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Category Archives: Insects
Say Hello to My Little Friend
No, it’s not a gun. It’s a butterfly from the National Museum of Natural History which has landed on my jacket collar: Here’s a big-ass moth (“big-ass moth” is not a common species name…) Mealtime
Posted in Insects, Museums etc.
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Neonicotinoids, Colony Collapse Disorder, and ‘Bee Medical Research’
Peter Dorman, who writes one of my favorite economics blogs, raises two problems with Carl Zimmer’s recent NYT article about neonicotinoid pesticides and their possible link to colony collapse disorder (‘CCD’). First, Dorman states: There followed comments from four of … Continue reading
Ramblin’ Hercules Beetle Style
From the Insect Zoo at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum, we bring you this speedy Hercules Beetle: Well, speedy is a relative term…
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Hannity and Carlson’s War on Entomology
It’s nothing more than Palinist politics of the blood, with scientists cast in the role of the ‘unreal’ Americans.
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Posted in Conservatives, Funding, Insects, NSF, The War on Science
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About That Fruit Fly Research…
This isn’t Palin, this is mainline Republican operatives doing this. This pig-headed, willful stupidity is institutional, not individual.
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Funding, Insects, The War on Science
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Oldest Bug EVAH! Discovered
A 310 million year old mayfly.
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Posted in Insects
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The Epidemiology of Bee Colony Collapse
How mathematical epidemiology can be used to better understand bee colony collapse.
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Posted in Insects, Mathematics
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About That Mutations-Are-Always-Bad Creationist Idiocy…
the Chikungunya virus might have something to say about that (if it could speak).
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Posted in Creationism, Insects, Microbiology, Viruses
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Robobugs: Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean…
…they’re after you? Are we being spied upon by bug-like robots?
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Posted in Civil Liberties, Insects
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Bee Colony Collapse Is Associated with a Virus
We don’t know if the virus is the causal agent, but a recent Science paper used a metagenomics approach to find that bees from colonies that have collapsed are infected with a virus (and it’s the same virus in different colonies).
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Posted in Agriculture, Insects, Viruses
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