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We’re on Holiday

What’s That Bug? will not be answering any questions between June 4 and June 12 while we are out of the office, visiting relatives in Ohio.

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¶ Posted 04 June 2009 § ‡ Comments (0) °

A few moths back, we started a dialog with an editor and an agent, and though we are a nervous wreck, we are embarking upon a book project. Since we have a limited amount of time to spend on this new pursuit, we will have to reduce the time we spend posting your wonderful questions, letters and photographs. We are setting a strict time limit of only 30 minutes per day allotted to answering your numerous requests. A few will be posted, and we can email short answers to a few more. Getting our attention is the luck of the draw. Chances are quite good that the insect you want identified might already be in our archives. Please try our search engine or click the links on the left side of the homepage. Don’t forget to scroll down to see our most recent postings and you can see the alphabetized archive of links on the lower left. Please contact us with any comments, problems, suggestions or praise.

Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Hi guys, great news about your book deal but is that a Freudian slip on the
front page that a \”few MOTHS back\” you were talking to them
Trevor

hi Trevor,
You are not the only one who caught our typographical error, but seeing as the conversation was a few moths back as well as a few months back, we have decided to let the error stand.

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¶ Posted 22 January 2009 § ‡ Comments (4) °

We’re experiencing technical difficulties

January 1. 2009
We are having intermittent internet connectivity problems with our provider Time Warner cable, and a technician cannot come to our office until Monday. Please excuse any delays we have in posting and responding to your queries. Right now we are unable to post any new images and we need to resolve this problem.

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We’re On Holiday

We will be in Kansas City from Thursday, October 30 until Sunday, November 2, 2008. Our students are finalists in the American Collegiate Press/College Newspaper Advisors 2008 Newspaper Pacemaker Award for a two year college paper. We hope the Los Angeles City College Collegian staff comes home with a trophy.

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¶ Posted 29 October 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

A Reader’s Suggestion

October 7, 2008
Please think about letting your trusted and knowledgeable fellow bug lovers assist in answering your emails. The admin part would be easy to set-up. I know that if you put out a message on your site, that many of your site’s fans and reliable friends will happily take on the email questions you can not get to. Your own personal army, think about it. The fact that you get so many emails means there is a serious need for this site and the valuable help it provides… not to mention all of us that would love to be honorary bug ambassadors of good will. PS You helped identify alternative food sources to save my five tomato hornworm friends who were starving because I couldn’t find any tomato plants to buy. Signed devoted bug-lover, Lisa

Hi Lisa,
Thanks for the suggestion, but we are not sure how this would work. We will discuss this suggestion with our web host for possible solutions.

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Check out Eric Eaton’s new Book!!!

Our Readership is constantly inquiring about a great field guide for insect identification. Eric Eaton’s
new book, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America is now in its second printing. Look for it at your local bookstore or buy directly from Amazon.

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¶ Posted 13 September 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

We’re New and Improved

… and we hope you like our new user friendly format. We have spent many long hours in this transition, and we are confident the changes will make our site easier for you to use and navigate. Please contact us with any comments, problems, suggestions, praise… Autumn is here and we are swamped. Our summer vacation has ended. We are returning to the classroom and numerous time consuming responsibilities. This means we will not be able to answer or post as many letters. We are setting a strict time limit of only 30 minutes per day allotted to answering your numerous requests, so most will be ignored. We are getting about 100 letters per day and can only post a few. We can email short answers to a few more. Getting our attention is the luck of the draw. Chances are quite good that the insect you want identified might already be in our archives. Please try our search engine or click the links on the left side of the homepage. Don’t forget to scroll down to see our most recent postings and you can see the alphabetized archive of links on the lower left.

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¶ Posted 02 September 2008 § ‡ Comments (1) °

Bug Love Poster

Recently, Dave, who worked on the radio transmitter project to track the migration of Anax junius, the Green Darner Dragonfly, proposed selling his awesome Retro posters of Bug Love on our site. A percentage
of the proceeds goes to insect conservation. What’s That Bug? fully endorses this ad and these beautiful posters and we are not making any profit off of the sales.

So, contact Dave via his email… and tell him What’s That Bug? sent you.