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BugGuide Gathering
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Washington State
July 10-12, 2009
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Photos from the 2009 gathering
 
Photos from the 2008 gathering in Tennessee
 
Photos from the 2007 gathering in Minnesota

Abigail M. Parker, Contributing Editor
Full name:
Abigail M. Parker
E-mail address:
aparker@NOSPAMscribenet.com
Contact:
Personal e-mail: acmarceluk@NOSPAMyahoo.com
I check it occasionally on weekends when I don't have access to my company's scribenet.com e-mail account.
City, state, country:
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Biography:

Amateur but passionate entomologist, seeking out wildlife of all sizes in the big city. I've been rearing insects since childhood and didn't let moving to a treeless street in South Philadelphia stop me.

Though I have no formal scientific training, I have access to someone who does - my husband has degrees in botany and history of science, and is a whiz at identifying and finding foodplants for my caterpillars. Figuring out "mystery plant" photos is as fun for him as "mystery critter" photos are for me!

Recently, I've been rearing lady beetles and photographing their life cycles from egg to adult. The photo series contain at least one photo per day of a single individual from egg or egg hatch to adult.

Pink Spotted Lady Beetle (Coleomegilla maculata) starts with these hatchlings:


Fourteen-Spotted Lady Beetle (Propylea quatourdecimpunctata) starts with this green egg:


Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis) starts with the circled egg:
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My photos may be used for non-commercial, online purposes. Please let me know if you have done so, I'd like to see how they're helpful to others. If you want to use one of my images in print, contact me for the original; these little low-res Web images aren't suitable for print.

BugGuide editors may crop, rotate, sharpen, or filter my images if they think it will improve the photo's usefulness for identification. Please leave a comment if you have done so. All my images are backed up and I won't lose anything except perhaps a bit of pride.

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"So God made ... the small crawling animals to produce more of their own kind. God saw that this was good."
- Genesis 1:25, New Century Version

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