Just a reminder that the Hymenopterist society symposium at #ICE2024 starts tomorrow Mon Aug 26th (18:30-20:30) in 510. All are welcome to attend. There are also a few other events such as student/early career professionals lunch, and women of ISH breakfast. More info see link

A member of the Telenomus californicus Ashmead, 1893 complex parasitizing native cactus moth (#Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) eggs in #Mexico mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

Very excited to announce that we just published our research in Nature Ecology & Evolution! We collected data on 794 species of ant to examine which characteristics influence the evolution of social complexity 🐜 I’m happy to answer any questions! nature.com/articles/s4155…

Another new paper from our Lab - an ontology for gall phenotype terminology! bdj.pensoft.net/article/128585/ We provide a comprehensive set of terms for describing galls, and presenting it as an ontology allows us to produce structured reasoning between terms.

I spent 12+ hours at the venue for the first day of #ICE2024, it was especially nice to end it with presentations by the passionate students members of International Society of Hymenopterists. I passed out immediately upon returning to my hotel, and is now ready for day 2!

Congratulations to Iona Cunningham-Eurich 🥇 and Hsuan-Pu Chen 🥈 for winning the best student presentations during last night’s ISH symposium. #ice2024

Lunch with other students / early career scientists in ISH International Society of Hymenopterists. We had a 6 different dishes using yuba (tofu skin). #ICE2024 #ICE2024Kyoto

I was happy and surprised to win second place in the presentation competition at yesterday's ISH symposium. I didn't expect it, as I thought it was just a duty for travel grant winners with no competition. Thanks for the positive feedback!

Very grateful to ISH for organising this symposium at #ICE2024 🐝 Interesting talks and research and very nice people. Thanks for having me! Bonus photo of these amazing origami insects on display. 🪲

国際ハチ学会若手ランチ会でした Students/ECP lunch in ISH International Society of Hymenopterists #ICE2024 #ICE2024kyoto

🎉Thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the ISYEB at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris as Assistant Professor and Curator of the #Hymenoptera collection! Excited to continue my work on #gall wasps, expanding my research beyond Cynipidae. Looking forward to this new chapter!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on a collaborative NSF-funded project on how evolutionary history and ecological dimensions influence oak gall wasp-parasite interactions. Details here - priorecologylab.com -with Andrew Forbes, Glen Hood, Adam Kranz, Gallformers.org

A taxonomic study of the genus Antepipona de Saussure, 1855 (#Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from #China, with two #newspecies and three new records mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

🐝#article 🌼Changes in Population Densities and Species Richness of Pollinators in the Carpathian Basin during the Last 50 Years (#Hymenoptera, #Diptera, #Lepidoptera) 📉by Haris et al Article Views 2745 #PollinatorDecline #SpeciesRichness 🌍mdpi.com/1424-2818/16/6…

The Potential of Parapanteles hyposidrae and Protapanteles immunis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) as Biocontrol Agents for the Tea Grey Geometrid Ectropis grisescens (Lepidoptera) 👉Access the paper: mdpi.com/2075-4450/13/1… #mdpiinsects #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera

Our new publication led by Gary Gibson, along with Yonathan Uriel and Michelle Franklin of AAFC Canada is now out in Zootaxa updates: a new Nearctic Pteromalus species that could be a potential biocontrol agent of strawberry-blossom weevil. #Hymenoptera shorturl.at/H2HOA

Our revision of the simplex species group of Triepeolus is now published in European Journal of Taxonomy: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20…. Included are 18 species, of which seven are newly described.

Excited to share this new publication led by the amazing Peter Flynn on "Viral diversity and co-evolutionary dynamics across the ant phylogeny" which includes 3710 novel and unique ant-associated viral genomes! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Taxonomy of Japanese Gonatopus (#Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), with description of a #newspecies mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

A #newspecies of the genus Ceraphron Jurine (#Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) from #India mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy