Tag: Tanya Josek

An Up-Close Look at the Tiny Sensory Pits That Ticks Use to Smell

A new study in the Journal of Medical Entomology offers the best look yet at the Haller’s organ, a small sensory pit on the forelegs of ticks that they use to detect heat and chemical odors emitted by potential hosts.

Entomology Today January 16, 2018 7 Comments

Insect Astronauts: Eclipse Watchers Learn About Entomology in Orbit

Insects studied in experiments in outer space were featured at an entomology booth at an Eclipse Watching Event hosted by the Department of Entomology at a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Students Talk About Three-Minute Presentations at Entomology 2015

Three-minute presentations were a new event at Entomology 2015 (previously, there were only ten-minute presentations). In this video by Tanya Josek, entomology students tell us what they thought of the […]

Entomologists Talk About Twitter, Parts II and III

In these videos by Tanya Josek, entomologists at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America talk about Twitter, including some possible downsides and drawbacks. Click here to view […]

Famous Female Entomologists Part 5: Berta Scharrer’s Twitter Feed

This is Part Five of a five-part series on Famous Female Entomologists, in honor of the 32nd Annual Insect Fear Film Festival (February 28, 2015), the theme of which is […]