Local Critters Struggle Through Wet Weather

Austin, Hill Country's animals getting hammered by rains, other harsh conditions

"...that come with warm, wet weather. The worst is insects laying their eggs in wounds that would normally heal..."

July 13, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

'We've Got Climate Change'

Lee Nichols interviews UT biologist Camille Parmesan about the evidence and consequences of global warming.

"...got all these species in a community interacting, the insects depend upon the plants for food, and the birds..."

March 7, 2003 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Waterloo Greenway Conservancy's Creek Show

"...the Dragonfly lights the creek way with enlarged metal insects native to the habitat...."

Nov. 15, 2022 Photo Gallery

Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup

Spring is full of festivals and flowers

"...me. If you suffer from entomophobia (the fear of insects), then the exhibit at the Fort Worth Botanical Garden,..."

March 3, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

COVID-inspired anthology eschews cohesion for innovation

"...out of the equation in an abstract view of insects and lizards crawling over windows and fluttering around light..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Queen of Black Magic

Grisly Indonesian horror remake knows when to go gonzo

"...The Queen of Black Magic pays off with interest, insects, ichor, and bile...."

Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How Erika Thompson Keeps Her Cool While Scooping Up Bees

TikTok hit and Texas Beeworks owner stays meditative in viral videos

"...says working without gloves lets her know if the insects are distressed and stinging – not ideal, considering they..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Rachel Rascoe

"Krista Steinke: Good Luck With the Sun" at W&TW

These spectacular images of the sun and sky captured with homemade pinhole cameras reveal more about us than celestial objects

"...so serendipitous, described as a "one-week pinhole exposure with insects and an accident," the sun is an afterthought, interrupted..."

June 1, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Not all insects are bugs, properly speaking. Some insects chew their foods...."

April 6, 2018 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

What Are the Birds Telling Us About Climate Change?

Reading the signs from our friends up in the sky

"...During its winter, it feeds almost exclusively on scaly insects' secretions, so an abrupt change in timing or winter..."

Feb. 23, 2018 News Feature by Melany Jean

Anya Gallaccio: to see if time was there at Laguna Gloria

The artist's giant tree stump carved from limestone is a sign that we love ancient things and are part of nature, too

"...the Mona Lisa layered with fungus and crawling with insects having long since invaded its glass cell. Here, Gallaccio..."

June 23, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

American Honey

Youths hit the road in this rambling epic

"...actions and facial expressions. The abundance of cutaways to insects is an indulgence of Arnold’s, and the film employs..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hush

Well-executed horror nightmare features sick torment of a deaf woman

"...actual kill; he’d prefer to pluck the wings off insects, one by one, instead of squashing them outright...."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: Learning to See

Photographer captures unrecorded insects of the Amazon

"...the Colombians around him, then of hummingbirds, then of insects. With the aid of a local assistant with the..."

March 13, 2016 Screens Post by Joe O'Connell

Waller Creek Comes to Life

Conservancy seeks radical makeover east of Downtown

"...the inlet structure to the creek below, allowing water, insects, fish, and organic material like leaves to pass through...."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Good Kill

Ethan Hawke pilots drones over Afghanistan from a trailer in the Nevada desert

"...threats on the ground below. They’re like deadly mechanized insects reimagined from a Fifties sci-fi flick, except they don’t..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Leviathan

This Oscar nominee for best Foreign Language film exudes existential Russian angst in cinematic form.

"...relatively decent men and women whom they consider mere “insects” (as a drunken Vadim tells an equally vodka-impaired Kolya)...."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

EAST: 'Eclosion'

'Eclosion' portrays the natural glories of insectdom with ingenuity and wonder

"...expression, could have opened its display of artwork about insects just as the Entomological Society of America has its..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVD Watch: When Horror Came to Shochiku

Criterion box set restores a lost corner of J-horror

"...to be eradicated – whether by vampiric aliens, poisonous insects, nuclear self-destruction, or by its own brutality and selfishness...."

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wild in the City

Make a more natural garden with the Neighborhood Habitat Challenge

"...that will attract and provide for the animals and insects that are native to Texas. Even if you're attached..."

May 13, 2010 News Post by Jillian Richardson

A Taste of Honey

How we get honey now, and what might happen to the industry in the future

"...for a long, long time. Bees, or beelike proto insects, have been around since the Silurian period – approximately..."

June 12, 2009 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Beetle Queen of NYC

Director Jessica Oreck and the pride of owning a hissing cockroach

"...days, her collection includes spiders, millipedes, praying mantises, stick insects, hissing cockroaches and even a rhinoceros beetle...."

March 17, 2009 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The McMansion Nightmare Continues

"...a day. It kills all, and I mean all, insects. That includes bees, butterflies, and june bugs. To find..."

April 28, 2008 Postmarks

Attack of the Crickets

UT suffering under plague of field crickets

"...numbers here. When the UT Tower is lit, the insects actually pile up so they are 6 to 8..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Into Great Silence

At once eerie, picaresque, and evocative, this is a daring and breathtakingly constructed documentary about the Carthusian monks of the French Alps, who have taken a vow of silence.

"...after it"), the monks are akin to annointed outcast insects, moving through a semi-darkened, hivelike hallways that open up..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Perfect Liberty

To find themselves, the subjects of this year's rock docs found that they had to follow their own sound

"...March 14, 11am, ParamountRobyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death, and Insects..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

CSI: Travis County

Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?

"...working on a severely decomposed body while swarmed by insects – specifically, maggots and flies. For years, the office..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Veggie Heaven

A visit to Angel Valley Organic Farm

"...drought has been an unprecedented onslaught of destructive, vegetable-munching insects...."

March 24, 2006 Food Feature by MM Pack

Respiro

It's the story of a wife and mother living on a Sicilian island, who is prone to increasingly bizarre behavior, and the family who must cope with her.

"...drowse of the heat and ceaseless whine of unseen insects. You can almost feel the dull heat radiating off..."

July 25, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hoppity Goes to Town

"...animation studio is this look at a community of insects whose city garden home, Bugville, is threatened by urban..."

April 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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