Tag: beetle

• Nature’s Pooper Scooper (Dung Beetles!) with Professor Marcus Byrne

  

  Professor Marcus Byrne teaches us about the fantastical and unexpected world of dung beetles, their ecological importance, their connections to human culture and history, and how this lowly creature finds its way home by looking to the stars.

  Devon Bowker

  May 3, 2021

  Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life Blog

  animals, beetle, dung beetle, ig nobel, insect, marcus byrne, milky way, podcast, science, the wild life

• Carrion my Wayward Beetle

  

  This is circle of life—or at least an ugly, albeit necessary, curve of it. This is the life of the American Carrion Beetle.

  Devon Bowker

  August 3, 2018

  Animals, Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life Blog

  american carrion beetle, arthropod, beetle, biology, bugs, carrion beetle, circle of life, decomposition, ecology, entomology, environment, Insects, life, scavenger, thewildlife, top, wild, wildlife

• It’s Asian Lady Beetle-Mania!

  

  The Asian Lady Beetles are back with a vengeance for their annual autumn invasion.

  Devon Bowker

  October 22, 2017

  Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life Blog

  agriculture, aphids, asian lady beetle, autumn, beetle, biology, ecology, environment, fall, featured, Harmonia axyridis, Insects, lady bug, ladybug, ladybug swarm, life, minnesota, multi-colored Asian lady beetle, spotted, swarm, what is going on with all of these ladybugs?