Bug Eric

Chris Alice Kratzer begins her new book with a deeply personal memory and dedication, then proceeds to deliver another comprehensive treatme...

My wife and I scheduled our recent visit to see her parents in Leavenworth, Kansas specifically around the time when Brood IV of the periodi...

Observing the insect world requires one to use not just their vision, but their hearing, too. Many insects use sound to communicate with ea...

On this “True Bug Tuesday,” with Christmas carols seemingly always within earshot, I harken back to summer and the melodic sounds of cicadas...

Here in southern Arizona it is cicada season. It is fitting that these insects should appear at the hottest time of the year, for their shr...

Almost every summer I receive several questions about strange bugs sitting motionless on fence posts, tree trunks, and other upright objects...