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iecc 2019: part three

Friday began with more paper presentations, this round featuring talks centered around invertebrate conservation and observations from the field. One … More

arachnids, blacklighting, Catalina State Park, education, IECC 2019, spiders

iecc 2019: part two

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

arachnids, blacklighting, bugs for sale!, coleoptera, coronado national forest, IECC 2019, lepidoptera, moths, neuroptera, peppersauce canyon, scarabaeidae, spiders

iecc 2019: part one

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

arachnids, chrysomelidae, coleoptera, coronado national forest, IECC 2019, lepidoptera, mites, spiders, tenebrionidae

salticids!

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

arachnids, salticidae, spiders

molino basin, cicadas, and other goodies

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

arachnids, cicada, hemiptera, homoptera, molino basin, mount lemmon highway, odonata, orthoptera, salticidae, spiders

more mountain meandering!

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

arachnids, cerambycidae, coleoptera, erotylidae, lycidae, mount lemmon highway, salticidae, scorpions, spiders

cicadas and more at 6000′

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

amphibians, ants, arachnids, butterflies, cicada, diptera, hemiptera, homoptera, hymenoptera, lepidoptera, lycosidae, mount lemmon highway, spiders

adventures to molino basin

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

arachnids, gnaphosidae, hemiptera, hymenoptera, lepidoptera, mantodea, molino basin, mount lemmon highway, odonata, raphidioptera, spiders

gordon hirabayashi

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

arachnids, butterflies, coleoptera, diptera, gordon hirabayashi recreation area, hymenoptera, lepidoptera, microcoryphia, mount lemmon highway, orthoptera, skippers, spiders, tenebrionidae

rolling over into may

It’s the middle of spring now, and it certainly looks and feels like it. The palo verde trees are yellow … More

arachnids, lizards, reptiles, snakes, solpugids, spiders

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