For stories about human-insect interactions, feel free to join me this Sunday in La Crosse!

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.

This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Experiences at the Bruce: Discussion with Barrett Klein, author of The Insect Epiphany - The Bruce Museum The Bruce is a world-class family-friendly museum of art and science in Greenwich, CT. Interactive exhibits for curious minds of all ages.

Myrmecophily (love of ants) is back at the Bruce Museum! Please join as I give a talk at 2pm this Sunday about how ants (and other insects) have affected our lives and our cultures throughout history. (Free with admission; registration recommended.)
brucemuseum.org/events/exper...

Wow! To see one is an entomologist's dream. Two at once?
I don't know what I'd do...

Stylops sp. male x2

Two Stylops sp. males today in Bengeo garden. Males live for only few hours seeking out females on their Andrena bee hosts & so are very rarely observed.
@hans-pohl.bsky.social @vannabartlett.bsky.social #Strepsiptera

It’s me!

Kudos to you for harnessing absurdly ignorant or misogynistic comments into teaching moments, and leveraging the levity of it all!

mud bees!

That I will! Danke, Dani.

My mom's (Karen Anne Klein's) art graces the cover of the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience!
"The cover portrays the brighter phase of this [infraslow brain] rhythm in a panther chameleon sleeping at night."
www.nature.com/neuro/volume...

High and Just-As-High are two mysterious Asgardian informants in Valhalla. After reading O'Connor's "Asgardians," Rivyn and I teamed up with Arno and Ellora Klein to create our own masked versions of these two Nordic enigmas. There is a third, called "Third," and his marionette will come later.

Opinion | Are Declining Birthrates Really a Problem?

Declining birthrates come with huge benefits for people and the planet.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/o...

The Bruce will be cancelled tomorrow... so I will fly back another day to share entomophilia with all!

Cower in the shadow of GROTTU -- and join me for a presentation about ants and other insects... and how they affect human culture!
The Bruce Museum, now on Tuesday at 10:30 am.

While reading Theodore Gray's "The Elements" together, Rivyn decided to create a periodic table of the elements, interpreting each of the 118 known elements that make up matter in the universe. He now unveils his "Periodic Box of the Modeled Elements." Details: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The grand premier of Rivyn's "Periodic Box of the Modeled Elements" for his 5th grade class! Months in the making, Rivyn interpreted each of the 118 known elements that make up matter in the universe. Close ups to come!

Experiences at the Bruce: Discussion with Barrett Klein, author of The Insect Epiphany - The Bruce Museum The Bruce is a world-class family-friendly museum of art and science in Greenwich, CT. Interactive exhibits for curious minds of all ages.

I am so excited to give a talk on 22 February to complement The Bruce Museum's "ANTS: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives" exhibit. My super-talented friend Sean Murtha is an artist and exhibit-maker who has helped to make the Ants exhibit come to life. Join me if you can!
brucemuseum.org/events/exper...

The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced

The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 open.substack.com/pub/alwaysso...

Great article. This has inspired me to plan a visit to see the original. Thank you!

The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced

My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #scicomm #sciviz #visualscicomm #sciviz #dinosaurs
alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

I enjoyed giving a talk about insects and human culture to the fine folks at Morbid Anatomy last night. If you haven't explored the writings of Morbid Anatomy's founder, Joanna Ebenstein, I recommend exploring: www.morbidanatomy.org/press.

Heavens no! Entomologists could never reach this degree of inscrutability.

snippet from Wendy B. Zomlefer's 1994 treatise on Tofieldiaceae of the SE United States, Harvard Papers on Botany. She notes that you can recognize the anthers of Tofieldiaceae because they have a "terete apical appendage, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, introrse [latrorse]; pollen grains ellipsoid, 2 sulcate, reticulate." It just goes on like this.

plant literature always sends a chill down my spine, like what if this is what WE sound like to non-entomologists? Could something as ordinary and harmless as the beetle taxonomist be this violently inscrutable??

Note: 7pm ET

Free Online Talk · The Insect Epiphany: How Our Six-Legged Allies Shape Human Culture with Professor of Entomology and Animal Behavior and Entomo-Artist Barrett Klein — Morbid Anatomy Monday, December 15, 2025 7pm ET (NYC time) Free! RSVP with email at checkout PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE . ...

One week till Morbid Anatomy: www.morbidanatomy.org/events-ticke...

Arachnid with babies on abdomen

Look at this amazing amblypygid mom who brought all her babies to the jungle bridge building with us!

Danielle Hudson officially and triumphantly defended her master's thesis: "Pollination behavior of solitary ground-nesting bees in Wisconsin’s Driftless and beyond." Danielle is an ambassador for invertebrate conservation, spreading the word about our local, native pollinators. Congratulations!

Later abridged version of this fine tome is freely available here: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc...

Indeed!

For all of those entomologists wondering what book Dr. Frankenstein is holding up in Guillermo del Toro's new cinematic masterpiece: www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/...