Mike Huben

I am a zealous, evangelistic, crusading [http://www.infidels.org/ agnostic and skeptic], in religion, politics, pseudoscience, and quack medical practice. I've been posting for about 35 years (first on the old PLATO system and later on USENET) to political and religious newsgroups.  Here's an [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/humbio autobiographical posting] from an old secular humanist mailing list.  I'm a huge fan of Richard Dawkins and PZ Meyers.

I am a zealous, evangelistic, crusading [http://www.infidels.org/ agnostic and skeptic], in religion, politics, pseudoscience, and quack medical practice. I've been posting for about 35 years (first on the old PLATO system and later on USENET) to political and religious newsgroups.  Here's an [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/humbio autobiographical posting] from an old secular humanist mailing list.  I'm a huge fan of Richard Dawkins and PZ Meyers.

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== Entomology and Evaniidae ==

== Entomology and Evaniidae ==

[[Image:MouseMites.jpg|thumb|Mouse skin mites using Jamin-Lebedeff interference microscopy.]]

[[Image:MouseMites.jpg|thumb|Mouse skin mites using Jamin-Lebedeff interference microscopy.]]

One of my true loves has always been [[Entomology]]. I used to specialize in [[Acarology]] (the study of mites), and built a collection of a thousand slide-mounted specimens (and who knows how many more in alcohol that I've never mounted.) I've got a substantial number of colorful mite photographs that I've always wanted to publish, photographed by my friends in the New York Microscopical Society and me. After my last sabbatical collecting insects in Ecuador (1988), I finally settled on my current specialization, the [[Evaniidae]] (a family of wasps that parasitize cockroach egg cases.) I study these at the [http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/ Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology] on an unofficial basis. I'm also a member of the [http://entclub.org/ Cambridge Entomological Club].

One of my true loves has always been [[Entomology]]. I used to specialize in [[Acarology]] (the study of mites), and built a collection of a thousand slide-mounted specimens (and who knows how many more in alcohol that I've never mounted.) I've got a substantial number of colorful mite photographs that I've always wanted to publish, photographed by my friends in the New York Microscopical Society and me. After my last sabbatical collecting insects in Ecuador (1988), I finally settled on my current specialization, the [[Evaniidae]] (a family of wasps that parasitize cockroach egg cases.) I study these at the [http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/ Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology] on an unofficial basis. I'm also a member of the [http://entclub.org/ Cambridge Entomological Club].