Wide World of Insects

This is my first update since moving to California, and I wanted to share an insect that is native to this area that we do not have in Texas...

I wanted to get back to writing on my blog, so I decided to celebrate my Irish roots on this feast of St. Patrick with a blog post about an ...

The cicada belongs to the order Hemiptera.  They have a piercing/sucking mouthpart for getting the juice out of leaves.  They have a charact...

Green lacewings are in the order nueroptera. They have a complete metamorphosis, egg, larvae, pupa and adult. They are predators. Their larv...

I want to interrupt my posts about the various insects I have found to tell you about some exciting events that have happened to me over th...

Today we will discover the mole cricket. They are in order Orthoptera. They have digging legs in the front to borrow under ground to eat roo...

Today we will discover the walking stick. They are in order phasmatodea and they have incomplete metamorphosis. They are considered pests be...