Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss beetles associated with fire, including the myth surrounding European stag and current research on the hypersensitive infrared detection system of Melanophila jewel beetles.

Photo: The fire beetle’s infrared organ, located near the base of the middle legs, can detect heat radiation from a distance (New Scientist: Helmut Schmitz/Uni Bonn).

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Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark talk to Goochland High School teacher Bea Cantor about her new e-book, Calling Nature. Bea recalls some of her adventures in photographing insects and other small things with her iPhone and how she turned them into a wonderful, multi-media book.

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Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark note the recent publication of the long-awaited monograph of the scarab beetle genus Euphoria. Art recalls a story about stumbling across a specimen of a North American species of Euphoria in the South African Museum in Cape Town that was mistakenly described as a brand new genus and species from South Africa.

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss the first draft of Art’s long-awaited field guide.

Photo: One of the 1400 species covered in the book, Rhyssomatus lineaticollis. © 2013 A.V. Evans