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Ultraviolet Flashlight & Scorpion
Posted By: Bubba
Posted: Sun Aug 9 2009

    Looking at a scorpion with an Ultraviolet Flashlight ...Click Here for full article

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Forceful Insecticides - Home Made Formula
Posted By: KVH
Posted: Fri Oct 3 2008

    Remember: John's recipes were so easy to do and so effective that companies offered John more than $500,000 for his recipes! ...Click Here for full article

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Tobacco Sphinx (Manduca sexta)
Posted By: Bubba
Posted: Mon Aug 25 2008

    If you have grown tomotoes, you no doubt have encountered the larger green hornworm. These large catipillers can devour a tom ...Click Here for full article

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Desert Millipede (Orthoporus ornatus)
Posted By: AZ556
Posted: Sun Aug 10 2008

    The millipede is nocturnal and feeds on decaying organic material. They have two pairs of legs per body segment. The milliped ...Click Here for full article

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Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackeni)
Posted By: Saguaro
Posted: Sat Jul 26 2008

    This one was photographed on the east side of Tucson, AZ on top of Reddington Pass. It was running across the ground quickly ...Click Here for full article

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Paper Wasps in the Desert
Posted By: Saguaro
Posted: Sat Jul 26 2008

    Mustard yellow paper wasps (Polistes) are more slender than bees and have a severe constriction between the thorax and abdome ...Click Here for full article

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Quick Tick Facts
Posted By: Spear-Bar Kennels
Posted: Sat Jul 26 2008

    Tick is the common name for the small arachnids (mites). Ticks are ectoparasites (external parasites), living on the blood of ...Click Here for full article

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Female Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackeni)
Posted By: Bubba
Posted: Sat Jul 5 2008

    The flightless solitary Wasps are Order Hymenoptera/ Family Mutillidae. Sacken’s Velvet Ant eats bees and wasps. The hairs al ...Click Here for full article

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Priority Vulnerable Species in Pima County
Posted By: Kinney Village Townhomes
Posted: Sun May 18 2008

    Priority Vulnerable Species are species that are being considered and analyzed as potentially covered species under the multi ...Click Here for full article

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Swarm of Bees in South Tucson
Posted By: Joe F
Posted: Sat Apr 12 2008

    We were minding our own business the other day when a swarm of bees suddenly appeared overhead. They moved past the yard we w ...Click Here for full article

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Native Seeds - SEARCH in Tucson, Arizona
Posted By: Bubba
Posted: Sun Jan 6 2008

    We stopped in to visit and join the Tucson, Arizona based Native Seeds / SEARCH. Located on 4th Ave just north of downtown, S ...Click Here for full article

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Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute
Posted By: Kinney Village Townhomes
Posted: Mon Sep 24 2007

    This private, not-for-profit institute, opened in 1986 to educate people about arthropods is set in the heart of the Tucson M ...Click Here for full article

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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Posted By: Kinney Village Townhomes
Posted: Mon Sep 24 2007

    This world-class attraction immerses you in the diverse beauty of the Sonoran Desert, showcasing the plants, animals and geo ...Click Here for full article

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