Now published in a food processing special issue at Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Evan Economo and my review of ant feeding structure and function. Open access! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Do you like 'The Last of Us'? The #fungus that turns organisms into zombies? Don't miss this opportunity: the Department of Biology invites everyone at #WCU to Dr. João Araújo's talk on the fungus that transforms insects into #zombies . 📣Please share and help spread the word!

Todo por que hoy es #viernes !
Phrynidius oaxacanensis Noguera & Santos-Silva, 2023, holotipo, macho ( #Lamiinae , #Apomecynini ) Especie endémica de #Mexico ( #Oaxaca ). 🐞📷 #LonghornFriday #beetle #Biodiversidad #Cucarrón #Insects #Coleoptera #Besouro #Cerambycidae

New preprint from the lab, in which nematodes related to C. elegans ambush ants, infect their head, and change their behavior. tinyurl.com/yckek3fu. Lead by Zimai Li 荔枝麦, with Erik Frank, T. Schmitt, Arilab, F. Azuma, Darren J. Parker, T. Oliveira-Honorato, V. Bachmann

One of my favorite projects to date is out today in Frontiers for Young Minds! Colleen Miller, Monique Pipkin, and Dr. Corrie Moreau and I wrote this piece to communicate the value of natural history collections to young learners.

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I couldn't recommend more this research support specialist position! I love working with this fantastic team! Join us!

Todo por que hoy es #viernes ! Vandenbergheius celaquensis Heffern, Santos-Silva & Botero 2019, holotipo, macho ( #Lamiinae , #Apomecynini )
Especie endémica de #Honduras . 🐞🪲
#LonghornFriday #beetle #Biodiversidad #Cucarrón #Insects #Coleoptera #Besouro #Cerambycidae

An extraordinary and very original review about Mutualistic interactions between ants and fungi published by Alain Dejean (Univ Toulouse 3 and EcoFoG Guyane) and collaborators in Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

🌍🦋 Explore the vital link between climate change and biodiversity

Discover how these two forces intertwine and the urgency of preserving our planet's incredible variety of life

Via Environment Canada Canadian Geographic Ingenium & Let's Talk Energy

Our latest article in collaboration with Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo and Ted Schultz is out! We studied the natural history and phylogenetic position of Paramycetophylax bruchi, a fungus-farming ant that, so far, is only found in Argentina. And, it's on the cover!

Siga nossa parceira IUSSI SecBras e torne-se membro desse grupo incrível sobre Insetos Sociais!

Todo por que hoy es #viernes !
Oideterus leoninus Vlasak & Santos-Silva, 2022, holotipo, macho ( #Prioninae , #Anacolini )
Especie endemica de #Ecuador .
#LonghornFriday #beetle #Biodiversidad #Cucarrón #Insects #Coleoptera #Besouro #Cerambycidae

Can you name these fruits?

Take a look at how we're working in Brazil to support livelihoods while conserving traditions and ecosystems: ow.ly/UyM450OWAzn

#ForPeopleForPlanet

Mosquitos are moving to higher elevations — and so is malaria grist.org/health/mosquit…
Climate change is driving mosquitoes to new heights, bringing the bugs, and the diseases they carry, to newly vulnerable populations.

So cool that we now have an interactive exhibit on parasitoid wasps at our museum! Congrats Marina Moser Michael Haas Aron Bellersheim Lars Krogmann - I think the visitors will love it!

Beautiful and nostalgic moments visiting my home lab at Museu Zoologia USP. Now brilliantly coordinated by Gabi Camacho! Great to meet the friends Mônica Antunes Ulysséa, Otávio Guilherme, Kelli Ramos, Tiago Carrijo, Esperidião Victor Nagatani, Beto Brandão, and a very enthusiastic new generation!

Once in a while, we'd find a stalk-eyed fly that has things really going for him.

Didn't find any girls near him though.

MZSP Hymenoptera Collection colony! 🤓💚🐜 this week enhanced by the visit of Rodrigo Feitosa and Esperidião