Arctiinae Research Community

[Arctiinae Research Community @ARC_sci]

Thank you to all our wonderful attendees, presenters, our keynote speaker @WTF_R_species, and our organizing committee for a great #ARC2022! See you in 2023!!

[Arctiinae Research Community @ARC_sci]

We hope you are excited as we are for #ARC22 to begin in just 1 HOUR!!

[Dr. Nicolas (Nick) J. Dowdy @njdowdy1]

That's a wrap! Thank you so much to the entire #arctiinae Research Community for making the first @ARC_sci meeting a HUGE success. This was an inspiring collection of presentations and the future of tiger moth research looks very bright! 😎

[Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana]

7 hours of moth research @ARC_sci with fellow researchers from different parts of the world —Big shout out to the organisers @njdowdy1 @OssiNokelainen & #RGawne for putting this together. It was GREAT! 🙌🏼🐛

[Arctiinae Research Community @ARC_sci]

Looking forward to seeing you there!

[Dr. Nicolas (Nick) J. Dowdy @njdowdy1]

Hard to believe we're only about half a day away from the first ever Arctiinae Research Community Meeting #ARC2021! I'm so happy we pulled this together. I'm going to be in #arctiinae heaven tomorrow. My talk: Recent Advances in the Phylogenomics of the Arctiinae. @ARC_sci

[Dr. Nicolas (Nick) J. Dowdy @njdowdy1]

The tiger moth version of "Where's Waldo?". Can you spot the hindwings of this moth? They are vanishingly small, but they are there. This isn't the result of damage or a rare mutation -- they evolved to be this way. Likely to aid in mimicking a wasp. #arctiinae #nmnh

[Dr. Nicolas (Nick) J. Dowdy @njdowdy1]

Another wasp misplaced among the tiger moths? Nope. This one has a "pseudostinger". Think it enhances wasp mimicry? Maybe, but consider: 1) only males exhibit this and 2) wasps with these giant ovipositors AFAIK don't defensively sting. Quite the mystery. #arctiinae #nmnh

[Dr. Nicolas (Nick) J. Dowdy @njdowdy1]

Here's a quick example of the extreme body size variation within the Arctiinae. Yes, these species are in the same subfamily. Big: Sebastia argus; Small: Talara esperanza.; Note: BOTH visually aposematic. #nmnh #prfb #arctiinae

[Ecology and Evolution of Interactions - EEI Group @Aplantaginis]

We are super-happy to get a paper accepted in @FunEcology about #colour vision in our beautiful #tigermoths with the awesome @LundVision #colsci @uniofjyvaskyla

[Andrei Sourakov @AndreiMoth]

Along the way to see the Monarch colonies in Michoacán, Mexico, one can spot some other spectacular wildlife, like this Chryscale principalis Tiger Moth.
#UFBugs

[Biodiversity Heritage Library @BioDivLibrary]

Garden Tiger Moth (Arctia caja) and Cream-spot Tiger Moth (Arctia villica). #SciArt by Janet Harvey Kelman for her Butterflies and #Moths (1910).
Contributed to #BHLib by @Mann_Library and @Cornell_Library: https://t.co/cwimVprsoG -- #WomensHistoryMonth #InternationalWomensDay

[WFU Biology @wfubiology]

Dr. Nick Dowdy, former #phdstudent in Dr. Bill Conner's lab @WakeForest, won 1st for the 2017 @ESA_org Student Comp. for President's Prize in Lepidoptera: "Can Characteristics of Tiger Moth (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) Sounds Be Predicted From Morphology?” Congrats, Nick!

[Arctiinae Research Community @ARC_sci]

Hello, World! Something new is about to emerge! Follow us to stay up-to-date on the newest tiger moth research! Tag us @ARC_sci with your new results to have them shared. Stay tuned for more!! #Halysidota_tessellaris #Arctiinae #Entomology #Science