Predation in Action!
Last week, I led a group of students and postdocs from the Entomology Department at NC State on an expedition to collect bees at the [...]
Squirrel Sketch
If you live on the East Coast, I bet you encountered at least one eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) during your regular comings and goings [...]
The Effects of Urbanization on Biodiversity: Interview with Myla Aronson
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. [...]
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 [...]
Celebrating Native Bees
As you were enjoying celebrations this July 4th weekend, you may have noticed many bees flying around your yard or neighborhood park, pollinating flowers and [...]
Hot in the ‘Hood
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 [...]
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 [...]
Breakthrough: The Relationship Between Urbanization, Lifestyle, the Microbiome(s) and Autoimmune and Allergic Problems is Complex
Recently, the news has been awash with stories of the links between the biodiversity outside of peoples’ homes, the diversity of bacteria and other microbes [...]
Buttercup Oil Beetle Goes on Odyssey, Lands in My Apartment
I saw a weird beetle bumbling across the carpet in my bedroom the other day. As entomologists do, I scooped in a jar, popped it [...]
The Birth of a Zombie Wasp
Graduate student Emily Meineke had one of those ‘OH S&^%!’ moments while in the lab the other day. Best part is she caught it on [...]
Where Does Our Trash Go?
Each day we throw away our trash, but once it leaves our hands, where does it go? Last semester, Rob Dunn's Community Ecology of Humans [...]
CSI: New York, Lead
Sometimes we discover things that we don't yet understand. We like to share those findings with you, even before we make sense of them. Here [...]
Backyard Bees
**Entomology graduate student April Hamblin will be studying bees in backyards across Raleigh this summer, and she's looking for folks to volunteer their yards as [...]
Fifth Avenue and the Entangled Bank: Fashion in Field Biology
For his 1918 field season, ornithologist Edgar Chance made a gentleman's bet. Like many scientists before him, Chance was, in fact, a gentleman. His family [...]
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 [...]