— BugsInTheNews is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE. This article by Jerry Cates, first published on 1 July 2011, was revised last on 7 July 2012. © Bugsinthenews Vol. 12:07(01) ———————————- This series of expositions on the nature of the ant takes snippets and longer dissertations on the subject, as written by established authors who, in general, ...

— BugsInTheNews is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE. This article by Jerry Cates, first published on 27 June 2011, was revised last on 4 November 2012. © Bugsinthenews Vol. 12:06(02) ———————————- There once was a time when, in Texas, the little black ant (Monomorium minimum Buckley 1866) did not assume momentous significance as a pest of human ...

— BugsInTheNews is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE. This article by Jerry Cates, first published on 6 June 2011, was revised last on 7 July 2012. © Bugsinthenews Vol. 12:06(01) ———————————- Note that the photographs depicted on this web page may be enlarged for more detailed viewing by moving your cursor to the photo and clicking on ...

— BugsInTheNews is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE. This article by Jerry Cates and Vickie W., first published on 18 April 2011, was revised last on 7 July 2012. © Bugsinthenews Vol. 12:04(02) ———————————- Vickie, a close family friend since 1977, wrote my wife the following note: We found the attached “bug” and it was so unusual ...

— BugsInTheNews is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE. This article by Jerry Cates, first published on 9 April 2011, was revised last on 12 August 2012. © Bugsinthenews Vol. 12:04(01) ———————————- On 6 April 2011 while working at the desk something small on the wall caught my eye. ‘Twas the tiny spider depicted here… Under the microscope ...

— BugsInTheNews is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE. This article by Jerry Cates and Stephen M., first published on 12 February 2011, was revised last on 7 July 2012. © Bugsinthenews Vol. 12:02(09) ———————————- The banded garden spider (Argiope trifasciata Forskål, 1775) is one of the few spiders in the genus Argiope found worldwide, at least within ...

— BugsInTheNews is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE. This article by Jerry Cates, Lutz S. (Brownsville TX) and Kathryn H. (Bonaire NA), first published on 11 February 2011, was revised last on 7 July 2012. © Bugsinthenews Vol. 12:02(08) —————————— The silver garden spider (Argiope argentata) is not quite as common as the yellow garden spider (Argiope ...

— BugsInTheNews is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE. This article by Jerry Cates, Marvin W. (Kempner, TX), and Graham M. (East Texas), first published on 11 February 2011, was revised last on 7 July 2012. © Bugsinthenews Vol. 12:02(07) —————————— This genus (Argiope) of  common orb weaver spiders (in the Araneidae family) is found worldwide and includes ...

— BugsInTheNews is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE. This article by Jerry Cates and Janet FB, first published on 7 February 2011, was revised last on 7 July 2012. © Bugsinthenews Vol. 12:02(05) —————————— The genus Pheidole (from the Greek φειδος, pheidos, which means “sparing, thrifty”; a reference to the indiscriminate collection and transport, by these ants, of ...

— This article by Jerry Cates, first published on 6 February 2011, was revised last on 26 January 2015. © Bugsinthenews Vol. 12:02(04) —————————— The slug ,moths were first described by the Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) in the 18th century — the exact date is obscure — who applied the generic epithet Euclea to ...