📍✨Don't forget to sign up for THE PIN DOWN - Insect Mounting Challenge at the annual @entsocamerica meeting in Portland📍✨ #EntSoc25 On Nov. 11 at 3:00PM in the OCC Exhibit hall, you will have 30 minutes to mount 10 arthropods. Winners determined based on the mounting method and aesthetics.

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We are #hiring a Biodiversity Researcher in Quito, Ecuador. Be part of an exciting project cooperating with us, The Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE), the Zoological Museum (QCAZ) and the Center for Research on Health in Latin America (CISeAL). More: cisealpuce.edu.ec/en/about_us/...

Kinda had to... #Firefly restaurant in #TraverseCity, MI.

These jagged ambush bugs (Phymata sp.; #Hemiptera: #Reduviidae) are amazing hunters and their camouflage game is usually on point. They can catch some pretty big prey with those raptorial forelegs.

One of my favorite #insects. Draeculacephala inscripta the water lettuce leafhopper. Look at that amazing #Dracula face on the scutellum. You can't unsee it when you spot it. #horror #hemiptera #insectwonders The genus name translates to Dracula head

The Camphor Shoot Borer (𝘊𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴, #Coleoptera: #Curculionidae: #Scotylinae) is an adventive bark #beetle found in sweetgum and a few other hardwoods. But it is also found in plastic fuel storage containers: t.co/UpVMgx2lJs #AmazingBeetles #Beetles #Macrophotography #Macro

Rufolychnia borencona, a #firefly endemic to Puerto Rico. One of the prettiest fireflies I have encountered so far. #AmazingBeetles #Lampyridae #WestIndies #FireflyMagic

Just a Dendroides concolor. That's all! #Pyrochroidae #AmazingBeetles #FireColoredBeetles

More Chrysomela scripta to be made. Blacklight sheet love affair. #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #AmazingBeetles #Sexonsixlegs

That little face of guilt just before taking the feeder down. #Squirrel. Oh wait I am not supposed to know how to say that as a German

Hawthorne Trail find: Eudiagogus rosenschoeldi (#Coleoptera: #Curculionidae) one of the Sesbania clown #weevils. #AmazingBeetles #Florida #clownweevil #Gainesville

Feast your eyes on Sparmannia flava. Maybe the greatest melolonthine of them all. That "winter" coat though... #AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Africa #Scarabaeidae #Winteriscoming

Is snoot envy a thing in weevils??? #AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Curculionidae

#CollectionCuriosities Rhinostomus barbirostris, the bearded #weevil, is maybe my favorite weevil and look at that bottle brush snoot #AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Curculionidae

When your morphology tries to make you look like bird poop, but you dress like a rock star. #Chlamisus #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #FSCA #AmazingBeetles #Bolivia

Unxia gracilior #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae. Longhorns and their original bottle brush.

I really want a garbage can like this one at the @TaipeiZoo #insectarium. It would fit right in with the rest of the decor #Coleoptera #Taiwan #Taipei

Our Lampyris sardiniae colony celebrates 20 years in 2024, and slowly approaching generation 27! 🎄 Best early Christmas gift ever - just received the original founder pair and F1 generation specimens preserved in alcohol from 20 years ago! 🧬✨

Chalcosoma sp. on my hand and in my #entomology #tattoo. Good thing only one of them has found the ONE ring #LOTR. What #AmazingBeetles they are. Show me your entomology tattoos!

Photuris douglasae flashing along side a highway in Dixie county, Florida in May 2023. Ten 10-second long-exposure images stacked. #FireflyMagic #Florida #Lampyridae

The lesser known dangerous side of #fireflies as this tabloid wanted us to believe. 600 V and advancing 50 miles per week. These deadly creatures would generate some funding opportunities

Late #FireflyFriday treat! Undescribed Heterophotinus species from the Dominican Republic. #FireflyMagic

With todays paper from the Zaragoza-Caballero lab we now have over 2600 described firefly species #FireflyMagic. Website is updated (www.lampyridae.world)

Still one of my favorite thrifting finds of all time. Couldn't believe it was still working and only $5. #FireflyMagic #PopupBooks

Excited about this paper about the #Firefly genus Cheguevaria with @neolycus.bsky.social et al. researchgate.net/publication/38…

Last night in Ann Arbor, MI. At least six different species. Photinus pyralis, Photuris fairchildi, one in the Photuris versicolor complex. Will have to collect next time to figure out the rest. #FireflyMagic Tonight I will check out the type location for Photinus aquilonius Lloyd

One more day or #InverteFest! Here's a Firefly I painted for my sister's birthday earlier this month. Black light reactive and glow in the dark paint added to make this funky.

New paper published: Powell et al. An annotated and illustrated catalog of the primary type material of Hemiptera deposited in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods researchgate.net/publication/37…