Author Archives: nannaria

millipede from Blacksburg, VA

Posted on April 22, 2014 by nannaria

Appalachioria separanda calcaria (Blacksburg, VA) Here’s a local cyanide-producing millipede from near Virginia Tech’s campus. In 1959, William Keeton (then a student at VT) described this species based on specimens   collected from Blacksburg, Riner and Radford, Virginia. This species is … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on millipede from Blacksburg, VA

Armored scale

Posted on March 29, 2014 by nannaria

Gloomy scale (Melanaspis tenebricosa), an armored scale in the family Diaspididae Eric Day, Insect ID Lab Manager @ Virginia Tech, kindly shared these wonderful gloomy scales with us one day during Insect Biology Lab. This picture shows two female scales … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Tiny scelionid wasp

Posted on January 29, 2014 by nannaria

Parasitic wasp in the family Scelionidae (Telenomus Gryon sp.) Thanks István!  😉 James Wilson, graduate student here in the Department of Entomology at Virginia Tech working in Tom Kuhar’s Vegetable Entomology Lab, recently visited our lab with some of his … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Cyanide gland dissections

Posted on January 24, 2014 by nannaria

Cyanide gland, expertly dissected from Pachydesmus crassicutis by Tim McCoy. The large balloon shaped reservoir on the left stores the stable precursor mandelonitrile, which is squeezed into the thickened, oval-shaped reaction chamber on the right. In the reaction chamber, mandelonitrile … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged , | Comments Off on Cyanide gland dissections