…an inordinate fondness for beetles!
It seems therefore that a taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!--Charles Darwin
I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capture of rare beetles.--Charles Darwin
The Creator, if He exists, must have an inordinate fondness for beetles.--J. B. S. Haldane
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Ted C. MacRae is an agricultural research entomologist with "an inordinate fondness for beetles." Primary expertise includes taxonomy and host associations of wood-boring beetles, with more recent interest also in tiger beetle survey and conservation. I am currently serving as Managing Editor of the The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, Layout Editor for the journal Cicindela and Newsletter Editor for the Webster Groves Nature Study Society. Read my interview at Nature Blog Network, and visit me at these other sites:
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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Cicindela scutellaris rugata (the “wrinkled festive tiger beetle”)
During last year’s Fall Tiger Beetle Collecting Trip, I visited several rural cemeteries in northeastern Texas. No, this was not a diversion from my beetle collecting—cemeteries in rural areas can be great places to look for tiger beetles because they tend … Continue reading
Posted in Cicindelidae, Coleoptera
Tagged beetles, entomology, insects, nature, Texas, tiger beetles
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The “black bringer of light”
During last year’s Fall Tiger Beetle Collecting Trip, I spent a day visiting cemeteries in the Post Oak Savannah region of northeastern Texas to look for tiger beetles associated with open sand in and around the cemeteries. It had been a … Continue reading
Posted in Bombyliidae, Diptera
Tagged bee flies, entomology, flies, insects, nature, parasitoids, science, Texas
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Fun with eucraniines!
During my February/March 2015 visit to Argentina, I had the opportunity to travel to west-central provinces of San Juan and San Luis with Federico Ocampo for a weekend of insect collecting. Up to that point most of my collecting in Argentina had been … Continue reading
Posted in Buprestidae, Coleoptera, Fabaceae, Scarabaeidae
Tagged Argentina, beetles, behavior, entomology, insect collection, insects, jewel beetles, nature, scarabs
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