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 [...]
This summer we had the unforgettable experience of doing science with elementary school children in a remote Amazonian river village. We arrived by boat, accompanied [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Science is boring. Art is Stupid. Prove us wrong. These are the words that launched the annual Art of Science exhibition at Princeton University. The [...]
2014 marks the 3rd consecutive year that a pair of black vultures (Coragyps atratus) have chosen the roof of the National Science Foundation to raise [...]
Across the world, ants are among the first animals children learn to recognize. They are diverse, abundant, and ecologically important from the tops of canopy [...]
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 [...]
I’ve seen some incredible organisms over the years, but one of my favorite critters is the eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos), a stocky snake found [...]
Check out this exciting citizen science opportunity coming up at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences on June 5! Have you ever wondered what gives [...]
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 [...]
Today we have a guest post from Dr. Michelle Trautwein, the investigator-in-chief for the Arthropods of Our Homes project. Two years have gone by since [...]
In many ways having cats is similar to raising teenagers. They are the reason that we can’t own nice things (RIP leather couch, house plants [...]
We share a lot with you, dear readers. Some might say too much (ahem, the plight of our own armpit bacteria, for example). Yet believe [...]
**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 [...]