The Great Nutritional Collapse

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511 The nutrition in fruits, grains, and vegetables is decreasing worldwide.  This article, which appeared in Politico, October 2017, written by Helena Bottemiller Evich, helps to explain why: Irakli Loladze is a mathematician by training, but he was in a biology lab when he encountered the puzzle that would change his life. It was in […]

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Stink Bugs!

Written by Sarah F. The bug in question is a regular old stink bug.  The one we are concerned about is the Brown Marmorated  Stink Bug or Halyomorpha halys . The specimen does have banded legs and no banding on the abdomen or antannae. It does have positive notches on the pronotum.  You can see it […]

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