Here’s Olga Shishkov talking about some maggots, and some numbers that, when she was a child, excited Olga in a way that led to her eventual unusual career. Olga studies how maggots manage to do some of the surprising, impressive things they do. ABOUT THIS LITTLE VIDEO SERIES—This is part of a series of sessions […]
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Innovative Scientists Talk About Their Childhood (3): Olga Shishkov’s Bug Pals
Here’s Olga Shishkov talking about some bugs that, when Olga was a child, excited Olga in a way that led to her eventual unusual career. Olga studies how maggots manage to do some of the surprising, impressive things they do. ABOUT THIS LITTLE VIDEO SERIES—This is part of a series of sessions we (David Hu […]
Maggots, and the aftermath of your meals
“Can maggots devour all our food waste?” and convert the food bits we wasted into something again useful to us humans? Ig Nobel Prize winner David Hu and colleagues—led by master maggot-mystery solver Olga Shishkov— explore that question, in their lab, and in this Science Friday video: Brian Soash writes about the question, for Science […]
Learn how a swarm of maggots eats a pizza, in Washington
Olga Shishkov will discuss (and maybe demonstrate?) how a swarm of maggots eats a pizza, next Saturday night, February 16, at the Improbable Research session at the AAAS Annual Meeting, in Washington, DC. Science magazine introduces the research: “If you’ve got the stomach for it, you can watch 10,000 maggots demolish the above pizza in […]
Human-assisted maggot painting
Investigator Sally Shelton alerts us to the artistic collaboration between Erin Grindley Watson and some maggots. The result: fine art paintings, or perhaps just fine-art paintings.
Progress in academic maggot painting (part 3 of 3)
Following our recent items on academic maggot painting in the US and UK, (beginning with part 1, and proceeding thence to later parts) we now switch attention to Tasmania, Australia, and the artworks created by Dr. John Parish Ph.D. who entitled his 2012 thesis for the University of Tasmania : ‘Lost or Gone. Nature’s remnants: mysteries […]
Progress in academic maggot painting (part 2 of 3)
Alison Bockoven (profiled in part 1 of this series) (at the Entomology Department of Texas A&M University) is not the only person with a high level academic involvement in maggot painting. Over 7000 kilometres away in Manchester, UK, Professor Matthew Cobb, recently embarked on a project with artistic blowfly larvae – it was featured at […]
Progress in academic maggot painting (part 1 of 3)
Alison Bockoven is currently a Ph.D. Student at the Entomology Department of Texas A&M University. When she’s not investigating the extent, mechanisms and consequences of genetic variation in foraging traits in the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), she finds time to create artworks using maggots covered in (non-toxic) paint. The video above shows how […]
Maggot medicine basics, for when and if
Mark Benecke, perhaps the world’s most colorful forensic entomologist (and maybe the only one who is also the main character in a play) digs up the US Army’s advice about using maggots medically: From the US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES MEDICAL HANDBOOK, ST 31-91B, Chapter 22 “PRIMITIVE MEDICINE,” Section 3: “MAGGOT THERAPY FOR WOUND DEBRIDEMENT.” 22-3. […]
Maggots in the index
This image shows the index to June Preszler’s delightful children’s book Flesh-Eating Machines: Maggots in the Food Chain. (NOTE: You can see a few of the books fun images, on Google Books. One is reproduced here, below the index.)