The secret (and ancient) lives of houseplants
Today we have a guest post by Laura Jane Martin, a participant in the upcoming meeting on indoor evolution at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center [...]
Let Me Introduce You to Your Tiny Neighbors
**Today we have a guest post from the one and only, Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice, author of the NEW eBook, Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common [...]
Seeing the Future in the Trees
Over on the EcoIPM blog, Your Wild Life team member, Emily Meineke, has a new blog post describing her research on scale insects, small pest [...]
That man is feeding a starling a banana! (and other tales from NYC)
This is a first in a series of dispatches from our team on-the-ground in New York City. Elsa Youngsteadt and Lea Shell are spending the [...]
Dr. Eleanor is on a roll!
Our Dr. Eleanor has been very busy these last few weeks. She’s written several new profiles for the Book of Common Ants. She had the [...]
Scientists seeking mites in their dorm rooms
“If you give me a ride to the museum, can I come vacuum your floors?” Amy Savage inquired as she popped her head [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Holiday Hitchhikers
As our Arthropods of Our Homes team can attest, your home is a wonderland of arthropod biodiversity. Preliminary analysis of the first 50 homes they [...]
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 [...]
Scaredy Cats
For the last 100,000 years, big critters have been hunting (and haunting) our human ancestors. Think saber-tooth cats, giant kangaroos and big snakes. This evolutionary [...]
Halloween Horrors in the Front Yard
A spooky guest post, courtesy of Dr. Arthropods-in-Your-Home, Matt Bertone. Just in time for that horrific (and surprise-filled) time of year, here’s a dracula ant [...]
Little (Science) Monsters
I saw this tweet this morning about a new research finding, and it made me laugh out loud: This begs the question of how often [...]
For the Love of Bugs
35,000+ people ÜBER-EXCITED about insects: That’s our kind of party. Your Wild Life was thrilled to partake in festivities for Bugfest 2012, the annual entomological [...]
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. [...]