Butterflies from the genus Euterpe, named for the muse of flute-playing and epic poetry known as the “giver of delight”… but also the name of […]
Vladimir Nabokov. Modern literary genius. Darling of the New York Times. And now, certified brilliant entomological theorist: There were several plausible hypotheses for how the […]
Varroa mites, the BBC reminds us, are one of the worst enemies honeybees face in these difficult days. But now, there’s a genetic front opening […]
Click to embiggen vastly This is a fossilized insect, one of the Buprestidae (or Splendor Beetles or Jewel Beetles, from the collection of the Hessisches […]
This is the aphis wolf, or aphid lion, or, in other words, either the larva of the much less-threateningly named ladybug or lacewing. This particular […]
Just because we’ve swapped climate change for nuclear apocalypse in our end-of-the-world imaginings, that doesn’t mean we have to give up our terror of giant […]
The Telegraph, among other news sources, revels in my obsolescence. I am biologically and genetically surplus to needs. I am a man, and they’ve found […]
Euproctis chrysorrhoea, better known as the Browntail moth. It stings our skin and devastates our farmland, and is the subject of experiments using pheromones as […]
SONG: “Army Ants”, originally by Tom Waits (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by Tom Waits. SOURCE: This is another penitential […]
Scientists in China and Japan have come up with a new system for getting power from the sun… by building solar panels like butterfly wings: […]
Wired’s Danger Room blog now has me imagining what it would be like to come under attack from a buzzing swarm of remote-controlled rhinoceros beetles: […]
The BBC has video up of romancing mosquitoes creating their high, keening love songs: Males and females each have their own characteristic flight tone – […]
Entolomologists working in Borneo have found what they believe to be world’s longest insect: PhysOrg writes: The specimen was found by a local villager and […]
Science Daily was recently buzzing about the decision-making strategies of bees: Scientists had known that honeybee scouts “waggle dance” to report on food. Seeley and […]
Scientists, as the Telegraph points out, have long been mystified by the bumblebee. It’s short and fat with stubby wings that, mathematically speaking, should never […]
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