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 […]
Tropical Bed Bugs Found in Florida after 60-Year Absence
By Brittany Campbell Bed bugs have been resurging worldwide since the late 1990s and 2000s. Their bites can cause moderate to severe allergic skin reactions, and their propensity to hide […]
Interviews from the Women in Entomology Breakfast at ICE 2016
Laurel Haavik attended the Women in Entomology Breakfast at the 2016 International Congress of Entomology and interviewed other breakfast attendees. The breakfasts began in 1989 and have evolved into a […]
Meet Max Barclay, the Winner of the 2016 ECN Golden Net Award
By Richard Levine Yesterday I got to attend the annual meeting of the Entomological Collections Network (ECN), which is traditionally held just before the annual meeting of the Entomological Society […]
Tsetse Flies Are Strange and Dangerous Insects
By Kevin Fitzgerald Tsetse flies are the scourge of Central Africa. The flies are vectors for the disease nagana, also known as African animal trypanosomiasis (AAT), in wild and domestic […]
CAMTech: Bridging the Gap Between Industry Needs and Federal and Academic Research for Arthropod Management
By Bryony Bonning and Subba Reddy Palli The Center for Arthropod Management Technologies (CAMTech) was established in August 2013 by Director Bryony C. Bonning at Iowa State University and co-Director, […]
From Turtle Shell to Poop Umbrella, This Is One Unusual Group of Beetles
By Leslie Mertz Tortoise beetles are a bizarre group. They look somewhat like tiny turtles with a colorful, or in some species translucent, carapace (the upper shell in turtles), and […]
Will Insects Be the Food of the Future? Find Out at ICE 2016
By Florence Dunkel At the 2016 International Congress of Entomology, which will be held September 25-30 in Orlando, Florida, there will be an amazing set of 28 speakers who will […]
Insects As Wallpaper: An Interview With Artist Jennifer Angus
By Josh Lancette When you see an insect climbing up your wall, you might not think, “Hmm, that would make great wallpaper.” You also might not think, “That’s fine art.” […]
Letters Home from the 2008 International Congress of Entomology in South Africa
Editor’s note: The author, Tom Sappington, attended four different International Congresses of Entomology, from 1996-2008, and sent hand-written letters home during each of them. The following, the fourth part of […]
Burying Beetles Are Part of Nature’s Clean-up Crew
By Kevin Fitzgerald Certain species of insects, along with species of vertebrate scavengers, fungi, and bacteria, are members of nature’s clean-up crew. These entities break down organic matter from complexity […]
Beetle Farmers 2.0: A Super-symbiont Fungus Supports a Complex Beetle Society
By Jiri Hulcr and Matt Kasson Eating wood is really tough. Many insects are pretty good at chewing wood with their mandibles, but they can’t produce the right concoction of […]
Tree-killing Hemlock Woolly Adelgids Hitch Rides on Birds
By Meredith Swett Walker At first glance, you might not think these little bits of fluff could pose much of a threat. But, like Star Trek’s troublesome tribbles, hemlock woolly […]
Letters Home from the 2000 International Congress of Entomology in Brazil
Editor’s note: The author, Tom Sappington, attended four different International Congresses of Entomology, from 1996-2008, and sent hand-written letters home during each of them. The following, the second part of […]
News from the Entomological Collections Management Workshop in Washington, DC
By Richard Levine An Entomological Collections Management Workshop was held July 18-20, 2016 at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. The purpose of the workshop, which was co-sponsored […]