Meet Gasteruption cylindricum, one of the more unique ghost wasps. Just like its species name suggests, the cylindrical body shape is perfectly designed to slip into old wood borer holes where its Euryglossinae bee hosts nest. They look out of this world in flight! #wasplove

Are you kidding me rn?!!

Very excited to see the carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plant genome published!

nature.com/articles/s4147…

Insane!!

Wanna hear about a mind-blowing cross-kingdom convergent evolution in stick insects and angiosperms? Come to my #EntSoc23 talk 8a Wednesday

Twitter ALL I want to do is travel rainforests and take photos of bugs! 😭🌳
I just want to show everyone the amazing world we are all so lucky to live in!!!

Strong contender for the world's best graphical abstract.

Paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Subsp and sp delimitation for endangered spp! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… International herp authors! Frenchman from Nanjing Christophe Dufresnes; Russian from Hanoi scholar.google.com/citations?user…; Slovak danieljablonski.com; edited by NAS member from USA David Hillis.

So what are my #science #Entomology #Biology #evolution friends moving to with the passing of #Twitter ?

#threads #bluesky #mastadon

Interested in #phylogenetics using whole #genome / #transcriptome / #proteome data? Christoph Hahn and I are very happy to share phylociraptor with you: It facilitates explorative and reproducible phylogenomic analyses of thousands of genes and genomes. Preprint: tinyurl.com/yc4f7v6d

Buff-tip, Phalera bucephala on an old linden tree-stick What should I say... Nature is awesome💚 German name literal translation „Mondvogel“ -> Moonbird, so nice🥰

#insects #bufftip #mondvogel #lepidoptera #entomology

Awesome mimicry. Poplar clearwing moth (Parenthrene) m&f Natural History Museum of L.A. County garden today.

Remarkable mimicry! 😍

Incredible drone footage flying over a volcano and lava flows at night, captured by Iceland Aerials.

The stunning White-lipped Viper! 🐍🤍

This snake wasn't too impressed with how close I got to it, so this was the only photo I got before it unleashed a very fast warning strike - so it was time to move on after that! 😶

Hope you enjoy the photo! 📷

@monotomidae Entomological Collections Network SysEB ESA

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in nature

In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a 'minimal genome' (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…).

Today, a group of scientists from…

ONTbarcoder 2.0: Real-time DNA barcoding with MinION´s R10.4. Now you can find out what species are in your sample, while you are still sequencing. Get more and better barcodes faster than ever. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Tiger beetle, Cicindela hybrida. Dorsal view of the most beautiful scutellum ever🥰 All colors, transparent scales and hairs, just beautiful!

#cicindelidae #cicindela #cicindela hybrida #tigerbeetle #beetle #coleoptera #insects #entomology #emtomology #insectweek #insectweek 23…

You’ll never see this again in your life! Witness a mating of cuckoo wasps is actually exceptional. This could be the first video ever showing this behaviour. Euchroeus purpuratus is also very rare in Europe. iPhone footage. France 2023. ©Frank Deschandol.