Fire ant winged reproductives: male and female
While in Austin at the Entomological Society of America meetings, I had the chance to tour The University of Texas at Austin’s Brackenridge Field Laboratory. Located on 82 acres of land bordering the...
View ArticleHooray for iStock—I finally have an ID for my photo
I was all set to make a “One-Shot Wednesday” post today, but sometimes big news strikes and plans must change. The news today was in the form of a random tweet by Alex Wild: The link in the tweet led...
View ArticleT.G.I.Flyday: Soybean nodule fly
I’ve been walking the rows of soybean fields for many years now, and while it might seem that I would have very quickly seen all there was to see in terms of insects associated with the crop, this is...
View ArticleNot all soybean caterpillars are ‘ugly’!
Although photographs of beetles dominate this site (they are my true love, after all), I am nevertheless an agricultural entomologist by day and, as such, find occasion to post photos of the insects I...
View Article“Picudo negro” (black weevil) on soybean in Argentina
During my recent tour of soybean fields in Argentina, I traveled north to Tucumán Province and met with entomologists at the Estación Experimental Agroindustrial Obispo Columbre (“Obispo Columbre...
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