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Each year, the editors of the Journal of Natural History award the E.O. Wilson Research Prize to one outstanding paper for excellence in natural history research. This year, the award went to “Description and biology of two new egg parasitoid species (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) reared from eggs of Heliconiini butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) in Panama”, authors

By Steve Donoghue This article originally appeared in the Boston Globe on August 13, 2020 Ants just naturally prompt comparisons with space aliens, and renowned naturalist and emeritus Harvard University professor Edward O. Wilson isn’t two pages into his latest book, “Tales From the Ant World,” before he’s making the comparison himself. He proposes that his readers conduct what’s probably th

The Half-Earth Project Educator Ambassador program provides a platform for teachers to engage each other and their students in the grand ambition of Half-Earth, and to inspire and connect students with the natural world. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life Of Beavers And Why They Matter Ben Goldfarb, winner of the PEN E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, authored this incredible book on beav