Bug Eric

Between allergies to grass pollen, windy and/or stormy weather, and periodic depression, I have not been getting out in the field very often...

I am terribly behind in chronicling field experiences I have participated in this summer, including the second annual(?) "grasshopper h...

Tree crickets, genus Oecanthus , are having quite the year here along the Colorado Front Range. Last month I went to Garden of the Gods par...

The Aiken Audubon Society here in Colorado Springs asked me to speak at their September monthly meeting, and to lead a field trip beforehand...

Grasshopper species diversity in the southwest U.S. presents enough of a challenge for the amateur naturalist, but then you have the Lakin G...

I am fortunate to be surrounded by a community of entomologists with a collectively vast knowledge of insects and arachnids, and I meet more...

There is seemingly no end to the diversity of short-horned grasshoppers, family Acrididae, here in Colorado. Hiking the Rock Island Trail, ...

At least once each year I am asked about spider-like creatures that jump, living in someone's basement, cellar, shed, garage, or home. ...

The band-winged grasshoppers in the subfamily Oedipodinae (family Acrididae) are easy to love. They are colorful and noisy in flight, seldo...

Yesterday was "OrThoptera Thursday" in the truest sense. I had the car at my disposal, thanks to my wife and a co-worker carpooli...