The other beetle-hunter

Today, July 1st, 150 years ago, the joint paper of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace was read to the Linnean Society of London: “On the tendency of species to form varieties, and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection.”
Nature had a nice essay about Wallace, who tends to be [...]

Mosquito Prevention

It’s been a very wet spring, and not surprisingly, many people have ended up at the BugBlog looking for ways to deal with mosquitoes. The “What’s the best way to repel mosquitoes” post has popped to the top of the “most-viewed” list.
Mosquitoes are so bad at my house, even spraying my clothes with DEET isn’t [...]