Air's Wild Acres
Small goats and small batch cheesemaking on a small farm, all with big laughs.
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Excited Scientists?
I’ve had several interactions with people in the last few weeks which have lead me to question what level of enthusiasm is “appropriate” for science. Quite commonly I am one of the loudest and most jovial people in the room because I do get incredibly excited about the work that I do. People apparently hear… Read more
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“If you got a tattoo of an insect…
… what would it be?” one of my friends recently asked me (who, has a tattoo of a green lacewing). In the few days prior to that, I had spent some time working with an ant taxonomist at the University of Guadalajara (Dr. Miguel Vasquez Bolaños), and had commented that he was so dedicated to… Read more
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Podcasts, selfies, and specimens
One of my entomology colleagues, Brittany Dodson, and I were recently discussing the idea of starting a blog. I had commented that I rarely post anything in my actual blog, and the most recent post I had done was something about pinning beetles (it was actually about a Facebook game a few of us had… Read more
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Sentinel Waxworms
I expanded my sentinel waxworm sampling to include more samples early in the Spring. While we’ve been sampling with waxworms after crop emergence for several years, this year I wanted to see if we could capture what was happening prior to crop planting. I was worried that since we had a long, cold, wet Spring… Read more
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