They Are The Most Harmless, Innocent Creatures In The World.
[Every now and then we receive very special messages from folks who have read our blog, found our research or just share the same curiosity [...]
The Arthropods of San Francisco (and beyond)
What's that crawling under your bed... sitting in your light fixture... lurking in your cabinets? Perhaps it's a new insect species! The Arthropods of Our [...]
Camel Cricket Poetry
The mail room of a science building is always an interesting place. We receive email notices like, "Your slime mold has arrived!" and "Live crickets [...]
Citizen Scientists Make Important Discovery about Camel Crickets
Grad Student Too Busy, Annoyed to Care about Giant Bugs in Basement In graduate school, I rented a house with a few fellow students on [...]
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 [...]
The Future of Discovery
In March 2014, Rob spoke at TEDxSantaCruz, explaining how much we don’t know about the species living on us, in us and around us – [...]
Camel Cricket Census Update
Today we’re sharing update #3 for our scientific research paper-in-progress about camel crickets. Over the last year, 150+ households have reported observations and uploaded photos [...]
Spricket Sketch
Our citizen scientists are really the best around, hands down. You are such a thoughtful and creative bunch. We so appreciate the love notes, holiday [...]
Looking ahead to 2014 — We want to hear from YOU!
Time sure flies when we’re having fun, doesn’t it? With 2013 winding down, we think it’s a good time to pause and take stock of [...]
Camel Cricket Manuscript, Take 2
Today we share with you Draft 2 of our scientific research paper about camel crickets based on the data that YOU have helped us collect. [...]
Citizen Scientists Document the Spread of Giant Cricket, Basement to Basement
It is an animal the size of a pinky finger. It hops wildly, blindly out of the dark. And still, somehow, it has moved unstudied [...]
Too Big to Be Noticed: Camel Cricket Manuscript
So we’ve started writing our first scientific research paper about camel crickets based on the data YOU have helped us collect to date. And we’re [...]
Season o’ Sprickets!
Calling all eagle-eyed observers of wild life. Get ye too to your basements, crawl spaces, sheds, garages and other dark, damp corners of your home [...]