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	<description>A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI</description>
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		<title>Some Insects That (thankfully!) Don&#8217;t Live In Houghton</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 18:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My brother lives in Tennessee, and back on April 5, 2026 he sent me these pictures and asked, &#8220;Are these termites?&#8221; Now, I had never seen an actual termite before, since they don&#8217;t live in the northern parts of Michigan where I have spent most of my life. But, upon investigation, it became pretty clear [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Local Field Guides</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 17:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The snow just melted off over the past week, and we don&#8217;t really have much in the way of new bugs or plants to photograph yet, so I wanted to take a moment to talk about field guides. The picture above is only part of our field guide shelf, but it is the one that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Northern Caddisflies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[November]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern caddisflies]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On November 15, 2025, we once again had Northern Caddisflies coming to our porch light. These are one of the very few species of insects that we regularly still see flying around in mid to late November, after we have had a couple of hard frosts and pretty much all other flying insects are out [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Earth Star Fungus</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[March]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fungi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The ice is starting to break up on Lake Superior, so Sandy and Sam went up to the beach at Mclain State Park on March 20, 2026 to see if there was anything interesting. And one of the things they found was this peculiar star-shaped object, just lying there frozen into the sand on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>House Pseudoscorpion, Take Two</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2026/03/15/house-pseudoscorpion-take-two/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pseudoscorpions]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This little cutie was on our bathroom wall on March 11, 2026. I knew what it was right away, because it is one of the first things that I photographed way back in 2007! It&#8217;s a House Pseudoscorpion in the family Cheliferidae, and most likely Chelifer cancroides While they look a lot like a scorpion [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Phantom Midge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[September]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diptera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This little lady came to our porch light on September 1, 2025. She was about half the size of the average mosquito. It is one of the &#8220;Phantom Midges&#8221; in the family Chaoboridae, and I think she looks like Chaoborus punctipennis, which BugGuide says is &#8220;The common Eastern species&#8221;. And I say &#8220;she&#8221;, because the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Oblique Banded Leafroller</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[September]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lepidoptera]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This moth came to our porch light on September 1, 2025. I thought it was probably something I had already photographed, but I took the picture anyway just in case. But, it turns out I hadn&#8217;t already photographed this, at least not as an adult. It is an Oblique-Banded Leafroller, Choristoneura rosaceana. Their caterpillars mainly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cut River Bridge Troll</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2026/02/15/cut-river-bridge-troll/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[August]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I travel between downstate and home, I spend a fair amount of time driving along US 2, the road that runs along the south border of the Upper Peninsula. And, on US 2 about halfway between Brevort and Epoufett, there is the Cut River Bridge. On August 3. 2025, I was coming back home [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Old Mill Hill Road Valley Creek Wall Falls</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2026/02/08/old-mill-hill-road-valley-creek-wall-falls/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[December]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Downhill from our house, there used to be a copper mill. Specifically a smelter, that received impure copper from the Atlantic Mine. Very little of it remains. It was a first attempt by miners who were still figuring out how to do things, and didn&#8217;t work too well. So, after a few years, they built [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mushrooms in Wood Chip Mulch</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2026/02/01/mushrooms-in-wood-chip-mulch/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[June]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the Michigan Tech campus, between the Chemical Sciences and Electrical Engineering buildings, there is a wooded patch with pine trees, that has been mulched with wood chips. And on June 20, 2025, I noticed that there was a substantial flush of mushrooms coming up right there. There were quite a lot of them, emerging [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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