Ecology & Zoology

Beekeeping Fad And The Stress Of Traveling Is Harmful To Bees

Are bees in peril or not? It's difficult to know, because the moment science declares one thing not an issue (example: neonicotinoid targeted pesticides), environmental groups move the goalposts and declare something else is the problem. When honey be ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 22 2021 - 11:45am

Some Cats Are Better At 'Reading The Room'

Do cats adjust their behavior to what works to get what they want or do they nag humans until people begin to respond in more agreeable ways? Some cat owners, and probably most dog owners, might argue that cats engage in the latter and when it seems like t ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2021 - 2:20pm

A Hunter Shot A Buck, Which Turned Out To Be A Doe With Antlers. Here's How

In 2021, there remains some confusion about the distinction between biological sex and gender. The fossil record only shows males and females, it does not show how those people, or even precursors of modern humans, felt about themselves. And fossil records ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 1 2021 - 1:21pm

The Zombie Fires Of Siberia Burn At 75 Degrees Below Zero

Oymyakon, Russia is the coldest town on earth- but that doesn't stop fires. According to Accuweather, the temperature in Delyankir, Russia, about 300 miles (483 km) to the north of the Sea of Oshkosh, fell to 75 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (59.2 deg ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2021 - 6:15pm

Dinosaurs Weren't Green, Some Even Had Colors Like Peacocks

Popular imagery is that dinosaurs were a bland color, but most birds are have bland color palates as well. Then you have parrots or peacocks. In between the extremes of bland and flamboyant, there are pink pigeon feet, red rooster combs and yellow pelican ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2021 - 2:16pm

Politicizing Aphid Poop

We all know there is no Beepocalypse by now, right? Seeing it referenced in sit-coms from the 2010s  is as anachronistic as watching "Soylent Green" from the 1970s and seeing them lament that they didn't listen to scientists and make the hol ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 11 2022 - 5:11pm

Bees Are More Than Honey And Hives

It’s bee season and now’s the time to go outside and observe these popular insects. Bees hold a relatively special place in people’s affections – we have them to thank for honey, of course, and they’re also essential pollinators of many food crops and wil ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 26 2022 - 10:42am

Spreading 'Plant STDs'- Honeybees Allow Dangerous Viruses To Hitchhike And Home Beekeepers Help

A lot of media articles a decade ago worried about risk to honeybees from crop protection products while science should have been worried more about the viruses they carry that put plants at risk of disease. A recent study sequenced the genetic material pr ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2022 - 10:43am

Sea Cucumbers Are Ecologically Critical But Asian Food Market Demand Puts Them At Risk

Tiger blood, rhino horns, any number of natural supplements, including from endangered species, are used in the alternative medicine spheres- and that market is dominated by Asia. Sea cucumbers are used in Chinese folk medicine but are also a luxury food p ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2022 - 3:52pm

Some Parts Of Borneo Have Landscape Similar To The Pliocene Epoch, 5.3 Million Years Ago

Conservation in modern times is a misused term that trial lawyers often invoke to win lawsuits against companies before progress can commence but Brunei on the island of Borneo, which is about the size of the state of Delaware, has a great reason for all c ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 30 2022 - 10:33pm