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I had an amazingly good picture sent to me recently for identification and I realized I haven’t talked about these little insects* on the blog yet.   There are millions of springtails in the soil. They are tiny so most people will never notice them outside. There are over eight thousand species worldwide wide but most scientists will tell you that is a huge underestimation. It’s just that no one has identified the rest yet. They get the name “springtail” because many species

The Black Plague ravaged Europe starting in the 1300s, with some estimates of 60% of the population being killed. It’s a great history...

I’m still hung up about this apparent miracle bed bug technique I posted yesterday. This got me thinking, there’s some weird research...

As I sit here and try to come up with something brilliant for this week’s blog post…the universe is giving me absolutely nothing. So...

I can’t believe this is still coming up. Well, no…I can believe it. I looked back through my old posts and I posted about this in 2022...

The smell of fall in the air, the skeletons all over, the spiderwebs covering entire houses, and goblins and ghosts and vampires oh my!...

It’s almost October so I’m perfectly okay with starting the Halloween series. Because it is the best holiday of the year. I was doing a...

There it is, you are the problem. While I do agree, there are some problems with this. Pests have been associated with humans for...

Introducing the new series of ten questions with a pro. Every other month, I’m interviewing a “pro” to find out what they do, how they do...

The smell of fall in the air, the skeletons all over, the spiderwebs covering entire houses (in my case real ones because I don't knock...

Last week I started writing an article for a trade journal on small flies in food processing and wound up talking about all the food...

When I started college, I wasn’t really aware of entomology. I switched my major to entomology after my second year. My very first...