It is funny how things go sometimes isn't it? I say this because recently I made a new friend on facebook. This man goes by the name of ...

This photograph was taken last summer, and subsequently forgotten about. I came across it a few weeks ago and realized I had no idea what th...

I had to update you all on the crawdad situation. When I first put her in the tank, each of the 200+ baby crawdads let go of their mother an...

My friend Cindy and I decided to take a drive and look for things to take pictures of. While slowly driving along a narrow roadway, she loo...

I received a phone call at my office the other day from a man living in Rushville, MO, which is a small rural town south of St. Joseph. He w...

Invertebrates come in all sizes, shapes, colors and species. Anything from worms to lobsters are types of invertebrates. Of course we proba...

The ants pictured here are leaf-cutter ants ( Atta colombica ) and are native to South America from Guatemala to Columbia (which may be whe...

Darkling beetles in the family Carabidae Tenebrionidaeare ( Thanks Ted for catching my faux pas )  one of the most common beetles in the...

One of the most common sounds of autumn is the call of the cricket in the family Gryllidae. These are known as the true crickets. The pe...

 Bats are mammals, and certainly not an arthropod, but I figured since they feed on numerous insects it would be okay to feature a couple o...