I had a great time in Denali #nationalpark teaching the #Alaska Geographic insect field course! The students were curious and enthusiastic to learn about alpine, boreal, and aquatic #insects in this beautiful and unique landscape. We covered collecting, preparation, identification, and ecology.

July 14 is Be Nice to Bugs Day. Repost with some of your bugs!

It's always nice to have biological collections acknowledged as "irreplaceable evidence bases" and essential records of life on Earth. 🧪🪲 iucn.org/news/202607/...

New paper published with Stephanie Swenson: A revision of the genus Plociopterus Kraatz (Staphylinidae: Xanthopygina) and the evolution of spectacular secondary sexual structures. PDF here drive.google.com/file/d/1okNh...

My cold tap water is running at 117F (47C). It's hot out.

I always carry a spare #cormorant photo with me for times like this!

Guess what's in these buckets? 🪣 Hint: they have about 3,200 legs! #entomology #bugsky #museum

Beauty, buzz, and a little sting in time for Alaska Pollinator Week! Just a little yellowjacket appreciation for this year's pollinator week 🐝 www.adn.com/opinions/202... #hymenoptera #yellowjacket #alaskapollinatorweek #anchoragedailynews 🧪

A cruise ship arrived in Seward on Friday with a dead endangered fin whale on its bow, NOAA Fisheries said. The carcass of the adult female whale — which was pregnant, based on initial findings — was towed to an area beach for a necropsy. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

When small brown beetles be small brown beetles. Industrial scale genitalia extraction to determine the true differences and help to describe the species better. A heady mix of precise scientific method and inventive use of a vegetable steamer 😎 🧪 🪲

Happy to share our latest paper documenting the distribution and predatory habits of the rove beetle Platydracus buquetti #Coleoptera #Ecuador #Biodiversity doi.org/10.1649/0010...

I'm happy to finally publish a new subterranean staphylinid description with Taro Eldredge! It is only known from USA habitat closed off by the south TX border wall. #beetle #newspecies #beetles www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A peacock fly (Callopistromyia annulipes) strutting its stuff. This species is unusual because both males and females display #bugsky

Dissecting scydmaenines today. Pin point for scale. #bugskye

Did you know #Alaska has over 30 species of lady beetle? Here's a great article for Alaskans who want to make their garden #bug friendly. Thanks @awenninger.bsky.social www.uaf.edu/ces/publicat...

Beetle 🪲🐞 postdoc at the @museumofnature.bsky.social!!! nature.ca/en/our-scien... @canentomologist.bsky.social @entsocontario.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social @coleopsoc.bsky.social

Beetles and Caribbean fieldwork! I could use a second PhD.

Time for #Insect Fair at the MEM! 400 third graders will visit the museum and learn about #bugs today. #bugsky

Live with ants, get weird body mods.

Even large and conspicuous insects can still be unknown to science concludes new study published in Insect Systematics and Diversity by researchers from @nhmdk.bsky.social - describing 61 new species within the predatory beetle genus Platydracus. doi.org/10.1093/isd/...

Im generally not happy with this shot for several reasons, but the oak treehopper (Platycotis vityata) is without a doubt one of the most beautiful #insects in North America. #bugsky #nature

I'm not ashamed to shill for #bugsky

I uncovered a cuddle-puddle of stink bugs in my driveway. Probably brown marmorated stink bugs (Halyomorpha halys) #entomology #insects

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Took a snap of this Batman hoverfly in our garden and then noticed it has what looks like 2 tiny pseudo scorpion attached. #invertebrates #norfolk

Dear #childrensbook artists, Please learn how many fingers T. rex had. Thank you.

Ooh nomina dubia! That taxonomic tea.

Katydid? Bush cricket? What do you call these big green tettigoniids? #bugsky #entomology #photography #macro #nature

Childhood memory unlocked. #80s #snakes

Who says rove beetles aren't beautiful?

Excuse me sir, do you have a moment... #entomology

Gray tree #frog (Dryophytes versicolor)

If their product was really revolutionary, they wouldn't need to cram it down our throats.

All I want for #Taxonomist Appreciation Day is to talk about obscure brown beetles 🎉🪲

Feeling homesick today #alaska

Here's a cool tool a made to help you write more good. academic.oup.com/ae/article/7...

Thank you Field Museum for preserving this important resource!

I guess I'll post megafauna while I wait for macro season to arrive. Brown #bear cub. Denali National Park #alaska #nature #photography

Cormorants. Resurrection Bay, Seward #Alaska #photography #nature

🐞 Undergraduate Travel Award❗For travel costs associated with attending the Coleopterists Soceity and Entomological Society of America annual meeting. Proposals due March 1. www.coleopsoc.org/society-info...

What's up croc? I tried to get a unique angle of this Morelet's #crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii). #Belize #photography #wildlife #nature

Why the long face?

INSECT TAXONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY @entsocamerica.bsky.social Online, April 27-29! Featuring keynotes from Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, and Dominic Evangelista. Now accepting contributed talks! Grant deadline Feb 4, abstracts due Mar 6. entsoc.org/membership/b...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

One day my dog will get sick during business hours

I tried something different with this photo. What do you think? Hibiscus plant #bug #entomology #insect #bugskye #nature

Join me for a three day field course in #Denali National Park! We'll learn all about Alaska's #insects while hiking and exploring in the Beautiful #Alaska Range 🏔️🪲 akgeo.org/acitivities/...

Hemiptera nymphs don't hold back

What kind of recluse is this? Is it poisonous? #flyfriday #bugskye #entomology #photography #macro #nature

‘tis the season to be aware of Christmas beetle decline. “Researchers point to several possible causes including drought, climate change and the loss of eucalypt forest and woodland habitats, which are essential for the beetles’ survival.” 🪲 🪳 🌏 www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/council/news...