After 13 Years and 1.7 Million Flies Caught, a Model for Predicting Stable Fly Populations
Think for a moment about the date May 15, 2003. Any idea what you were doing that day? (It was a Thursday.) And can you think of anything that you’ve […]
Eat This, Not That: Why Mantids Eat Everything But the Gut of Some Caterpillar Prey
By Leslie Mertz When a Chinese mantid (Tenodera sinensis) grabs a nice, plump monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus), it not only “bites into the fleshy bits” but also eventually gnaws deeply […]
Walking With the Butterflies in Taiwan’s Maolin Valley
By Laura Kraft This post is the seventh in the “Travel Bug” series by Laura Kraft, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia, who is chronicling her travels in […]
Highlights From Reddit Science’s Honey Bee AMA
Last week, the Reddit Science community welcomed University of Illinois entomologists May Berenbaum, Ph.D., immediate past president of the Entomological Society of America, and Gene Robinson, Ph.D., an ESA Fellow, […]
Morphological Traits Relate to Mating Strategies in Male Japanese Stag Beetles
By John P. Roche Male Japanese stag beetles (Prosopocoilus inclinatus) have battles to defend territories to earn the opportunity to mate with females. They use enlarged mandibles that look like […]
Conserving Culture Through Cambodian Silk
By Laura Kraft This post is the sixth in the “Travel Bug” series by Laura Kraft, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia, who is chronicling her travels in […]
Characterizing the Link Between Climate and Thermal Limits in Beetles
By Amanda Biederman Amid concerns over a rapidly changing climate, the abilities of different insects to survive at warmer temperatures has become a major question of interest. Kimberly Sheldon, an […]
Bugs Cafe: The Can’t-Miss Culinary Attraction in Siem Reap, Cambodia
By Laura Kraft This post is the fifth in the “Travel Bug” series by Laura Kraft, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia, who is chronicling her travels in […]
Fostering a New Generation of Cambodian Entomologists
By Laura Kraft This post is the fourth in the “Travel Bug” series by Laura Kraft, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia, who is chronicling her travels in […]
A Bustling Center of Entomological Research in Laos
By Laura Kraft This post is the third in the “Travel Bug” series by Laura Kraft, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia, who is chronicling her travels in […]
From Wisconsin to Laos: The Entomological Journey of Dr. Paul Brey
By Laura Kraft This post is the second in the “Travel Bug” series by Laura Kraft, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia, who will be chronicling her travels […]
Judas Beetles: How Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles Are Betraying Each Other’s Secrets
By Josh Lancette It starts with the search for a mate. It ends with betrayal. And death. And a toppled crime empire. How? Someone is wearing a wire from […]
Walking Among Giants in Northwest Thailand
This post is the first in the “Travel Bug” series by Laura Kraft, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia, who will be chronicling her travels in Asia from […]
Tagging Monarch Butterflies Helps Track Their Migration
By Kevin Fitzgerald Every autumn, the Migration Festival takes place at Lighthouse Point on the seacoast of Connecticut near New Haven. It’s a celebration of flying creatures: birds, butterflies, and […]
Bear Wasps of the Middle Kingdom: A Decade of Discovering China’s Bumble Bees
By Paul H. Williams, Jiaxing Huang, and Jiandong An Bumble bees are well known for being among the most important pollinators in the world’s north-temperate regions. Perhaps more surprisingly, half […]
New Bee Species Bores into Sandstone
When Michael Orr, a graduate student at Utah State University, observed what appeared to be bee nests in sandstone at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Park in Utah, he decided to […]