Month: June 2013

Doctor Who’s Green Death Maggots!
Giant Fanged Death Maggots that Spit Glowing Green Snot, plus epically bad 1970s couture.

Pollinator Week: Free books!
The only thing better than books is FREE books.

Will we have fruit in a future without bees?
Do people really still hand pollinate orchards in China? And why don’t they just get more bees?

It’s National Pollinator Week!
What is pollination? It’s SEX.

Outreach in Unusual Places
I was lucky enough to be part of a series of sessions at ScienceOnline this January that discussed Science Outreach. It should tell you a little about how hectic my life has been lately that […]

The Mad Hatterpillar
There is nothing I love more than finding an amazing new insect to tell you about! Today it’s the “Mad Hatterpillar.” As you can see from this photo, these caterpillars (Uraba lugens, larvae of a […]

Silk Pavilion
How to get 6,500 silk worms to make you a house. Sort of.

How To Deal with Blog Spam
Sometimes you just need to amuse yourself.