The Entomology Word Association Game – 2016 Edition
Everyone’s done a word association game at some point in their lives, so sit back, relax, and watch as Derek Woller puts eight entomologists and non-entomologists from all different backgrounds […]
Museum Collections and Notes Lead to the Rediscovery of a Grasshopper Not Seen in 60 Years
By Derek A. Woller On May 12, 2015, JoVonn G. Hill and I fulfilled an eight-year-long odyssey to locate a grasshopper species endemic to the sandhills of the state of […]
Deb Paul Talks About iDigBio at Entomology 2015
If you’re an entomologist, then you’ve probably heard the acronym “iDigBio” being used here and there, but what the heck does it stand for? Turns out it’s something quite neat […]
Entomologists Talk About Their Favorite Insects and Why Collections Are Important
Our planet is teeming with multitudes of fascinating insects and there’s simply no time to study them all! Having a favorite one (for whatever reason) often helps narrow the choice […]
Entomologists Talk About Twitter at Entomology 2015
By Derek Woller Twitter — some love it and some are indifferent, but I think we can all agree that it’s rapidly changing how people communicate with one another on […]
The Insect Word-Association Game
Everyone’s done a word-association game at some point in their lives, so sit back, relax, and watch as Derek Woller puts nine entomologists and non-entomologists from all different backgrounds in […]
Insect 3D Wizardry in the Palm of Your Hand
By Derek A. Woller The future is now! Watch as an ordinary 2D card with a nice picture of an insect on it transforms before your eyes with wizardry into […]
Charles Darwin’s Rove Beetle Imaged On-site in Portland, OR
Each year at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, another meeting takes place. A group called the Entomological Collections Network (ECN) meets at about the same time […]
Liladownsia fraile: The Rest of the Story
(A version of the following article was originally published in Metaleptea 34(2): 13-15) By Derek A. Woller My colleagues (Paolo Fontana, Ricardo Mariño-Pérez, and Hojun Song) and I recently published […]
New Colorful Grasshopper Discovered in Mexico Named after Singer Lila Downs
Scientists named a new grasshopper species after singer Lila Downs as a nod to her efforts to preserve indigenous culture
Interview with the Phasmid Symposium Organizer at Entomology 2013
Matan Shelomi is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California-Davis, and he also received the John Henry Comstock Award at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of […]
Entomologists Talk about their Favorite Arthropods At Entomology 2013
In this video, Derek A. Woller, a Ph.D. student who works on the evolution of scrub-lovin’ grasshoppers in the Song Laboratory of Insect Systematics and Evolution at the University of […]
Videos from Derek Woller at ECN and ESA Meetings
Derek Woller, a graduate student working in the Song Lab of Insect Systematics and Evolution at the University of Central Florida, made these videos in Austin, TX during the 2013 […]