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Fascinating Arizonaby Carl A. Olson, Entomologist
Sphingicampa hubbardi
Photographers Credits• Jillian Cowles• Alex Yelich• Young Cage• Doris Evans• Cecil Schwalbe• Bob Behrstock• Bob ParksBob Parks• Buzz Hoffman• Doug Danforth• Rick Bowers• Diane Drobka• Bob Wenrick• Al Guhl
Maria Sybilla Merian artwork
Identifying at least Orders: Wings Other structures: Mouthparts
Leg Design Metamorphosis or life changes
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Time to Change: Gradual Metamorphosis Real Change:Complete Metamorphosis
A More Complete Metamorphosis
Larva prepares Molts to pupa Pupa hardens
Adult Emerges
Teneral Hardens Colorizes
Think Real IPM
• IPM-A Definition:
• Integrated Population Management (IPM) is an ecologically based management strategy that provides long-term management of insect problems with minimum impact on human health, the environment and non-target organisms. IPM programs are educationally based and focus on our knowledge of insect biology and its relationship within the environment.
• Dawn Gouge/Carl Olson
Why and how do insects become problematic? Water Availability
Why and how do insects become problematic? Food that tastes good!
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Do You Compost?
Blatta lateralis Cotinis mutabilisBlatta lateralis
Why and how do insects become problematic? Available habitat
FEAR FACTOR: The Realities of the Bug World!
Alien EmpireSwarming HordesKiller Bees Tree killersInsect Menace, PestsCreepy CrawliesDeath, Destruction, Danger
Education Now! Learn, don’t Fear
Who REALLY should be afraid?THE BUGS!!
Myth:Supersition:Panic
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TYPICAL RESPONSE:
KILL IT!Common Curiosities in AZ
Cochineal Scale
Male Webspinner
Creosote Woolly GallAsphondylia auripila
Evania appendigaster
AZ State Butterfly, Papilio multicaudata Spring Awakens the EarthCrane flyMantids emerge
Cactus longhorn beetle
Eleodes
Brittlebush
Trirhabda geminata
Springtime Insects:Meloidae
Lytta magister Tegrodera alogaLytta magister Tegrodera aloga
Cysteodemus armata
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Blister Beetles
Meloe laevis Pleurospata mirabilis
Nemognatha lurida Eupompha elegans
Some Local LepidopteraCtenucha venosa
Atlides halesus Painted Lady
AZ Sister
Papilio cresphontes
Swallowtail Protection: Osmeterium ‘JUST’ Caterpillars
Hemileuca tricolor on Palo Verde
Norape tenera on mesquite Puss moth on oak
Honey Bees, Not Killer Bees
W k f i The SwarmWorker foraging The Swarm
The Sting The Hive Stay Alert
Not African Bees, Carpenter Bees
Male Xylocopa Nest site
Xylocopa californica arizonenis
Xylocopa varipuncta
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Leaf Cutter Bees Aphids & Their Management Partners:Parasites
The Parasitoid Mummy remains
Medieval Rich
The ParasitoidBy Alex Wild
Mummy remainsBy W.D.Newton
And Predators:Where are the aphids Bug Eggs! Oh no What will they become?
The year 2009 for Cotinus:WOW! And Thasus too!
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Kissing Bugs: Triatoma rubida
Packrat nest Second instar
More Kissing Bug Story
Triatoma recurva
The Beak
Triatoma protractaRhodnius prolixus South America
Very Mistaken Identity:Not Triatoma
Neacoryphus lateralis A th h l th iNeacoryphus lateralis Acanthocephala thomasi
Largus cinctus Squash bug
Derobrachus hovorei
Harvester Ants: Pogonomyrmex
PsammaphoreNest site
Leaf Cutter Ants
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Southern Fire Ants:Solenopsis xyloni Termite Reality
Wood-boring: Why? Datura, Tomato, Pepper
Plagiometriona clavataAntianthe expansa
Ready to Pupate
Manduca sexta Manduca quinquemaculata
Plagiometriona clavatap
Grasshoppers in your yardMelanoplus regalis Melanoplus thomasi
Horesidotes cinereus
Leuronotia ritensis
More Grasshoppers
Creosote hopper Pallid-winged hopper
Rainbow Grasshopper
Creosote hopper g pp
Desert clackerHorse lubber
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Orangedog on citrus:One Strange worm!
Sunflower
Chlosyne lacinia
Wild Cotton
Lirimiris trucata
Citheronia splendens
Canyon Ragweed as Host
Physonota arizonae Perillus eats larva
Condalia lysiodes
Cargida pyrrha
Texas Mountain Laurel
Pyralidae: Uresiphita reversalis
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What Does Age Mean for Plants
Spring:No eatersOn Hollyhock
Summer:Where did these come from?
Globe Mallow
Neoptilamalvacearumpupaelarva
Strange Insects: The Galls
Creosote woolly gall C tt d ti l llCreosote woolly gall Cottonwood petiole gall
Aloe Gall-Eriophyid mite
Woolly Oak Gall
Fascination in the Fall
Ctenucha venosa
Tree Cricket
Euclea obliqua
Carales arizonica
Some Fall Beetles too.
Tragidion spp. on Desert Broom
Trachyderes mandibulata Dynastes granti male & female
Population Boom:Hyles lineata Yeperenye Story for Australian Outback
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Mesquite Twig Girdler
Oncideres rhodosticta
Western Spotted Orb Weaver
Wasp Biodiversity
M d d bbMud daubber
Podalonia provisioning nest
Paper wasps, Polistes
More AZ Wasp Fauna
Pepsis formosaEumenes bollii Potter wasp
Pepsis chrysothemis The nest
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Chlorion-Cricket hunter
Dasymutilla magnificaDasymutilla gloriosa Cicada Killer
Flies: Incredible not Disgusting
P d t ll d bb fliPredators called robber flies
Pollenators called Bee flies
More Flies you may encounter
Picture-winged flyHover flies
Picture winged fly
Aphid-eating maggots
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Parasites More Parasites
Predators
Zeluroides americana Rasahus biguttatus
Rhiginia cinctiventrisZelus tetracanthus
More Predators
Zelus renardii
A i fl i t iApiomerus flaviventrisStenelmoides arizonensis
Sinea rileyi
Don’t Sell Insects Short New and Interesting Biology• S. African Millipede
Assassin, Ectrichoda crux, gregarious bug.
• Deltochilum valgum, Peruvian dung beetle evolved to now decapitate and eat millipedes.
• Bagheera kiplingi• Bagheera kiplingi, jumping spider of Mexico eats Beltian Bodies on Acacia, avoids ant protectors, thus a vegetarian spider
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What are These?
Paranemia vittiger
Anatis lecontei
Ladybird Beetles!!
Paranemia vittiger
Coleomagilla maculata Olla v-nigrum
A Look at Scorpions
Bark Scorpions AZ Scorpion Diversity
Serridigitus alredi Vejovis spinigerusg
Diplocentrus whitei
Solpugida Amblypygi:Phrynus fuscimanus
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Vinegaroon
Mastigoproctus giganteus
Viney eats Little eared skink Carrying eggs
Carrying young
The Spider Realm:Perceptions NEAT
• The skin of it is so soft, smooth, polished and neat, that she precedes the softest skin’d Mayds, and the daintiest and most beautiful Strumpets…she hath fingers that the most gallant Virgins desire to have theirs like them, long, round, of exact feeling, that there is no man, nor any creature, that can compare with her.
• The Reverend E. Topsell (describing a house spider, circa 1607
What Do Spiders Eat? Mostly Insects! A Few Fantastic SpidersGiant Crab Spider
Spitting Spider-Scytodes Jumping Spider
Pholcid w eggs & then a maleGreen Lynx:Peucetia viridans
Because I Like Spiders
Southern House Spider KukulkaniaSouthern House Spider-Kukulkania
Mama Wolf spider
Giant Crab spider
Rhomphaea: preys on other spiders
Black Widows & Recluses
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Fungus Management Would you Believe
Fly maggot eating aphids Adult fly captures & Eats a Paper WaspFly maggot eating aphids Adult fly captures & Eats a Paper Wasp
Horsehair worms This is a Praying Mantis
Aesthetics Food for Thought: A BeginningDIVINITYWhat?
You'd like to feel good about yourself?
Okay then, listen to this---there's a little bit of god in you.
But wait!Don't puff up your chest just yet.
Don't fan out those tail feathers--I'm not through!
There's a little bit of god in you--it's true.
But there's a little bit of god in cockroaches too.
by Paul Young
Sheer unadulterated ArtTHE END
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Eucalyptus
Red Gum Lerps
Glycaspis brimblecombei
More on Eucalyptus
Phoracantha recurva galleries
Syngaster lepidus
Phoracantha recurva
Exit hole