West Virginia biologist Joe Greathouse works to increase vulnerable salamander populations through new rearing techniques. In the herpetology world, hellbenders are those celebrities you hear a lot about but don’t often see. Kieran O’Malley knew of them, sure. Working for nearly 20 years as a wildlife diversity biologist for the
The Room is Bugged
Despite its unassuming appearance, the West Virginia Department of Agriculture Insect Collection is a trove of interesting critters. There is a room, in a white rectangular building perched on a hilltop just 10 minutes outside Charleston, where you can find crowds of cockroaches, hordes of hard-shelled beetles, and multitudes of