Some army ants are extremely polymorphic. This photo shows a large soldier and a small regular worker of Eciton hamatum. If you saw them separately, you wouldn’t even think they belong to the same species. You might also notice the light color of the ants - both are callows / newly eclosed.

When caterpillars attack, the common bean plant relies on a receptor in its leaves to sound a chemical rallying cry that recruits predatory wasps, a new #ScienceAdvances study finds. https://scim.ag/434rXN5

#forests www.npr.org/2026/06/06/n...

Daum #Museum of #ContemporaryArt, www.daummuseum.org/ #Sedalia MO Dr. Daum had great tastes, for artists who are so famous today. Good excuse to visit the Missouri State Fair nearby, every August, then escape the heat to Daum's aircon galleries.

discussion with Robin Wall Kimmerer (read "Braiding Sweetgrass" and "The Serviceberry"), hosted by #KansasCity Wildlands & bridgingthegap.org open.spotify.com/episode/6n9b...

#indigenous #knowledge, earned over 1000s of years of observations, is valued again: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

news from the international #Chrysomelidae #leafbeetles #beetles community! Download here: coleopsoc.org/resources/be...

Surgeons have always been REAL Superheroes, but now they can be Spider-Man as well. 🕷️✨ Oxford researchers are using Golden Orb Spider Silk to bridge massive nerve gaps - upto 20cm in some proven cases and possibly upto 80cm 🙏 It is restoring movement once thought lost forever. Full article here:

Link to research: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Thick Leg Flower Beetles on poppies. #insects #photography #nature #macro

urban #garden www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n...

#Peru #MacchuPicchu www.bbc.com/news/article...

They are indeed evolutionary superstars: www.bbc.com/news/article...

#biodiversity www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...

#AnimalArchitecture www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/s...

Returning Native American remains and sacred items isn’t just about objects. It’s about respect and doing what’s right. As universities work to give them back, it’s part of a bigger effort to reckon with the past. theconversation.com/universities...

#museum news.unl.edu/article/morr...

#indigenous world: Free Download: iwgia.org/en/resources...

#biodiversity #indigenous dyes #Mollusca www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/s...

nice illustration!

I like beetles, I like them a lot. So I’ve written a book about them to indoctrinate children. dk.com/products/978...

I did not know about carnivorous fungi. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

#Boswellia #franckincense www.npr.org/2026/04/09/n...

Harpalinae, one of the largest subfamilies of beetles in the world with ~19,000 species, but not as you know it! #taxonomy #systematics #entomology #MuseumCollections resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Prokaryota to Eukaryota www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2...

rock-climbing fish rock-climbing fish www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

#AnimalArchitecture #spiders #silk neat conversation with expert Cheryl Hayashi: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/sci...

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered www.theguardian.com/environment/... Check out the four-week residential program being offered - application deadline 7 April. www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/learning/cer...

1250 books of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ were printed at first in the UK. This copy lives at the Linda Hall Library, Kansas City. First editions are valued at auctions for >$300,000......IF they come to market.

Reverence for historical figures & texts! Touching Wallace’s 1853 book of his travels on the #Amazon Linda Hall Library #KansasCity

Fantastic viewing this week, great warm weather. 1/2 million birds

#AnimalArchitecture #ecosystem #EngineeringJobs www.npr.org/2026/03/15/n...