Posted on July 9, 2019
by Devon Bowker
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If you’re reading this right now, you might be realizing that we’re about to be playing a game of semantics (systematics, rather). For many, if it looks like a Spider, that’s all they need to know to shiver in disgust and engage in fight,…
Category: The Wild Life BlogTags: animals, arachnid, Araneae, are daddy long legs venomous, biodiversity, biology, daddy long legs, entomology, environment, granddaddy long legs, harvestmen, Insects, naturalism, naturalist, nature, opiliones, outdoors, science, spider, the wild life, thewildlife, wild, wildlife
Posted on August 3, 2018
by Devon Bowker
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This is circle of life—or at least an ugly, albeit necessary, curve of it. This is the life of the American Carrion Beetle.
Category: Animals, Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life BlogTags: american carrion beetle, arthropod, beetle, biology, bugs, carrion beetle, circle of life, decomposition, ecology, entomology, environment, Insects, life, scavenger, thewildlife, top, wild, wildlife
Posted on July 27, 2018
by Devon Bowker
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In the Season 1 Finale of The Wild Life, Devon and Richard expose the mystery of metamorphosis, what happens inside the chrysalis, whether or not a butterfly remembers or a caterpillar knows, destroy the metamorphosis metaphor, and build it anew, all with the help of Dr. Martha Weiss of Georgetown University.
Category: Insects and Arachnids, The Podcast, The Wild Life BlogTags: biology, bugs, butterfly, caterpillar, change, chrysalos, cocoon, devon bowker, devonthenatureguy, Education, Insects, life history, metamorphosis, moth, naturalist, nature, podcast, reinvention, richard bowker, science, thewildlife, top, wildlife
Posted on October 22, 2017
by Devon Bowker
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The Asian Lady Beetles are back with a vengeance for their annual autumn invasion.
Category: Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life BlogTags: agriculture, aphids, asian lady beetle, autumn, beetle, biology, ecology, environment, fall, featured, Harmonia axyridis, Insects, lady bug, ladybug, ladybug swarm, life, minnesota, multi-colored Asian lady beetle, spotted, swarm, what is going on with all of these ladybugs?
Posted on April 5, 2017
by Devon Bowker
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That’s the Spotted Apatelodes, Apatelodes torrefacta, a beautiful moth of the Bombycidae (Silkworm Moths) family which is commonly mistaken for the somewhat similar looking Sphinx Moth.
Category: Ask TWL, Insects and ArachnidsTags: apatelodes, bombycidae, ID Help, identification, insect, Insects, moth, silkworm, sphynx moth, Spotted Apatelodes, texas, torrefacta
