@arnoldtortoise Looks right for Encarsia inaron male - can confirm if you send it. Strong sexual dimorphism in many Encarsia (and other tiny chalcids). Extreme in some mymarids (fairy flies).
The larvae have hatched! Presentation of UK beetle larvae handbook #Verrall supper last night by Max Barclay @Coleopterist to Helmut van Emden ("Van") - work started by his father over 50 years ago. Congratulations to Max and Beulah Garner @thiswordistaken for completing the book
@sejarnold @VWoolley29@NHM_London@ytmughogho Yolice Tembo and I travelled the length of Malawi together a couple of years back looking mainly for whitefly parasitoids for the #cassavawhitefly project.
With friend, research collaborator and fellow football fan Mostafa Sharaf – currently the most famous man in Egypt, having named a new ant species after his countryman Liverpool striker Mo Salah: https://t.co/sMvdvyuMw2
@arnoldtortoise Superficially resembles E. tricolor, but not quite right. Very difficult genus with many cryptic spp. Can you please send me the specimen with all data (to NHM). Thanks, @AndyPolaszek
Yesterday in Lublin at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University with Prof. Aneta Ptaszyńska.
What an impressive memorial to a monumentally talented scientist - 2 Nobel prizes in different sciences
Visiting Polish Forestry Research Institute south of Warsawa researching a beneficial wasp Telenomus tetratomus - nemesis of the pine moth Dendrolimus pini (destroyed eggs below - victorious wasp having just emerged). Now what was that about "what's the point of wasps...?"
J.O.Westwood medal was awarded earlier by @AKMurchie@AFBI_NI & @AndyPolaszek@NHM_London to Frank H. Hennemann, Oskar V. Conle, Paul D. Brock & Francis Seow-Choen for their paper on Oriental Heteropteryginae. #ECE2018
https://t.co/CpqqiLNaX7
@AKMurchie Hi Archie - it's actually a trichogrammatid - Megaphragma amalphitanum - one of the smallest winged insects known, at about 0.2 mm. I took it with the NHM's confocal laser scanning microscope.
The world's chalcid wasp specialists getting together at Charles University in Prague this week to improve our understanding of these wonderful creatures! Thanks to all, and especially Petr Jansta + John Heraty