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Dr. Frank breaks down Euonymus scale
For Bri and the rest of you who have euonymus scale woes:
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There’s an app for that
Just in time for summer, NCSU has a new app to help you ID and remove ticks. Just put it on my phone: http://itunes.apple.com/sa/app/tickid/id531348104?mt=8
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New App for Nursery and Landscape Pest Management
Reblogged from Insect Ecology and Integrated Pest Management: The Southern Nursery IPM Working Group (SNIPM), of which several faculty at NCSU are members, has just released and exciting new App...
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Count tiny things
I made a tutorial for the very small group of us who want to count very small things. Dr. Seuss would be proud. ImageJ tutorial
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The small and mighty
Speaking of tiny things (months ago, yikes), meet Pachyneuron. This parasitoid wasp is but 2 millimeters long. Its intricate body parts amaze me, and it’s a certifiable urban badass. It lays its...
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So easy everyone can do it: How we’re like cave men and ants
I was so excited to write a guest post for the Your Wild Life blog! Thanks to Mandi for letting me hang out with her and the ants....
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Like a pancake on toothpicks
Here’s a video of a lonely (one imagines) scale insect walking across a twig in the middle of winter. They are thought to have settled for life by this time in the year, but this gal couldn’t stop...
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Termite guts are wiggly
My friend Colin and I were at the Nature Research Center last Thursday dissecting termites to show what lives in their abdomens. Turns out there’s a lot in there, and the protists are by far the...
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Guest blog post on EcoIPM and Your Wild Life!
I published my first paper! http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0059687 And blog posts about my first paper! http://ecoipm.com...
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Ground bees active but do not threaten people or yards
Reblogged from Insect Ecology and Integrated Pest Management: As I write this my front yard is abuzz with small bees. Many are flying around just above the ground while others fly back and forth to...
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Spring is war: Parasitoids attack a cankerworm
‘Tis the season. Cankerworms, better known as inchworms, are once again unwelcome ornaments in our hair. I know almost nothing about them except it is really fun to people watch when they arrive, and...
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Panama
I came to Panama to learn about tropical ecology and to do a small project. I’ve been here for four days, most of which I’ve spent in the rainforest, and this place is really unlike anywhere I’ve ever...
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The Azteca ant trees
When I was thinking about what to study in Panama, one of the course instructors suggested Azteca ants. I read about them, and their life history is so crazy it was hard to believe until I saw it....
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Riding in the canopy crane
Hurray for fun tropical adventures on our day off in Panama! A few days ago, we traveled to the Smithsonian Canopy Crane. http://www.parquemetropolitano.org/english/P29/canopy-crane/ The crane your...
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The tiniest beautiful things (or the most beautiful tiny things)
It’s been a while since I’ve felt like writing anything, mostly because I’ve spent my time wrapped up in thoughts about who eats whom, who stings whom and lays an egg inside whom and when. I wake up in...
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PLOS collection on the ecological impacts of climate change
Today PLOS came out with a special issue highlighting papers that describe the many effects of climate change on living things. There is a lot of interesting work in there, and I’m happy we had the...
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A couple cold-weather insect finds
Now that my prelims are over, all I want to do is tromp around in the woods and watch insects. This is the worst season for such enthusiasm. Most things tiny and interesting are also sleepy and slow....
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Goodnight, gall wasp
This wasp was sleeping inside a gall on an oak tree. Photo by Andrew Ernst
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Microscope photos of insects from the trees
You ever get one of those Christmas gifts you didn’t know you wanted? That’s the best kind of gift, and they usually come from someone who knows you really well, i.e. knows what you want before you do....
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