{"id":3022,"date":"2014-02-01T16:44:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T21:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2014-02-01T16:44:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T21:44:57","slug":"the-flypaper-returns-january-2014-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/01\/the-flypaper-returns-january-2014-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flypaper Returns! January 2014 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A while ago I started a weekly link round up series, but unlike Ed<\/a>, Chris<\/a> and Malcolm<\/a>, I quickly became inundated with too much good stuff and it was taking me way longer to put together each week than I felt comfortable doing, and eventually allowed it to drop.<\/p>\n

But, there is some truly awesome work being done across the internet bringing attention to entomology and science in general, so I figure I’ll try and do a monthly recap of some of the stuff I come across and that I think should be read\/watched\/listened to by more people! Here’s this month’s crop of awesomeness (in chronological order).<\/p>\n

Sometimes conservation biologists can try to save a species a little too hard, inadvertently side-lining natural selection. Ed Yong has the fascinating story of how one bird species was pulled back from the brink a little too often<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature has until now been a little like the United Nations: it rules on taxonomic disagreements when they’re brought up, but they don’t really have any power to police shoddy taxonomy. Kai Burington does an excellent job explaining why it should stay that way<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Field notebooks can be a life-saver for keeping ideas & observations in order when you’re at risk of constant distraction, so why aren’t more students taught about them early in their careers? Chris Buddle shares how he and some others have incorporated these field journals into assigned coursework<\/a> at his new digs at SciLogs.<\/p>\n

Even if you look like a clown, unless you can create balloon animals and make people laugh, you’re not convincing anyone that you’re not just a creepy imposter. Chris Hassall explains why the same principle may apply to some wasp-mimicking flower flies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Breaking Bio<\/a> is still going strong, and we had the chance to talk with Dr. Jessica Light this month about lice evolution.<\/p>\n