Bug_girl

Bug_girl has a PhD in Entomology, and is a pointy-headed former academic living in Ohio. She is obsessed with insects, but otherwise perfectly normal. Really! If you want a daily stream of cool info about bugs, follow her Facebook page or find her on Twitter.
  • Afternoon Inquisition

    Sunday AI: Horrible Puns

    I have a confession to make: I LOVE PUNS. I really do.  I loved this Nerdolympics pun-fest. (The Protractor Pull! Differential Equestrian! Krebs Cycling!) I love this flea illustration.  There is an entire section of Cheezeburger for pun lovers like me. The holidays, for me, are when I get together with family and see who can be the most annoying…

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    AI: End of the Year Regrets

    One of the favorite websites I read is “Regret the Error.” It makes me feel a bit better when I screw things up.  As hard as we try, even with spellcheck and editors, mistakes still happen.  Sometimes, spell check is the source of the problem.  I still remember with some fondness an 8-page paper I once received from a student on “Attention…

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    Interview with a Bed Bug Sexpert

    Professor Mike Siva-Jothy is the leading expert on the sex lives of bed bugs.  By which I mean, he is trying to figure out why they do the strange things they do sexually. In addition to learning about just how traumatic insemination works, we also learn about how to make tiny glass insect genitalia, and have a brief discussion about pubic…

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    AI: Novels and Imagination

    It’s November, which is NaNoWriMo time. Or, for those not hip to the lingo, National Novel Writing Month.  The goal is to finish a 50,000-word novel by 11:59:59 PM on November 30.  Someday I would like to write a novel…but I got nothing right now.  I love sci-fi, and mysteries, and things like Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, which fall into…

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    AI: Unusual Byproducts

    “spider accident-induced priapism.”

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    AI: The East Coast gets Blown

    When I moved to the Northeast Coast of the US, I had no idea that hurricanes (or earthquakes!)  would be something that I needed to be prepared for. But here we are, once again, with a massive storm barreling down on us around Halloween.  Long Island Sound has had its first ever Hurricane Force Wind Warning.  Evacuations have begun, and…

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    Science Blog Challenge!

    If you didn’t hear about it, there is a Blogger Challenge for DonorsChoose.org: “DonorsChoose.org is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals, whom we call Citizen Philanthropists,…

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    AI: Flight of the Bumblebee

    You probably have heard Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov‘s Flight of the Bumblebee at some point in your life. I have too; it’s an iconic piece of music, and really does seem to capture the flight of a bumble quite well.  It was also used as the theme music for the Green Hornet on both radio and television. What I didn’t know was that…

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