Why yes it is a stylized cybernetic third instar Pterostichus larva stepping across a rip in space to snatch a supernova from the middle of a star life cycle. Thanks for noticing. It may seem to be mere vainglory, but a proper tattoo may serve as many purposes as there are individuals that bear them. […]
I had my first official out of town carabidologist visit the collection in the newly acquired space I have dubbed the “Beetle Bunker”. Visiting was Roman Dudko from Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals SB RAS. Roman works mostly on nebrines and bembidiines. He has come to California and is travelling with Sean Schoville […]
By Kip Will (Associate Professor, UCB) and Joo Hee Park (Undergraduate working on CalBug) BACKGROUND: The CalBug images you see on Notes from Nature include the preserved insect specimen with its collection event data. Although the focus of most images is on the labels so that volunteers can transcribe them, in some cases we […]
Crawling through the poison oak here in California to tie off a line has lost its charm for me. I wanted a light sheet that I can set up without using trees to tie to. Well, I like building stuff and like many of my fellow entomologists I like to make various traps and other […]
Years ago an Italian colleague of mine, with great personal flare and espresso-enhanced gesticulations, gave me a back-of-the-napkin explanation of how to set long-term (4-6months), buried and baited traps for carabids. Europeans have been this doing for some time (e.g. see the paper by Gilgado et al. (2011) and the included references), but to my […]
Here is a little game. Do you know what this is? This is not a new image, the original was taken by Ainsley Seago some time back. It appeared in printed form as a mystery photo. I thought it would be fun to play the game again, this time online. I was reminded of this […]
Hanging out and doing museum work with a bunch of carabidologist at the Carnegie Museum was great fun and very rewarding, even in the face of our largely grim purpose. We gathered to help with the posthumous curation of Tom Barr’s collection and loans. I was joined by Dave Kavanaugh, Wendy Moore, Jim Liebherr, David […]
