Tool use in insects isn’t always about objects ... The “debris-carrying” ant species, for example, collect tiny pieces of sand, leaf, or wood to cover themselves while foraging.

While unusual, some insects employ tools, from ants using particles to build bridges and beetle babies using poop as a parasite deterrent. Previous reports of assassin bugs collecting plant resins ...

Meet the microscale: essentially, a teeny-tiny ruler that’s a must-have for entomologists — researchers who investigate insects. For larger specimens, such as the metallic, wood-boring Chalcophora ...

Henry Skinner, Curator of the Entomological Department of the Academy of Natural Sciences, in a lecture delivered here, gave some valuable suggestions regarding the collection of insects.

The team is learning how to make visual inspections and collect temperature data and how to collect insect specimens from and arou Some of the students in Bob Kimsey's forensic entomology course are ...

Our Insect Friends and Foes: how to Collect, Preserve and Study them. By Belle S. Cragin Pp. vi + 377. With 255 illustrations. (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Knickerbocker Press ...

Today, officers are using these tools to investigate another ... of agriculture and seafood. Officers collect adults, larvae and eggs of carrion insects such as flies and beetles from the victim.