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 [...]
The Secret Life of Roukus
A Yankee cat or southern kitty? Roukus calls Maine home for 3 months of the year and Florida for 9! Right now in Maine she [...]
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 [...]
Wowing Washington with Wild Life!
Last weekend (April 25-27, 2014), we took our wild brand of citizen science on the road to Washington, DC, to participate in the USA Science and [...]
Your Wild Life Heads to Washington!
This weekend (April 25-27, 2014), hundreds of thousands of students and science enthusiasts will swarm the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the Nation’s Capital [...]
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 [...]
Looking ahead to 2014 — We want to hear from YOU!
Time sure flies when we’re having fun, doesn’t it? With 2013 winding down, we think it’s a good time to pause and take stock of [...]
Introducing Myrmex: A Comic Ant-thology
Science and education are at their core acts of storytelling. Nature tells her story to scientists and scientists in turn share Nature’s stories with the [...]
Are there bark beetles in your backyard?
This past week we reconnected with Jiri Hulcr, resident Forest Entomologist at the University of Florida (and Dunn lab alum) who has just recently launched [...]
Citizen Scientists Document the Spread of Giant Cricket, Basement to Basement
It is an animal the size of a pinky finger. It hops wildly, blindly out of the dark. And still, somehow, it has moved unstudied [...]
The Odor of the Odorous House Ant
A visitor prepares to sniff the odorous house ant. Photo credit: Magdalena Sorger. This past weekend at the North Carolina Museum of Natural [...]
Calling All Teachers!
Your Wild Life is excited to announce that we're bringing our wild brand of science into classrooms! We're embarking on a new five-year project to [...]
Nature in Your Backyard: Five-lined skinks!
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the nature that we observe in our basements, backyards, and neighborhoods. It started with a poem from Anna Zuiker, a [...]
The Day My Cat Went Home
Photo credit: Megan Halpern Recently, my friend Roland Kays, the Director of the Biodiversity Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences approached [...]
Moth Madness!
**Today, we have a special guest post from Chris Goforth, Senior Manager of Citizen Science at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. When she’s not [...]