The Biggest Microscope in the World
and it is focused on your toilet seat… My grandmother, Barbara, often talked about growing up in a bedroom that was an observatory. She also, [...]
Back to School: Undergraduates and Ants move in this week!
Clint Penick collects Odorous House Ants from the mulch. It’s move-in week at NC State and undergraduates toting laundry baskets full of lamps and [...]
How Many Ants Live in New York City?
by Rob Dunn Every so often for the last ten years, one of my collaborators, students or I could be seen standing in a median [...]
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 [...]
A Beetle Buffet
On Sunday evening, I was taking a stroll around my Raleigh neighborhood, enjoying the entomological sounds (Katydids! Crickets!) and sights (Fireflies!) of summer. Along the [...]
There is Ecology in My Backyard!
Today we have a very special guest post by Anna Zuiker, a middle school student and daughter of a friend to Your Wild [...]
Not All the Bugs in Your Home Are Bad
Today we have another in our series of guest posts by participants in the upcoming meeting on indoor evolution at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center [...]
Dogs Make Me (and You) Wild: Ten Effects of Dogs on Dog People
Yesterday I got a call from the outside world but I said no in thunder. I was a dog on a short chain and now [...]
Genomics of the Ratopolis
Today we have another in our series of guest posts by participants in the upcoming meeting on indoor evolution at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center [...]
Tiny Tourists Invade the Big City
Today we have a guest post from Mary Jane Epps, post-doc and chief beetle wrangler at Your Wild Life. Recently, Mary Jane has begun investigating [...]
The Unresolved Mysteries of the Mold in Your House
Today we have another in our series of guest posts by participants in the upcoming meeting on indoor evolution at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center [...]
Carpe Cicada!
As a kid, I never could sleep well on Christmas Eve. The anticipation of Santa’s visit (and the pile of wrapped presents he [...]
How teaching high school prepared me for NYC
In a former life I was a math teacher at a public high school in rural Mississippi. One day I put up a math problem [...]
Top 10 ways an ant’s house is similar to your house
When the region of Cappadocia found itself divided between hostile nations, rather than flee, the people decided to dig in. The landscape was composed of [...]