What is a True Fly?
by Anything that is small, bug-like, and has wings is a fly, right? Wrong! There are only about 120,000 flies that belong to the order Diptera, …
Author: Albertha Ladina
The Death Watch Beetle
If you hear a strange ticking noise at night, don’t be too alarmed! It’s not some ghost trying to haunt you…it’s likely the deathwatch beetle …
Urban Beekeeping in the Big Apple
As the world and its cities continue to grow (over half of the world’s population lives in cities!), more and more urban areas are …
Ecology / Entomology / Fieldwork / Fun Fact
Where are the mosquitoes?
Have you noticed having fewer itchy, annoying mosquito bites to scratch as the weather gets colder? Isn’t the disappearance of these pesky little critters one of …
The Lobster: Cockroach of the Sea?
Living in Maine, where lobsters are available left and right, I’ve always thought that they resembled something I’ve seen before…something I’ve seen way too many …
The Human Botfly, Dermatobia hominis
Last January I went to Belize as part of a course to study tropical ecology. For three weeks we stayed in different parts of the diverse …