Recent content by Agapema

Perhaps that is what is happening-- I am out looking generally later in the evening. I mean generally after 11 PM.  I have been out at this site in July looking. But generally I've skipped the early part of August.  It is possible I've missed males by looking too late in the season, as I...

  Last night, 16 August 2022, about 70 miles north of "traditional" locations for M. punctulatus in Arizona, associated with a different riparian system. Four females at light. This population is always late, with adults being usually observed around the last week of August and first week of...

I'm sure many forum members who have hunted beetles in the field have noticed the very distinctive odors that are produced by certain beetles. But I am --specifically and intentionally-- not talking about defensive substances with strong odors such as cerambycids or tenebrionids produce when...

Hello Forum Members, I have been approved as a member of beetleforum.net. It's been long enough since I applied that I despaired of ever making it in this grouBut I have to say that I actually like the fact that membership is not instant and automatic like some other online groups.  In 1987...