Photo compilation of all the 20 nominees for Bug of the Year Aotearoa 2024
The Entomology Society of New Zealand has just launched their second annual Bug of the Year! Here are your 20 nominees for 2024! Voting opens on 1st January 💚 🧪🪲🕷️Take a look here:
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New paper out from my lab on wētā weapons! TLDR: We expected massive male jaws to hinder feeding rates but nope, they ate faster!
Project led by Bridgette Farnworth, hard work by summer student Sam Purdie & in collab with Cilla Wehi
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I guess you never getting a Nobel.
New preprint: The genome of the dyeing poison frog (Dendrobates tinctorius) is riddled with TEs!
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Exciting news today that my collaborators have been grated the first licence in NZ to cultivate Psilocybe ‘magic mushrooms’ for use in helping addiction to methamphetamine. I am proving advice on the mushrooms. #mycology 🧪www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/first-med...
While you were sleeping, I launched the "What's Environmental DNA" Feed, a collection of posts about Environmental DNA (or possibly eccentric fashion designer Edna Mode from The Incredibles). Let me know if you want to be added as a contributor, then tag posts with #eDNA to appear in the feed.
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