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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

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