Interview with Dr. Charles Griswold, Arachnologist

Dr. Art Evans in What's Bugging You?

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark talk with arachnologist Dr. Charles Griswold of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California. Dr. Griswold is the senior author of a recently published article describing a new family of spiders, the Trogloraptoridae.

You can see the original article here.

Trogloraptor marchingtoni (male) cave spider

Cave Robber Spiders

Dr. Art Evans in What's Bugging You?

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark talk with arachnologist Dr. Charles Griswold of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California. Dr. Griswold is the senior author of a recently published article describing a new family of spiders, the Trogloraptoridae.

You can view the original article here.

Trogloraptor marchingtoni (male) cave spider

Black Soldier Fly

Dr. Art Evans in What's Bugging You?

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss the natural history of this waspish fly and its usefulness in the garden and beyond.

Photo: The black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens © 2011, A.V. Evans

Black Soldier Fly

Wandering Glider

Dr. Art Evans in What's Bugging You?

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss the swarms of wandering gliders this time of year.

Photo: Female wandering glider, Pantala flavescens. © 2012, A.V. Evans

Wandering Glider

Odonatological Investigations

Dr. Art Evans in What's Bugging You?

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss dragonflies and damselflies, and Art's efforts to collect and study them.

Photo: Dragonflies and damselflies preserved for scientific study are stored in acetate envelopes with 3" x 5" labels printed on acid-free cardstock.

Dragonflies

Timemas

Dr. Art Evans in What's Bugging You?

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss a group of primitive stick insects called timemas that are found only in western North America.

For more information on timemas, visit Dr. Cristina Sandoval’s website.

Photo: Timema, possibly cristinae. Santa Barbara County, CA. © 2012, A.V. Evans.

Timema

Backyard Bug Survey, Part 2

Dr. Art Evans in What's Bugging You?

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark carry on with the previous week's conversation on the value of backyard bug surveys. Local lists may provide valuable information to scientists studying insect distributions and the effects of climate change, or reveal the first records of an invasive species. You never know what you will find until you start looking!

Photo: Hummingbird moth, Hemaris thysbe. © 2011, A.V. Evans

Hummingbird moth, Hemaris thysbe

Backyard Bug Survey, Part 1

Dr. Art Evans in What's Bugging You?

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss the benefits and challenges of conducting a backyard bug survey. A great resource on the web for identifying insects is found at bugguide.net.

Photo: Sharpshooter, Oncometopia orbona. © 2011, A.V. Evans

Sharpshooter

On the Beach at Morro Bay

Dr. Art Evans in What's Bugging You?

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans takes a trip down memory lane with WCVE producer Steve Clark. Art recently visited one of his childhood bug haunts along the central coast of California and photographed several insect species there that had captured his imagination some 40 years earlier while on a family camping trip.

Photo: The ‘Pictured Rove Beetle,’ Thinopinus pictus. © 2012, A.V. Evans

Pictured Rove Beetle

Teaching Entomology in Summer

Dr. Art Evans in What's Bugging You?

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss two very different entomology courses that Art is teaching this summer at the Virginia Commonwealth University and Randolph-Macon College.

To follow the progress of Dejarnette Park insect survey in Ashland, visit here (after July 13th).

Insects of Dejarnette Park is also on Facebook Facebook.

Photo: Luna moth at the black light sheet. © 2012, A.V. Evans