Biography:
Insect photographer working on photo database of New Hampshire beetles. Have also collected and photographed insects in eastern Ecuador, El Dorado, Placer, and Sacramento Counties in northern California, Doña Ana County in New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Maine. So far I have collected and photographed members of 85 beetle families. I've posted over 1,000 images mostly of live beetles from my Sept. 2004 trip to the Yasuni National Park in the eastern lowlands of Ecuador on
flickr.com. Below is a photo of me taken by Tom Murray on the summit of Mt. Washington, New Hampshire in 2007.
Unless I am overlooking something, I think I’ve submitted initial images for the following arthropod families new to bugguide:
Coleoptera
Aderidae,
Boridae,
Byturidae,
Cerylonidae,
Ciidae,
Corylophidae,
Derodontidae,
Dryopidae,
Elmidae,
Eucnemidae,
Latridiidae,
Melandryidae,
Ochodeidae,
Mycetophagidae,
Phalacridae,
Ptiliidae,
Pythidae,
Scraptiidae,
Sphindidae,
Synchroidae
Diptera
Xylomyidae
Lepidoptera
Prodoxidae
Hemiptera
Anthocoridae,
Ceratocombidae
Collembola
Cyphoderidae
Acari
Zerconidae,
Uropodidae,
Acaridae,
Tarsonemidae,
Diplogyniidae,
Galumnidae,
Digamasellidae,
Carabodidae,
Haplozetidae
Apterygota
Tricholedtiidae
In addition, I have collected these records so far for state, region, and country:
New Hampshire
Xylomya americana (fly family Xylomylidae),
Prodoxus decipiens (this is a NH record for the entire moth family Prodoxidae),
Tenebroides bimaculatus (beetle family Trogossitidae),
Onthophagus taurus (beetle family Scarabaeidae),
Ataenius gracilis (beetle family Scarabaeidae)
New England
Novelsis aequalis (beetle family Dermestidae),
Bacanius punctiformis (beetle family Histeridae),
Tritoma tenebrosa (beetle family Erotylidae)
as yet undescribed (beetle family Eucnemidae)
US
Dicyrtomina ornata (globular springtail family Dicyrtomidae)
Ptenothrix flavescens (globular springtail family Dicyrtomidae)
Favorites
Although most of my photos are indoor "studio" shots, my favorites are images that have unusual content, such as this lizard beetle in takeoff position, these two male Carabus nemoralis ground beetles attacking a large earthworm, or this trio of parasitic wasp pupae protruding from the spent husk of their host, a hapless rove beetle larva:
Techniques
I am always devising and refining equipment and techniques for collecting and photographing arthropods and enjoy demonstrating what I've developed. These clickable thumbnail images lead to writeups and often further images showing what I've come up with:
My forum articles
Stacking images
How can I create and attach sound files of insect noises?
Lighting solutions for insect photography
Collecting by driving
How to recruit specialists to ID bugguide images
Which could win, the spider or the fly?
Beetle family wish list
Rearing beetles from fungus
Mountaintop collecting phenomenon
The search for Pytho strictus, the lost beetle of Mt. Washington
Coccinellid subfamilies
Clickable data points
Under-represented regions
