Amy Savage’s Take on Ants in the Big City
New York City: “the City of Ants.” Most of us wouldn’t describe the Big Apple that way. But Amy Savage has news for you. For [...]
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Before They Were Scientists: Amy Savage
Most middle school students go through more transitions in those three years than they will for the next decade. It’s a time for growth spurts, [...]
What to Do About the Ants in Your Kitchen
It all started in a street median in Manhattan, not far from Mary Tyler Moore’s apartment. Marko Pecaravic decided to do a thesis on the [...]
ICYMI: Holiday Break Edition
Happy New Year! Classes are back in swing today here at NC State and we’re slowly but surely digging ourselves out from under the pile [...]
Ants vs. Rats in NYC
Last year I got to take my first trip to New York City and spent most of my time in the medians of Broadway setting [...]
BioBlitz at the New York Botanical Gardens
How many plant, mammal or invertebrate species live in the New York Botanical Garden? While it seems like there should be a straightforward answer – [...]
Behind the Science: Ants and Ecologists on Broadway
When contemplating all the picky eaters of the world, I bet ants probably aren't the first organisms that come to your mind. And yet ants [...]
Humans vs. Ants
This past weekend was BugFest at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh. The Your Wild Life team was on-location, chatting with [...]
Democratizing the Study of Ants
Across the world, ants are among the first animals children learn to recognize. They are diverse, abundant, and ecologically important from the tops of canopy [...]
CSI: New York, Lead
Sometimes we discover things that we don't yet understand. We like to share those findings with you, even before we make sense of them. Here [...]