Carrion is something we choose to stay away from - it looks awful, writhes with insects, and smells really bad. Why would anyone study the remains of dead animals? Aa Aa Aa Carrion, or the remains of ...

It’s that time of the year when everyone heads to the pumpkin patch, picks out their pumpkin, and carves a spooky face on the jack-o-lantern. With Halloween only a week away this weekend is the ...

A study published in the June 2024 issue of the journal Pedosphere looks at how a non-native armored scale insect alters the leaf litter decomposition dynamics of the novel host cycad species on newly ...

Two weeks ago I carved a pumpkin and set it outside to watch it decompose. Well now that Halloween is over here is the before and after of my carved jack-o-lantern. It only lasted 6 days in the ...