BLOIN Pierrick 🐞🦋🐝

Entomology student (MSc at Laval University) working on saproxylic insects in boreal forest. I am particularly interested in beetle systematics.

[ZooKeys @ZooKeys_Journal]

🪲 25 new records of rove beetles are reported in Quebec, with two additions to the Ontario fauna and two from Nova Scotia. Find out more here: https://t.co/2kmLwgqqIy

#beetles #biodiversity #Coleoptera @aj_brunke @BloinP @NRCan @universitelaval

[BLOIN Pierrick 🐞🦋🐝 @BloinP]

🎉 New find alert! Check out our latest research in @ZooKeys: "New records of rove beetles from Quebec" 🍁🐞 We're diving into Staphylinidae biodiversity in Quebec! Dive in: [https://t.co/54qcUAIJRH] #Entomology #Quebec #Bugs 🌲

[Caterino Arthropod Biodiversity Lab @CaterinoLab]

This looks to be a new species of the beastly leiodid genus Dietta, collected in 2011 in Pichincha, Ecuador. Surprisingly the hind leg spines are in both sexes. It'd be interesting to know what they're for. But these have never been seen alive, only collected in flight traps.

[Thorben Danke @sagaOptics]

Hello World!
Mason bee hatching. One of my favorite pictures. You can see the broken cocoon and the bee that has developed inside. After the shooting, it took less than half an hour until the bee was ready to fly and took off.

[Horace Zeng @horacezhl]

Another remarkable example of tool use in ants: fire ants “paving” sticky surfaces. I’ve seen signs of this behavior, but I didn’t expect it to be so robust until my friend told me about it (Wang et al., 2021 Insect Science).

[KJ @f_najas]

Violin Beetle (Mormolyce phyllodes)

[Alexey Polilov 🕊️ @AlexeyPolilov]

@Nature released the print version of the last issue today. Our work has been selected as a cover story, and our beetle is on the cover! Entomology forever!

[Pour un réveil écologique @ReveilEcolo]

Cette photo n’est pas un œuf de dinosaure exhumé par des paléontologues… 🦖

Il s’agit d’une mine, avec au centre une représentation de la quantité de cuivre qui en a été extraite.

[Chloé Sondervorst @sondervorst]

La femme qui parle aux insectes. Je vous raconte son histoire au micro d'@isabellecraig sur @icircpremiere (avec un accès spécial aux coulisses de l'Insectarium @EspacePourLaVie) https://t.co/vgGnCIE7in

[Into The Wild Podcast @IntoTheWildPod]

🎙Beetles with Ash Whiffin🎙

With approx 400,000 species, you'd be mad to not love at least 1 beetle! This week, assistant curator of entomology at @NtlMuseumsScot @AshWhiffin joins me to discuss the diverse world of beetles!🐞🪲

▶️Listen at: https://t.co/IZYkt207zh

[Pensoft @Pensoft]

@eurotaxonomy @IUCN 📸Sneak peek into what's coming for the #RedListTaxonomists initiative from #CETAF50
Final report:
🐝Past & future trends of expertise across Europe & #insect #taxa
🐝Measures & tools expected to bridge the gaps at both national & pan-European level, including funding programmes.

[Emmanuel Toussaint @EmmanuelTouss1]

A real stunner, Tefflus carinatus violaceus from Western Tanzania also strangely called peaceful giant ground beetle. Not so sure about the peaceful part from a land snail’s perspective but this one didn’t bite. #NotaCarabus #Tanzanitebeetle #FirstRains #Panagaeini

[Thorben Danke @sagaOptics]

Wasps, Hymenoptera. Incredible in shape, color, size and, above all, reproductive strategies. With around 160,000 described species, they form one of the four mega-diverse insect orders.
#hymenoptera #ichneumonidae #ovipositor #Entomology #biodiversity

[AP Drapeau Picard @AP_drapic]

La consécration!!
Je réponds à la question: "Quel est l'insecte le plus intelligent?" avec @infomantv
Pour voir le tout 👉https://t.co/dC3j5h7H21

[James Earl @jamesdearl]

If you listen or watch one thing today, Sir David Attenborough’s speech to the COP26 conference has to be it. An outstandingly chilling reminder of why time is ticking. Oh, and at 95 years old, wow.

[Maxim Larrivée (il/lui/he/him) @MaximLarrivee]

Je suis tout excité de découvrir les spécimens de #papillons et de #pollinisateurs que les #sentinelles du #nunavik ont récolté depuis 2019! Un GROS merci à tout le monde impliqué, c’est tout un effort de coordination particulièrement durant 2 saisons en pleine #pandemie

[BLOIN Pierrick 🐞🦋🐝 @BloinP]

A very strange creature encountered this summer on the field. This caterpillar with hydraulic tentacles is none other than the "filament bearer" - Nematocampa resistaria. No need to go to the tropics to find extravagant creatures.

#Entomology #insect #Lepidoptera #moth

[BLOIN Pierrick 🐞🦋🐝 @BloinP]

@Edel_PLopez Quite a simple setup. A white plate or sheet of paper to put the specimen on, a canon EOS 7D with a 105 mm macro lens, and a cobra flash associated with a DIY light diffuser.

[BLOIN Pierrick 🐞🦋🐝 @BloinP]

Quebec has an unsuspected diversity of insects, especially in terms of Membracidae (treehoppers). Here is a sample of the 78 species recorded for the province.

#Membracidae #Bugshot #Hemiptera #insect