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 [...]
Ant Picnic in the Amazon
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 [...]
Big Time Teachers, Deep Time Science
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 [...]
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 [...]
Insects Headline Art of Science Exhibit
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 [...]
Nature in NSF’s Backyard
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 [...]
Democratizing the Study of Ants
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 [...]
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 [...]
My Favorite Actor
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 [...]
Meet Your Muddy Microbes!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Your House is Full of Flies
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 [...]
The Secret Life of the American Tortoiseshell
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 [...]
The Wild Life of Chimpanzee Nests
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 [...]
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 [...]