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 faunal relationships of eastern North American insects with species of the Pacific Northwest, eastern Asia, and Europe.
Photo: A male striped June beetle, Polyphylla occidentalis. © 2013, Arthur V. Evans. All rights reserved.
Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE Producer Steve Clark discuss the rarity of spider bites and briefly discuss the two medically important groups of spiders in the United States, Latrodectus and Loxosceles.
Photo: A green lynx spider, Peucetia viridans. © 2010, Arthur V. Evans. All rights reserved.
Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark talk about the very beautiful Florida predatory stink bug, Euthyrhynchus floridanus.
Photo: The gregarious nymphs of the Florida predatory stink bug, Euthyrhynchus floridanus. © 2013, Arthur V. Evans. All rights reserved.
Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss what makes fireflies “glow” and a femme fatale that uses her light signal to lure and eat the males of other species.
Photo: The big dipper firefly, Photinus pyralis, is the most common and widespread species of firefly in eastern United States. © 2013, Arthur V. Evans. All rights reserved.
Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark share some of their last experiences with Brood II periodical cicadas. Thanks to a WBY? listener in Bumpass, Virginia, Art was able to photograph cicadas mating and laying eggs.
Thanks to everyone for contributing their Brood II observations to Cicadawatch 2013.
Photo: Seventeen-year cicadas, Magicicada septendecim, mating and laying eggs. © 2013, Arthur V. Evans. All rights reserved.
