Strepsiptera…a rare example of true insect parasitism

I’ve done a lot of writing about parasitoids as of late…but I’ve rarely gotten around to mentioning parasites. There’s a good reason for this, believe it or not. This is an entomoblog, and I rarely get around to discussing the true diversity of the animal world around us. I pretty much focus on insects and [...]

Bug Photo of The Week

Thomas R. Buckley, Dilini Attanayake1 and Sven Bradler (2008). Extreme convergence in stick insect evolution: phylogenetic placement of the Lord Howe Island tree lobster Proceedings of The Royal Society

Bug photo of the week

Newly emerged Actias luna photographed at the Christina Reiman Gardens butterfly wing on the Iowa State University campus.

Bug photo of the week

Atrophaneura semperi photographed on pointsettia at Christina Reiman Butterfly Gardens on the Iowa State University campus.

New Species Discovered Along Mekong River

Okay…totally breaking my moratorium on science posts for this. It’s a picture show which shows many animals discovered in a remote region of Laos, Vietnam, China…a region in there somewhere. There are some really cool species here…and it just goes to show that we still have a lot more to discover. You can see a [...]

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