Finally got some photos of Australia’s “blue ant”, Diamma bicolor, which is not an ant at all but a shockingly large metallic blue thynnid wasp, wingless and solitary, that hunts mole crickets. Been meaning to shoot this thing for years.

What's your favorite flavor of Staphylinidae? #entsoc25

And thats a wrap on #entsoc25 Today's topic was Appalachian Trechus as a model for conservation

Happy #EntSoc25 Today I had a poster on teaching Aquatic Entomology and tomorrow I'll be flashing back to the PhD with Appalachian Trechus

Clay Lyle 119 has received quite the face-lift! Happy to have an updated, clean space for our entomology students 🐛🐜🐝🪲🦗

Velvet Ants of North America! 🐜

Operation 119 is in full swing! The teaching lab in our building and its teaching collection is getting cleaned up, cleaned out, and de-dermestided

The Museums in Miniature project provides a drawer of curated local insect specimens for display in schools, libraries, and other educational institutions using specimens of abundant taxa, or those missing data or otherwise unsuitable for research. doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...