iecc 2019: part two

The second day of the conference started out with paper presentations. Some of the highlights included Citizen Science in an…

iecc 2019: part one

This past week, I attended the Invertebrates in Education and Conservation Conference (IECC). It was held right here in Tucson,…

When I lived in Michigan, one of my insect holy grails was the Eastern Eyed Click Beetle, Alaus oculatus. I…

I’m always amazed at how diverse and plenty the jumping spiders are here. They seem to be lurking everywhere —…

Today, July 9th, marks the one-year anniversary since we packed up all our pets and belongings in the Upper Peninsula…

Already, July’s sneaking up on us, and it’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly a year since we moved…

This morning I returned to the location I wrote about in my previous post — a pull-off on the Mount…

There are a series of pull-offs along the Mount Lemmon Highway at around the 6000′ elevation mark — right when…

It isn’t much of a drive from our house to the base of the Mount Lemmon Highway, and I’ve found…

This past week I have made a number of visits to lower-elevation areas on the Mount Lemmon Highway. The mid-May…