Thousands of years ago, giant owls chowed down (and threw up) in a Caribbean cave. The bones they left behind were a boon to bees. Scientists recently discovered that one species made nests in the empty tooth sockets of rodent skulls. 🦉🦴🐝 Latest for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/s...

Starting in 20 minutes! The Zoom room is open and the slides are rolling - time to grab some snacks and settle in for 24 hours of Hymenoptera! #Hymathon2025

Sun's up in Portland! Talks you might want to check out if you're into fossils, ants, extinction, eusociality, or comparative morphology. I'm giving a talk today as well called "The diversity and longevity of the earliest ants" at 1:40pm in B113. #Entsoc25

Ugh this conference has barely started and the entomologists are already trashing the place

Our dept!

Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!

This is a nationwide layoff for a generation of young scientists: undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs funded on current awards will be unemployed with no explanation. Their future opportunities also erased.

Oldest ant fossil ever found reveals history of ‘hell ants’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Congratulations to Dr. Chloe Jelley @chloejelley.bsky.social ! Beautiful Ph.D. thesis defense today! #MoreauLab #ProudPI

👀🦋🐝🐞🐜🦗🪲🕷️Ento-Education Job alert!!👀

We weren't sure it would be possible, but huge thanks to the Eastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America for supporting a last-minute symposium highlighting stories from terminated federal employees at the meeting on March 17th. #entomology 🧪 esa.confex.com/esa/2025eb/m...

Today in Newark, New Jersey. 60+ scientists out in 25 degree weather to collectively say: hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs. One of 16 nationwide events held today as part of Labor for Higher Education.

Gall midges and their parasitoids are abundant, megadiverse, and very hard to identify! Such "double dark taxa" systems present special challenges for ecology and agriculture. 🧵🧪🐙 @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @marinamoser.bsky.social @krogmann.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/aesa...

My morning to-do list for the indefinite future: □ Call and send physical mail to a senator/congressperson □ Email a federal civil servant to thank them

Ant folks, is antweb down? Does anyone know why? Can we help?

Hell yes to this title in a new paper on formicine ant venom. Although I think just the first part is enough: "Acid Reign" doi.org/10.25849/myr...?

In 2025 I will sell five copies of The Three EPs by The Beta Band

104 bugs from 2024

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 24,1945

Holy cowwwwwwww !

Coach motel (like a coach beetle)

Sluggo rules

TAKE YOUR TIME- - - NANCY’S THE BOSS AROUND HERE

If you stop disassociating just long enough, you can spot the psammophore on one of the ants crawling over the 700 dollar salt shakers in the NY Mag gift guide. You may find comfort knowing these specialized beard-like hairs have helped seed harvester ants haul stuff for tens of millions of years.

talked about the Johnston's organ and airspeed sensing in insects in last night's class, so I figured they could have a little aviation entomology as a treat. One of Australia's finest research papers, WASP GO IN PLANE

TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK TERMITE BACKPACK (picture from Zilberman & Pires-Silva 2023) www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Ant/insect/academic friends! You may soon receive this invitation to guest edit an issue for the journal Insects. A reminder that this publisher (MDPI) is essentially predatory and relies on recruiting folks like us to start a kind of multi-level marketing chain. Just say no!

I am very glad so many of my science friends are here now. My only fear is that I'll now have to post something more substantial than reposting 70 year old Nancy comics every three months.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller November 7,1955

@jopabinia.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... :O

Our paper on new, very old ants is out in Current Biology today! ~77 million year old amber from North Carolina preserves evidence of a prolonged extinction of the earliest ants. Free link here to learn more about these doomed ats! @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/c/1ioZf3QW8S...

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IN NANCY’S WORLD

Been thinking about this for two days

Tag yourself

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October Mood…

October Scene…

[approaching the animatronic squirrel band leader] hey man great show

Follow Franz for more spontaneous, beautiful reconstructions of fossil ant deep cuts

Probably

Some very good ant picks here

This meal just cost me $78 at the Newark airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.

For #InverteFest / #FossilFriday meet the kalligrammatids. The ~180 million year old fossil below is from Kazakhstan, and may look like a butterfly, but it is in fact a lacewing (a member of the order Neuroptera). This family convergently evolved traits that we associate with butterflies. 🌍 ⚒️ 🧪

This is my first issue of American Entomologist where I've been the lead editor for the entire production. Lots of excellent articles, thanks to fabulous authors, editors, and staff! academic.oup.com/ae/issue/69/3

THE TIME IS NOW…

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