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	<title>The Backyard Arthropod Project &#187; Apparatus and Methods</title>
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	<description>A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI</description>
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		<title>Fifteen-Spotted Giant Lady Beetle</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/10/08/fifteen-spotted-giant-lady-beetle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 25, 2011, I was unlocking my bike to ride home from work when I spotted a large, dark lady beetle on a grass stem. So I caught it in one of the little jars that I carry with me, brought it home, and put it on the table until I had a chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian and Say&#8217;s Cicadas</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/07/10/canadian-and-says-cicadas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to think that (a) there was only one kind of cicada native to this area, and (b) I would know a cicada song when I heard it. It turns out I was sorely mistaken on both points. For the last couple of weeks, we&#8217;d been hearing an obviously insect-produced sound around the yard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domesticated Crickets and the Cone Macro Flash Concentrator</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/05/15/domesticated-crickets-and-the-cone-flash-concentrator/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/05/15/domesticated-crickets-and-the-cone-flash-concentrator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arthropods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crickets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthoptera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domesticated]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[macro flash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there are insects involved in this posting, it&#8217;s actually more about a new, low-cost method I&#8217;ve come up with for better flash macrophotography. I&#8217;m very pleased with the way it works. So, here I am with a digital SLR and a macro lens (both bought used to keep the cost manageable), and some domesticated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise Bees</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/04/01/surprise-bees/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/04/01/surprise-bees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arthropods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hymenoptera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[March]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I came home from work on March 12, and S_ says, &#8220;We found some bees in the house! We took some pictures for you!&#8221;, and I say, &#8220;Really? I thought it was still too early for bees to come out,&#8221; and Sam was bouncing around excitedly telling me that I had to see the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thin Moth &#8211; Bedellia? Or Gracillariidae?</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/03/20/thin-moth-bedellia/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/03/20/thin-moth-bedellia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam spotted this insect on the side of the house on March 14, while we were out getting pictures &#8220;in the field&#8221; with the new camera[1]. It was about the size (about 1 mm wide and maybe 6 or 7 mm long) and shape of a grass seed stuck to the wall, which is probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beetle Development &#8211; Rearing a Scarlet Malachite Beetle Larva</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/02/13/beetle-development/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/02/13/beetle-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arthropods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coleoptera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[February]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[January]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Soft-winged flower beetles]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=1330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Previously on &#8220;What&#8217;s That Grub?&#8221; Back in October, we found this larva in Sam&#8217;s dresser drawer: At the time, I didn&#8217;t know what it was, although we guessed it was something predatory based on the way that it moved. It was pretty clear that identifying it would require raising it to adulthood, so I put [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bee Fly</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2009/08/22/bee-fly/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2009/08/22/bee-fly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apparatus and Methods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arthropods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[August]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bee Flies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=1034</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen these from time to time for years, but never really got a good look at one before. But, on August 15, this one obligingly landed on the concrete in front of our garage and quietly expired before my very eyes. This was a golden opportunity to get it onto my photographing stage, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plume Moth</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2009/06/06/plume-moth/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2009/06/06/plume-moth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[June]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, I got a couple of actual, no-fooling insect nets[1], and Sam and I went out to see what we could catch. There wasn&#8217;t much (it has been kind of cold and a bit breezy of late, so flying insects big enough to see easily were pretty scarce). Then, I saw something grey, blurry [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cellar Spider, and Spider Cages</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/11/29/cellar-spider-and-spider-cages/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/11/29/cellar-spider-and-spider-cages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arachnids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[November]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pholcid spiders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmopolitan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These spiders tend to hang out in corners in our basement, just like everybody else&#8217;s basement. They are &#8220;cellar spiders&#8221;[1], in the family Pholcidae. These in particular are probably Pholcus phalangioides, which is another of those cosmopolitan species that humans have carried all over the world. They are perfectly harmless, of course, but a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Stoneflies</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/04/26/winter-stoneflies/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/04/26/winter-stoneflies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[April]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 4 was pretty warm[1], so we went down to the Pilgrim River just east of Houghton to see if the walking trails beside the river had melted off enough to be passible[2]. While we were there, we noticed that there were small, black insects hanging out on the wooden bridge railings So we captured [...]]]></description>
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