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“We’re hiring! Pollinator Conservation Specialist, NRCS Partner Biologist, Urban Farms and Small-Scale Operations”
Join Xerces and help protect pollinators in Tennessee! 🏙️🌾🐝
Job Title: Pollinator Conservation Specialist, NRCS Partner Biologist, Urban Farms and Small-Scale Operations
🌎Location: Jackson, TN
💲Compensation: $65,998/yr
📅Apply by: Mar 26
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
Argonemertes dendyi, and the tip of a ball-point pen!
This specimen is encapsulated in a transparent cocoon to prevent it from drying out.
Argonemertes dendyi
Argonemertes dendyi, a terrestrial proboscis worm from Australia, is now found across Europe. These worms capture and envenomate prey by ejecting a web-like structure from their mouths. Currently, it is in a stasis-like state, having built a cocoon to prevent drying out. Fascinating creatures! 🤯
This is such a bucket list moment: I'm on the mother of all science podcasts, @radiolab.bsky.social!
It was so nice to be interviewed by #MollyWebster and fact-checked by #DianeKelly on snail reproduction (incl. the love dart work by @joriskoene.bsky.social).
www.wnycstudios.org/story/snail-...
New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social
We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The discovery of a new “species” invariably leads to the discovery of new “species interactions” - new connections in the web of life. Here, the discovery of a new gall wasp also uncovered EIGHT new interactions with other insects - some likely new species as well. #biodiversity @ymilesz.bsky.social
Neuroptera!
New paper! Bird nests (Wood Warblers) are hubs of invertebrate biodiversity on forest floor, hosting more species/individuals than leaf litter. Probably due to heat & food detritus. Losing Wood Warblers = ecological networks lost. #ornithology
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Another great article featuring our research published in @nature.com
Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
@science.org
🐜🔬 Researchers at the University of Maryland and KIT in Germany are using a synchrotron particle accelerator and AI to build a massive 3D library of #ants. #science
👉 scitechdaily.com/ai-and-x-ra...
Submission deadline TODAY, MARCH 6! Present your work in the @entsocamerica.bsky.social International Symposium, online April 27-29. Topics include:
Insect Taxonomy in the 21st Century (organized by me!)
Frontiers in IPM
Visualizing Entomology
and more! Sign up here:
entsoc.org/membership/b...
10,000 tons of insects migrate across Switzerland per year, according to this cool preprint by @birgenhaest.bsky.social and his colleagues. 🧪 🪰 🦟
That's 21 billion insects, weighing the equivalent of 50–65 blue whales, flying overhead. 🤯
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The countdown to #BioMonWeek is on. ⌛
👉 We invite you to contribute to the "Biodiversity monitoring in terrestrial protected areas (including Natura 2000)" session, hosted by BMD.
🗓 Deadline: 18 March 2026
🔗 2026.biomonweek.eu/page/programme
Taxonomists: If you liked the old TAXACOM mailing list, we've restarted it. You can sign up, here:
groups.google.com/g/taxacom
Please share widely! We don't have access to the old lists. If you know any taxonomists, let them know, and pass it on.
#science #academia #taxonomy
Tiny, helpful wasps are all around us – in our gardens or on the farms that grow our food. Read about the research our Wasp #Biodiversity Group is doing below! invertebratelab.com/2025/09/24/w...
De natuurlijke vijand van de ongewenste Suzuki-fruitvlieg is in NL aangetroffen, soms in grote aantallen! Het is goed nieuws als er een biologische bestrijder is (ipv gif). En het is natuurlijk … een wesp 😉 Binnen de Hymenoptera bevinden zich veel soorten parasitica www.rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/18259...
A flyer for Myriapod Meet-Up 2026. The flyer has a picture of a millipede on it. The millipede is tan and has a cone-shaped head.
Myriapod Meet Up 2026 will be on 1 April, 8AM - 5PM (EDT). This online event will include short talks, and a chance to share and discuss research about myriapods (and other multipedes, e.g. Onychophora). Anyone may participate in this free event (no need to give a talk).
The Toronto Entomologists' Association is holding its annual Student Symposium on March 28, 2026 1pm!
Graduate students, senior undergraduates and postdoctoral fellows are eligible to present a talk and apply for the Glenn Richardson Award.
Visit www.ontarioinsects.org/symposium/ for more info!
Polka dot wasp Syntomeida epilais showing a moth with wings outstretched. The wings are metallic black with green and blue highlights. There are 5 large white spots of each set of wings, and also on the furry body. The terminal abdominal segments are a striking rusty scarlet. Legs are black with white tarsi, and the tips of the black antennae are also white. Watercolour #sciart #naturalscienceillustration completed by hand.
This is the Polka dot wasp #moth #Syntomeida epilais, also known as the #Oleander moth (on which its yellow caterpillars with their long black setae feed voraciously). Completed for the National Trust of #Montserrat, & UKOTCF. It's used in a colouring book, in a section about patterns in nature.
Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!
TDWG 2026, Oslo, Call for volunteers Image: Trolltunga by Dong Zhang Unsplash.com
🙋♀️ We need you!🙋♂️ Join the TDWG 2026 Program Committee and help shape the conference in Oslo. We welcome volunteers from all regions, cultural backgrounds, gender identities, ages, and career stages.
👉 Apply now: tdwg.link/eoi-conferen...
#TDWG2026 #Biodiversity #WeNeedYou
Our beloved fence pets are back. [Xylocopa sonorina male, Alameda, CA 2-28-26] #bees #nativebees
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
We’re hiring! 🌿
Permanent E13 (100%) position in Plant Ecology & Biodiversity Research at Leibniz University Hannover.
Focus: vegetation ecology, field research, quantitative skills, teaching (BSc, German required).
Deadline: 15 April 2026
Details: www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8379/
A macro photo of a slender, tiny wasp atop a batch of katydid eggs. The eggs, which look like brown lima beans, are tiled along a brown grass stem. Four have roundish holes chewed through their sides, where parasitoid wasps (like the one perched on top of them) chewed their way out. The wasp is metallic-copper colored with a yellow abdomen band and large eyes.
A macro photo of a group of katydid eggs, which look like brown lima beans, tiled along a brown grass stem against a pale green background. In the upper right, a tiny wasp's face is peeking out of an escape hole it is chewing from the inside of a katydid egg it has parasitized. A second egg, lower left, has a hole in it where a wasp has already hatched and flown off.
A macro photo of a tiny, green, newly-hatched katydid nymph perched atop a fingertip, against a green and blue-green background. The fingertip and katydid are lower right, and one of the katydid's extremely long antennae stretches all the way up to the upper left corner of the frame.
From a few years ago: katydid eggs mostly parasitized by tiny wasps. When a katydid hatches, the egg opens like a clam shell; but as you can see (pic 2), if there's a parasitoid wasp inside, they chew their way out. Btw, the baby katydid on my fingertip hatched from the same egg clutch. #BugSky 🐙🌿
Share with all mosquito researchers. 🧪🦟
I'm co-organizing a special issue in the Journal of Medical Entomology on systematics, taxonomy, and natural history of mosquitoes. See details in the link. Happy to answer questions. Proposal Deadline 15 April 2026.
academic.oup.com/insect-scien...
An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.
🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪
