A few years ago I speculated that Acronicta ranges south into Colombia since oaks reach their southern limit there. Lo and behold, here’s a true Acronicta, probably the first record of the subfamily Acronictinae from South America. #iNaturalist inaturalist.org/observations/1…

Amazing job for an amazing project working with amazing people. Best project I've been involved with so far.

#moths are amazing at mimicking anything nature as to offer, they sit all day waiting for darkness and need to escape predation in any way possible. Here are few crazy examples that came for a visit at our #AMI monitoring systems #insects #macrophotography #NaturePhotography

#BonjourTwitter quoi de mieux qu’un petit vidéo au #ralenti d’un magnifique Morpho helenor qui s’envole #entomophilie #papillon

I spend a LOT of time volunteering for Bionomia Here, its creator @dpsSpiders, gives a great presentation on Bionomia and why biologists should get involved, both for themselves and for folk they admire. youtube.com/watch?v=080BgH…

I'm very proud of this paper! The first one published that demonstrates that we can use our new #insectarium immersive space as a controled system where we can test various eco/evo/devo hypotheses related to #plants and #insects

Excited to see our paper on Euteliidae evolutionary history is finally out. An incredible collaboration with Niklas Wahlberg, Jadranka Rota, Christian Schmidt, Scott Miller - special thanks to Lund University to make this paper open access. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FGYRNAUN…

"Why flying insects gather at artificial light" 💡 Have these authors solved this age old question?? Seems an elegant study. #mothsmatter @RichardFoxBC biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

RIP, Jerry Powell, 1933-2023, former director of the Essig Museum of Entomology, UC Berkeley image of Dr. Powell identifying insects at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, during a Lepidopterists' Society meeting in February 2019. essig.berkeley.edu/people/powell/

Our paper on the systematic placement of the African genus #Egybolis using #museomics is out now. Niklas Wahlberg Hamid Ghanavi

Honored to be part of this!

‘Like butter for bears’: the grizzlies who dine on 40,000 moths a day theguardian.com/environment/20…

This Copiopteryx moth also came to our lights. Recent research has shown that those "tails" actually confuse the echolocation of bats, keeping the moth safe as it flies! #AutomatedMonitoringOfInsects

#Moth community - we have lost colleague and friend Eric Metzler - cremation-pcs.com/obituary/Eric-… #Lepidoptera

Stunning work by @ryan_stlaurent et al! doi.org/10.1080/002229… 4/4 on new Cerurinae life histories from eggs...in a part of the world with desperate need for this type of research!

Mila - Institut québécois d'IA David Rolnick Great video featuring some of the most exciting research we are currently working on at the #insectarium Espace pour la vie with amazing and passionate people

Our Observation of the Day is this Oenoptera albimacula #moth, which may be the first time it's been documented since it was a described about a century ago! Seen in #Panama by mlarrivee. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1…

Hot off the press - evolutionary history of burnet moths - by Mirela Miric for her Master's in collaboration with K. Efetov, G. Tarmann, Andrea Chiocchio, Maria Heikkilä, and D. Wagner. Also have a look at Appendix 1 for a careful review of zygaenid fossils. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sy…

Molecular #phylogeny of north European #Geometridae (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea): doi.org/10.1111/syen.1… #Phylogenomics #Taxonomy #Systematics

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