Dr. Art Evans
Dr. Art Evans
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 WCVE Public Radio. Visit Evans’ Blog or Facebook pages for more insight into the world of insects.

Stories from Dr. Art Evans...

Clothes Moths

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark carry on with a thread of conversation concerning the often reviled clothes moth.

Image: Webbing clothes moth, Tineola bisselliella (Hummel)

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clothes moth

Goochland High School Teacher Publishes Bug Photos

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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butterfly
dragonfly
honeybee
Calling Nature e-book

Red Velvet Ant Cow-killer

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss the Red Velvet Ant Cow-killer.

Red Velvet Ant Cow-killer

Euphoria! I have found you!

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.

Euphoria inda

Locusts and Grasshoppers

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss research that reveals how touch can drive solitary grasshoppers to become migratory locusts in biblical proportions.

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Grasshopper

Beetles of Eastern North America

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

Rhyssomatus lineaticollis Beetle

From Cankerworms to Cicadas

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark engage in a rambling conversation ranging from fall cankerworms flitting about right now to the expected arrival of 17-year cicadas in May.

Photo: male, female, and caterpillar of the fall cankerworm, Alsophila pometaria; a 17-year periodical cicada. Magicicada species.

Cankerworms and Cicada

Bugs in Winter

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss bugs in winter -- where they go, who eats them, and places to look for their eggs, larvae, and cocoons.

Photo: Spring nymphs, such as this wheel bug, Arilus cristatus, spend their winters as eggs laid in batches on tree bark.

wheel bug Arilus cristatus

Spiders, Stink Bugs, and Arthrodial Membranes

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss Steve's latest observations on spiders selecting that oh-so-delicate spot on otherwise well-armored stink bugs.

Photo: Orb weaver with prey. Photo by Mary Holland. Visit her blog here.

Orb Weaver

Christmas Beetles and Humbugs

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark get into the holiday spirit with a discussion of eucalyptus-eating beetles down under and South African cicadas, as well as some entomological humbugs and chimeras.

Key words: Christmas beetles, humbugs, chimera, cicada, Australia, South Africa, St. Helena Giant Earwig

Photo: A Christmas beetle, Anoplognathus porosus

Anoplognathus porosus
chimera