Welcome Back to the Lab! As our animals molt and grow, we try our best to preserve their cast-off exoskeletons (molts) so that we can use them in our education […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! A couple weeks ago, we covered a handful of insect delicacies from around the world. But we aren’t covering entomophagy for the sake of shock value; […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! As we fast approach the one-year mark on the worldwide COVID-19 shutdown, and given the truly extraordinary leaps we have made in a relatively short […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! What did you have for breakfast this morning? Cereal? Eggo waffles? Pan-fried scorpion? If consuming insects has never crossed your mind, then you’d be considered […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! We’ve finally reached sunshine season! Well, kind of. We’ve reached that season where the sun comes out and gives one the sense that spring is coming, […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! We’ve all been there; contentedly enjoying a summer afternoon, traipsing across the lawn in bare feet when: boom. Bee underfoot. A yelp is issued. Obscenities are […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! As the designated “bug person” in my circle of family and friends, it probably comes as no surprise that I often receive texts asking for bug-related […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! Last week we covered several unique mimicry and camouflage strategies arthropods use to avoid being lunch. However there was a specific strategy I left out; not because it’s not a […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! By now, you’re probably familiar with some of our camouflage experts here at MBHI: our walking sticks and praying mantids are popular Bug Ambassadors that have perfected […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! When Beatlemania swept across the planet in the early and mid-60’s, beetlemania was already alive and well in Japan, and had been for generations. Japanese children […]