Catch of the Day
Podcast: The Hornless Asian Longhorned Beetle
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Great Lakes Echo and the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service are collaborating to share the first season of their podcast, Forestcast.
butterflies
Monarch butterfly conservationists concerned by long-term population decrease
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Insect populations fluctuate from year to year, depending on factors like weather and breeding, but the long-term downward trend in the monarch butterfly population is concerning conservationists.
Echo
Mighty mites might manage mosquitoes
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By Weiting Du
Summer is here and so are the annoying mosquitoes. But so, too, are creatures that limit their number. Water mites are close relatives to spiders and live in freshwater. Some of them can parasitize or prey on mosquitoes, according to a recent review study published in the Diversity journal. Understanding these water mites could be important for developing new ways to control them, the study said.
Echo
Podcast: When A Single Clone Caused An Invasion
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Great Lakes Echo and the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service are collaborating to share the first season of their podcast, Forestcast.
Art
Mobsters in the vacationlands
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From crime boss and occasional visitor “Scarface” Al Capone to the Upper Peninsula’s own Public Enemy #1, John “Red” Hamilton, Up North has historic ties to organized crime and the baddies who used the area as a playground.
Echo
Podcast: Slowing the Gypsy Moth’s Spread
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Great Lakes Echo and the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service are collaborating to share the first season of their podcast, Forestcast.
Catch of the Day
Podcast: Wasps vs Emerald Ash Borer Beetles
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Great Lakes Echo and the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service are collaborating to share the first season of their podcast, Forestcast.
Detroit
Gloom, doom and ruin draw visitors to Detroit, study says
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People who take such guided tours “are primarily interested not in the city’s auto manufacturing heritage but in its crumbling factories,” according to University of Washington in Tacoma Professor Emma Jean Slager.
Echo
New podcast on forest invaders, scientists who study them
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Forestcast is a new podcast from USDA Forest Service.
Echo
Podcast: A Slow Explosion of Damaging Forest Insects
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Part one in a series of podcasts on forest invaders from the USDA Forest Service.