look closely ... I don't suppose you ever thought you could find such beauty in a fly larvae ?

First draft! Excited to show this to some farmers at my 1st dung beetle event next week. Important to get input from the beginning on how easy it is to use and what farmers need to know! #farming #livestock #entomology #coleoptera #beetles #dungbeetles #teambeetle Rothamsted Research

check the pedipalps (out front) on this immature Hesperonemastoma harvester

what Wolff et al 2016 called 'sticky whips'. the sticky comes from plumose setae with glandular secretions which combine to capture small agile prey items

paper here:
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

Any folks know what animal produced this dropping? Client: 'Dropping found in house. Hope you can help identify. Was on top of jar in pantry. Previously had mice so all foods in pantry are in glass or plastic containers...hear teeny squeaky sounds in my bedroom now and then'

Only one more month to submit papers for the special issue on the phytovirome!

A new study finds little genetic variation among the entire North American population of the only praying mantis species that always reproduces asexually.

🔗 Single Green Female: Did One Praying Mantis Give Rise to an All-Female Species? entomologytoday.org/2024/04/11/bru…

Wing veins in Thysanoptera ( #thrips ):
- Melanthripidae/Aeolothripidae: Cross veins present
- Thripidae: 2 longitudinal veins
- Rohrthripidae (fossil, Cretaceous): 1 – 2 longitudinal veins
- Phlaeothripidae: no veins.

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The clock on our cooker is currently set to show British Spider Time 😂 no idea how it made its way in there BAS

Ankothrips niezabitowskii (female, bleached with KOH).
Very glad that I managed to make some perfect slide mounts. Due to the large ovipositor, this species tends to turn in lateral position.
Check out the characteristic cross veins on the fore wings.
Body length: 1,7mm

Here we go: this is the first Brood XIX cicada I've seen that is not a nymph. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, US

inaturalist.org/observations/2…

#BroodXIX #Cicadas2024

ECLIPSE!!! (well partial at least)

Entomology grads/graduates: come work with me at Southeast CASC ! We're hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar to further climate adaptation research and synthesis on invertebrates, focusing on bees 🐝🌦️🌡️
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/198416

This Parajulid millipede looks like it's plotting something

カメルーンで丸山さんが見つけたヒラタハナムグリの一種。
全身所々から長い毛が生えていて、ものすごくかっこいい種。
blog.livedoor.jp/antroom/archiv…

Hey Stephen Colbert let’s chat about your favorite zombie fungus! cbsnews.com/news/cicadas-z…

Not one arista in this pile 😤

Congratulations Charley Eiseman! So well deserved and you are such an inspiration. I'm glad to get to work with you 😊

ハエカビに寄生されたハエの仲間が綿飴のような菌糸に覆われていくタイムラプス映像のまとめ
土壌動物たちにとってハエカビは美味しいらしくかなり人気な菌類。
1つ目はアカムカデが、2つ目は一瞬で誰か持ち去る、3つ目は最終的にカマドウマが食べてしまう。他の小さき者たちもたくさん来る。

New genera of funky-nosed spiders just dropped by Vanuytven and friends: Rhinocosmetus & Rhinoliparus!

Here are some that we found from Jambi, Sumatra (clockwise):
Rhinocosmetus gretathunbergae
Rhinocosmetus nasicornis
Rhinocosmetus xiphias
Rhinoliparus lanyuensis