Did you know flowers hear the buzz of bees and respond by increasing sugar concentration in there nectar? Super cool study out of Israel discovered this relationship.
Fly School is back! Join us in Los Osos, California for two weeks in June & July 2019 to learn all about the biology, taxonomy, and identification of flies. Register today! https://t.co/ksNGXEpLHE #Diptera
Hello everyone I need to deliver to you the important message that SCORPIONS GLOW UNDER UV LIGHT and apparently there’s still no officially accepted reason other than THEY LOOK FRICKIN’ AWESOME
Insect of the day. Vampire moths. Pretty new to drinking mammalian blood and described by one entomologist as "clumsy suckers". Here's one sucking blood from a chap's thumb. More here: https://t.co/K3qH2vNt4R
There are a couple of spaces left on our expedition to southern Peru later this year. If you want some of this then give me a shout. The diversity of life here is staggering.
"With four crickets providing as much calcium as a large glass of milk, and one dung beetle containing more iron than a steak, chefs ... and a range of startups across the world are trying to remove the yuck factor." https://t.co/8OtZKZTL5i
Last summer @nature published a comment calling for regulation & oversight of taxonomy because the authors were annoyed by changing names. Today a *very large cohort* of taxonomists, including me, have responded https://t.co/d1gCb4pWjU
Please RT!
We’d like a little more science in this article and a lot less petty, competitive bullshit.
Science needs to be communicated in many different ways b/c there are many kinds of people. It’s not one-size-fits all.
#scicomm#strongertogether https://t.co/gpWRdzYsEz