Andrew Polaszek

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

@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).

[Dr. Caroline S Chaboo @CarolineSChaboo]

Thank you very much, @AndyPolaszek

[Vanessa Theed @vanessa_theed]

Fascinating tour with @AndyPolaszek at @NHM_London learning about Wasps and the many varieties there are and seeing the smallest insect in the world! @London_HVG @HeritageVols

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

@LourdesChamorro @Coleopterist @thiswordistaken @BroadGavin It was a pleasure having you visit, see you again soon, Andy

[Max Barclay @Coleopterist]

OK everyone, Grub's Up! @thiswordistaken @AndyPolaszek @FieldStudiesC @RoyEntSoc @NHM_Science @NHM_London @NHM_Coleoptera https://t.co/vS9irQabvr

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

Check out Brigitte Howarth's TedX talk on biodiversity, species description and ecosystem services here: https://t.co/jQfmSFa1AF

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

@Bugologists @NHM_London @plantandfood You were a great student Aliesha - power to the fairy flies!

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

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

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

@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.

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

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

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

@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

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

@scienceheather @EntoProf @EntoMasters @HarperAdamsUni Thanks @scienceheather - almost a Haiku!

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

@FranciscaSconce @scienceheather @flygirlNHM @Coleopterist @AmoretWhitaker Looking forward - sorting out perfect specimens this afternoon!

[Andrew Polaszek @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

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

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...?"

[Royal Entomological Society @RoyEntSoc]

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

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

@ymilesz @ParslowBen @SarianaFaure @ErinnFJ @BroadGavin @mprous1 @juanita_rodr @bernardo_santos I'll be there - looking forward!

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

@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.

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

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

[Andrew Polaszek @AndyPolaszek]

@osuc_curator Indeed, Matt Yoder and Lubo Masner - Hon. chalcidologists for the day - note Einstein's approval!