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Pesty caterpillars remind me: know your system
Tiny masses of webs appeared seemingly overnight in our young Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus) shrub. Although the tent caterpillars are my go-to suspects whenever web-spinners appear on our plants,...
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Hey Geek, what’s this? It bites!
I received an email last week, originally written by Jim: Can either of you identify the bug in the attached picture? This is more a matter of curiosity than concern. Our daughter learned in her...
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BugShot 2012!
I am one excited geek right now: in just a few days, I’ll be hopping on a plane and heading down to the Archbald Biological Station in Venus, Florida where I will join about 35 other people who are...
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BugShot 2012 – Top Five Tips from the pros
Early this morning, the sun was peeking over the horizon, casting a soft, rosy glow on the morning mist and illuminating the spanish moss hanging from the trees in the vast oak scrub of this region. I...
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BugShot 2012: Magnification
If you haven’t seen them yet, check out the BugShot instructors’ Top Five Tips for insect macrophotography! Over the next few days I’ll be writing more detailed posts on some of the subjects that I...
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BugShot 2012: Light
Alex Wild of Myrmecos fame is a wizard with light. Whether in a studio white box or in the field with natural light, he knows how to manipulate light to compliment the intrinsic loveliness of his...
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BugShot 2012: Working with insects
The participants at BugShot were a varied bunch, with different levels of experience in both photography and entomology. Alex Wild expressed several times that, in some ways, the entomologists had a...
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BugShot 2012: Composition
Every evening after our final session we would gather in the meeting room and share some photographs for a friendly critique. While it can be unnerving to put your work on display, it can also be an...
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Photo Friday: My fave photos from BugShot 2012!
I took about 800 photos over the course of the three-day BugShot workshop. I didn’t have as much success with every subject as I would have liked, but I did come away with some definite keepers. One of...
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Photo Friday: Glow-in-the-dark Scorpion
Living in Canada affords nature-loving folks certain securities. With remarkably few exceptions, Canadian nature is incredibly non-venomous (yes, spiders etc. have venom, but not enough to harm or do...
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