Llama dung mites! (and other news)

Bugs in the News for this week:
You just don’t get headlines better than this Llama Dung Mites provide insight on rise and fall of South American early humans.
Highway closed for Butterflies! Migration of the purple milkweed buttefly to be aided in Taiwan.
Scientists raise bumper crop of larvae of endangered butterfly in [...]

A very ambitious snake

I spent this weekend up at the Kettunen Center teaching kids entomology. Man, is that a beautiful place! It really isn’t that much farther north, but the lake there is still frozen enough to do some ice fishing.
By careful planning, (i.e, dumb luck) I managed to have a day off today.
There were two new species [...]