Monday, March 24, 2014

Beetles North-South - Art as Insect Index!


Recently we talked about how studying the evolution of lice was used to date key events in human evolution....

Along that vein of interesting cross-connections, this article talks about how an insect biologist who is also an avid historic print collector tracked down not only the species-level cause of holes in wood printing blocks (those pesky beetle larvae!), but also how different species have changed their geographic ranges over the past few centuries. Fascinating!

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