Contributors
Editor
Marcie O'Connor - Marcie lives on a farm in western Wisconsin. She and her husband Mike are restoring the prairie and savanna habitat that were there before the land was settled. In the process, she's observing and learning all she can about the plants and animals that live there. She keeps a blog about the restoration, and maintains the BugLifeCycles web site. (Marcie's Life Cycles)
Contributors
Abigail Parker lives in Philadelphia, where she seeks out wildlife of all sizes and often surprises those who don't expect bald eagles or rare butterflies in the big city. She enjoys photographing and rearing insects, especially Lepidoptera and lady beetles. Learn more about her insect adventures on her blog, and see more of her images on BugGuide. (Abigail's Life Cycles.)
Alan Chin-Lee has been a lepidopterist since childhood. He has worked for Butterfly World in Florida, and the Florida Museum of Natural History. Now he does nature photography, and especially Lepidoptera photography. See more of his photos at his web site. (Alan's Life Cycles)
Ashley Bradford does drawings and photographs of flowers, and photographs insects. She's interested in all things natural - the weirder the better. She especially likes showing the small details that most people don't see. See her drawings and art photographs on her website, and a list of her bugguide contributions here. (Ashley's Life Cycles)
Beatriz Moisset is a retired biologist, originally from Argentina. She is particularly interested in pollinators. She has two web sites: The Web of Life and Pollinators, and she also contributes many of her images to BugGuide. (Beatriz' Life Cycles)
Berry Nall - Berry is a Baptist pastor and high school science teacher who lives in Starr County, Texas. In his spare time he enjoys photographing lepidoptera in all stages of their lives. He has a web site that documents the butterfly species, and some moth species, that he's photographed. (Berry's Life Cycles)
Chris at JCM Digital Imaging does videos of butterflies and moths, and is particularly interested in the Lepidoptera of Santa Clarita and Northern Los Angeles County. Visit his YouTube page, or his web site to see more. (Chris' Life Cycles)
Craig Biegler is a student majoring in wildlife science, specializing in entomology. He has conducted research on moth diversity at Denison University, and is a member of the Ohio Lepidopterists. You can see more of his photos on Bugguide. (Craig's Life Cycles)
Edith Smith, with her husband Stephen, owns Shady Oak Butterfly Farm, near Gainesville, Florida, which raises and sells butterfly pupae. She and Stephen also travel to do presentations about butterflies, their lives, their hostplants, and the habitats they need to survive. (Edith's Life Cycles)
Eric R. Eaton is a freelance writer and entomologist currently living in Tucson, Arizona. He is principal author of the "Kaufman Guide to insects of North America", and a volunteer editor on Bugguide. He writes a blog about insects called Bug Eric. (Eric's Life Cycles)
G Whiz (she shields her identity online) lives in Alameda County, California, and photographs the amazing variety of tiny creatures that she finds in her urban yard. You can see more of her photos on Bugguide. (G Whiz's Life Cycles)
Ilona Loser lives and photographs in Cross Plains, Wisconsin. There is a small conservancy area near her home where she finds a great variety of insects. See more of her insect images on Bugguide. (Ilona's life cycles)
James Durbin lives in Iowa. He is past president and current membership chairman of Cedar Rapids Audubon, and does volunteer work teaching bird classes and doing species studies for the DNR and Linn County Conservation. He photographs birds, flowers and insects and has two web sites: Insects of Iowa, and Birds of Iowa. (James' Life Cycles)
Jan Dauphin - Jan has been studying butterflies for many years. Her Mission, Texas yard is planted strictly with native plants for the butterflies. At 150 species, her butterfly yard list is the highest in the U.S. She and her husband David have an extensive web site about wildlife watching in south Texas' Lower Rio Grande Valley. (Jan's Life Cycles)
Janice Stiefel passed away in March of 2008. She lived in Door County, Wisconsin, and was an enthusiastic photographer of flowers, butterflies and moths. She was particularly interested in moths, and raised hundreds of them to discover their host plants and record their life stages. She wrote regularly for several publications, and was editor of the Wisconsin Entomological Society newsletter until her death. See more of her insect images on BugGuide. (Janice's Life Cycles)
Jeff Hollenbeck collects and photographs insects, and especially spiders. See his photos on BugGuide. (Jeff's Life Cycles)
Jim McClarin is an insect photographer who is particularly interested in beetles. He has photographed beetles in many parts of the U.S. and in other countries. You can see his photos on Flickr, and on BugGuide. (Jim's Life Cycles)
John & Jane Balaban are amateur botanists and naturalists near Chicago. They are active volunteers in natural area restoration primarily along the North Branch of the Chicago River, and Volunteer Master Stewards for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. They teach classes locally on native wildflowers, tree, and dragonflies. They are also contributing editors to Bugguide. See more of their insect images on Bugguide. (John and Jane's Life Cycles)
John Himmelman is an author of natural history books for children and adults. For years he has been recording, with photographs, the moths he finds in his Connecticut yard. See beautiful photographs of the moths here, photos and information about amphibians he's found here, and information about his books and programs here. (John's Life Cycles)
John R. Maxwell (Max) lives in a suburban neighborhood built into the New Jersey Pine Barrens. There is a wide variety of nature around his house - lawns and gardens, as well as the Pitch Pine and Scrub Oak forest of the Pine Barrens. He raises many spiders and insects to adulthood to discover what they will turn into. He is also a volunteer editor on Bugguide. See more of his images on Bugguide. (Max's Life Cycles)
Joyce Gross is a computer programmer for the UC Berkeley natural history museums, but she'd rather be outside photographing interesting wildlife. She has a homepage with information about her work and her photos. (Joyce's Life Cycles)
Linda & Robert Scarth are Iowa photographers interested in all the beautiful and fascinating subjects in nature. They especially enjoy close-up and macro photography, so insects often capture their attention. Examples of their work may be found on their web site and their blog. The University of Iowa Press is publishing their book: "Deep Nature: Photographs from Iowa". (Linda & Robert's Life Cycles)
Lynette Schimming has an Elementary Education degree, and is very interested in insects, and insect photography. She has many photos on BugGuide. (Lynette's Life Cycles)
Marie Schmidt got her degree in biology in Austria and now lives just outside of Philadelphia. Her work was unrelated to invertebrates but since she retired she pursues her lifelong interest in insects, spiders and other small critters. See more of her photos on Bugguide. (Marie's Life Cycles.)
Matt Simon is especially interested in insects in urban environments. He lives and works in Boston, and has a web site about his urban insect finds. (Matt's Life Cycles)
Michael Cook - Michael raises wild and domesticated silk moths, and uses their silk in weaving and embroidery. He started raising caterpillars for silk in 2001, and has a web site about raising the moths, and about how he processes the silk from all the different kinds of cocoons. (Michael's Life Cycles)
MJ Hatfield - MJ is a retired UPS driver who discovered insects by way of native plants: planting corn ground to prairie. http://tinyurl.com/Corn2prairie She's particularly interested in whether the success of a prairie planting can be measured by the insects that utilize it. MJ manages the Iowa Insects Mailing List which is sponsored by the University of Iowa and supported by the Iowa Native Plant Society. (MJ's Life Cycles)
Nancy Collins studies insects, especially Tree Crickets (Oecanthinae), in southeastern Wisconsin. She's raising Tree Crickets to learn more about their identification and behavior, and maintains a web site about them. (Nancy's Life Cycles)
Scott N. is in high school in Pennsylvania, and is into insects - especially social wasps. See more of his images on BugGuide. (Scott's Life Cycles)
Stan Rehm lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and watches butterflies and other insects as a retirement hobby. He publishes his observations and photographs on his blog. (Stan's Life Cycles)
Stephen Luk is a zoology student at the University of Guelph in Ontario. He's volunteering at the Insect Systematics Lab, working with northeastern Lampyridae. See more of his images on BugGuide. (Stephen's Life Cycles)
Teá Handly rears and sells butterflies and moths, specializing in local and tropical Saturniidae. Her goal is to educate people about them, and to preserve habitat for these amazing creatures. She has worked on many research projects, including ones at the Museum of Science in Boston. Massachusetts, and with graduates and professors at Harvard University. See more about her work at her web site, and her Wiki page. (Teá's Life Cycles)
Todd Stout has been raising butterflies in northern Utah for the last 20 years. He is a Member at Large of The Lepidopterists' Society and current President of the Utah Lepidopterists' Society. He started Utah Bug Club, and Utah Butterfly Field Trips, and has extensively researched the life histories of many Western U.S. butterflies as provided in his web site. (Todd's Life Cycles)
Tom Murray is a sales rep with an interest in nature and nature photography. See more of his nature photos at his web site. (Tom's Life Cycles)
Virgiliu Marius Aurelian lives in Vancouver, BC, and is studying the chemical ecology of the Apple Clearwing Moth (a recent introduction from Europe), as well as trying to figure out the impact of the mass trapping traps he uses on non-target species. He's also creating a checklist and key (with maps and photos) of all British Columbia species of clearwing moths. See more of his photos on Bugguide. (Marius' Life Cycles)