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Discovering Warrior Wasps

Lynn S. Kimsey is an entomologist, and has been one for most of her life.So begins the National Science Foundation's recent LiveScience feature on...

Lynn Kimsey with a gigantic
Lynn Kimsey with a gigantic "warrior wasp" she discovered on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Lynn Kimsey with a gigantic "warrior wasp" she discovered on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, November 7, 2011 at 5:23 PM

One of Life's Little Mysteries

It's an amazing migratory feat. "One generation of monarch butterflies flutters some 2000 miles between southern Canada and central Mexico," writes...

Monarch Butterfly
Monarch Butterfly

MONARCH BUTTERFLY in the Luther Burbank Gardens, Santa Rosa. One generation of monarch butterflies migrates 2000 miles between southern Canada and central Mexico, according to LiveScience senior writer Wynne Parry in her Nov. 4 post. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 7:03 PM

Blood Banquets

Human blood--it drives mosquitoes wild. Today Marlene Cimmons of the National Science Foundation (NSF) spotlights chemical ecologist Walter Leal,...

Walter Leal
Walter Leal

CHEMICAL ECOLOGIST Walter Leal works in his lab in the Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Culex mosquito
Culex mosquito

THIS MOSQUITO, Culex quinquefasciatus, has just received a blood meal. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 6:13 PM

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