On the other side of an experiment
I’m three weeks into having type 1 diabetes (T1D) and very grateful that it’s 2017. If it were 1919, I’d have a painful year and a half...
Evolution of sex-biased dispersal (SBD)
Dispersal patterns predict how invasive species spread, how diseases transmit and where plants/animals will move next. In species with...
Training the bee “nose”
A few weeks ago I was hiking in Velebit National Park, Croatia. My sister and I had roadtripped there in a cheap $10/day rental car from...
Creep, crawly, crunchy: Can insects feed the future?
Insect-eating, or entomophagy, is practiced in many areas of the world. Why not in the U.S.? Since 2012, start-up companies here have...
Entomophagy exhibit at Penn State
Finally up and running! Had fun putting together an exhibit on the fourth floor of Penn State's library. It's all on entomophagy and...
Eradicating screwworms with 2,700 pounds of dried milk
If there was an insect-mass-rearing version of Godwin’s law, the screwworm* would be Adolf Hitler. The more anyone reads about insect...
An epidemic in America’s backyard
When we discuss neglected tropical diseases and, more generally, the global burden of infectious diseases, images of worlds beyond our...
Field Necropsy
Field work got messy last week (this is a warning for messy pictures below). Most days of working in the field start out the same: Kezia...
