Ten Thousand Beautiful Bugs in Your Eyes

New UT entomology project provides stunning public domain images

"...Wild, world-class photographer and also UT Austin’s curator of entomology, the instigator of the project, and he confirmed this...."

Feb. 8, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Ant Bully

Childhood's fascination with all things small and squirmy makes this story of a boy who becomes an ant a pleasant, if undernourished, tale.

"...the script's oddly brazen socialist politics (this is like Entomology 101 as taught by Noam Chomsky). It all adds..."

July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wacky Web We Weave

Multimedia Mayonnaise and Other Condiments on the Net

"...of ingredients. More complete recipes can be found at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~entomology/InsectsAsFood.html...."

Jan. 12, 1996 Screens Feature

Graham Reynolds Bugs Out With Insectum

New Golden Hornet collab project mines the sonic world of insects

"...Holley. As part of his research, Reynolds audited Wild’s entomology course at UT-Austin, and he and his wife came..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: "Bug Filter"

See the world and learn about it through the eyes of insects

"...these filters, making this not simply a class in entomology and optics, but also engineering and material physics. On..."

April 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Zika 101

Travis County to conduct a two-day survey on the mosquito-borne virus

"..."[This] is a numbers game," said Wild, curator of entomology at the University of Texas at Austin's College of..."

June 16, 2016 News Post by Annamarya Scaccia

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...In 2012, Steve Heydon of the Bohart Museum of Entomology discovered what may be the smallest moth in the..."

July 25, 2014 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Need a Lyft? Rideshare Wars, the Sequel

New player brings rideshare back to city agenda

"...including food truck owner, nanny, bar owner, tax auditor, entomology student, and middle-school social worker." (So we know there..."

June 6, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Take Five (New Stops)

Brenner expands his tips for your 2013 EAST exploration

"...of artwork inspired by insects and the field of entomology, loaded with paintings, photographs, and sculpture by local professionals..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gettin' Buggy With It? Yes: Gettin' Very Buggy With It

The Entomological Society of America's annual shindig: Now in Austin!

"...And this whole deal isn't mere happenstance, no: We've..."

Nov. 5, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

News Ticker: June 7

All the news that's fit to blog

"...Louie Gohmert reflects on the Constitution, Deeda Payton studies entomology, and Rick Perry refuses to respond to rumors. Secrets..."

June 7, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Swearingen Seeks DNA Testing

Execution scheduled for late February

"...histology is not good for such purposes, offering that entomology is a far better predictor – to the consternation..."

Jan. 18, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Reed and Swearingen Evidence in Question

Two more death penalty cases under appeal scrutiny

"...of a handful of scientific disciplines – pathology, histology, entomology, taphonomy, anthropology – Edwards, who presided over Swearingen's trial,..."

Aug. 24, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Judge: Ready to Rule Against Swearingen

Transcripts aren't yet in, but judge has decided

"...the defense's conclusions" about Trotter's death, but also that "entomology and taphonomy" – the study of how organisms become..."

Aug. 20, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Damselflies on the Ceiling of Your Mind

It's not all about the aphid shit, thank you very much

"...John C. Abbott is the Curator of Entomology for the Texas Natural Science Center at UT Austin...."

Aug. 13, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What's Bugging Amy Stewart?

The author delivers the goods on nature's baddies

"...without also mentioning another: Hugh Raffles’ magnificent intersection of entomology and anthropology, Insectopedia, reviewed in these pages about a..."

May 16, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Food-o-File

Romance available in paper bags, restaurant closures/openings, Girl Scout cookies, and more yummy news

"...harvesting, vermiculture, double digging of garden beds, schoolyard habitats, entomology, fundraising, environmental stewardship, and building a garden community. Teach­ers..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Documentaries and the Cult of Personality

How documentarians pick a winner

"...reprehensible or unseemly. Great personalities can make garbage-collecting interesting, entomology, sealant distribution, carpal tunnel syndrome, even Canadian politics. Which..."

March 12, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Critics Poll

"...Schroeder: Josef K, Entomology (Domino)..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Music Feature

Day Trips

The Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum in Plano offers all things buggy, if you've got the stomach for it

"...has a degree in zoology with a minor in entomology. As a kid he always loved discovering new bugs..."

May 19, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin Theatre Critics Table 2000-2001 Nominations

The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

"...Tribute to Texas Composers, Austin ProChorusChamber ConcertInsects: A Musical Entomology in Six Legs, Austin Chamber Ensemble..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles

"...positive spin on this history of neglect, noting that "entomology is one of the few biological disciplines in which..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Books Review by Brian Barry

Lone Star Sweden

"Lars Gustafsson has the air, somehow, of a sailor," Roger Gathman writes about this Austin author transplanted from Sweden. "It is as though he were some Swedish Sinbad come to rest here after a dozen ports. And in a way, that is true."

"...Signore Joyce. Did anybody in the Forties at Harvard's entomology department realize that Vladimir Nabokov, that odd Russian lepidopterist..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Eat the Beetles

April 2, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Writing by Degrees

The Unfolding Now

"...day, then he'd have a chair at Harvard in entomology." The craft of writing screenplays may be artful and..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Screens Feature by Jay Hardwig

Bradley's Blackball

Despite Developer's Poison Pen, Scientist Prevails

"...last year. Bowles, who has a doctorate in aquatic entomology, is one of TPWD's most knowledgeable biologists regarding salamanders...."

Feb. 28, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce