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BugGuide Gathering
Pack Forest
Washington State
July 10-12, 2009
Details...

Photos from the 2009 gathering
 
Photos from the 2008 gathering in Tennessee
 
Photos from the 2007 gathering in Minnesota

Mike Quinn, Contributing Editor
Full name:
Mike Quinn
E-mail address:
entomike@gmail.com
Homepage:
TexasEnto.net
Contact:
Cell: 512-577-0250
City, state, country:
Austin, Texas, USA
Biography:

2000 - M.Sc. in Entomology - Texas A&M University, College Station, Thesis Topic
1993 - B.Sc. in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences - Texas A&M University, College Station

Invertebrate Biologist for Texas Parks & Wildlife from 2000 to 2008.

Co-author: Milkweed, Monarchs and More

More bio info.

On July 12, 2008 I started using a Nikon D200 body, a small SB400 flash w/ remote cord along with with my manual 105mm micro lens, extension tubes and close up filter left over from when I shot Kodachrome 64 with a Nikon F3 body.

After many decades as a Nikon-ophile, on January 9, 2009, I traded all my Nikon gear for a Canon set up that included Canon's unique MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro Lens

Current focus: Photographic Invertebrate Surveys Across Texas

Here are my yard pix:

Quinn's B.I.M.B.Y. Site (Bugs In My Back Yard!)

These are species for which I shot and created the first page for BugGuide based on photos from my backyard:

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Note, there are approximately
three threads per mm
on my blacklight sheet:


An earlier effort was to build beetle pages (among other taxa) for Texas:

TexasEnto.net/beetles.htm
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