Quiz Time!
Everyone loves a good quiz – even the Buzzfeed variety, you know the kind that you see on Facebook ALL. THE. TIME. The kind of [...]
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 [...]
What If God Were a Maggot?
**Today, we’re reposting a story Rob wrote in late 2012, in praise of the decomposers that clean up our world, recycling waste back into life. [...]
Nature in Your Backyard: Invasion of the Ladybugs
**Today’s installment of Nature in Your Backyard is brought to you by Addie Jackson, a senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. [...]
How to turn any dataset into a glowing worm
A few decades ago gene expression, the process by which the code books of genes are turned into proteins, was invisible. It happened in every [...]
Nature in Your Backyard: The Functional Decorator
The other day I went onto my front porch to admire my duplex neighbors' Christmas lights. They were the first up on our block and [...]
Celebrate World Soil Day
In celebration of World Soil Day (December 5, 2013), we give you a round-up of Your Wild Life posts that in some way extol the [...]
Geeking Out Over Arthropods
This past week, over 3500 scientists who study insects and other arthropods gathered in Austin, Texas, for the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting. Scientific [...]
Arthropod Photo Shoot… in Belize!
Lauren Nichols recently attended the BugShot Insect Photography Course in Belize this past September and came home with some spectacular photographs (and stories). She was [...]
Nightmare Creatures [of Your Home & Yard]
What is it about horror movies and monsters that intrigues us so much? I certainly love a good scare and revel in giant, blood-thirsty creatures [...]
Not All the Bugs in Your Home Are Bad
Today we have another in our series of guest posts by participants in the upcoming meeting on indoor evolution at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center [...]
Stories from the Home [Arthropod] Front
I have now finished sorting and identifying critters from 21 of the 50 homes sampled during the Arthropods of Our Homes project. I have seen [...]
Field Notes from the Arthropod Hunters
**Today’s post features Dr. Nancy Brill, a new member of the Arthropods of Our Homes team. Welcome Nancy! You’ll have the opportunity to meet the [...]
Arthropod Update
*Today post-doc Matt Bertone gives us an update on some of the wild, wonderful and wacky finds the Arthropods of Our Homes team has made [...]
On Location with the Arthropods of Our Homes Team
This morning I had the opportunity to head to “the field” – that’s what we biologist-types say when we leave the comforts of [...]