#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...

"Humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you'd need five more Earths," biologist Paul R. Ehrlich told 60 Minutes in 2023. Ehrlich died Friday at 93. cbsn.ws/3Nt4PDR

A pop. lit. piece from the BBC discussing whalefall ecology. Lots of our favorite critters get a mention: hagfish, scale worms, snot flower worms, amphipods We’re constantly surprised': The strange deep-sea creatures that eat whales share.google/amJpU2HEyDqs...

Diurnal fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Ellychnia spp.) are active in the daytime, unlike their nocturnal relatives. The adult beetles don't produce light to attract mates and instead rely on chemical attractants. Blissfield Michigan, 22 Jun 2025.

A Calligrapha beetle- named of course for the beautiful inscriptions on its elytra- sits on its dogwood host plant. Texas.

#AnimalArchitecture onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Caribbean #biodiversity www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Fungi create soil, sequester vast amounts of carbon, and supply the nutrients needed to sustain trees — but knowledge about them is scarce. Now, mycologists are pushing the scientific community to recognize fungi on the same level as plants and animals.

#WomenInSTEM Hypathia www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

reading up on holoparasitic plants, regretting it instantly

Hayford, Jurotich, Malik & Chaboo. 2026. Aquatic #Diptera in #Phytotelmata of #Bromeliaceae and #Zingiberales. In (Lin et al. Eds) Aquatic #Insects #Biodiversity and eDNA Monitoring. Insects. www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/17...

My academic coach (a very cool privilege I have) just told me about ‘Ask For It’ a guide for women to negotiate a raise. It came up after I mentioned equity in pay 💰 in academia.

#museums www.kcur.org/arts-life/20...

Not all six-legged creatures are insects — meet Haplocampa wagnelli, a hexapod adapted to life underground. They were first discovered in 2018 living deep inside caves on Vancouver Island, and to this day are known from just seven caves in the world.

Ancient Peruvians in the Chincha Valley used seabird guano from the Chincha Islands to fertilize maize, helping pre-Inca societies expand. Nitrogen in 2,200-year-old maize matches local seabirds — evidence of an early, tightly managed fertilizer system later controlled by the Inca.

#leafbeetles to the rescue

I’ve been a supporter of @wwf.org.uk for over 40 years & I think it’s the first time I’ve seen flies in their magazine! Hoverflies (& 100000s more spp) are not just excellent pollinators as adults, as the larvae are either recyclers of organic waste or predators of your garden pests 🤓🪰

Creatures from the deepest sea

#frogs #toxin www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Glenn Wiggins' love of #AnimalArchitecture #insects Finally, I have a copy of this book on my shelf.