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Friday Flower – green fringed orchid
I may have been the “Beetle Group” leader for last May’s BioBlitz at Penn-Sylvania Prairie, a 160-acre tract of native tallgrass prairie in southwestern Missouri owned by the Missouri Prairie...
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Friday Flower – Orquídea bambu
I arrived at our facility in Campinas, Brazil just before lunchtime. I had spent the previous 20 hours on planes, trains, and automobiles (well, not trains), so when my colleague suggested that we...
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Friday Flower – Spring Coralroot Orchid
As flowers go, I have a passion for orchids. Despite comprising perhaps the largest family of flowering plants on earth, most people think of orchids as rare, epiphytic plants restricted to the lush,...
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Fathers Day at the Missouri Botanical Garden
Yesterday my girls (wife Lynne and daughters Mollie and Madison) took me and my father to the Missouri Botanical Garden for Fathers Day. Although I’m an entomologist, I also have a strong botanical...
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Backyard gems
I’ve been fortunate to have the chance to travel far and wide in my searches for insects—from the Gypsum Hills of the Great Plains and Sky Islands of the desert southwest to the subtropical riparian...
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