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 [...]
Updating the Species Scape
This post was written by Clint Penick & Magdalena Sorger As the world’s entomologists gather in Orlando this week for the International Conference of Entomology [...]
The Truth About What Makes Us Human (and Writing Books)
New analyses of chimpanzees and humans reveal them to be far more different than suspected, perhaps as much as 95% different. Sometimes it takes time [...]
The Most Important Map You Will Ever See
and other stories of the biogeography of pathogens Among the greatest of the unwinnable debates among academics is the place of humans in nature. It [...]
45 Things I’ve Learned about Science Since I was a Student
Editor's note: At Your Wild Life we like to do public science, science in which we open the process of scientific discovery so that you [...]
Good News: We’ve all got mites!
Over the last year and a half, hundreds of you volunteered to have your faces scraped for science. In looking at the contents of your [...]
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 [...]
Big Time Teachers, Deep Time Science
It’s been a couple weeks since we parted ways with the tightly knit cohort of Students Discover teacher-scientists. After three weeks of intense training at [...]
The Rise of CHARLANTA
Very occasionally, the opportunity arises for a group of people to decide where and how to build a city. In 1792 the legislators of North [...]
I Am Mouse, Hear Me Roar
When Paul showed up at work with that coffee can full of mice babies, I knew I was perched on the zenith of the best [...]
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 [...]
Big City Social Life
As urbanization spreads and city structures replace many social insect colonies' natural habitats, these insects still manage to survive—and even thrive. The secret to their [...]
How Staying Social Can Save You in Winter
Winter can be deadly for many of our insect friends, yet, rarely for honeybees. How do they survive winter's perilously cold temperatures? By staying social!
The Art and Science of Life After Chernobyl
At first glance, the insect paintings by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger look no different than the images in a Peterson field guide. The subjects are set against [...]
Novel Navel Notes: Get Omphaloskepsisizing!
Speaking of SciArt, the Buzz Hoot Roar folks were so inspired by our own Belly Button Biodiversity that they too started navel gazing. What are [...]