Credit: Dr. Tim Davis, Director CGBG| Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens
As I mentioned in a soybean article,corn earworms are early this year, populations are high, and moths are flying. A lot of growers, curious about how their corn might have po … Continue Reading| Corn News - NC State Extension
The small but venomous Asian needle ant's sting can lead to anaphylactic shock, and it's coming to a yard near you.| UGA Today
(ACJ1) Between the patches of dappled sunlight and shadows that the overhanging Alder leaves cast on the slow-moving river a flash of iridescent blue catches the eye. This is the Banded Demoiselle …| Northwest Nature and History
Ants are hardwired to accept just one queen or multiple queens, but a minority can change the way others behave, an Odum School researcher found.| Odum School of Ecology
February 13 – Bright Lights & Bling @ Cambridge Entomological Club June 7- Bright Lights & Bling – A Firefly’s View of Reproduction, Mastroianni Memorial Lecture 6 pm @ The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts June 17 –Silent Sparks Talk & NightWalk @ The Lightningbug Jubilee – Brookside Nature Center, Wheaton, Maryland June 20 […]| Silent Sparks
UGA researchers dedicated to studying insects insist on their importance and even lovability.| UGA Today
Bat hitchiking, mealybug milking, and defensive bleeding - the creepiest crawlies and freakiest fliers of Aotearoa are duking it out in an annual popularity contest. Voting for the New Zealand Bug of the Year closes at midnight on Monday 17 Feb. The SMC asked experts to back a bug and share some| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
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Ant Picnic Data Discovery Grades K-5, 6-8 or 9-12 2-3 hours Biology / Math / Statistics Download TEACHER GUIDE Introduction to Ant Picnic Data Analysis https://youtu.be/pIVOTzcmsZo About this activity Scientists always collect and record data when they conduct experiments. In science [...]| Students Discover
Ant Picnic Grade levels K-5 or 6-12 2-3 hours Biology / Ecology Download Teacher Guide Welcome to Ant Picnic About this lesson Are ants always ruining your picnic? Have you ever noticed that some ants are drawn to your potato chips [...]| Students Discover
El gran proyecto de la calabaza El misterio de las abejas desaparecidas y las calabazas y pepinos enfermos. Acerca de la lección See Page in English Estamos documentando los insectos y microbios que visitan todas las plantas de cucurbitáceas, incluyendo calabazas (que son nativas del continente Americano) y pepinos (nativos de Asia). Estas plantas [...]| Students Discover
El Proyecto Chile An International project to survey the pollinators of chili plants. About this lesson We are interested in learning what insects are pollinating the flowers of chili plants. Participants in this project will photograph pollinators seen at flowers on chili plants so that scientists can finally identify what insects are coming to [...]| Students Discover
The Chili Project An International project to survey the pollinators of chili plants. About this lesson We are interested in learning what insects are pollinating the flowers of chili plants. Participants in this project will photograph pollinators seen at flowers on chili plants so that scientists can finally identify what insects are coming to the [...]| Students Discover
Invisible Pathogens Grades 8-12 Three hours Microbiology About this lesson In this lesson, students will have an opportunity to isolate fungal morphospecies by plating ants on agar gel. They will then be able to submit their findings to a scientist and connect their experience to [...]| Students Discover
The Great Pumpkin Project The mystery of the missing bees and sick pumpkins and cucumbers About this lesson En Español We are documenting the insects and microbes that visit all cucurbit plants, including pumpkins (which are native to the Americas) and cucumbers (which are native to Asia). These plants are now grown and enjoyed throughout the [...]| Students Discover
Bee Germs Project All levels One hour Urban Ecology About this lesson The “Bee Germs” project is focusing on learning more about bees that live underground. We know very little about bees that make their homes underfoot; by learning more about their germs (or pathogens) we [...]| Students Discover
Invasive Mosquito Project All levels 1-2 weeks Urban Ecology About this lesson In order to get a census of invasive mosquito populations, students are asked to collect eggs and send the eggs to the USDA. Doing so will give the USDA a good figure of invasive [...]| Students Discover
Urban Buzz: Citizen Science with Cicadas Any Grade Level Less than 1 Hour Urban Ecology About this lesson At any given moment we’ve got animals living under our feet – some of them for 17 years at a| Students Discover
In this podcast, recent Masters graduate Emma Plant interviews Jeanne Robinson, the Hunterian Museum’s curator of entomology. Tune in to hear about this fascinating collection and its origins, what it involves to take care of thousands of unique specimens, and how Jeanne came to find herself in this interesting role. Jeanne Robinson disguised as a […]| Naturally Speaking
AI is here (and has been for a while). It provides hope and potential solutions to many scientific problems, but also raises many ethical problems that can’t be ignored. For insect biodiversity and…| Ecology is not a dirty word