tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446924751738546355.post5127677217101930206..comments2023-10-09T00:09:16.769-07:00Comments on Arizona: Beetles, Bugs, Birds and more: Velcro bug, el Torrito, Mesquite Twig Girdler, or Oncideres rhodosticta: the most abundant beetle in Arizona after the monsoonMargarethe Brummermannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623937180200255796noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446924751738546355.post-32296857023219573312015-09-11T20:05:48.695-07:002015-09-11T20:05:48.695-07:002015 Monsoon season and the Mesquite Girdler or To...2015 Monsoon season and the Mesquite Girdler or Toritos are back! I also noticed the lack of this peculiar beetles and blamed it on the lack of proper rains in the area but things came back to normal this 2015 summer. I'm from Nogales by the way!.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547124704336611890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446924751738546355.post-26053209951377487362012-08-23T09:46:29.990-07:002012-08-23T09:46:29.990-07:00I am from Nogales, and I can remember huge infesta...I am from Nogales, and I can remember huge infestations when I was in elementary school between 1988 and 1990. The reason I remember them is that they swarmed every concrete surface at school and the boys would pick them up by their antennae and flig them at the girls' hair. Since they stuck extremely well, it was particularly horrifying to us. They seemed to cover every produce office and football games those years were intolerable because the beetles would cling to anything reflective. 2007 may have been a bumper crop year, but people of my generation remember the first plague of mesquite girdlers. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553458081787392533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446924751738546355.post-40731959320275035502011-08-02T10:00:45.959-07:002011-08-02T10:00:45.959-07:00Nice post Margarethe,
My name is Pedro Lemes, i´m ...Nice post Margarethe,<br />My name is Pedro Lemes, i´m a forest engineer with a master degree in Entomology.<br />I´m from Brazil, and I study the twig girdlers from here for a long period...<br />I work with the species O. ocularis and O. saga, and like you i raised a lot of other species ( in twigs girdled by O. saga, believe me, I found arround 30 different species of Cerambycidae and other families and orders). If you want to change some experiences and insects for your museum, please contact me: pedroglemes@hotmail.comPedro Lemeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01117599294877977405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446924751738546355.post-39257587224461037262010-09-19T18:20:35.814-07:002010-09-19T18:20:35.814-07:00How facinating! I find the girdling particularily...How facinating! I find the girdling particularily interesting -- there is so much I have never heard of.Elva Paulsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08642197019054496596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446924751738546355.post-63093949020913722352010-09-19T15:16:47.737-07:002010-09-19T15:16:47.737-07:00From Joyce, via e-mail:
Hi Margarethe,
I read th...From Joyce, via e-mail:<br /><br />Hi Margarethe,<br /><br />I read the whole blog -- it looks great and is packed with information. <br />It's interesting that you've reared so many other insects from the <br />girdled branches.<br /><br />I still have a vivid memory of all the flying and resting, dead and <br />alive, mesquite girdlers inside the supermarket where we stopped to get <br />food one evening.<br /><br />It's too bad the border patrol is not so accessible now. I'm glad you <br />could use the photo from two years ago.<br /><br />JoyceMargarethe Brummermannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05623937180200255796noreply@blogger.com