I just had to share this (mating) pair of very tiny yet colorful Unidentified parasitoids we just reared out of an undescribed gall species on campus. Undescribed urban biodiversity !! Scott P. Egan Miles Zhang 张远濛/ [email protected] Andrew Forbes #cute #gallwasps #urbanbiodiversity

#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 388): Honey bee (Apis mellifera) perched on the southern live oak (Quercus virginiana)! #biodiversity 📸:Denning & Denning

New #pseudoscorpion just dropped!

Practicing wasp dissection and extraction of venom reservoir in preparation to do the same on oak gall wasps. Orange line on the right is the ovipositor, little clear bubble holds the venom

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Insect #parasite #Strepsiptera alter host epidermis to form a sac in which they live and reproduce. This is awfully similar to #insect formed #galls on #plants

A great day for a lunchtime 5 miler! 🏃🥵🔥

It’s amazing how often public open access data from papers are incomplete or even missing. I really wish that the American Naturalist data & code archiving policies and rigor (yes we actually check the raw data is all there & has a useful readme file among other things) would be standard…

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All biologists should read the two most important papers *ever written* in biology, published and read (excerpts thereof) 166 years ago today. Here is a link to Wallace’s personal copy he annotated after receiving it half a world away: wallacefund.myspecies.info/sites/wallacef…

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“With Earth in the midst of a human-mediated extinction crisis, it is astonishing how little we know about our planet’s biodiversity, even for conspicuous and charismatic groups such as #tarantulas,” says author Chris Hamilton about this new discovery in ZK blog.pensoft.net/2024/08/21/wil…

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#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 389): The Beelzebub bee-eater (Mallophora leschenaulti), a species of robber fly in the family Asilidae, perched on the southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) near Houston, TX. #biodiversity 📸:Denning & Denning

#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 390): Dog-day cicada (Neotibicen sp.) in the beak of a juvenile blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) perched in a southern live oak (Quercus virginiana). #biodiversity #predation #ecology 📸:Denning & Denning