I painted this in 2022 for the lab. I really should paint a new one.

Look at this freaky local Dolichopodid. Someone come get yo mans

Happy Earth Day except @ucf.bsky.social has just bulldozed site 2 on this map and then is moving onto site 1. This area by the way, is home to 3 different habitats, 5 endangered plants, and a minimum of 29 potentially inhabited gopher tortoise burrows. For a sports complex... tinyurl.com/54vurj8p

Yearly melancholy. Also for Simophion....sigh...

I am more proud of this flea that I hand-stitched than anything I've done during my PhD.

Ceramic jumping bristletail (Order Archaeognatha/Microcoryphia). They were really common in California but really rare here in Florida.

I started painting during Covid because I was broke and wanted to be able to make gifts for people for special occasions. Finished this pretty ambitious piece last week for my friend Ella's baby shower/bday celebration. Fish are hard to paint.

I have returned from my academic burnout-induced hiatus to bring you two ceramic bugs that I have made. The next one, which is hopefully out of the kiln this evening, is a jumping bristletail. The more niche the better

Of course I think of something really funny to draw 4 days before the art competition deadline for Hymathon smh

Great departmental seminar today by Dr. Watts on the importance of fjords in the face of climate change. I have created a graphical abstract on carbon sequestration

Ceramic Aphid wip

Hi ento friends! Does anyone have any mealybugs of the genus Puto from SW California? My junior in my lab is hoping to do some whole genome sequencing and will need a ton! Any and all leads appreciated! As a thanks, please enjoy this doodle of a male :).

I just realized I haven't updated my LinkedIn since 2017...Do people in our field even actually use LinkedIn?

More like Cry-sidid cause they're so beautiful they make me cry. This one was in my old house while I was moving out

Some sketches of Diptera-themed sticker ideas that I considered peddling at ESA in Portland.

Someone take me fishing with them so I can take pictures of fish for my iNat. 🎣Species number go up makes brain go brrrr

Happy Davi-day! Thanks for those here to support our friend @ddpichenumonidae.bsky.social during his defense. Nobody is more deserving!!!!

It'd be fun to do some art trades at ESA this year. I wonder if they are gonna do another art show 👀

Hello friends, my first first-author publication has just released! Please take a read, its open access! rdcu.be/eq1xQ

Don't be mean to bioinformaticians on they'll go on your computer and rm -rf *

endogenous viral genome dispersal in Ichneumonoidea is the virus domestication equivalent of the floppyfication of dog ears and I will not allow myself to be silenced any longer

Can I ask a editor for revision extensions if I have covid? Today is the first day I've started feeling like a human in a whole week

I kinda wanna make another cartoon for the next Hamuli. Should I? And what should I make if I do? Was thinking about maybe a mining bee

Why yes I am taking pictures of bugs outside this bachelorette party.

Me: people who celebrate celebrity birthdays are stupid you don't even know them Also Me: Happy Birthday @jeremywade.bsky.social, king of the river monsters 🐟🦈

I'm not NOT a published cartoonist

This Isa cute moth I saw at the ceramic studio. You see what I did there hehehehe. Isa textula

😱 big oof found at an antique mall

The interocellar area is very raised so you know exactly where to kiss the Ophion on the forehead goodnight 💋🛌

How to tackle the MITE-mare of imaging mite types? Well Dr. Zernike the GOAT figured it out in the 1930s.

UCF's own Robin Marquez talks about how leaf litter sampling has been a great way to investigate the diversity of micro-hymenoptera.

🚨 Exciting news! The CSE Conference is happening this Saturday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (ET)! 🎉 We have 24+ presentations covering a wide range of taxa, and scientists across the globe. 🌍🐝🔬 If you're interested, contact me for details! See you there! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 #Entomology #Taxonomy #CSEConference

#CSE2025 begins! So excited to hear everyone's talks!

The Florida State Collection of Arthropods is my Disney World. I should've taken a before shot! No better feeling than taking a drawer of unsorted and transforming it into useful synoptic collection!

This is me on iNat looking at all the Eremotylus observations I'm being tagged in right now from the SW desert.

Join us at the Center for Systematic Entomology on February 15, 2025, for the annual conference. It will take place in Gainesville, Florida, from 9 am to 6 pm. It is free and includes lunch. To see previous years meeting memories, visit CenterforSystematicEntomology.org and select “Meetings”

For anyone going to the Center for Systematic Entomology Conference in Gainesville next weekend, I am excited to see you and hear your talk! If you saw me at ESA, my talk at CSE is a follow-up to that one since the paper is done and the results are COOL. 😎

Can anyone help me find this paper? We've contacted several libraries and nobody has been loan it: Capek, M., & Hofmann, C. (1997). The Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the collections of the Musée cantonal de Zoologie, Lausanne. Litterae Zoologicae (Lausanne), 2, 25-162.

Biologists Unveil New Taxonomic System Classifying Species By Hotness theonion.com/biologi...

My housemate sent nudes to our house groupchat with our landlord instead of his girlfriend. I need to tell everyone since I cannot un-see what has been seen. Currently unclear whether our landlord saw the pics before he deleted them

What is an animal you WISH had a bunch of merch for but is super underappreciated? I'll go first. Giant otter shrew. Not an otter nor a shrew but a third option (Afrotheria be wild)

See you all at #Hymathon2024 later today! Can't wait to hear everyone's talks. I submitted a piece for the art competition based on the Social Insect Behavior course I was the teaching assistant for this semester. Make sure to go peruse everyone's wonderful entries!

When you take a break from IDing on iNaturalist for 2 weeks because of #Entsoc24 😱

If you attended #entsoc24 and came for the Queer Symposium, we'd love your feedback!

Ceramic Staphylinid magnet I made inspired by local rove beetles in the genus Paederus. One even landed next to it while I was glazing!

Had a great time at the #EntSoc24 science communication through comics workshop. Much love and thanks to the hosts, I learned so much 😀

HEY! It’s comics time at 9:30 with @escherbug.bsky.social and @americanbeetles.bsky.social in 128 at 9:30! You don’t need to be a good artist! Primarily we’ll be talking about storytelling your science. #entsoc24 #fitinentsoc

Yes our COMICS WORKSHOP is soon to commence in 128AB, even if you can drop in for the first 30 minutes you’ll learn about teaching entomology with the raw power of COMICS

#oldworkwesnesday I don't know sometimes I get possessed and make mixed media sculptures. Wanted to make stuff for the various #entsoc24 silent auctions but never received a call for submissions

This beauty hangs in my lab above my work station so I can look at it everyday!