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Did you notice how few monarchs passed through this fall? Yesterday, the New York Times posted an editorial about the plight of monarch conservation. The…

Challenges and prospects in the telemetry of insects Check out a new paper that reviews the history of insect telemetry, including radio, harmonic, and restricted…

A new study looks at the effectiveness of using citizen science to teach in the classroom. “Findings indicate that the students enjoyed and were interested…

Check out this review paper and see what’s new in the world of odonatology! A critical overview of progress in studies of migration of dragonflies…

The New York Times discusses dramatic declines in wintering monarch populations. Although the declines were noticed on the wintering grounds in Mexico, causes seem to…

“Population-level responses to climate change depend on many factors, including unexpected interactions among life history attributes; however, few studies examine climate change impacts over complete…

A recent paper in Annu. Rev. Entomol. gave a nice review of the use of radar for tracking insect movement. Two newer methods, Vertical Looking…

A new movie will soon to be released, which chronicles the migratory journey of the monarch butterfly. The movie also highlights the efforts of Fred…

New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that migratory moths benefit considerably from their annual movements. Similar to migratory…

August, 2012: Mexican officials used anti-logging patrols and incentives to protect wintering habitat of the monarch butterfly. Their efforts have been very successful and illegal…