About a week ago my daughter and I visited one of the farms my husbands family owns to look for rattlesnakes. We spent about 2 hours wa...

Rhubarb weevils ( Lixus concavus) also known as Rhubarb Curculios are commonly found throughout the Eastern United States and portions of...

Young female paper wasps ( Polistes fuscatus ) are actively building their nests right now. They will seek almost any sheltered place to s...

Emerald Euphoria ( Euphoria fulgida ) are beetles in the family Scarabaeidae that are native to North America. They are not especially com...

Northern False Widows ( Steatoda borealis) are very common in Missouri, and they happen to be one of the spiders I receive a lot of inquir...

This seems to be the week for longhorn borers as our woodpile came to life on Saturday with dozens of these long-legged, longhorn beauties...

The Painted Hickory Borer ( Megacyllene caryae ) in the family Cerambycidae , is one of the most frequently misidentified beetles in thei...

Red Velvet Mites in the family Trombidiidae include more than a 1,000 species Worldwide. They are classified as arachnids, but differ from...

This beautiful pin-striped spider is a Dotted Wolf Spider ( Rabidosa punctulata formerly Lycosa punctulata ). There are over 2300 species...

Spider Wasps in the family Pompilidae are a cosmopolitan group of wasp with somewhere around 5,000 known species and subspecies Worldwide....