carnea-group Green Lacewings (Complex Chrysoperla carnea) carnea-group Green Lacewings from 3390 Hundested, Danmark on July 14, 2021 at 06:13 PM by Frederik Leck Fischer

Cutest iNaturalist observation ever! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

It’s a case of The Monday Cynipoid Mystery Hour.

It looks like she at a podium and giving a lecture to her sisters XD

Tympanophora uvarovi, a jewel-like katydid from New South Wales. Unlike many other katydid species that have spectacularly colored nymphal stages but turn plain green upon reaching adulthood, this species retains its gorgeous color palette.

Cup of hot chocolate coffee mixture in a blue mug

my greatest invention ever, Chocolate Awake, made from two spoons of hot chocolate mix and two spoons of instant coffee. it's the.

I ate some kokkocynips imbricareae gall tissues and it tasted like an apple peel. Not unpleasant but not exactly the most appealing flavor

Ormyrus bellbowl, a newly named species of parasitic wasp

Ormyrus myrae, a newly described species of parasitic wasp

#NewSpecies alert! We just published a paper in Zootaxa describing two gorgeous species of #Ormyrus parasitoid wasps associated with herb #gall #wasps! Ormyrus bellbowl is named after the Bell Bowl #Prairie in opposition to its abhorrent partial destruction in 2023. #PreserveOurPrairies

BLAST, Genbank, and SRA are all down as well - this will leave genetics research of all kinds at a standstill until access is restored!

Does anyone know someone that might be able to help identify an #Asteraceae from Michoacán, Mexico?

Louis R. Purnell became well known as a #Tuskegee Airman during WWII, before earning his Bachelors and working at the Smithsonian as a Museum Specialist of #invertebrate #paleontology and #paleobotany #collections.

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#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth

Taq polymerase for PCR DNA analysis, totally ubiquitous in biology, came from studying the bacteria in the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. The name "Taq" is just a code for the name of the bacteria, T. aquaticus. We must study goops

I have a question for digital artists and/or entomologists. I’m looking to make diagrams of the wasps I’m describing by dragging the photos in illustrations and tracing the basic body segments. Does anyone have recommendations for a drawing tablet?

A illustrative meme that says “pcr protocol” with the steps being: get the reagents, prepare the mix, set up conditions, analyze the gel, negative result, cry.

my entire masters thesis in one meme 🧪

I have a bunch of pictures of tiny tiny wasps. They are very cool and they come in alm sorts of shapes and colors, but they are very hard to photograph, mainly because of their size, but also because they move around a lot haha.

#macro #hymenoptera #insects #parasitoids

This beautiful #chalcid #wasp Acanthochalcis nigricans is a parasitoid of #buprestid #beetles that infest #oaks in the southern USA. The female (top) and male (bottom) were collected by Danae Frier in Arizona. Notice the change in scale to accommodate the long ovipositor of the female specimen.

Biologists Unveil New Taxonomic System Classifying Species By Hotness

Biologists Unveil New Taxonomic System Classifying Species By Hotness
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Im only revising the North American taxa for now, and initially I didn’t expect the diversity to explode as much as it has. I was also nervous about having type specimens shipped overseas.

The type species is D. Rubi which was described by Bouche. I assumed it was in the German Entomological Institute, but I need to check their database to confirm.

Barcode data does show them splitting nicely into some clades by host association, but I have yet to find consistent characters to justify splitting them further. I’m also hesitant to split them as I don’t have access to type specimens for the genus.

Yea, I want the description for my eventual monograph to be more detailed as well. For that paper I mainly focused on providing a diagnosis from other Diastrophini.

It’s for my Diastrophus revision. I’m going to end up doubling the diversity of the genus, and I feel like each species within it is so unique that it is hard to come to a consensus on what is shared amongst all of them.

Does anyone have advise for writing genus descriptions? I’m torn between just summarizing every character state among the species or only adding characters that I can reliably describe across all species. I want the description to be informative but I don’t want to be too concise.

The best part of removing the majority of my distractions is the sudden and hopefully not temporary boost in my motivation to make progress on manuscripts.

Ooooo. I love this.