Hello again from Eastern Michigan. Here are various insects and spiders that I had photographed in my area from two summers ago. My last post left us at a very productive park near where I work, and this post starts with some things that I’d found during that same outing. We start wi...
However, Latrodectus mactans black widows have been known to live as long as three years in the wild and up to four years in captivity, according to the University of Michigan's Animal Diversity Web. How toxic is the black widow's bite? Because female black widows are so much bigger than...
These are the ones often found in grassy fields and under rocks, stones and dead leaves [source: University of Michigan]. 7: Spiders Go Into Homes in Winter to Escape Cold Weather Though birds, bears and other creature often travel to warmer locations during the winter, house spiders have...
with most news articles concentrating in recent years (Fig.2a). There is also a seasonal pattern in the distribution of news articles. In the northern hemisphere, most news articles occur throughout the summer season (Fig.2b), whereas the pattern ...
A team of scientists from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have programmed an autonomous molecular "robot" made out of DNA to start, move, turn, and stop while
I live in northern Indiana, close to the Michigan border. And once in a great while, you will hear of a brown recluse spider bite. I was suspicious a couple years ago my daughter had a bite from something on her leg, it swelled larger than normal and had a little scab in the ...
attack in North America by the invasiveViburnum leaf beetle,Pyrrhalta viburni. It was first detected in the U.S. in 1994, and has been rapidly expanding its range ever since. It is now found throughout New England, all of New York state and into western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. ...