Posted on June 24, 2009 by Cheshire
Bug girl has a post about all the different crops that are brought to you by insects.
I figured I’d give you an inside scoop as to how crop pollination works, since I’ve dealt with bees before.
One of the most common misconceptions about beekeeping is that they mostly produce honey. A lot of beekeepers certianly do [...]
Filed under: Bug Businesses, General Entomology, Insect Pathology, Parasitology | Tagged: Acari, Agriculture, Apiculture, Apis mellifera, Beekeeping, Bees, Hymenoptera, Mites, Parasitology, Varroa destructor | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 11, 2009 by Cheshire
Being an entomology student can be exciting a way that’s both intellectual and in a way that’s more like ‘WTF’. People are a lot more curious about insects than they let on, and I get a lot of questions about bugs in my everyday life as a student when I tell people what I’m studying.
However, [...]
Filed under: Blag, General Entomology, Medical, Parasitology, Personal | Tagged: Bed bugs, Blag, College Life, entomology, parasitiology, Personal, Pubic Lice | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 15, 2009 by Cheshire
Courtesy of Beetles in the Bush, I bring you a video of parasitic was development from inside a caterpillar. I also bring you a great opportunity to discuss wasp biology.
A lot of people think parasites are just these idle, simple degenerate creatures. Hell…there’s an entire talkorigins page chastising creationists for touting [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by Cheshire
Water is important to disease vector arthropods in many different ways. For some, this is obvious. Mosquitoes and blackflies need water to breed. A large amount of the effort that goes into controlling mosquitoes in malaria-ridden areas goes into researching where they breed after floods.
For others, it’s more subtle but still very important. Usually, most [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2009 by Cheshire
Neat video about parasites and mind control from National Geographic.
Filed under: Parasitology, Uncategorized | Tagged: Ants, Hymenoptera, Liver flukes, Parasites, Parasitology, Youtube gems | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 14, 2009 by Cheshire
I’ve done a lot of writing about parasitoids as of late…but I’ve rarely gotten around to mentioning parasites. There’s a good reason for this, believe it or not. This is an entomoblog, and I rarely get around to discussing the true diversity of the animal world around us. I pretty much focus on insects and [...]
Filed under: General Entomology, Parasitology | Tagged: evolution, Hymenoptera, Insect Photography, Insects, Stripseptera, Twisted winged parasites, Wasps | 5 Comments »
Posted on December 17, 2008 by Cheshire
To fully understand the context of this article, you probably need to read this article over at my old blog about the signficance of tachinid fly pests to silk production. It’s a great peice of work about a parasitoid fly (a tachinid…this blog’s namesake) that’s been devastating the silk industry in India.
So…you have a pest [...]
Filed under: General Entomology, Parasitology, Science | Tagged: Biocontrol, Butterflies/moths, Diptera, entomology, Hymenoptera, Hyperparasitism, Lepidoptera, Parasitic flies, Parasitic wasps, Parasitoids, Parasitology, Peer-reviewed research, Sericulture, Tachinids | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 5, 2008 by Cheshire
First thing, they owe the poor professor an apology. Why can’t this ever happen in real life?
Filed under: Culture, Evolutionary Biology, General Entomology, Parasitology, Science, The Interweb | Tagged: Back in the day, Beetles, Biocontrol, Captain Planet, Coleoptera, Culture, Ecology, entomology, Hymenoptera, Parasitic wasps, Parasitoids, Television, The Internet, Youtube gems | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 26, 2008 by Cheshire
Yesterday, I wrote about a fly that’s been killing our native silkmoths. It’s really an unfortunate story, but I didn’t really write anything about the biology of this guy.
I’ve been writing about various parasites and going into their biology a little bit, but I don’t think I’ve ever hit on tachinid biology.
You can see a [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2008 by Cheshire
I’m doing some research right now on how biocontrol programs have basically destroyed our native moths. Basically, we have a problem with an introduced pest called the ‘gypsy moth’ which I better know as Lymantria dispar. It was introduced way back in the early 1860s and has been nomming up our forests ever since. Infestations [...]
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