New Study Illuminates Dung Beetles’ Attraction to Death
When dung beetles show up at an animal carcass, they're more attracted to the head end than the rear, new research shows, suggesting it may not just be exposed gastrointestinal contents they're after.
You Can Thank Insects for Many Human Inventions
Even in this digital age, we continue to extract ideas and materials from insects and their relatives. However, the challenge of today may be to avoid a strictly utilitarian view of other organisms, whereby a species is expendable if it cannot demonstrate economic value that can be measured in dollars.
How to Make a Four-Eyed Beetle
By Viviane Callier One of evolution’s oldest tricks is to apply old genetic building blocks at new times or places in development to create a new structure. But that isn’t […]
Entomology Takes the Stage (and the Airwaves) at Science Friday Live
Last Saturday, on the stage of the Orpheum Theatre in Wichita, Kansas, entomologist Rachel Stone told the audience gathered there that a pile of animal poop is a lot like […]