Monthly Archives: September 2020

A note on death in insects – pretending, surviving, and living

Posted on September 22, 2020 by JoanieTheEntomologist

My undergraduate student that I’m mentoring this semester asked me a question about when an insect is dead. He pondered this because we read a paper were researchers infected carpenter ants with a fungus were considered dead after no movement … Continue reading →

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Why Do Zipper / Writing Spiders Make “Zippers? / Writings” in Their Web?

Posted on September 8, 2020 by SciBugs

Spiders that have the Stabilimenta are active during the day and tend to have their webs just hanging out in the open. Furthermore – they don’t build their web anew every day like other spiders. Continue reading →

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Why are burying beetles covered in mites?

Posted on September 3, 2020 by joeballenger2005

@BugQuestions Can you help identify this bug and what insects are on it? pic.twitter.com/3Ht56RJ6IS — Groumpio (@jameslaird1976) October 7, 2015 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Sometimes, when writing for this blog, I learn new things about bugs as well. This is one of those … Continue reading →

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