Dr. Arthur V. Evans teams up with WCVE Public Radio producer Steve Clark for a weekly feature, “What’s Bugging You?,” which airs during NPR’s Morning Edition. The program takes its name from another of Evans’ books “What’s Bugging You – A Fond Look at the Animals We Love to Hate.”
Tune-in each Tuesday morning at 8:35 a.m. on 88.9 WCVE, Richmond’s Public Radio station.
Visit Evans’ Blog or Facebook pages for more insight into the world of insects.
Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss the natural history of a very colorful denizen of white oaks here in Virginia, the oak treehopper, Platycotis vittata. Both males and females may be horned or hornless.
Photos: Nymphs and two color forms of the adult oak treehopper, Platycotis vittata. © 2013, Arthur V. Evans. All rights reserved.
Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark talk with Jason Bullock of the Virginia Natural Heritage Division, Department of Conservation and Recreation about the new “Atlas of Rare Butterflies, Skippers, Moths, Dragonflies and Damselflies of Virginia.”
Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark hit the road in search of periodical cicadas.
Discover more, vist our Cicada Watch: Brood II page.
Photo: All three species of 17-year cicadas were found at Taylors Creek. From top to bottom: Magicicada septendecula, M. septendecim, and M. cassini. © 2013, Arthur V. Evans. All rights reserved.
Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark visit the live butterfly exhibit at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia.
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Photo: The Great Mormon, Papilio memnon. © 2013, Arthur V. Evans.
Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark note that cicadas in Brood II have been out in force for a while now, especially west and north of Richmond. Art photographed the individual below in Deep Run Park in Henrico County.
Post photos and observations on the Cicada Watch Facebook page. For updates of cicada sightings, visit magicicada.org.
