Category Archives: News

The “Murder Hornets” AKA Asian Giant Hornet

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Polistes fuscatus

Well. Thanks New York Times. 🙄🙄 Hai. I’m Nancy – I was supposed to write my “Re-introduction” this week because of our hiatus. However … Now that every entomologist ever needs to clean up this puked up fur-ball of a … Continue reading →

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Announcment – New Writer – Joanie Mars

Posted on June 26, 2017 by SciBugs

Written by Nancy Miorelli I am so excited and honored to introduce Joanie Mars as our new writer. When Joe and I started this little project about three years ago, we had no idea that it was going to grow … Continue reading →

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Interacting With Ekbom’s sufferers: Guidelines from the dermatology literature.

Posted on November 24, 2016 by joeballenger2005

Infestations can be very difficult to handle in online science outreach projects. We do our best to give the best possible advice, but ultimately it’s an issue where you need boots on the ground. During our infestation post, we mentioned … Continue reading →

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SciBugs Collections Etsy Shop!

Posted on November 22, 2016 by SciBugs

If you don’t want to scroll down, here’s my etsy store – SciBugs Collections – link! The Short Story:

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There’s a lot of misinformation about spider bites on the internet…and some of it comes from academic websites.

Posted on October 20, 2016 by joeballenger2005

Written by Joe Ballenger October is an important time for spiders. Spiders sleep through the winter, and right about now is when they’re looking for places to hunker down. Consequently, we get a lot of pictures of spiders in people’s … Continue reading →

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Cockroach milk is not the next superfood. It could be a lot more important than that.

Posted on July 31, 2016 by joeballenger2005

Written by Joe Ballenger A number of articles circulating everywhere online are claiming that a new ‘superfood’ has been found in cockroaches, and although I’m happy popular culture is focusing on the fact cockroaches are good moms…they’re missing a far … Continue reading →

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Ecuador Update #3 – From FaceBug to Housing

Posted on May 11, 2016 by SciBugs

Hello again! Just bringing you some more news. We’ve so far raised $2,227!!  That leaves us with just $300 to go to reach our goal and build six houses in Carlos’s community. We’ve been planning with Manuel and Cristina and the … Continue reading →

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Microcephaly, Zika, correlation, and causation: the science behind CDC’s confirmation of Zika and microcephaly

Posted on May 5, 2016 by joeballenger2005

Written by Joe Ballenger I’m still following the Zika/Microcephaly literature. I’m not writing about every paper which comes out, but I am writing about the ones I feel are pretty important. The most recent ‘big paper’ came out in the … Continue reading →

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Facebug Challenge, Chibis, and New Houses – Ecuador Earthquake Relief Update

Posted on May 3, 2016 by SciBugs

When I put out our plea for help a few days ago asking for aid after the recent earthquakes in Ecuador. I had no idea what was going to become of it. It’s always a little terrifying when you throw a … Continue reading →

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Shake It Off – Earthquake Relief in Ecuador

Posted on April 28, 2016 by SciBugs

Hai! You might remember me as one of the authors on this site, although in all honesty, internet-less jungle life has hampered my abilities to research and write articles. But I do surface from time to time to talk about … Continue reading →

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