Picture-winged Flies (Stictomyia longicornis) on Prickly Pear Cactus in Arizona
A mystery (finally!) solved - watching Stictomyia Picture-winged Flies on Prickly Pear Cactus
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
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“Cotton Balls” on Fourwinged Saltbush – Galls formed by Cecidomyid Midges
Photographing Midge-induced cotton-ball galls on Fourwinged Saltbush in Southwestern Colorado.
Galls on Utah Juniper in Southwestern Colorado – Gall Midge (Walshomyia sp A)
I’ve seen these strange flower-like growths on Utah Junipers here in Southwestern Colorado for years, but have not known what they were. I assumed they were galls, but was having a heck of a time figuring out what type of…
Rabbitbrush Gall – Cotton-gall Tephritid
Rubber Rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa) is one of the common native shrubs in the high desert of the Four Corners area. And it’s really common to see little fuzzy white balls attached to the Rabbitbrush stems. I was curious about these…
Sagebrush Galls formed by Rhopalomyia midges
As I was hiking in Butler Wash, on the east side of Comb Ridge, Utah, I came across some striking, fluffy leaf-balls on a few of the Sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata?). The leaf-balls were soft, almost like one of those “office…
Fire Ants and The Horrid Phorid Fly
On an overcast afternoon in mid-August, 2005, I was walking through the Sonoran Desert just outside of Tucson. I came across a group of golden-colored ants fighting. The ants were small, no more than a few millimeters long. They were…