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Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29


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Chris Wirth, Contributing Editor
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Lafayette, IN, USA
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I am the collection manager for the Purdue Entomological Research Collection. Broadly interested in beetles and natural history collections. The taxonomic focus of PhD dissertation was the tenebrionid tribe Edrotini with the primarily goals of re-defining Edrotini generic concepts, exploring character evolution, and revising the genus Edrotes. These (approximately) half dozen charismatic Edrotes species inhabitant sand dunes systems in the southwest United States.