Do you have cicada anxiety...or excitement? Either way, you don't want to miss our TWO expert guests for this week's #LunchTimeDiscovery show. It's Matt Bertone 🪰🕷️🪲 and Kelly Oten live on 5/1/24 noon EDT: youtube.com/watch?v=LRXm3W… 'Periodical Cicadas and the Rare Double Brood Event'

Tim Buckley Hey Tim, FYI on our #LunchTimeDiscovery this week: youtube.com/watch?v=LRXm3W… Features Matt Bertone 🪰🕷️🪲 and Kelly Oten They're Baaaaack: Periodical Cicadas and the Rare Double Brood Event

Myrmicholeva (L) and Eublackburniella (R) - first iNaturalist records uploaded just now. Someone has to take pictures of the small brown and black beetles. Leiodidae.

PhD IN AMBROSIA BEETLE SYSTEMATICS!
A fully-funded degree available at the University of Florida Forest Entomology Lab. This is a part of our 4-year NSF funded project, based on the main UF campus in Gainesville, FL. Please share widely pitchtube.org/phd-degree-in-…

New paper out! We describe three new species of giant mealybugs from Mexico & Guatemala. You think spiders have a lot of eyes until you look at male Puto mealybugs. Some species have 18 eyes in total!

Pictured alive is Puto decorosus from California.
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Giving away insect art posters from our Nat Geo project tomorrow, in the lab NC Museum of Natural Sciences from 10-5 (while supplies last!). Come say hi and grab one!

We've just been thinking about Neotrichozetes mites.
Hasn't everyone?

giving away free art posters of this project THIS SATURDAY, 10-5 in my lab NC Museum of Natural Sciences come get one!

.NC State BioSci Entomologist Adrian Smith worked with photographer and artist Xavier Bou to turn images of insects in motion into photographic works of art.

See more of the photos in the latest edition of National Geographic magazine. ➡️: ncst.at/ouQu50RnuGH

I was invited to an interview with the great folks over at Arthro-Pod. Join us as we talk about cicadas, entrepreneurship, and my upcoming book!

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(I'm still fussing with it here and there, but)

Here is the official cover reveal for my upcoming book, THE CICADAS OF NORTH AMERICA!

Preorders are available NOW at OwlflyLLC.com/publications !!!

Congratulations to Anne Lindbergh! She was named the NCSU NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Student of the Year. She is the co-founding president of the UG Ento Club and an active student researcher. She has made NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology a better place!

⭐️PhD students⭐️

Anyone interested in applying for the 2025 NSF postdoc fellowship in biology on host-parasite interactions🪰🐣?

Due date is 11/7! Happy to brainstorm now! Remote ok with the right project!

Current topics of interest are on my website: knutielab.com/people.html

‼️ ATTENTION ‼️ It's #EarthDay2024 and we need your help finding / collecting Massospora-infected zombie cicadas for research so please share and RT! Illustration🎨by Molly Sherlock.

If you somehow missed it, trillions of cicadas are beginning their emergence across the Midwest…

Signs of spring from last weekend here in NC:
- mating wasp-mimic hover #flies ( #Sphiximorpha )
- carpenter #ants ( #Camponotus ) busy with their nest
- longhorn #bee tle ( #Cerambycidae ) laying eggs (?)
- ground-nesting #bee in its burrow

Do you have a compost pile? 🍅🍇🍈🍉🍊🍏🍑🍌🍋 Sign up to be part of the Alan Bergland lab community science project working to understand compost pile flies! 🪰 It's free to participate and a fun learning experience

#CitizenScience #communityscience #agriculture #compost

how about a mite harvester?

Siro (Holosiro) shasta, from rich Douglas Fir forests of the Upper Sacramento River canyon

one of my very favorite arthropod appendages, the house centipede’s legs. the hypersegmented tarsi of these limbs act like tentacles, wrapping firmly around the limbs of prey, immobilizing them a safe distance from the centipede’s body while its venom takes effect

What's that you say? You want a tiny, highly sculptured #beetle for your Friday afternoon? Look no further! Found this miniscule #Metophthalmus ( #Latridiidae ) in our collection from Oregon USA collected 1965. What a superb insect - too bad it eludes the attention most people 🔎🧐

Pterocalla sp. from Finca Heimatlos Eco Lodge and Farm, near Puyo, Ecuador.