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T. B. Mitchell: The Man Behind The Bees of the Eastern United States
from American Entomologist September 2016 by Elsa Youngsteadt, Heather Moylett, Margarita López-Uribe, and April Hamblin In the mothball-scented NC State University Insect Museum, thousands of bees bear the name T. B. Mitchell. The tiny, terse specimen labels, now caramel-colored and … Continue reading
Cicada Killer Wasps Are on the Wing
from the Frank Lab Website July 20, 2015 North Carolina’s steamy July days bring out some of our most spectacular solitary wasps. These sleek and streamlined hunters are quite docile toward humans, but are to be feared by other insects … Continue reading
New paper: Ants make cities cleaner
from the Frank Lab Website December 2, 2014 This is an essay I wrote about our research on ecology of urban insects; the results were just published in Global Change Biology. The first time we came back to an empty … Continue reading
The Other Honey
from American Scientist March-April 2012 In rural Ghana, stingless bees are well known as useful animals. Farmers raid natural hives to collect honey, which they use to treat ailments from eye infections to asthma. Many say the bees improve crop … Continue reading
In the News: Teaching, Not Technology
from American Scientist March-April 2012 Population growth and devastating droughts have left thousands of Ethiopian pastoralists in poverty and hunger. But community groups that help people learn literacy, business skills and microfinance–rather than new technologies–made participants more resilient and hopeful … Continue reading
Top 10 ScienceNOWs of 2011
ScienceNOW picked its top 10 stories of 2011, among them an article I wrote about pitcher plants that collect bat guano. Read about all 10 stories online or in Science magazine (pdf).