Microbial partners of crop plant agro-biodiversity
By Lori R. Shapiro, PhD, Dept of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University and Erik Delaquis, CIAT, Roots, Tubers, and Bananas program of the CGIAR [...]
The Pump of Youth
What is the secret to a long life? The heartbeat of some animals may hold a clue. Studies have concluded that mammals get about a [...]
BioBlitz at the New York Botanical Gardens
How many plant, mammal or invertebrate species live in the New York Botanical Garden? While it seems like there should be a straightforward answer – [...]
Behind the Science: Ants and Ecologists on Broadway
When contemplating all the picky eaters of the world, I bet ants probably aren't the first organisms that come to your mind. And yet ants [...]
Behind the Science: Painting ants and cracking acorns
Stepping into the lab last week, you would have no idea that the summer -- for our undergraduates, at least -- is winding to an [...]
Behind the Science: A Meeting of Scientists and their Mites at Evolution 2014
Once a year, thousands of evolutionary biologists, students, and educators from all around the world converge on a single city for the annual Evolution meeting. [...]
Behind the Science: Sorting out the murky affair between scale insects, ants, red maples and climate change
This week I followed researcher Elsa Youngsteadt and her undergrad assistant Danielle Schmidt, members of Steve Frank's lab in the NC State Entomology Department, into [...]
Behind the Science: Collecting Carpenter Ant Colonies
This week, armed with hatchets, plastic containers and tweezers, Your Wild Life post docs MJ Epps and De Anna Beasley set out to collect carpenter [...]
Nature In Your Backyard: The Illusive Ant of Winter
When most other ants go underground for the winter to wait for warmer months, Stenamma impar emerges to lurk throughout the forest. Stenamma is the [...]
Why Western Tanzania Might Feel Something Like Home
Does your living room floor have more in common with a prairie grassland or a desert? Are our basements really just urban versions of caves? [...]
Arthropod Photo Shoot… in Belize!
Lauren Nichols recently attended the BugShot Insect Photography Course in Belize this past September and came home with some spectacular photographs (and stories). She was [...]
If you give an ant a cookie
**Today we have a guest post from Lauren Nichols about the School of Ants project. Enjoy!** When you start a large-scale project to map the [...]