Integrated Pest Management

Integrated Pest Management

Integrated pest management (IPM) is a proven, cost-effective strategy to combat pest problems without unnecessary pesticides. By correcting conditions that lead to pest problems and using least-toxic…
Circus of the Spineless #65!

Circus of the Spineless #65!

I know, I know! This is totally a cop-out blog post. But I've been super busy compiling the latest Circus of the Spineless, which I'm hosting over at my homepage, the Cephalopodiatrist. There's some…
Squid Boat Sunk in Southern California

Squid Boat Sunk in Southern California

Yikes! It's always interesting to have a reminder that the wild ocean remains wild, and taking a boat to sea is an entirely different matter from taking a car to the store: A Coast Guard statement…
Even Dead Squid Can Get Sick

Even Dead Squid Can Get Sick

Newfoundland and Labrador (which is a single Canadian state province, in case any of my readers are as clueless as I was am) claims to have the highest concentration of preserved dead giant squid…
Limiting Squid Fishing in Chile

Limiting Squid Fishing in Chile

So, it's a bit tricky to figure out exactly what this means, but it could be big news for Humboldt squid in Chile--and therefore Humboldt squid everywhere, since the ocean doesn't exactly control…
Giant Squid Duet

Giant Squid Duet

A couple of dead giant squid have turned up--almost exactly on opposite sides of the globe! Surely this is some kind of portent? Architeuthis #1 was spotted off the coast of Tenerife, in the Canary…
How Many Species?

How Many Species?

How many organisms live on this little planet of ours? A pretty straight-forward question. The answer, however, is much more enigmatic. Estimates range from a careful 3 million to a huge 100 million…
Madame Argonaut

Madame Argonaut

Miriam over at Deep-Sea News recently posted a lovely write-up on the argonaut, or paper nautilus. This reminded me that I, too, once felt the delight of finding a live argonaut in a manta tow cod…
Fossil Whales Slurped Squid

Fossil Whales Slurped Squid

The paper announces, in charmingly thick academese: The titanic baleen whales (Cetacea, Mysticeti) have a bizarre skull morphology, including an elastic mandibular symphysis, which permits dynamic…