Over at IB401, the entomology students are blogging faster than a swarm of locusts in a candy shop*:
- Caterpillars I have known
- Beetle's Threat to Baseball
- Ants on Stilts
- Pink Mantids!
- Keeping a Praying Mantis
- Fig Wasp Beats Deforestation
- Hungry Crickets
Drop by and leave them some comments!
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The students of IB 401: Introduction to Entomology here at UI have started a bug blog, and they've taken to it like...um... belostomatids to water.
Go pay them a visit and leave some comments.
Thanks, now I have a mental picture of a crowd of locusts all sitting around with their computers, blogging intently, while sucking on a lolipop with the other 'hand'...
And I really want that pink(!) mantid!