So cool. The impact of funding science, and long-term scientific infrastructure, is so far reaching!!

So cool! What was your collection method for the blepharicerids?

a large scarab beetle being placed on the back of an old pug for a joyride. the pug is wearing a blue and pink shirt with an orange bandana, and is sticking it's tongue out.

can confirm

Excerpt of a scientific article by Patil and Patil (2017) showing a leaf with mounting solution applied, dried, and then added to a microscope slide for viewing epiphytic fungi

Especially curious if anyone has tried this or similar methods. Were your leaves damaged? Sample image quality and slide longevity?

Anyone have mounting media recommendations for permanent slides of fungi?

photo labeled: "Adult pseudoscorpion (Parawithius sp.: Pseudoscorpiones: Withiidae) clasping a platypodine beetle (Cenocephalus rhinoceroides: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) with one chela in Dominican amber. Arrows show phoretic nematodes that became detached from the beetle."

a small cylindrical orange beetle on a white sheet with a pseudo scorpion grasping it's leg

it is SO cool and weird seeing them on the same insects they've been found on in amber. i see them riding in on ambrosia beetles at light traps occasionally, especially on platypodines.

a light violet colored butterwort flower with thin, deeply lobed corolla and fuzzy yellow palate in the middle

in love with them

Small black beetle with pointy cuticular growth on one lateral side of it's thorax. Photographed on a petri dish using a microscope.

Any guesses how this growth/tumor formed? A fun Caplothorax lugubris sap beetle specimen.