Category Archives: Insects

About That Fruit Fly Research…

Posted on October 25, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

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 | 10 Comments

Oldest Bug EVAH! Discovered

Posted on October 16, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

A 310 million year old mayfly.
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Posted in Insects | 6 Comments

The Epidemiology of Bee Colony Collapse

Posted on July 1, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

How mathematical epidemiology can be used to better understand bee colony collapse.
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Posted in Insects, Mathematics | 2 Comments

About That Mutations-Are-Always-Bad Creationist Idiocy…

Posted on December 19, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

the Chikungunya virus might have something to say about that (if it could speak).
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Posted in Creationism, Insects, Microbiology, Viruses | 4 Comments

Robobugs: Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean…

Posted on October 15, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

…they’re after you? Are we being spied upon by bug-like robots?
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Posted in Civil Liberties, Insects | 6 Comments

Bee Colony Collapse Is Associated with a Virus

Posted on September 7, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

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 | 10 Comments

Confusing Ecological Interactions and Natural Selection Gives Me the Williwillies

Posted on April 23, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

ScienceBlogling Mike Dunford has an interesting post asking whether we should save the Hawaiian plant, the williwilli. It’s a good post, but I have two comments, one silly and one serious. The silly comment is that how could anyone let a plant named the williwilli become extinct? It’s so damn cute (and is the plural williwillies?) Onto the serious point.
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Posted in Ecology, Evolution, Insects | 6 Comments

I, For One, Welcome Our Yellow Jacket Overlords

Posted on August 23, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

From the Montgomery Advertiser comes a story about gigantic yellow jacket nests.
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Posted in Insects | 9 Comments