🌲🪲When a #BarkBeetle challenges Donald Trump's hairstyle... Or is it more BoJo? These female Pityokteines spinidens are amazing anyway💃🔥! Fancy more diversity of bark beetle heads and butts? Check out Jiri Hulcr and Marc Abrahams' fantastic book shorturl.at/cDPQ5

Guacamole and the Ambrosia Beetle youtu.be/WVB42yLTIlw?si… UF School Forest, Fisheries, & Geomatics Sciences UF IFAS Solutions UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology

One of the previous owners of my house was the famous anthropologist Marvin Harris. Today I found a fossil of him - an old mortgage book behind an old wall.

At a USDA Forest Service workshop in Guatemala, imploring folks to be on a lookout for laurel wilt. Imagine if Central America lost avocados, quetzals (which eat wild avocados), and a big part of the mountain forests.

Dedicated to Prof. John Capinera. Full length at: youtu.be/iekefoeFqqE?si… UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology

FOREST PATHOLOGY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Tenure-track research & teaching position at the University of Florida. This is an open, global search. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5295… Florida is a mycologist paradise, Gainesville is a great town to live in. UF School Forest, Fisheries, & Geomatics Sciences UF IFAS Solutions The American Phytopathological Society

The strangest animal in Florida. More on weird Florida nature at youtube.com/@Jiri_Hulcr

FINALLY: “Biological invasions have been considered a stream of unknown unknowns… fortunately, recent increase in data availability … suggests that research investments can play a key role in national biosecurity...” doi.gov/sites/default/…

Morning commute in the sunrise reveals the absurd conditions we live in. A ton of steal each concealing a human individual, isolated from the ambient toxic gases, lulling us to forgetting that all this comfort is on credit.

Last week, my son and I took a trip to the Tertiary period on the dark Suwanee river. We met a creature that most people don't even hear about. youtu.be/penbPsgdgpg?si…

A note from the school about the upcoming #Eclipse: "School Board of Alachua County has instructed there will be NO outside activities on Monday April 8. Students will be required to stay inside. More than likely this will be a movie day". Florida education...

The beautiful, breathtaking, irreplaceable Ichetucknee river in Florida. And now imagine that this was normal for many rivers, before nutrients, overfishing and dredging turned them into canals.

The Bark Beetle Academy registration is now open. Join Sarah Smith-Cognato, Simon Lawson and Jiri Hulcr at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Oct. 17-21, 2024. Focus on globally invasive species, as well as on East Asian and Australasian fauna. pitchtube.org/academy

Should You Spray Your Trees Against Wood Borers? youtu.be/xm5OY2fsD7Q?si… We summarized the answer to the most common question in forest/tree entomology.

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-…

Exhibiting three new Bark Beetle Calligraphy pieces at the Florida Museum of Natural History exhibit Incredible Insects. Starting tonight!

Do hurricanes cause bark beetle outbreaks? youtube.com/watch?v=xkdnBZ…

This light trapping night was poor for bark beetles - not a single one. But many aquatic monsters came, and listen to the sounds! The magic of the Santa Fe river.

Job: ENTOMOLOGY AND BIOSECURITY SYNTHESIS POSTDOC pitchtube.org/job-opportunit… Looking for a “writing” post-doc capable of effective synthesis of scientific literature, understanding of woodborers, and APHIS regulatory language. Please share widely!

There are cases where this conclusion may not fit - idiosyncratic forest ecology, weird beetle species - but for most of the BIG outbreaks, we had the story upside down.