Tennessee Entomological Society held an annual meeting that highlighted three student paper competitions. We would like to congratulate each participant for their hard work while also highlighting the winners from our department. Congratulations and keep up the good work! UT Institute of Agriculture

Is that a changing leaf or a butterfly?! Dead leaf butterflies or oakleaf butterflies (Kallima inachus) mimic dead leaves on their underside surface! If threatened, they will lay flat on their side to mimic a dead leaf on the ground. #MCZEntomology #CollectionsAreEssential

Yesterday marked the last day of class this semester. As it is almost complete, we would like to wish all of our students the best of wishes as they conclude this semester's exams 📝, projects 🔬, and dissertations. 👏 #finishstrong #gradschool

For the last day of #GPSAW, I am posting a group photo of UT Entomology & Plant Pathology grad students luncheon. I tagged along for free food and great company! Thank you for everything you do, we really appreciate each one of you!

Poorly designed slides can destroy your presentation. Here are 9 must follow rules to create slides that pop and keep your audience engaged:🧵👇

Lots of plants enlist ants to disperse their seeds. In exchange for the service, they provide food (i.e, the elaiosomes). Ants find the seeds by the host plant, carry them back to their nests, eat the food bodies, then discard the seed nearby. The process is called Myrmechochory.

We (@qhelleu, Keller Lab, Royal Society Publishing) reviewed what is known about the ‘social supergenes’ - phenotypes, genomic structures, fascinating & unresolved evolutionary dynamics (royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…) 2/

Awesome and inspiring plenary talk by Dr. Corrie Moreau about ants, microbes and the need of diversity and inclusion in science. #IUSSI2022

My (admittedly very rough) attempt at a Hubble v #JWST comparison. And this is literally just the beginning.

New research on ants has produced a treasure map for finding hidden biodiversity among other small-range species. Learn more in this week’s issue of Science Advances: fcld.ly/bq412s1

We are also serving 🍦 from Cruze Farm !

My dear friend Katy Smith did a wonderful job on her proposal seminar today! Her PhD research aims to improve monitoring methods for flies and ticks for beef cattle production 🐮🪰🧑‍🌾 UT Entomology & Plant Pathology

My nail artist was extra patient to do bug themed nails for me si ce I have my entomology group tomorrow!

1st symposium AAAHHHH I LOVED IT!! I’m so happy to be apart of this team and I’m so sad to leave after only 8 weeks. (side note: I’ll be having dreams about giving the talk for this, I’ve done it so many times)

Had the absolute BEST time working with this team (Dr. Meg Staton not pictured) this summer! Loved exploring pop gen and can’t wait to learn more in the future🌲🧬 #BiGGREEU

The Datasaurus Dozen is a collection of thirteen datasets that, despite having nearly identical summary statistics—such as mean, variance, and correlation—exhibit vastly different distributions when visualized. This underscores the critical importance of graphing data to uncover

Happy international day of biodiversity! 🌿🐛🐞🐜🪲