Saturday, January 21, 2012

Scent or touch? The art of Penelope Stewart at the Edward Day Gallery

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A George Cruikshank's illustration for  Tristram Shandy One of my favorite books is Tristram Shandy , and in honour of this the curre...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The amazing Louie Schwarzberg - fantastic pollinator clips

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Louie Schwarzberg I owe big thanks to artist Valerie Knapp for bringing the TED talk by Louie Schwarzberg to my attention. Mr. Schwarzb...
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Friday, January 6, 2012

bee-ing a foster parent with zombies

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Prof. Robin Owen While reading about the zombie-making fly Apocephalus borealis (see my previous post ) I found that some of the basic re...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Unintended Consequences II: a "safer" pesticide kills bees in new ways.

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Beekeepers know that their hives are at risk when pesticides are sprayed anywhere nearby, and occasionally lose massive numbers of bees to ...
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Can you say "unintended consequences"?

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Figure 2 from Core et al 2012 The unlovely creature at top left is a fly which parasitizes bumblebees in North America. In an article j...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Some links to while away your winter time with...

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Wow - I have such a backlog of stuff to post here it's not funny at all! Just a few more days until I get the backlog of other stuff don...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Sentinels on the Wing: the Status and Conservation of Butterflies in Canada.

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That's the title of a talk by Peter Hall, Research Associate at the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, and co-author of Th...