Forelius naming contest update!
Wow! When I sat down to compile a complete list of all of our submissions for our ant naming contest, I had [...]
For real? Forelius pruinosus doesn’t have a common name?
Today, we have a new challenge for you. It’s rather a fun one. If you don’t think so, then you can blame Dr. Eleanor (of [...]
Invisible names
Maybe it has something to do with the excessive amounts of matching and memory games I played as a tot. Or why flash cards have [...]
Evolutionary Biology of the Built Environment Working Group: Call for Participants
The Basics: We need your help. We are organizing the first working group aimed at understanding the evolutionary biology of the built environment—our bedrooms, our [...]
Honoring a scientific revolutionary
Sad news spread throughout the scientific community as 2012 came to a close. Biophysicist and evolutionary microbiologist Carl Woese died on December 30, 2012. In [...]
Fire Ants: A prize-winning graphic novella
A few months ago, our School of Ants team challenged students of myrmecology (translation: the study of ants) to write essays about the coolest things [...]
Welcome to the Jungle
We’ve been hinting for weeks now… through our tweets and updates to the Belly Button Biodiversity project website… And now it’s official! We [...]
Introducing Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Ants
Meet our friend, Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice. Dr. Eleanor is an entomologist, writer, and gen-u-ine nature nut. One thing you need to know about Dr. [...]
Amateur Scientists Discover Asian Needle Ant Has Expanded its Range by Thousands of Miles, Unnoticed
I will try to keep this simple. Out among the leaves and rotten logs of North America lives the Asian needle ant (Pachycondyla chinensis). This [...]
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 [...]
Ants and Trains: Adventures in urban field biology
*Today’s post is written by Jeremy Boeing, a rising sophomore at Lake Forest College, who has spent his summer sampling ants along Metra lines in [...]
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 [...]
The science you don’t see
sciseekclaimtoken-4feb63040969d Hey, have you seen the July issue of Discover Magazine all about the Science You Don’t See? Perhaps, then, you saw the feature article [...]
Feeling festive
Here in the United States we celebrate Independence Day with neighborhood parades, pyrotechnic extravaganzas, backyard barbecues, and other patriotic nods to those who [...]
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 [...]