Over at Compound Eye I’ve posted photos of a remarkable Australian ant-mimic spider: An Enemy in the Ranks
Posts under ‘Insect Links’
Links for the New Year
Welcome to 2012! You look like you need something to read: The always-thoughtful Marlene Zuk weighs in on the semantics of insect slavery. Ever had that eerie feeling you’re being followed by a dragonfly? Chris Goforth examines the science. Fireflies. Wow. Rob Dunn 0, Kangaroo 1 Ed Yong’s best science reporting of 2011 contains a [...]
Weekend Bug Links
I’m off to give a short chat on South American beekeeping to the Central Illinois Beekeeper’s Association. In the meantime, here’s what the internet has to say about bugs: Bug Eric on the Cross Spider Ted MacRae photographs an adorable mangrove isopod DragonFly Woman has 5 edible insects Rick Lieder’s Magic Midge Antweb’s Ant Blog [...]
Enriching the blogroll
Need some new reading? Here are blogs I’ve started following over the past month: 6legs2many: Alison Bockoven, a student at Texas A&M, blogs her work with fire ants and other entomological musings. For a start, check out the silverfish. Context & Variation: Kate Clancy is an Anthropology professor here at the University of Illinois, and [...]
Magnificent Insect Eggs
If you haven’t seen the amazing SEMs of insect eggs in this month’s Nat Geo, or read the accompanying text by ant guy Rob Dunn, you’re missing out… Bear in mind that some of the beauty- the color bits- are added later. Scanning Electron Microscopy cannot record color, so the striking hues are interpretations of [...]
Bug Links
What good are bugs? Ranger Rick has the answers. Ed Yong on the evil sexual strategies of male water striders. Chris Grinter spots a billboard-sized taxonomy fail. What is Aerial Plankton? The Dragonfly Woman explains.
May Berenbaum on Bed Bugs
May Berenbaum, entomologist extraordinaire, considers the modern bed bug resurgence in today’s NY Times: I had been a professor of entomology for 15 years before I saw my first live bedbug. It crawled out of a plastic film canister that had been mailed to me by a distraught student in the Boston area who had [...]
Answer to the Monday Night Mystery
The magical mystery lump from last night? As many astute readers noted, they are insects in the enigmatic order Strepsiptera. They live as parasites in the bodies of other insects. Considering the host species (Isodontia mexicana, a sphecid wasp), the streps are probably in the genus Paraxenos. Here are a couple more shots:
Stick Insect Photo Gallery
I’ve created a new gallery to hold my photographs of stick insects. Check it out here: Stick Insect Photos
Monday Night Mystery
What’s going on here? Five points for naming the organism, and five points for the behavior.
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
