Glenn offered his bug guiding services as an item for the Five Valleys Land Trusts’ annual auction. Accompanied by about 13 kids and six adults, they discovered plenty of bugs, […]

Before taking to the sky, damselflies, and their close relatives the dragonflies, develop in still water such as ponds, lakes, marshes, and bogs. The nymphs are predatory like their adult […]

As their name suggests, predaceous diving beetles are capable predators both in their larval and adult stages, feeding on aquatic invertebrates like mosquito larvae; with larger species dispatching small vertebrates […]

After overwintering as adults beneath leaf litter, bark, or other sheltered places, Red-cross Shield Bugs are active again. Their family is variously called the Shield Bugs and the Parent Bugs. […]

We have 17 different species of cicadas in Montana that spend two to five years living underground in the nymph stage, feeding on tree roots. Once they emerge, their lives […]

Kelly managed to snap photos of two species of crane flies, with one nectaring. With their slender body and stilt-like legs, crane flies kind of look like mosquitoes on steroids. But […]

Photo by: Kelly Dix near the Selway River in Idaho

Margined Whites can be found west of the Great Plains from British Columbia and Alberta south to central California, southern Arizona, and southern New Mexico. The caterpillars feed on native […]

There are about 280 species of Nomad Bees in North America. They are evolutionarily unique because they do not collect pollen to feed their offspring. Instead, they steal it. They […]

This beetle resides in the snout and bark beetle family (Curculionidae), the most speciose family, boasting more than 60,000 species worldwide. The elbowed, clubbed antennae are unique to this group, […]