Welcome back to the Lab! Happy first day of fall! As temperatures cool off and day length wanes, many animals are preparing themselves for the onset of winter. For insects, […]
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Notes from the Lab: Welcome Back!
Welcome back to the Lab! It’s been three months since my last lab dispatch but it might as well have been three days. This summer has kept us all on […]
Read MoreNotes from the Lab: Special Announcement
Welcome back to the Lab! As we move into summer, I’ve decided to take a break from writing Notes from the Lab while I focus on our exciting summer programs. […]
Read MoreNotes from the Lab: The Walking Stick Dilemma
Welcome back to the Lab! Since 2015, our colony of walking sticks, Medauroidea extradentata, have been reproducing via parthenogenesis (cloning), resulting in an all-female colony of clones. This method of reproduction is […]
Read MoreNotes from the Lab: Barcoding US Ants
Welcome back to the Lab! In 2020, MBHI began a partnership with the DNA Learning Center at Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory in Long Island. This partnership is part of an ongoing, […]
Read MoreNotes from the Lab: Water Striders
Welcome back to the Lab! Striders, skeeters, skippers, water bugs, pond skaters, or Jesus bugs; these predacious, aquatic insects go many common names and are some of the first insects to show up when […]
Read MoreNotes from the Lab: Arthropod Crossing
Welcome back to the Lab! Early spring in Montana can be a major gamble when it comes to weather. If you’re like me, you put all your eggs into your spring […]
Read MoreNotes from the Lab: Why Not Ladybugs?
Welcome back to the Lab! In response to our recent series on classroom insects, we received a question regarding yet another type of insect that is popular for its use in gardens. The […]
Read MoreNotes from the Lab: Entomophagy
Welcome back to the Lab! What did you have for breakfast this morning? Cereal? Eggo waffles? Pan-fried scorpion? If consuming insects has never crossed your mind, then you’d be considered […]
Read MoreNotes from the Lab: Bugs on Vacation
Welcome back to the Lab! Hello Bug Friends! Carolyn Taber, MBHI’s Museum Educator, here. I recently returned from spending a week in sunny (and buggy!) Hawaii with my extended family […]
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