I’m so glad to see a meal prep thread. I was uninspired, but now I am and I’m going to make this tonight!

Bummer

Staff at a local art gallery told us that the best pieces gets created around Xmas when the artists are relaxed and taking a break from other obligations. Food, rent, time to be, all encourage creativity.

True Facts: Parasitoid Wasps YouTube video by Ze Frank

Over 1.4 million views (🤯) of this #ZeFrank video that features some of our lab’s work on gall wasps and parasitoid wasps! (And many others, too!)

youtu.be/ANyJVMhOpkk

In middle of a graceful, fibonacci-curved spring tomato leaf sits a large green caterpillar in side view, its front curled as if in prayer, in an ethereal soft light, slightly backlit.

My best photographs of 2025, a short thread.

A tobacco hornworm on one of its favorite foods, a garden tomato plant (Texas, May 2025). This one makes the cut because it is more aesthetically pleasing than I was aiming for, somehow.

Want to study host-microbe interactions? The Lariviere lab is recruiting PhD students to study beneficial symbionts in honey bees. Deadline is December 1st.

Going to be fun!!

Two Mexican honey wasps, which are bee-like insects with black bodies, yellow stripes on the lower abdomen and honey-colored wings. Photo credit: Alex Wild.

The Mexican honey wasp is a bit of an oddball: it makes and eats honey like a bee, but when it’s hankering for protein, instead of pollen, it eats other insects. A new study finds its gut microbiome is more like bees than wasps. Funded by USDA and NSF. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

My sweet girl

There are at least two!!

How lovely.

How did German cockroaches end up in the hilarious/romantic quadrant?

Thanks, the honey wasps are really cool.

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

Holiday Sale 2024 - Alex Wild A selection of photographs discounted up to 70% off regular fine art prices until January 5, 2025. Explore various mounting and framing options in checkout.

The print sale is live, bug people.

The annular eclipse makes little ring shadows under a bigtooth maple in central Texas. October 14, 3023.