Larval Therapy
by This is our friend, the fly. It might be gross when you see her flying around your potato salad in the summer, but she is …
Category: Fun Fact
The Human Botfly, Dermatobia hominis
by 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 …
Beetles will eat anything
by Beetles are one of the most ecologically diverse groups of animals on earth. Since their origins about 300 million year ago, this order of insects …
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 …
Bug or true bug?
If you’re talking about insects, when is it okay to call one a “bug”? People in everyday life call almost anything a bug, including spiders, centipedes, roly-polies and snails (none of …