Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
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.…
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…
An interesting thing happened while I was watching the Army Ant raid near the Novomessor cockerelli nest. As I mentioned, the Novomessor cockerelli were nervous while the Army Ants passed by. There were guards around the nest entrance, and we…
Near Tucson, July 2005, I was out in the desert looking for interesting ants. The monsoons had just started and it had rained the night before. I came across a pair of beetles rolling an irregularly oval-shaped ball of dung…
In October of 2005, I was crawling on my hands and knees at the Totten Reservoir boat dock in Montezuma County, Colorado. I was prospecting for ants. I happened to notice a small, maybe 1 cm long, gray and brown…
In April of 2005, I was hiking through the Sonoran Desert just outside of Tucson. I stopped to look at some Desert Marigolds that were just starting to open. There was a black and yellow insect flying around the flowers.…