Wings of Change
You may have noticed a small white butterfly flittering through your garden, bouncing across your path while on your bike or spiraling around the side [...]
You may have noticed a small white butterfly flittering through your garden, bouncing across your path while on your bike or spiraling around the side [...]
Several years ago, we started paying more attention in our lab to what was going on biologically near at hand. This transition would eventually lead [...]
No question, our planet is heating up. So what impact will global climate change have on biodiversity and ecosystems? This BIG question, as you’ve undoubtedly [...]
Adorable and fuzzy, American pikas (Ochotona princeps) have become the spokes-critter for the consequences of climate change in alpine areas. These little fuzzballs, more closely [...]
Our blog and social media feeds have been overcome by urban sprawl this week. Yesterday, Rob wrote about the rise of a new mega-city: 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 [...]
When we build our cities with cement and asphalt, they trap heat. This trapped heat warms our cities, as much, in some cases, as global [...]
This week I followed researcher Elsa Youngsteadt and her undergrad assistant Danielle Schmidt, members of Steve Frank's lab in the NC State Entomology Department, into [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With unpredictable weather patterns resulting in monsoon-like storms and as warming seas swell, swallowing shorelines, more and more folks find themselves underwater or sinking fast. [...]
Does your living room floor have more in common with a prairie grassland or a desert? Are our basements really just urban versions of caves? [...]
My fiancé Joe and I planted a mushroom garden last year, which is to say, we drilled hundreds of holes in logs, hammered spore plugs [...]
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!