Caroline S. Chaboo
@cschaboo.bsky.social
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entomologist, beetles, Chrysomelidae
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#beetles
about 2 months ago
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#gardens
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
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A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how â and why
Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5589228/garden-environment-restoration-ecology-la-river-guerrilla
about 8 hours ago
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#leafbeetles
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about 10 hours ago
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Aaron Parnas
1 day ago
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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#ants
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#museums
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2 days ago
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
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The Kids Are Up All Night, With Jewels and Bones
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/arts/museum-natural-history-sleepover.html
2 days ago
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Lee Dyer
7 days ago
Not any news to love these days, but I do love this paper on caterpillar sensory ecology. I can't wait to use figures from this for teaching.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The sensory ecology of caterpillars - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Caterpillars (larval Lepidoptera) are one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily significant taxa on Earth. As both feeders and food, they shape the dynamics of enumerate ecosystems on land. Key ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-025-01778-x
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#Kansas
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...
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Bee Happy: Theyâre Saving Pollinators in Kansas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/climate/kansas-pollinators-bees-plants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU8.CZBk.K63T9foybQnQ&smid=url-share
8 days ago
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Megan Bieseleâs wonderful memoir starts with her
#anthropology
#fieldwork
with
#San
#indigenous
#Bushmen
(1970s) in the
#Kalahari
#Africa
. I went there 40 yrs later & published with Megan.
10 days ago
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#AnimalArchitecture
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10 days ago
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#beetles
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12 days ago
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...
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Director of Philadelphia Art Museum Is Dismissed After Unpopular Rebranding
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/arts/design/philadelphia-art-museum-director-dismissed.html
13 days ago
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BOU
14 days ago
Large old trees sustain avian communities and critical plant-bird interactions in highly urbanised environments |
www.sciencedirect.co...
| Biological Conservation |
#ornithology
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Duarte-De-MĂ©lo, Chaboo, CajĂ©, SuĂȘnia-Bastos & De Moura Lima. 2025.
#Brazil
#Chlamisus
#leafbeetles
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#Malvaceae
#AnimalArchitecture
#Chrysomelidae
#Beetles
Fragmenta entomologica 57(2).
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Why tequila depends on Mexico's bats
Conservationists and communities are planting thousands of agave plants to protect endangered bats, and the future of Mexico's tequila production.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251028-mexicos-tequila-future-depends-on-bats
17 days ago
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#Egypt
#museum
www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/s...
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More than $1 billion and two decades later, the Grand Egyptian Museum is â finally â ready to share its treasures | CNN
After innumerable interruptions, delays and setbacks, the worldâs largest museum dedicated to a single civilization comes to life.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/style/grand-egyptian-museum-opens
17 days ago
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
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Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/university-illinois-students-cheating-ai.html
17 days ago
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Gwen Pearson
18 days ago
A beautiful bit of art for your morning. Painting by Yamamoto Baiitsu, Japan, 1847. The full work is 250cm long! Full scroll with 50 insects at:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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#leafbeetles
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20 days ago
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Michael Caterino
20 days ago
Just up on the 'Value in nature' blog, a look at how wild genetic resources can sustain and enrich the world of spices: đ
#biodiversity
#nature
mscaterino.pika.page/posts/variet...
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Variety - the life of spice - Value in nature
Future dinner table conversation? Father: âJohnny, could you please pass the pepper?â Precocious child: âI would, Dad, but last yearâs entire pepper crop was wiped out by disease and you...
https://mscaterino.pika.page/posts/variety-the-life-of-spice
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I hace these as earrings!
#Cassidinae
#leafbeetles
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21 days ago
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...
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How to Revive Californiaâs Underwater Forests? Smash a Spiky, Hungry Foe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/climate/california-kelp-restoration.html
21 days ago
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Caroline S. Chaboo
The Coleopterists Society
22 days ago
#LiteratureNotice
Hu et al. Ancient divergent evolution of specialized swimming modes in aquatic beetles
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
#Beetle
#Beetles
#waterscavengerbeetles
#waterbeetles
#convergentevolution
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#Ecuador
#biodiversity
#Conservation
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/indi...
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Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuadorâs Amazon forests
PAKAYAKU TERRITORY, Ecuador â Deep in the heart of Ecuadorâs Amazon, where the Bobonaza River winds through ancient forests in Pastaza province, Sacha Gayas spreads out a hand-drawn map across her woo...
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/indigenous-guardians-successfully-keep-extractives-out-of-ecuadors-amazon-forests/
22 days ago
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#exhibition
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/a...
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What Does an Ant Smell Like?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/arts/design/ants-smell-museum.html
23 days ago
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#AnimalArchitecture
#wasps
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/r...
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Thereâs a Wasp Nest in the Living Room. On Purpose.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/realestate/luxury-wasp-nest.html
24 days ago
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This 'magical' dinosaur specimen emerged from the ground like a polished jewel
A new pachycephalosaur, officially named Zavacephale rinpoche, was described in the journal Nature. The word rinpoche is Tibetan for "precious one" and refers to the domed skull.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5581469/domed-dinosaur-pachycephalosaur-fossil-discovery
25 days ago
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Bee Happy: Theyâre Saving Pollinators in Kansas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/climate/kansas-pollinators-bees-plants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk8.vfjH.i3Csd52Lt9WM&smid=url-share
26 days ago
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Michael Caterino
27 days ago
Beetle pollinators anyone? Learn more about some unsung symbioses in 'Beetles and the plants that love them', just posted to the 'Value in nature' blog!
mscaterino.pika.page/posts/beetle...
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Beetles and the plants that love them - Value in nature
Whether looking out your window, or looking in your refrigerator, the view would be very different were it not for pollinators. Modern plants have evolved in concert with a diverse...
https://mscaterino.pika.page/posts/beetles-and-the-plants-that-love-them
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Eric R. Eaton
27 days ago
One of the most absurd insects found in Kansas, USA, is the Great Crested Grasshopper. We found this one today at Point of Rocks in the Cimarron National Grasslands, Morton County, Kansas.
#bugsky
#insect
#insects
#grasshopper
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for immunity
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Some ant architects design a colony to cut the risk of disease. Humans, take note!
One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new study shows how they do it.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/10/21/g-s1-94240/ants-disease-architecture
27 days ago
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Teamwork of authors, editors, reviewers, & publisher pays off!
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29 days ago
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Caroline S. Chaboo
Michael Caterino
about 1 month ago
Reposting my 'Value in nature' launch. The blog now has 5 entries ranging from wild diversity's importance to restoring American chestnut to fighting invasive species. Please share!
#biodiversity
#nature
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Daniel Kronauer
about 1 month ago
New preprint from the lab: A reference brain for the clonal raider ant. With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Eric R. Eaton
about 1 month ago
This male cicada parasite beetle, Sandalus niger, flew onto me yesterday while I was inspecting our backyard fence. Autumn seems to be the season for the truly weird bugs. Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
#bugsky
#beetles
#insects
#beetle
#insect
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long-lost relative
www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/s...
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First known hand fossils of extinct human relative reveal âsurprisingâ features | CNN
Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and gorilla-like strength.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/science/fossil-kenya-extinct-human-hand
about 1 month ago
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#beetles
are works of art!
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about 1 month ago
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#phytotelmata
#insects
entomologytoday.org/2025/10/16/u...
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Unique Egg-Laying Behavior Re-Discovered in Culex Mosquito Species
Culex antillummagnorum doesn't lay eggs in a tight group like fellow Culex species. Instead, females hover or perch above pools of water in plants and drop in eggs one at a time.
https://entomologytoday.org/2025/10/16/unique-egg-laying-behavior-rediscovered-culex-antillummagnorum-mosquito/
about 1 month ago
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Robert Barney has published so many articles on
#Pachybrachis
#beetles
(#Cryptocephalinae
#leafbeetles
). I pulled many issues of Coleopterists Bulletin to just review some of his structures! Bravo!! (thanks
@coleopsoc.bsky.social
for providing a forum for chryso research)
about 1 month ago
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#parentalcare
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about 1 month ago
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#indigenous
#dyes
#insects
#Mexico
#Oaxaca
#Zapotec
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...
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âDancing on the Loomâ: Weaving Creativity With Indigenous Tradition
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/style/zapotec-couple-rug-weaving.html
about 1 month ago
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wonderful
#behavior
#film
: "MELA" (21 mins, Nadja Geiger, director; scientists Vivek Hari Sridhar, Akanksha Rathore, Hemal Naik)
#ethology
#antelope
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4d...
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MELA â Mating Ecology of Lek Breeding Antelope
YouTube video by UniversitÀt Konstanz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4dX2l6Y-Y
about 1 month ago
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Science News Explores
about 1 month ago
Turns out, tiny gaps can be powerful. New research explains why bristled wings work so well for the tiniest of flying beetles.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/tiny-insects-fly-comb-wings
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Comb-like wings help the tiniest insects swim through âsyrupyâ air
When you're the size of a grain of sand, flying through air is like swimming through a syrup. Bristled wings help the tiniest insects manage this.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/tiny-insects-fly-comb-wings
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Peruâs president is removed from office after string of scandals | CNN
Dina Boluarte, the president of Peru, was removed from office on Thursday after a late-night congressional vote in which parties across the political spectrum called for her ouster.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/americas/peru-president-dina-boluarte-removed-intl-hnk
about 1 month ago
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Bizarre
#beetles
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about 1 month ago
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Carl Zimmer
about 1 month ago
Today my
@nytimes.com
colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this yearâs cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link:
nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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about 1 month ago
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Neat listen to learn about new interesting models that shed light on hybridization:
www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...
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How an unlikely union led to the humble potato : Short Wave
Usually, when two different species mate, itâs a disaster. At least, thatâs what scientists had generally thought about hybrids, the offspring of these unions. But some researchers are starting to cha...
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/07/nx-s1-5526044/potato-origin-mystery-hybrids
about 1 month ago
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Extraordinary
#beetles
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Cantharidin world on bird droppings: Reused cantharidin after bird predation of cantharidinâproducing insects
Cantharidin is produced only by beetles of Meloidae and Oedemeridae families and is a rare resource for canthariphilous insects that ingest fluids and/or portions of living and even dead meloid and o....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ens.12612
about 2 months ago
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Ancient Arabian desert rock art showing camels marked water sources
About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to mark the location of water sources in an illustration of how ancient people tackled some of Earth's most inhospitable environs.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/ancient-arabian-desert-rock-art-showing-camels-marked-water-sources-2025-09-30/
about 2 months ago
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#hermitcrab
#AnimalArchitecture
recycling thrash as homes (1 min advert before film on the crabs)
www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/c...
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These hermit crabs are using trash as homes. Heâs fixing that | CNN
One night while documenting wildlife, photographer Shawn Miller discovered hermit crabs living in trash. Now, heâs on a mission to swap their plastic homes for proper shells with his conservation proj...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/climate/video/hermit-crabs-okinawa-japan-shawn-miller-digvid
about 2 months ago
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