Larva Esqueleto
by La naturaleza en su caótica perfección siempre encuentra una forma de sorprendernos. En su vasta diversidad de vida se encuentra éste bello especimen con un …
Category: Evolution
Apariencias que engañan
Vivir junto a alguien con muchos malos pensamientos sobre ti puede ser agotador. Intentar demostrar siempre que no eres tan malo como ellos piensan te …
Biodiversity / Bugs in Our Back Yard / Developmental Biology / Ecology / Evolution / Fun Fact / Lab Research / Paleontology
Angelini Lab Member Featured in Podcast
by Here in the Angelini Lab, research interests can differ pretty dramatically. While our primary research animals are soapberry bugs, other ongoing projects investigate different bug …
Biodiversity / Ecology / Evolution / Fun Fact / Taxonomy
Light of My Life
While Valentine’s Day has come and gone this year, life and love in the natural world continues ever onward. Today we’ll take a closer look …
A Light in the Darkness
by Marine organisms are incredibly diverse and comprise an enormous number of species. Due to the ocean’s massive amount of biodiversity, many novel adaptations have evolved …
Darwin’s Children
by Jari’s post on Darwin Day got me thinking. Darwin was a fascinating character. By all accounts he was a low key personality. But he became …
The Lobster: Cockroach of the Sea?
by Living in Maine, where lobsters are available left and right, I’ve always thought that they resembled something I’ve seen before…something I’ve seen way too many …
Arthropods / Ecology / Entomology / Evolution
The story of the red-shouldered soapberry bug
In addition to this blog, our website has what will eventually become a series of pages describing the natural history of several species of true …
The beak of a bug
What makes any bug a true bug? Insects in the order Hemiptera evolved from a common ancestor with a unique feature that all “true bugs” share today: …
Host plants
Let’s take a moment to define a term that’s used frequent on this site. A host plant is a plant that supports the existence of …