The #WaspIDCourse returns Winter 2023! See our poster below for more details. Check out our website WaspIDCourse.wordpress.com to join our mailing list, meet some of our instructors, and learn more about our course on #wasp #biodiversity! Help us spread the word!

The McKenna Lab (duanemckenna.com) is hiring a 4-year postdoc in insect #genomics and #evolution, carrying out data analysis and lab work associated with a variety of comparative genomic, phylogenomic, and other evolutionary studies of #insects (mostly beetles) 🐞🪲🧬

Really cool USFS GS-11 job as a Pollinator Ecologist with awesome people in Montana!

New paper: Comparative metagenomics reveals expanded insights into intra- and interspecific variation among wild bee microbiomes nature.com/articles/s4200… Nice work Wyatt 🐝

Happy to announce a 2-year post-doc position funded by European Research Council (ERC) in my team based in Toulouse, France. Looking for a postdoc with electrophysiology expertise to conduct recordings of brain activity in bees learning in a virtual reality environment. Details below! Please RT.

It's great to see our research with Amy Lynn Toth featured on ISU News! We are surveying sites across IA looking for rusty patched bumble bees for insights into their distribution and habitat needs. This work will help partners better plan habitat mgmt for this #EndangeredSpecies

The Social Code—Deciphering the Genetic Basis of Hymenopteran Social Behavior. Amy Lynn Toth Sandra Rehan Prof Seirian Sumner Chris Wyatt and @EmelineFavreau set out to uncover early genetic changes on the path to sociality. buff.ly/3k8cXL7

Postdoc position opening! I guarantee this job opportunity in Dr. Sara Miller's group will be a productive and fulfilling use of one's time. Check it out here: sara-miller.weebly.com/join-us.html

New paper! We can do functional genomics to study how genes affect behavior in wild, non-model organisms— but it takes lots of dedication. Congrats to Dr. Alex Walton and kudos for the dedication to making this possible in social wasps!

Entomologists-- where are N. America-based bug nerds getting nets and other entomology supplies now that BioQuip has closed? 😭

Prairie strips, areas of wild vegetation within intensive farms, are associated with bee colonies collecting more pollen, growing larger and having better winter survival rates newscientist.com/article/236653…

Interested in learning more about #preprints and publishing? The #ProcB Editorial Preprint Team is now recruiting #ECR to assess preprints for potential submission to Proceedings B. We are especially focused on increasing diversity in our membership... 🧵1/3

New paper by stellar Iowa State University Entomology grad Ge Zhang and dream team of collaborators— native perennial vegetation benefits farms and apiaries.

Happy Friday! We give you #WASP #hornet #GENOMES!! We sequenced genomes of #Vespa crabro & #Vespa velutina & compared w Dept. of Agriculture's #Vespa mandarinia. With colleagues from 7 countries! Funded by Natural Environment Research Council Wellcome Sanger Institute EMBL #MarieCurieFellowship rdcu.be/daqvP

More forest ecology memes from my class! We covered beneficial insects. Prof Seirian Sumner how did I do? by CJ Juarez-Tostado

Me ayudan a difundir el maravilloso video de @marina_arbetman? Es de suma importancia para el futuro de las abejas de la Patagonia (Hien Ngo Pedro Jordano Diego Vázquez Natacha Chacoff Anna Traveset Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi Alexandra-Maria Klein Amy Lynn Toth Sandra Diaz @rgmedel)

Yes, wasps can bee very effective pollinators too! #wasplove "Debunking wasp pollination: Wasps are comparable to bees in terms of plant interactions, body pollen and single-visit pollen deposition" (via @FutureDrBee et al., including Amy Lynn Toth) doi.org/10.1111/een.13…

Arthropod Photo of the Week: June 12, 2024 Paper wasp Polistes dominula Hymenoptera: Vespidae By Thorben Danke (@sagaoptics), Baden-Württemberg, Germany #arthropodPOTW

"What good are wasps for anyway?" I'm so proud of our Iowa State University #TothLab team (Amy Lynn Toth and Erin McCall) for resurrecting this #WaspLove study. Read for the science, skim for the pics, or... Entomological Society of America Entomological Society of New Zealand Zoology_Otago doi.org/10.1093/jee/to…