Ent-o-Lantern – 2007
Leading up to Halloween, I thought I’d share some of the pumpkin creations that our lab creates for our annual departmental pumpkin carving contest. We’re lucky to belong to a department full of...
View ArticleEnt-o-Lantern 2008
Having found success with our jumping spider, we ventured further into the realm of morphological correctness, and constructed an ode to our advisor, Dr. Steve Marshall: This lovely creature is a...
View ArticleEnt-o-Lantern 2009
2009 saw a larger crowd in our lab than previous years, so we ramped up our pumpkin to allow everyone to participate. Before we get to it though, here are a few of the side projects people made with...
View ArticleEnt-O-Lantern 2010 Part 1
Just in time for all the exoskeletons and Devils Walkingsticks to head out onto the streets for some trick or treating, there are a few other insects ready for Hallowe’en! Steve and Rob’s a-maize-ing...
View ArticleEnt-O-Lantern 2010 Part 2
Although we had a good time carving our various insects Thursday night, we still had to come up with a new pumpkin design for our department’s contest Friday afternoon. With a pumpkin supplied by the...
View Article1st Blogday – Where’d the time go?
Today marks the 1st anniversary of Biodiversity in Focus entering the blogosphere, so I thought I’d take some time to reflect back on the year. From a personal perspective, this year has been huge: I...
View ArticleEnt-O-Lantern 2011
Remember when I told you ticks were pretty well my worst nightmare? Well with this year’s Ent-O-Lantern, you might start feeling the same… Modeled after the Deer Tick (Ixodes scapularis), this tick...
View ArticleA Spooky Strepsiptera for Halloween
As has become tradition in the University of Guelph Insect Systematics Lab, when Halloween rolls around, we pull out the knives & hand tools and make a trip to the produce aisle to get ready for a...
View ArticleTrich(optera) or Treat! Ent-O-Lantern 2014
It’s that time of year again, when spiders make their triumphant return to become decorations rather than despised, and when everything normally considered scary is fun, at least for one night: it’s...
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