The Xerces Society has put a call out for entomologists and naturalists to help document the host ranges–and declines–of several native bumblebee species:
“In the late 1990’s, bee taxonomists started to notice a decline in the abundance and distribution of several bumble bee species. Three of these species (Western Bumble Bee, Rusty-patched Bumble Bee, and Yellow-banded [...]
Yesterday, I posted a new episode in the “Ask an Entomologist” series. My regular readers (we’re up to 8!) were probably thinking “Gosh, why is Bug-girl writing this long post? Isn’t she hugely overworked at her new job?”
The answer is yes, I am very stretched right now. (Urk!)
I finished that post on pheromones (it had [...]
As tiny animals that live widely dispersed, finding a partner of the proper sex and species to reproduce with is a problem for insects. How do they arrange a hook up?
Insects have solved that problem in a variety of ways, but sexual pheromones are one of the most common solutions. Pheromones are [...]
I’m actually talking about this vine, not a specific situation. It’s all over the place at my new job, and it needs to be removed. Unfortunately, many of our volunteers are….folks of a certain age. And digging up vines in the woods is not the sort of thing you want to set a pack of [...]
I’m still trying to sell my house so I can skip my 150 mile commute to the new job–and not having much luck, despite dropping the price on the house over 20K since January 1. And now, I find out I’m in the area of the US that fell the most in terms of home [...]
Welcome to the Valentine’s edition of the Skeptics’ Circle!
We have to lead off with Gateway Skepticism’s skeptical examination of “scientific dating.” Personally, I think it might take a while to verify the claim that having divergent histocompatibility complexes makes for better sex and more orgasms. I’m sure quite a few skeptics are willing to [...]
I am swamped today, and trying to put the Skeptics’ Carnival together–so I thought since a bunch of new readers would be coming by tomorrow (in theory!), I’d put together a collection of posts that give them a flavor of Bug Girl:
1. Exploding pants
A post about the back story on a Mythbuster’s episode, with a [...]
Just a reminder I’m going to be hosting the Skeptics’ Circle here Feb. 14th. Romance! Insects! Skepticism!
For example: I’m skeptical this dude’s sword is really that big. And….um….he’s oiled up enough to catch a lot of gnats standing outside like that.
Yeah.
Well, hopefully the actual circle will pull together a bit more smoothly.
If you have [...]
Hey, there’s a really nice article about bug food in the New York Times today:
“In the kitchen at Toscanini’s Ice Cream, David Gracer plunged a spoon into various insect-and-ice-cream concoctions. Wielding a grasshopper covered in burned caramel, he said: “Insects can feed the world. Cows and pigs are the S.U.V.’s; bugs are the bicycles.”
Provocative as [...]
Sometimes, I really just want to smack someone. Or, in this case, an entire jury:
“Brown was accused of fondling the woman and forcing her hand onto him.
He testified he exposed himself to her and tried to push her head into his lap, hoping she would perform a sex act, while the two sat in [...]
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