Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss dragonflies and damselflies, and Art's efforts to collect and study them.

Photo: Dragonflies and damselflies preserved for scientific study are stored in acetate envelopes with 3" x 5" labels printed on acid-free cardstock.

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark carry on with the previous week's conversation on the value of backyard bug surveys. Local lists may provide valuable information to scientists studying insect distributions and the effects of climate change, or reveal the first records of an invasive species. You never know what you will find until you start looking!

Photo: Hummingbird moth, Hemaris thysbe. © 2011, A.V. Evans

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans takes a trip down memory lane with WCVE producer Steve Clark. Art recently visited one of his childhood bug haunts along the central coast of California and photographed several insect species there that had captured his imagination some 40 years earlier while on a family camping trip.

Photo: The ‘Pictured Rove Beetle,’ Thinopinus pictus. © 2012, A.V. Evans

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE Public Radio producer Steve Clark discuss the emergence of a polyphemus moth from a cocoon found just outside the radio station by WCVE’s Shawn Evans.

Shawn and another fellow employee, Derrick Starr not only captured an image of the freshly emerged moth, but also that of its male suitor and the cocoon from which the female emerged.