Curt H
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Curt H
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Entomologist
states with caves have organizations that safeguard the data, & they share with serious researchers.
making cave locations public is a huge no. They learned that the hard way after the classic "caves of x state" books were published in the ~70s. Led to vandalism, injuries/death, closed caves...
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Some of the ones I've seen have accents of minty green!
(not my photo)
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The subgenus has never really been revised, and genitalic differences aren't well known. Lindroth's key from the 60s is the only one (and it's missing at least one undescribed sp)

If the last tarsomere of each leg has rows of setae under it, it's permundus, the most common and widespread sp.
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Beetles love pumpkins... I casually collected beetles from the rotting jack-o-lanterns in my yard in South Carolina the 5 yrs I lived there. Mounted up one vial last year and found so many rare/probably-undescribed things, I'm scared to look at the rest of them.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Gotta love flipping a rock and seeing a tiny red carabid under it!
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Reposted by Curt H
the takeaway from the Musk era shouldn't really be that executives being "outspoken partisans" is bad, it should be that Musk is an extremist white supremacist whose ignorance actually killed a bunch of people in several different ways
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Looks like a clothes moth caterpillar (Tineidae).
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I always just take screenshots of maps made with simplemappr rather than saving any on the site. Works fine for my purposes, and is very handy!
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
pretty sure this Afrogehringia was right at 1mm, not counting the extended abdomen
November 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bit smaller than that!
Polyderidius (like the one we took pics of) and the gehringiines are the smallest I can think of. A bit over a mm
November 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM