Normal Biology

I put out a call on Twitter for volunteers to go out looking for winter millipedes for me, and people responded! Totally cool! So this post ...

I finished sorting through the rest of my Staphylinid samples today, over 50 samples in all. They're making more sense to me now, and so...

Back in June, I was collecting a lot of leaf litter for a small sampling project. I was trying to determine if collecting litter at differen...

I've just returned to Fayetteville after a week spent in Raleigh, North Carolina at the Museum of Natural Sciences Research Lab. I was t...

This is a different type of post than I normally write, and one that is vastly more personal. I've been trying to write it for months, b...

After collecting in Marietta, I headed towards Chillicothe, Ohio, where Buzzard's Roost Nature Preserve is located. I had never been to...

My first collecting day in Ohio took place near Marietta, on a trail system I've walked many times. It's where I learned to identify...