- Benoit Guenard notes that 2009 was a busy year for new ant genera
- The NCSU insect blog has moved to a new URL: http://blog.insectmuseum.org/
- Bug Girl blogs snow fleas
- This is an amazing wasp
- xkcd shows the difference between movie science and real science
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