Happy 20th Anniversary!
As a taxonomist, I am incredibly grateful for your existence.
I access your information nearly on a daily basis for several different projects including #ColeopteraDeColombia.
The #Biodiversity world would not be the same without you!
Cheers!
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yes, the males are more slender and their metatibia is curved (where the name curvipes came from), hairy, and has a spine. the size of the spine and degree of curvature of the male metatibia varies across propulations (at least within the main island of Puerto Rico).
Yes!!
Lachnopus curvipes, a female :)
Macro photograph, in top view, of two insects standing on a cluster of small, 4-petalled white flowers. Both insects have a red head and thorax and black at their back ends. The beetle on the right is slightly broader, and has a narrow white line separating the red and black parts of its body, as to suggest a narrow ant waist.
Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.
Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗
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Researchers introduce a quick-assessment tool for insect outreach drawers based on five criteria: information, relevance, aesthetics, potential for engagement, and inspiration.
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Weevil course and roundup at the Southeestern Research Station in AZ! Learned a ton with some curCOOLionoid people. Thanks to all the organizers and instructors for an amazing workshop!
In 2024, the Museum of Texas Tech University ran an experimental event showcasing the Invertebrate Zoology Collection of the Natural Science Research Laboratory to the public, celebrating June Bug Day through an in-person event entitled Come Bug Me.
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⌛️ Deadline for the “ #Collections Reaching Out” collection at @nhcm.pensoft.net is approaching ❕
Inspired by the 2024 @entcollnet.bsky.social meeting, the collection invites anyone looking into the design & use of #entomological outreach drawers as educational tools.
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The ones in the second photo are Lachnopus aurifer (Drury), 1773.
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The variation kind of pains me!
still probably the best robe i've drawn yet
The Sorceress
based on a Pandeletius weevil, commission for @entiminae.bsky.social from last year
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Advetisement: Most Honors, Awards, and Grants offered by The Coleopterists Society are due on March 1. To learn more visit https://www.coleopsoc.org/society-info/prizes-and-awards/ Bottom row decorated with anterior region of beetles: Leiodidae, Carabidae, Cerambycidae
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This is one of NZ's rarest species - the ngaio weevil, browsing on ngaio leaves that are toxic to almost all species. There are only around 300 on one island, Takapourewa in the Marlborough Sounds. Background sound is some of the million seabirds that live on the island.
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They most definitely should!
Upper quarter left frontolateral view of a jewel beetle (family Buprestidae) on a white background. The entire body is metallic: the head, legs, and elytra are bluish-purple and the pronotum is a yellowish green. The large eyes are reddish brown on this specimen.
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Another early #BlueMonday post
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First slide of the presentation "Towards a complete species-level catalog of the Entiminae: an international collaborative project using TaxonWorks" by Jennifer C. Girón, Nikolai Yunakov, Samuel Brown, Guadalupe del Río, Kevin Cortés Hernández, Judy Rincón. On the left side of the image is the logo of the project: the outline in green of a representative of the genus Entimus in dorsal view.
We celebrated our third #WeevilWorkersMeeting today.
Here is our presentation about a world species-level catalog for the Entiminae.
youtu.be/ua9j856l0kk
Featuring the use of TaxonWorks.
Advertisement for SOGA: The Online Weevil Workers Meeting 2023 On the left side, text: SOGA: The Online Weevil Workers Meeting 2023 October 20 Registration https://tinyurl.com/ycymkxfw Program: https://www.curculionoidea.org/weevil-workers-meetings There are QR codes that take directly t those links. On the right side of the image, a dark and elongated straight-snouted weevil with longitudinal yellow markings on the elytra is posed on a vibrant green leaf. Photo by Andreas Kay, Brentus volvulus, Ecuador, 2013
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oohhh!! a booklet!!??
That would be awesome!
Will you have prints of this one available somewhere to purchase?
Sad, but I understand. Thank you for sharing your art!
Flat illustration of a black-and-white-warbler admiring several patterns of bird-safe glass as if in an art gallery. Captioned "Bird-Safe Glass is Beautiful!"
