I’ve had this Venus flytrap for a couple years and it surprised me with flowers this week.

I have ants nesting in the roots of my aloe plants and they actively feed on the sap.

Petri dish of ethanol-preserved microleps, aka “Moth Broth”

And a useful reminder that even fluid-preserved lep bycatch can be a source of valuable genitalia specimens

High-resolution flatbed scan of genitalia slide vs focus-stacked output from leica DM6

An impressive comparison of the outcome from a flatbed scanner vs a Leica DM6 plus Zerene focus-stacking

McGuire center waves their genitalia in everyone’s face, via a concerted effort to digitize their 30,000+ slides of Lepidoptera dissections

Megan Neal of the McGuire Center, with a talk chock full of exquisite genitalia preps

FSCA’s Jim Hayden tells us about quelling panic around invasive species by digging up evidence they were already present in the area long before “new” observations