The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor in either the Department of Ichthyology or M...

This is impressive. Peter Kuper’s exploration of the history of entomology and the history of insects is definitely worth your perusal. The latter, at 400 million years, is a bit older than t…

Stethaulax marmorata. Not a beetle (Coleoptera), but a shield-backed bug in the family Scutelleridae (Hemiptera).

Carpenter-mimic Leafcutter Bee/Megachile xylocopoides on goldenrod at Fort Tilden last week. This looks like the first New York observation on iNaturalist. Last year, one was seen a little further …

Never mind the cat, look what the UV light pulled in…

Given that most people’s reaction to the question “should BHL charge for access?” is likely to be an emphatic NO! let me explain my goal here. I have no formal role in BHL, this post is purely me shoo...

Such a spectacular beetle, Megacyllene robiniae, and lately all over the goldenrods as they mate. (It’s the larvae that bore through black locust trees.) With a bonus caught-by-the-camera fly…

Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a ...

Understanding when lineages diverged is a common inquiry within the field of biogeography and often requires a rate of evolution and a means to calibrate the phylogeny to absolute time. While fossil e...

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Congratulations to Jordan, Meghan, Michael and Beulah on launching what promises to be an exciting new chapter in entomological publishing 🐞📚

In this talk, naturalist Amanda Tuke shares her delight in the wildlife in our cities and celebrates the rich natural heritage found there.

The third edition of my Sinhala language book ‘Snake of Sri Lanka’  will be launched in October 2026. This nearly 400-page edition is co-authored with devoted herpetologists Sanoj Wijayasekara and San...

Near the end of our walk in Rockefeller State Park Preserve, an Eastern Milkshake on the edge of the path, which is an old road, scooted into the shrubbery as we came upon it. You can just the anim…

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Japanese Burrowing Cricket in August 2026 by Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe. Japanese Burrowing Cricket singing from neighbor’s backyard at 9 am with the sun fully up on this...

I don’t remember when I first became aware of reports that the grape (Vitaceae: Vitis) leafminer Phyllocnistis vitegenella (Gracillariidae) had been introduced in Europe. There is no mention …

I don’t remember when I first became aware of reports that the grape (Vitaceae: Vitis) leafminer Phyllocnistis vitegenella (Gracillariidae) had been introduced in Europe. There is no mention …

Allard's Ground Cricket from Long Island, New York, NY, US on September 22, 2024 at 12:24 PM by Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe

This revision of The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America, originally published in 1989, began as soon as the earlier book was in press. Since then, more than half again as many records of plant...

Fluttering at the dune end of Plumb Beach recently… An adult antlion, the first I’ve seen in NYC. This is a female Brchynemurus abdominalis. (Which makes it the first species of antlion…