The coyote has long been thought of as an animal of the American West. This was true during the pre-Columbian era when the coyote primarily roamed the Southwest and Great Plains of the United States. Today, however, its ever-expanding range stretches across all of the lower-48 states (and Alaska) and much of Canada, as well as Mexico, Central America, Panama—and likely beyond. (more…)

Much of the attention given to insect pollinators focuses on bees and butterflies with a passing interest given to moths and perhaps wasps. Flies and beetles are sometimes depicted when a photo to promote bee conservation is mistakenly a syrphid, bee fly or, on the rare occasion, a flower longhorn beetle. The diverse array of flower-visiting flies and beetles are overlooked. True bugs (e.g., stink bugs, plant bugs, and assassin bugs) are never mentioned.
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