice.
Won't work for everything, but for perusing vials/trays and sorting raw samples it is mighty nice.
September 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I've wanted a standing scope setup ever since seeing one in Ichauway's ent lab a few years ago, and today I made it happen.
Won't work for everything, but for perusing vials/trays and sorting raw samples it is mighty nice.
Won't work for everything, but for perusing vials/trays and sorting raw samples it is mighty nice.