Welcome Back to the Field! Field season continues for MBHI, and this week, I had the opportunity to revisit our field site at Rock Creek for the second year of insect […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! As Brood X continues their steady upward march on the east coast, CicadaMania is well underway across the US. If you’re like me, and you don’t live […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! They’re here! Well, not here, here. But in the eastern United States, Brood X is finally emerging from their 17-year development to wreak havoc on outdoor picnics and interrupt […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! With all the buzz surrounding the Missoula Butterfly House lately, it’s hard not to feel a little like celebrities. After our most successful Missoula Gives campaign EVER, the launch of […]

Welcome Back to the Field! Before we launch into today’s Notes from the Field, Missoula Gives starts at 5:00PM today! We’ve got a $25,000 goal with an incredible $75,000 matching challenge […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! Onward, US Ants! The final step to prepare our DNA for sequencing is to perform gel electrophoresis. Gel electrophoresis is a way to visualize the […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! Onward, US Ants! Now that we’ve extracted and isolated DNA from our tissue samples, it’s time to amplify – or make copies of – our DNA. […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! We’re on to the next step in our Barcoding US Ants project! Now that we’ve collected our specimens, it’s time to do some hard science: We […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! For the next couple weeks, we will be taking a deep dive into our summer project, Barcoding US Ants. But before we can even begin the […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! Last summer, MBHI began a partnership with the DNA Learning Center at the Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory in Long Island. This partnership is part of […]