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 […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! We’ve finally reached sunshine season! Well, kind of. We’ve reached that season where the sun comes out and gives one the sense that spring is coming, […]

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 […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! As the designated “bug person” in my circle of family and friends, it probably comes as no surprise that I often receive texts asking for bug-related […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! Last week we covered several unique mimicry and camouflage strategies arthropods use to avoid being lunch. However there was a specific strategy I left out; not because it’s not a […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! By now, you’re probably familiar with some of our camouflage experts here at MBHI: our walking sticks and praying mantids are popular Bug Ambassadors that have perfected […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! When Beatlemania swept across the planet in the early and mid-60’s, beetlemania was already alive and well in Japan, and had been for generations. Japanese children […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! This week I want to introduce you to our small herd of Odontotaenius disjunctus, or Bess Beetles! These ground-dwelling, social insects belong to the family Passalidae, which […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! Missoula hasn’t seen a lot of snow this winter, at least, not nearly as much as I would like; in fact, this winter has been […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! And Happy New Year! I think I speak for everyone when I say I’m ready to wash my hands of 2020. But there were a few […]