Posts Tagged ‘Six-spotted Tiger Beetle’

The Cycle Continues by , Ranger

March 31st, 2011

Spring is moving right along here at the Museum. More insects are being seen, frogs and toads breeding, and turtles are out basking with ever more frequency. It can’t be stopped. There’s no turning back. It’s cold and rainy today (3/31), but once the low pressure system (two lows, in fact) that’s causing all of [...] Read the rest of this entry »

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Tiger Beetles by , Ranger

March 23rd, 2011

I saw the first of the season Six-spotted Tiger Beetle yesterday (3/22/11) on the path above the Lemur House. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tiger Beetle Emend by , Ranger

March 30th, 2010

What’s Richard Stickney, Lead Conservatory Associate here at the Museum, doing? He’s photographing a tiger beetle. It’s a Six-spotted Tiger Beetle. If you’ve read the last post about these beetles you would have seen a picture of tiger beetle parts on the path. By reading the text you may have come to think it would [...] Read the rest of this entry »

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A Tiger Drama by , Ranger

March 25th, 2010

I saw the first Six-spotted Tiger Beetle (Cicindela sexguttata) of the season on the 19th of March. I’ve seen several others since. These beetles are often encountered in spring on the path or on the rocks alongside the path between Catch the Wind and Explore the Wild. Tiger beetles are small (about 1/2″) but fierce predators. [...] Read the rest of this entry »

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Butterflies, Dragons, Tent Dwellers, a Forester, and a Tiger by , Ranger

April 15th, 2009

Fragile Forktails continue to emerge from the Wetlands (see Fragile Forktail, Explore the Wild Journal, March 16-31, 2009), although I’m now seeing females as well as males. Among the other odes observed during the first half of April were Common Green Darner, Swamp Darner, Common Baskettail, and Common Whitetail. Butterflies seen this period were Eastern [...] Read the rest of this entry »

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