I once had a biology teacher who said that everything worth studying needs a geek. He said, while they may be weird, snail geeks are the reason we know anything about snails. Snake geeks are probably the reason we have anti-venom. Neil Borlog, a wheat geek, won a Nobel prize as a result of his [...]

Ok, I’m betraying the spider-based subject matter of this blog. But I had to. The other day, a mocking bird decided to post itself outside my bedroom window. I’d never seen one before, and I find it fascinating. The recording is about 4 minutes long. It is uncut. This bird just went one call after [...]

You might think that a tarantula is a spider since it looks so darn much like a spider. But the answer is really really complex. The first time that the word tarantula was used to describe a spider, it was used to describe the specie Lycosa tarantula, the tarantula wolf spider. This spider is found [...]

I’m here to spread the word about the magnificence of spiders and how much we can learn from them. Spiders are truly global citizens. You can find spiders in nearly every terrestrial habitat. This red dot marks the Great Basin of North America, and I’m involved with an alpine biodiversity project there with some collaborators. [...]