A New Member Shares his Thoughts on his First ESA Meeting
By Joseph Alfonso Most students attending the national ESA meeting for the first time, like myself, expect to create connections with other people and gain exposure to new science in […]
How is Twitter Useful for Entomologists?
By Derek Hennen Twitter has made headlines recently by becoming a public company. As the micro-blogging service enters this new phase, some people may still be wondering, “What’s the point […]
Truck Carrying Millions of Bees Crashes on Georgia Highway
While honey bees are prized for the product they make — honey — they are even more valuable as pollinators. Unlike other bees, honey bees can be domesticated and raised […]
Using Citizen Science to Track Insects Across the U.S.
By Richard Levine Yesterday during the annual meeting of the National Science Writers Association, I sat in on a presentation by University of Florida entomologists Andrea Lucky and Jiri Hulcr […]
Video: Save a Chicken, Feed a Bed Bug
By Richard Levine A few years ago at a meeting of the Eastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America, I met a graduate student from Virginia Tech named Preston […]
Tick Collector: Expecting the Unexpected on an Undergraduate Tropical Field Course
By Dr. Zen Lewis I was very interested to read the EntomologyToday.org blog post about Tony Goldberg’s tick experience in Kibale, in which he found a new tick species in […]
Quick Guide to Armyworms on Soybean
In this post from the Beetles in the Bush blog, the author provides a quick guide to the six armyworm species that he’s encountered in soybean.
Baby Spiders are Flying Across Northern Texas
Recent news reports have been surfacing about silky strings floating through the air of northern Texas. As it turns out, the strings are the products of young, migrating spiders that […]
Videos of Parasitoid Wasps and their Caterpillar Hosts
This first video was recently submitted to the 2013 ESA YouTube Your Entomology contest by Justin Bredlau, a PhD student at Virginia Commonwealth University. The video shows the life of […]
The Itsy-Bitsy Spider … A (not so) Love Story
By Sahara Cornwell and Dr. Jeffrey K. Brown Thursday, April 22, 2010, started out like any other morning. It was 5:00 AM, and my eight-month-old daughter, Norah Willow, was letting […]
VIDEO: Two Common Misconceptions About Entomologists
By Bethany Hunt In this video Bethany Hunt, a graduate student from the University of Kentucky, talks about two common misconceptions about entomologists. “Being an entomologist is great,” she says. […]
What You Really Need to Know about the 2013 Cicada Invasion
By Tracy Leskey Want to see people’s eyebrows raise? Tell them you are en entomologist, aka someone who studies bugs, in the summer of the “cicada invasion.” According to the […]
West Virginia Man Breeds Flesh-eating Insects for Taxidermy
Taxidermists who mount deer and other animals often need to boil parts of the animals in order to remove the flesh. However, this can be messy and can create a […]