How to catch a bee swarm
Looks can be deceiving. Which is a relief, because, to the uninitiated, a honey bee swarm looks like pure evil.
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Choreographer and biologist study pollinators, bee movement
An artist and a scientist collaborate on a bee movement study with potentially significant results for the health of pollinators.
BugShot (part 2)
After attending the BugShot workshop, your humble neophyte is working on photographs of insects and spiders at ranges of 1/2 to 2 inches...
BugShot (part 1)
I just spent three exhilarating days at the Shaw Nature Reserve near St. Louis, Missouri, the place where everyone who made the West into a European-culture dominated landscape started out. Distracted neither by steamboats nor wagon trains, I saw a lot of bugs and spiders...
Insect Intellect: The Literary Turn of UW Entomologist Jeffrey Lockwood
At the height of his scientific career, UW entomologist Jeffrey Lockwood walked away to teach in the humanities and write. Today, Lockwood has published a small shelf of books and teaches in UW’s philosophy department. What might have been a suicidal career move has panned out.