21/150: The Plant That Bites Back

Posted on February 22, 2017March 7, 2017 by Liz Darling (Sears)

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Plantae: Magnoliophyta: Magnoliopsida: Caryophyllales: Droseraceae: Drosera: Drosera linearis (Goldie)

The slender leaf sundew (Drosera linearis) is a carnivorous plant that lives in boggy areas with nitrogen-poor soil. Their main diet consists of mosquitoes and other small insects, which they trap using sticky hair-like structures on their leaves. It can take the plant as little as 15 minutes to kill the mosquito, but they digest their insect prey for up to 2 weeks! Continue reading “21/150: The Plant That Bites Back” →

Finding Aquatic Invertebrates In Eastern Ontario

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Dan Engelking

Hey Folks!

I have just made my triumphant return from the very first BIObus trip of the season! While this trip was a bit shorter than former excursions, we still covered a lot of ground and sampled all kinds of water bodies! Continue reading “Finding Aquatic Invertebrates In Eastern Ontario” →

Keeping Your Balance In A Stratified Ecosystem

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Graham Ansell

Hello faithful readers!

Last week I was on the BIObus in several lovely Canadian parks where our team focused on aquatic collections. We got to tramp around in various rivers, bogs, fens, swamps and shorelines in our hip waders, scooping up bugs with our D-nets. This trip, along with many others that will take place this summer, will help BIO add a new level of aquatic invertebrates to the reference library. Continue reading “Keeping Your Balance In A Stratified Ecosystem” →