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Andrew Meeds, Contributing Editor
Full name:
Andrew Meeds
E-mail address:
andrew.meeds@asu.edu
Contact:
Send me an e-mail or contact me over social media.
City, state, country:
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Biography:

Laboratory Manager with Dr. Lauren Weidner's Forensic Entomology Lab at Arizona State University and Faculty Associate in the School of Interdisciplinary Forensics. See more about FEWL (Forensic Entomology Weidner Lab) at the lab website.


Current M.S. student in Entomology- University of Nebraska-Lincoln

B.S. in Plant Sciences, emphasis in Plant Protection- University of Missouri

I'm especially interested in pentatomids, scutellerids, and their nymphs. I also have an interest in calliphorids and other insects of forensic relevance, particularly in the southwestern US. I won't always provide an explanation when I ID specimens, but please feel more than free to ask me how I arrived where I did. I'm always happy to explain when folks are interested!

Identifying nymphs is tricky and I heavily depend on you all rearing nymphs that you find to adulthood to prove species. In an effort to make this a bit easier for people, I've written up a basic guide to stink bug nymph rearing here.

Editors: Feel more than free to frass any image of mine that you feel doesn't add anything to the guide, you will not hurt my feelings!

You can connect with me through these platforms:
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Twitter

I have been around BG for a long time and really appreciate this great community and all of those who have fostered my love for entomology. I started posting in 2005, when I would have been about 14 and was lucky to find such a positive and patient group of people. Bugguide has had a huge impact on my decisions to make a career in entomology and I hope to be able to pass on the positive encouragement I received from this community.


On a more serious note, if anything should happen to me, I'd like for my photos to remain on bugguide.

Active Projects/Interests:

Accepting donations of material (photo voucher identification, anyone?) for the following taxa:
- Pentatomidae (Especially interested in Asopinae and Rhytidolomia as well as specimens from Arizona).
- Scutelleridae
- Largidae
- Calliphoridae (will accept any, but particularly interested in specimens encountered indoors)

Southwestern bird blow flies- I'm interested in receiving and analyzing bird nests from the southwestern United States post-fledgling stage. Detailed information on collecting and shipping these nests for this purpose can be found on Terry Whitworth's page here