Meet the Beetles
Cottonwood Borer (Plectrodera scalator) Photograph by Dan Winters Texas is crawling with insects—literally. It’s not just that an estimated 37,000 different species can be found here (although we do have more than any other state). It’s the frequency with which we’ve seen them—many of them, at least—during the past year. What’s behind our entomological explosion? The rain has a lot to do with it. Texas weather has been particularly wet of late, a fact that is music to the antenna...
Source: texasmonthly.com