Welcome Back to the Lab! We’ve entered, what is in my opinion, prime bug season. Hikes are unbearable for my friends and family, as we can’t make it two feet without […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! Call the paparazzi and break out your VIP pass, it’s time for Celebrity Bugs, Part 2: Musician Edition! (With a surprise guest appearance at the end!) Kaikaia […]

Welcome Back to the Field! Field season continues for MBHI, and this week, I had the opportunity to revisit our field site at Rock Creek for the second year of insect […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! As Brood X continues their steady upward march on the east coast, CicadaMania is well underway across the US. If you’re like me, and you don’t live […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! They’re here! Well, not here, here. But in the eastern United States, Brood X is finally emerging from their 17-year development to wreak havoc on outdoor picnics and interrupt […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! With all the buzz surrounding the Missoula Butterfly House lately, it’s hard not to feel a little like celebrities. After our most successful Missoula Gives campaign EVER, the launch of […]

Welcome Back to the Field! Before we launch into today’s Notes from the Field, Missoula Gives starts at 5:00PM today! We’ve got a $25,000 goal with an incredible $75,000 matching challenge […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! Onward, US Ants! The final step to prepare our DNA for sequencing is to perform gel electrophoresis. Gel electrophoresis is a way to visualize the […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! Onward, US Ants! Now that we’ve extracted and isolated DNA from our tissue samples, it’s time to amplify – or make copies of – our DNA. […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! We’re on to the next step in our Barcoding US Ants project! Now that we’ve collected our specimens, it’s time to do some hard science: We […]