mariella dorr's List: Insects

"Beginner's Guide to Finding, Collecting, Mounting,
Identifying, and
Displaying Insects"

"You will need to kill the live insects you capture before putting them into
your collection. The killing method should be quick and as painless as possible.
Also, the killing method should not ruin the insect's appearance. A killing jar
that can be carried with you is handy for doing this. You should prepare one
before going out to collect."

"Professor Tim Gibb shows students how to safely transfer a captured honey bee from a net into a kill jar."

"Welcome to songsofinsects.com, the support web site for The Songs of Insects, by Lang Elliott and Wil Hershberger. Our new full-color book and accompanying audio compact disc is the ultimate practical guide to singing insects, introducing the songs of 76 species of crickets, katydids and cicadas of eastern and central
North America."

"It's the second half of summer and the cicadas are a-buzzing in the trees in the late afternoon. When I pointed this out to the neighbor, he said, "Oh. You mean the locusts?" "Well, yes and no." I replied. It's complicated."

Quick Facts...
Most wasps develop by feeding on insects. Bees develop on a diet of nectar or pollen.
Almost all insect stings result from yellowjackets and an insect newly established in the state, the European paper wasp.
Yellowjackets, hornets and paper wasps make nests of paper. Honey bees and bumblebees make nests of wax. Solitary bees and wasps nest in holes in the ground, rotten wood or natural cavities. Some wasps even make mud nests.

Across North America ladybug species distribution is changing. Over the past twenty years several native ladybugs that were once very common have become extremely rare. During this same time ladybugs from other places have greatly increased both their numbers and range. Some ladybugs are simply found in new places. This is happening very quickly and we don’t know how, or why, or what impact it will have on ladybug diversity or the role that ladybugs play in keeping plant-feeding insect populations low. We're asking you to join us in finding out where all the ladybugs have gone so we can try to prevent more native species from becoming so rare.

Yellow Jacket ( Vespula squamosa ) & Honey bee (Apis mellifera) macro footage, showing stinging a human arm. Not for the faint at heart!