I should have learnt Japanese...
10.03.2026 09:43
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I should have learnt Japanese...
Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!
Stubby nugget of a shiny blue metallic wasp, little flappy antennae. Looks like she could curl up into a perfect blue golf ball
Bright blue shiny face of the creature, with perfect tiny toothed mandibles
*clack-clack of tiny teef*
PERILAMPUS 😍 I hadn't seen one of these stunning blue nuggets in like 3+ years. Perfect, perfect creature. 💙
(they're hyperparasitoids of hyperparasitoids, and so damn cool enough on that merit, but also they can look like this)
It was so fun to chat with Adam Savage about #dragonflies! youtu.be/iWVt5yQNwrA?...
Beautiful drawing of Thyrsocera spectabilis
*hooded cultists slowly emerging from the shadows, chanting with increasing intensity* Baeus! Baeus! Baeus!
teeny tiny wingless parasitic wasp, probably genus Baeus. It is so round and fat and perfect. Its head is the size of the rest of its body.
just a little baby child (from @mosquitolab.bsky.social's pitfall samples; I can see how this one got sorted into the beetle pile)
"Dark Linnaeus" - a portrait of the famous biologist with scary glowing red eyes
INSECT TAXONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY @entsocamerica.bsky.social
Online, April 27-29! Featuring keynotes from Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, and Dominic Evangelista.
Now accepting contributed talks! Grant deadline Feb 4, abstracts due Mar 6. entsoc.org/membership/b...
The AMNH REU was a life-changing experience for me- definitely consider applying if you’re interested in biology, biodiversity science, or collections-based research!
Side view of a tiny brown wasp with disproportionately small wings. Its head is to the left of picture and has a large red eye and long pale antennae.
A faded Ooctonus hemipterus wasp of the Mymaridae found in Combe Valley 31.7.2024. Love those brachypterous wings!
#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae
You absolutely need to look at this gallery of insects with weird pronotal "hats" worthy of a Royal Ascot visit
In other Hymenoptera macro size comparison news:
~3/4" Sweat Bee so sweet and teeny...
...then there's the chalcid wasp following her...
#inverts #becurious
Our first livestream of 2026 will be starting in 1hr! Come see @lucaszellers.bsky.social and 4 amazing players in the first part of a 3-part journey in the wilderness 🐻🦉
Join us on twitch.tv/naturecheckdnd
So happy to see this published! Led by the very talented @marinamoser.bsky.social who also did all the line drawings, a valuable and increasingly rare skill. Congrats team!
Research and travel grant up to 500 USD for students around the world. Deadlines: april 15th and september 15th.
From the ENTOPOC team, we wish you an incredible 2026.
This year, we reaffirm our commitment to support students of color. We would like to announce our research and travel grants.
Two application deadlines: April 15 and September 15.
Find more information at:
www.entopoc.org/researchtrav...
Macro photograph inside an underground ant nest chamber, where a robust, heavily pitted metallic purple and green ant in side view lifts a tan pillow-like cocoon.
One of Australia's most common and distinctive ants is the colorful Rhytidoponera metallica, seen here with silken cocoons in the brood nest. Diamond Creek, Victoria.
Macro photograph of a cute brown cockroach with pale yellow stripes along its margins, standing on a glossy green leaf.
Australian cockroaches are pretty. This is Balta spuria, which I've found in various indoor and outdoor settings in Victoria.
stupendous thread, not a bad jpg in the bunch
17. Contrasting wood cockroach
There's so many species of blattodeans (cockroaches & termites,) with v few being considered pests by humans. Some are incredibly colourful, some are metallic & shiny like jewel-beetles, others have bold patterns. They're very underrated.
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
AMNH REU
Come learn with us! #REU!
#Newpaper on #Stem perception
Read it here:
doi.org/10.1093/aesa...
As promised, we're working on getting ourselves back on track!
To celebrate, here's the podcast version of the amazing one-shot we did with @lucaszellers.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-wqrhn...
And new video and podcast backlog episodes will start posting every week starting Dec 31!
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Was reminded of this awesome “essay” by T Josek from many moons ago - when us scientists still used the bird website.
T’s use of hashtags here is pretty much perfect. Informative and funny.
Some of the entries are - uhm - timely? (Note: October 1936)
entomologytoday.org/2015/02/27/f...
Come for the last few T shirts at the #Entopoc booth (booth 712)! #Entsoc25! All proceeds go to supporting student memberships and our new travel and research grant!
I didn't get to speak about Diploptera specifically! Instead, I spoke broadly about convergently evolved wing-folding fields.
Amazing talk by Johanna from the roach brain lab about wings in #roaches! The audience gave an audible gasp when she showed a photo of beetle mimicking roaches! ! #SysEB #Entsoc25
A photo of my set up at EntSoc’s annual meeting, a conference for entomologists. My art prints, stickers, pins, and more goods are arranged on a golden table cloth in various acrylic and wooden shelf displays.
I’m here at EntSoc’s annual meeting in Portland!! Come say hi/grab some goodies if you’re here, we’re running low on a few items and sold out of some pins already!! 🪰🦋💕 #entsoc25
