Watching Hunt’s Bumble Bee (Bombus huntii) on Caragana in the Springtime
Watching Hunt's Bumble Bees on Caragana blossoms in the Southwestern Colorado Springtime.
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
Invertebrates
Watching Carrot Wasps in the Garden
Watching Carrot Wasps (Gasteruption sp.) in Southwestern Colorado. Do I know how to live or what?
Watching a Spider Wasp Hunting in Southwestern Colorado
Photos and text from an afternoon spent watching a Pompilid Spider Wasp catching a Spider in Southwestern Colorado.
Picture-winged Flies (Stictomyia longicornis) on Prickly Pear Cactus in Arizona
A mystery (finally!) solved - watching Stictomyia Picture-winged Flies on Prickly Pear Cactus
“Cotton Balls” on Fourwinged Saltbush – Galls formed by Cecidomyid Midges
Photographing Midge-induced cotton-ball galls on Fourwinged Saltbush in Southwestern Colorado.
Watching Tarantula Hawks on Desert Milkweed in Tucson, Arizona
A meditation on watching and photographing Tarantula Hawks in Arizona.
White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata) feeding at Penstemon Flowers
The penstemons next to our house here in Southwestern Colorado have been blooming for the last couple of weeks, and they are attracting loads of pollinators. I’ve been spending a lot of time photographing the different types of wasps and…
Iron Cross Blister Beetle – Tegrodera aloga
Here are photos of a gorgeous Iron Cross Blister Beetle (Tegrodera aloga) that I saw one afternoon in Tucson. This was in early May of 2005, on the Cactus Forest Loop of Saguaro National Park East, at perhaps 3000′ elevation.…
Oil Beetle – Meloe sp. (Blister Beetle)
In the middle of September, 2023, I was hiking along a meadow trail bordering a mixed conifer woodland at about 10,400′ in the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado. I saw a strange-looking insect that was slowly climbing up the…
Nasute Termite in Arizona – Tenuirostritermes tenuirostris
In September of 2005, I was out hiking in Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains. It was the first time I’d been there, and it was wondrous. Everywhere I looked, I saw some miraculous creature that I’d read about, but had not…