Insect Observations

A deep red stag beetle on a stone wall Medog, 27 June. This stag beetle was resting on rough rock at the foot of a …

A brown and white butterfly resting on bare ground It was sitting on the bare ground of a trail in Medog, surrounded by scattered gravel …

A stark black-and-white carpenter on a Medog wall On 26 June 2026, along the Motuo highway southwest of the county seat, this striking moth had …

A deep red stag beetle with a golden stripe In late June I found this one in Medog, sitting calmly on a piece of grey …

A bold jumper staring back from a plastic wall This one turned up on the inside wall of a clear plastic container in Pittsburgh in …

A green hitchhiker on the last warm days On October 21 in Pittsburgh, a bright green katydid was clinging to a black plastic fitting on …

A cone-headed singer near the end of the season On October 21 in Pittsburgh, a green katydid landed on a hand and stayed there long …

A red-headed cricket on a plastic bag It was a crisp October afternoon in Pittsburgh when I found this little cricket perched on a plastic …

A soft-bodied hunter in a velvet coat, now with a name On October 10 in Pittsburgh, a small dark creature was crawling across the concrete, …

A coil in the grass that kept its stripes On September 22 in Pittsburgh, a dark shape in the dry grass at the edge of …

A Bug with a Cog on Its Back: Meeting the Wheel Bug in Pittsburgh It was a warm afternoon in September 2025, on the campus …

Medium-sized, mostly yellowish-brown, with a few in pale green. Antennae extremely long, several times the body length. Vertex blunt and rounded, lacking lateral carinae.