Subject: What is this bug? Geographic location of the bug: under rotting old maple tree in RI Date: 05/04/2019 Time: 05:42 PM EDT Your letter to the bugman: same as above How you want your letter signed : anyway Dear anyway, This is a Pleasing Fungus Beetle.
Subject: Bug in smoky mountain national park near Gatlinburg Geographic location of the bug: Above Date: 04/29/2019 Time: 05:54 PM EDT Your letter to the bugman: Curious as to what this bug is? How you want your letter signed: Dawn Dear Dawn, This is definitely a Pleasing Fungus Beetle in the genus Megalodacne, and according … Read more
Subject: ID please Geographic location of the bug: SE Brazil Date: 11/27/2017 Time: 06:45 AM EDT Please can you ID the three insects on the enclosed enclosed photos please How you want your letter signed: GP Dear GP, The yellow and black beetle is a Pleasing Fungus Beetle in the family Erotylidae, and we found … Read more
Subject: Whose pupal cases (?) Geographic location of the bug: southern Colorado, ponderosa pine forest Date: 11/26/2017 Time: 06:41 PM EDT Last spring I cut and split some ponderosa pine firewood in the woods behind my house. Some pieces sat up there all summer, and when I brought them down this fall, I discovered these … Read more
Subject: should I throw my luggage away? Geographic location of the bug: Chattanooga, TN Date: 11/04/2017 Time: 09:48 AM EDT I found this in my dirty clothes, after I got back from a local overnight convention. I didn’t put any reference in the pictures for lengthy, but it’s about a centimeter long and maybe half … Read more
Subject: Bugs on fungus on maple tree Geographic location of the bug: Southern Indiana Date: 09/20/2017 Time: 01:01 PM EDT I believe these to be some sort of blister beetles. All I have been able to find are blister beetles with 3+ colored bands. I have never seen them before, but cannot find information about … Read more