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Spiders in the Shower
Posted On 11/30/2008 19:10:16 by Bug_Eric
As an entomologist who volunteers at AllExperts.com, I answer a surprising number of questions pertaining spiders in the shower or bathtub. This can be of very legitimate concern, especially in Australia where truly dangerous funnelweb spiders reside. Besides wanting to know what kind of spider it is, most folks also wonder what the critter is doing there in the first place.Male spiders of virtually all species, even those normally confined to webs, will wander in search of mates, and sometime... Read More

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Smoky Mountains Blues
Posted On 11/30/2008 18:57:52 by Bug_Eric
From August 8-10 I had the pleasure of visiting Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. I can only imagine, however, what the landscape used to look like before the arrival of the hemlock woolly adelgid, an aphid-like insect believed to be native to Asia. According to a National Park Service fact sheet I picked up at one of the visitor centers, this bug was originally detected in the park in 2002. Well, it has made an incredible impact since then. You can... Read More

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Everything Ants and Then Some
Posted On 11/30/2008 18:54:44 by Bug_Eric
I was never a very big fan of ants. There are just so many of them, and they aren’t very hospitable if you open up a colony of them. I gained a new appreciation of these social insects when I visited a website run by Alex Wild, an accomplished macro photographer and ant expert doing postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.Myrmecos.net showcases Mr. Wild’s photographic talents while taking you on a literal world tour of the ant family Formicidae. Besides the digit... Read More

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my millipede ate my lizard; the danger of keeping Archispirostreptus...
Posted On 10/16/2008 04:58:23 by Miketroll
for a couple years now ive been getting reports trickling in from herpers telling sad tails of losing chameleons and geckos to the Giant African Black millipede Archispirostreptus gigas. it seems to me that some dork somewhere came up with the brilliant idea of useing them to keep their lizard cages clean without doing any real research on them first, then went out and started telling others it works. to this day ive gotten 5 reports of lizards being caught and devoured by GABs whoda thunk an 8"... Read More

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SFBATS Fall Fang Fest
Posted On 10/13/2008 02:38:11 by Miketroll

i was really looking forward to it wanted to meet a couple people there but my agoraphobia kicked in early on and ruined the fun for me cause i had to leave but heres some photos i took early on while the news people were there





cockroach races





Robert of InsectGeeks showing off one of his Malaysian Amblypygids
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