Welcome back to the Lab! If you’ve ever been plagued by grasshoppers in your garden, you know the damage their tiny, chewing mandibles are capable of. Just a few Orthopterans […]

Welcome back to the Lab! We’ve all been there; contentedly enjoying a summer afternoon, traipsing across the lawn in bare feet when: boom. Bee underfoot. A yelp is issued. Obscenities are […]

Many consider insects to be the most successful lifeforms on the planet. If you’re a longtime reader of Notes from the Lab, it should come as no surprise that they […]

Welcome back to the Lab! Millipedes are some of the oldest creatures on earth and well known for being the leggiest. They hauled themselves forth from the primordial ooze well […]

Winter doesn’t technically start for another week, but it certainly made an early arrival in our corner of the world. While I miss the noisy din of insects at the height of summer, […]

It’s time to break down some popular myths surrounding spiders! Myth:  “The daddy long leg is the most venomous spider in the world, but its fangs are too small to […]

In the current age of information accessibility, knowledge transmission happens almost instantaneously. While many would argue this is largely beneficial, it also means misinformation is traveling at lightning speed. Once […]

Mountain pine beetles have a nasty reputation in the Intermountain West. Many are familiar with the term “beetle kill,” and witnessed the damage a beetle infestation can cause. Efforts to […]

Sleep is nearly universal within animals. Though it may present differently between species, everyone needs a rest now and then. Insects are no exception. Sleep signatures in insects resemble those […]

Humans and honey have a long historical association. Beekeeping emerged in ancient Egypt nearly 10,000 years ago, but evidence of wild honey collection dates even further. For nearly 15,000 years, humans […]