November 2, 2024

Angelini Lab Member Featured in Podcast

Here in the Angelini Lab, research interests can differ pretty dramatically. While our primary research animals are soapberry bugs, other ongoing projects investigate different bug …

Brain-munching maggots and ant-decapitating flies, oh my!!!

Just in time for Halloween, I’d like to share a chilling tale of strange nature. While there are a multitude of relationships in the natural …

A Ghost Story

In the spirit(s) of the season, I wanted to share a ghost story from the lab with you all… Here in the bug lab, mysteries …

A Light in the Darkness

Marine organisms are incredibly diverse and comprise an enormous number of species. Due to the ocean’s massive amount of biodiversity, many novel adaptations have evolved …

Zombie Ladybugs and Mind-controlling Wasps

Halloween may be over, but some things are creepy all year round. Dinocampus coccinellae is a tiny, parasitoid wasp that uses a virus to turn …

Hatching

Many animals hatch from eggs, including most insects. As you might expect, the size of the eggs an animal lays depends on who big the …

What’s polyphenism?

Most animals grow to a relatively consistent adult size and shape. For example, people have a range of heights that falls across a roughly bell-shaped …