Behind the Science: Painting ants and cracking acorns
Stepping into the lab last week, you would have no idea that the summer -- for our undergraduates, at least -- is winding to an [...]
Mapping the ants of the world
Several years ago, Benoit Guénard decided that he was interested in knowing where one kind of ant could be found. Another ant biologist asked. Benoit [...]
Ant Picnic in the Amazon
This summer we had the unforgettable experience of doing science with elementary school children in a remote Amazonian river village. We arrived by boat, accompanied [...]
Q & A with Tyler Vitone
It's always fun to have visiting scientists come to our lab -- it gives us a chance to show off our beautiful campus and city [...]
Insects Headline Art of Science Exhibit
Science is boring. Art is Stupid. Prove us wrong. These are the words that launched the annual Art of Science exhibition at Princeton University. The [...]
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 [...]
Meet the Worker Bees: Hanna Moxley
Here's another installment in our summer series, Meet the Worker Bees, where we introduce the undergraduate students, high school interns, and research technicians who make [...]
Kids Do Real Science: The Ant Project
[Editor's Note: Over the past three months the incredible students at Efland-Cheeks Elementary School in Orange County, North Carolina, have been inquiring about the diet [...]
Meet the Worker Bees: Shaliek Morgan
Today we continue our summer series, Meet the Worker Bees, where we introduce the undergraduate students, high school interns, and research technicians who make our [...]
Behind the Science: Collecting Carpenter Ant Colonies
This week, armed with hatchets, plastic containers and tweezers, Your Wild Life post docs MJ Epps and De Anna Beasley set out to collect carpenter [...]
Who Ate My Cake?
Today we have a special treat: Another delicious watercolor sketch from biologist and illustrator, Dr. Jennifer Landin. You may recall Jennifer’s action sketch of the [...]
Wowing Washington with Wild Life!
Last weekend (April 25-27, 2014), we took our wild brand of citizen science on the road to Washington, DC, to participate in the USA Science and [...]
Your Wild Life Heads to Washington!
This weekend (April 25-27, 2014), hundreds of thousands of students and science enthusiasts will swarm the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the Nation’s Capital [...]
Delayed Gratification, Citizen Science and Why You Might Not Have Received an Email about Your Sample Yet
But, If You Are So Willing, You'll Receive Emails and Updates for the Next 10 Years. Also, Did I Tell You about the Cats? I [...]
Fifth Avenue and the Entangled Bank: Fashion in Field Biology
For his 1918 field season, ornithologist Edgar Chance made a gentleman's bet. Like many scientists before him, Chance was, in fact, a gentleman. His family [...]