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National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

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


Drew Sheaffer, Contributor
Contact:
mdrewsheaffer_at_gmail_dot_com
Biography:

From: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Current location: Raleigh, North Carolina

BS - Entomology and Wildlife Conservation, University of Delaware, 2009-2013
MS - Biological Sciences, Wright State University, 2014-2016


For my Masters I studied tachinid diversity and orthopteran parasitism rates in remnant and constructed prairie fragments in Ohio.

I am not an expert on any particular taxa but am generally interested in:

-Fulgoroidea (and some other Auchenorrhyncha)
-Elateridae
-Tachinidae
-Parasitic Hymenoptera

I currently work for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture - Agronomic Division performing nematode assays and identifying plant-parasitic nematodes.