Arizona: Beetles, Bugs, Birds and more: Grasshoppers

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Grasshoppers

Here are just some images that I put together for a proposal. I'll let them speak for themselves

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beetlesinthebushJan 8, 2012 04:29 PM
Very, very nice. Are those for a proposed Arizona field guide?
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Margarethe BrummermannJan 8, 2012 04:37 PM
Some experts are already working on an Orthoptera Guide for the southwest with spectacular photos (B. Behrstock and Carl Olson). My photos are samples for an on-line project for which I am looking for funding. It will concentrate on the Sonoran Desert and may include most insect orders.
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azttttommyJan 9, 2012 11:50 AM
I have an image of one of those:

http://www.pbase.com/azttttommy/image/129710018

Tom
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Traveler Literary GnomeJan 10, 2012 09:02 AM
It's a wonderful poster. The images are sharp. Nice job.
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lfelliottJan 16, 2012 03:11 PM
They truly are wonderful. Have you tried kickstarter?
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Daily notes

10/26/10 a Common Buckeye visited the lantanas. Whitelined Sphinx in the evening.
10/27/10 still a Nighthawk at dusk. Thought they'd be gone by now
10/28/10 with all the dogs along the Santa Cruz: a big yellow beetle got away - could have been a Pyrota sp.
10/29/10 short stop at lower Madera after a day at the art show in Green Valley: lots of Hippomelas sp. on Velvet-pod Acacia, some mating
10/30/10 stopped at the gas station in Picture Rocks on my way back from the Green Valley Art show: there was a Megacyllene antennata, an Oxygrylius ruginasus and 5 spp of Orthoptera, Creosote Grasshopper.
10/31/10 black lighting, but it got really cold A Megacyllene from the gas station and Achryson surinamum in a spiderweb at Frank's across the street. Cymatoderas.
11/1/10 all day at the Entomology Department. Wendy brought 'Saguaro rot', lots of immatures and Hololepta and huge Staphylinid adults
11/2/2010 Florida Canyon is beautiful! found some really nice bugs, a toad lubber and Lock-jaw ants for example.
11/13/2010 during the Fountain Hills show: Buffle Heads and Scoups, Ruddies, lot of Sand Pipers, Killdeer, Am. Coots on the pond. Only Midgets and moths. The night temps in the 40s. A Dermestes carnivorus in my oven mitten and Anthrenus verbasci in the Wheeler collection.
11/25/2010 night temps close to freezing now, but days in the seventies. American Snout, Painted Ladies and even an Arizona Sister at Frank and Lynn's place across the street. There's a little water seep ...
11/26/10 a huge Pepsis female in the front yard checking out holes.
11/29/10 freezing night temps in the low twenties expected. I hope our plants are save.
12/1/10 Basil, mint, tomato and paprika under the eves made it, all succulents are fine, only bougainvillea and yellow lantana are frozen.
12/6/10 A Monarch on the patio and one Penstemon plant is pushing up flower spikes. Spring?

12/8/10 a little broadnosed weevil in the kitchen sink, still to wet to id.
12/10/10 at the 4th Avenue Street fair: Mexican Cactus Flies alight on balloons

12/7/10 Randy started some plastic trays with barrel seeds.

12/19/10 mating Small Milkweed Bugs on an agave in the backyard
12/24/10 found bugs that look like a cross between Narnia, Chelinidea and Leptoglossus on a barrel cactus NE corner of the property (turned out to be Narnia wilsoni.)
12/26/10 a big Pepsis checking out holes in the ground at Frank's across the street.
12/29/10 Nice rainfall and then plunging temps, but no snow down here. Some frozen plants like Lantanas and Basil, but we covered Aloes and brought the Tomato/Bellpepper pot inside. Lowest temp 22F, I think.
1/14/2011 the desert is turning velvety green!
1/17/2011 Visit to the Oasis B&B and it's resident Violet Crowned Hummer. Breaking in the new little camera.
1/19/11 the white fluff on my window sill cacti turned out to be scale, not fungus, so I repotted and washed them all.
1/21/11 Finally, the tomato plant was full of fruit - today those little canine bastards decided to rip them off and horde them in their beds. Randy built a BIG fence around the pot.
1/29/11 great weather and great sales at the Ventana Art show.
2/2/11 it's getting really cold, 18F, we covered as many plants as possible and the outdoor dogs are sleeping inside for the first time.
2/20/11 Gopher snakes are out.

2/27/11 A winter storm brought snow to the top of Panther Peak
3/5/11 Rufus Hummers at the feeder

3/14/11 Many Turkey Vultures circling above U of A. A pair of Cooper's Hawks in the pine trees across from Forbes building.
3/30/11 The Hedgehogs are blooming, also Texas Longthorn and Beaver Tail. Brittle Bush on the patio is past its prime but still full of bees.

4/1/11 Randy's Mammilaria seeds that he put on moist sand in a clear plastic box on the window sill in January are finally sprouting. White-winged Doves arrived.
4/2/11 record high ninties at the Tucson Street Fair

4/5/11 Ocotillos in bloom.
4/5/11 the first Diamond-backed Rattler on the patio at 10 pm. Paloverdes beginning to bloom. Bats are flying at dusk
4/8/11 It's raining, 0.6 in! It's cold, too, 49 Fahrenheit on the patio and frost on the roof the next morning.
4/12/11 Caracara (was an immature Harris) and a group of White-chested Swifts over our house.

4/13/11 buds on Saguaros and single flowers open. Chollas and Prickly Pears starting to bloom
4/13/11 Ripiphoris everywhere
4/21/11 Night Hawks are back

5/1/2011 Red-spotted Toad on the patio
5/5/11 Cyclocephala melanocephala
5/6/11 1 Black Vulture with a group of 6 TVs.
5/10/11 Finally Quail chicks!
5/11/11 we had to get rid of a bee hive in an irrigation valve box.
5/18/11 Common Buckeyes at Santa Cruz River/Ina. Kissing bugs invading the house.
5/21/11 Summer Tanager front yard. Many groups of quail chicks
5/22/11 Male Cicada Killers on AZ Walnut and Crucifixion Bush at the ASDM
5/24/11 first Acoma sp., a rather big one
5/25/11 Long-nosed Snake drinking at birdbath
5/29/11 Redtail hawk nest in the state land with two or three big chicks.

6/4/11 first Anelaphus subdepressum and Eustromula validum

6/5/11 11 eggs in quail nest in 'goat pen' corner
6/9/11 Coronado Forest closure because of fire danger
6/11/11 first Hemiphileurus illatus
6/13/11 first Palo Verde Rootborer on University and 4th
6/18/11 our quail has left - with 11 chicks I hope. Only egg shells left behind, neatly cut in half. The Red tail nest is empty, too.
6/20/11 Finally young Screech Owls again.
6/28/11 Thunder at night, but no rain
7/4 and 7/5/11 finally thunderstorms and heavy rain. Duboisius arizonensis appeared. 7/21/11 two spp. of Epicauta at PR black light. First Pelidnota lugubris and Cylindera lemniscata, Scarites, Scolaspis. Still Nothopleurus but no Derobrachus
9/2/11 overwhelmed by Oxygrilius all along the Sta Cruz River. Not much at the PR lights, but Hemiphileurus regularly. We planted soaked Mexican Paloverde seeds and they germinated right away. My Horse lubber nymph just molted into an adult.
10/18/11 Desert Broom just beyond its peak at Molino. Autumn colors at Gen. Hitchcock and higher
11/28/2011 Spotted Towhee in Frank's backyard, flying across the street into our yard. The Night Hawks are still here.
12/5/2011 Freezing night temps and I'm hoping my tomato plant is save under the patio roof.
12/16/11 White-throated Swifts at the Sta Cruz River in Marana

1/19/2012 Bats are cruising at dawn. Still night frost.
Fairy Dusters for a week and the first Brittle Bush flowering
2/9/2012 first Whitewinged Dove at the feeder.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Grasshoppers

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