Buzz Of The Week

Every week or so, this page will feature an insect-related link to another website that is fun, interesting, intriguing, humorous, or all of the above. Check this page every week for the latest buzz.

Identifying and Enhancing Natural Enemies in Crops
This thirty-minute video by entomologists at The Ohio State University shows how to identify and enhance natural enemies in vegetable crops. The...
Parasitoid Wasps Lay Eggs in Ants
This video shows females of the parasitoid wasp Kollasmosoma sentum ovipositing in workers of the ant Cataglyphis ibericus. It was recorded in slow...
Ants Africa
This video by Marlin E. Rice shows a swarm of predatory ponerine ants searches the African savanna for their prey--termites. When they locate a...
A Look Inside a Water Beetle
This video uses computed micro-tomography video to show the intricate inner workings of the Dryops water beetle. The startling images were created by...
Pollinators Putting Food on the Table
This video from The Nature Conservancy shows the incredible importance of pollinators to agriculture and landscapes. Watch as students build a...
The Malaria Cube Helps Fight Malaria
Tomorrow, April 25, is World Malaria Day, which was instituted by the World Health Assembly in May 2007. Every year there are about 216 million...
Edward O. Wilson Videos
Edward O. Wilson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor emeritus at Harvard University. He is also a Fellow of the Entomological Society of...
Video on Beneficial Insects in the Garden
This video from the University of Nebraska shows how you can identify beneficial insects in your garden, which may help your vegetables by...
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Control
In this video, Mike Raupp, "The Bug Guy" for the University of Maryland Extension, shows us the best ways to keep the infamous brown...
Why Science? Integrated Pest Management
Oscar E. Liburd, an entomology professor at the University of Florida, explains why he became an agricultural entomologist, and the goal of...