Our Illumina sequencing protocol now published with PLOS ONE, save big on high-throughput library preps! #teamwin #RSB #ANU #PLOSONE: Cost-conscious generation of multiplexed short-read DNA libraries for whole-genome sequencing dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Western Pine Elfin (Calophrys eryphon) are seen from mid-April into early July in/near Ponderosa Pine stands of the American West. Wingspan is 1.25" max (Pyle 2002). Common on the landscape. Visit a variety of wildflowers for nectar, males mudpuddle also. 🙂

🚨🚨Super excited to share our new paper showing that pollination rate of brambles is highest at night, thanks to moths! 🚨🚨 #MarvellousMoths journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… University of Sussex Sussex Life Sciences Fiona Mathews Ellen Rotheray Butterfly Conservation 🦋 PLOS One 🧵(1/7)

🦋 Many #Butterflies (& #insects) are going extinct without we know them. It is URGENT naming species before it is too late. We, #taxonomists (people doing it) are also facing #extinction. *Support Science & Taxonomy* RT👆🏽 theguardian.com/environment/20… Natural History Museum Florida Museum

Do you remember yesterday's global surface air temperature record? It just got shattered again:

During #bob2023 we had a great opportunity to visit a restored site for Phengaris alcon with a very nice population. Overgrowth of vegetation is prevented by its use as shooting range. Space for nature... Opportunities for people.

So many great lepidopterists together in one place! #bob2023

Here are some alarming graphs to start the week revigorated

Do you love #butterflies and #moths and want to help save them? You can help by supporting the #McGuireCenter, a leading institution FLORIDA on research, education, and conservation of butterflies & moths. Today only! Please re-post! givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/mcgu… floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/

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❗Se por 'radicalismo verde' o Ministro da Agricultura se refere à evidência científica que há décadas prova que a principal causa para o declínio da biodiversidade é a agricultura intensiva (sobretudo pesticidas totais) então radical é a forma como a ignora.

Botanists identify 33 global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants theguardian.com/environment/20…

And it is all over the news. A g£nocide is masked over and over...

Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970. A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes. It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:

Thyris fenestrella, an amazing moth now found for the first time in Portugal! This is the only European Thyridid, and still poorly known in Spain We've dedicated the last few years gathering ecological and distribution data and now it is published: bit.ly/ThyrisinPortug…