Tanner Matson

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; Entomology, Lepidoptera

[Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund @gdfcf_org]

"ACG is a success story, a powerful example of what can happen when humans help forests heal." @ACGuanacaste #reforestation #restoration #biodiversity #CostaRica

They turned cattle ranches into tropical forest — then climate change hit https://t.co/Gf2VGY8wVv via @Verge

[Tanner Matson @MothMatson]

While playing in the garden, my 2-yr old daughter came across a rolly-polly and, intrigued, decided to taste it. When her mother asked in shock, 'Did you just eat that?!' She calmly replied, 'Yeeees, it's... SPICY! So now you know...

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Stunning work by @ryan_stlaurent et al! https://t.co/tADQkJarW6 4/4 on new Cerurinae life histories from eggs...in a part of the world with desperate need for this type of research!

[Zeke Darwin @Zeke_Darwin]

Just realized that an article was published last week on the new species of moth my students worked on naming! https://t.co/rerjfTfm8Z

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@irussell21 News to me too! 🤣🤣 I don't check my voicemail enough apparently 😬

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Exciting news! 16 new Mexican #Geometridae in the genus Stamnodes @ejtaxonomy Dive into Mexican #biodiversity and #biogeography ! 🦋🔬 #NewSpecies #Biodiversidad #Lepidoptera
https://t.co/WWvaMOSiZ8

[Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund @gdfcf_org]

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Season's Greetings 2023 - https://t.co/Mr0BayutfB

[Tanner Matson @MothMatson]

@irussell21 I know I keep saying this...BUT the manuscript that includes that moth should be published any day now....🤞

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@EerikaSchulz https://t.co/VhmhWsgLFF

Actually this one is Achagua magna now.

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@EerikaSchulz I have a paper in review that describes this genus as it is presently a manuscript name that was never formally published. And I'll also be raising the Andean subspecies 'mirafloresa' (that you have pictured here) to full species status!

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@ANStillman @JAppliedEcology Awesome work!

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Three newly described species of the Neotropical genus Achagua - a rarely encountered geometrid moth #Lepidoptera #Geometridae #newspecies

https://t.co/VhmhWsgLFF

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@SciencePicard I do regularly. The TSA agent will just ask you what kind of cake or sweets you have if you carry them in a white Schmitt box. Then you get to tell them about your insects!

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@americanbeetles Today's Tom Sawyer, mean, mean pride...doodoo do do doodoo do do doo do do🎵🎸

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@ryan_stlaurent That was my attempt at a joke! But my delivery has always suffered 🤦‍♂️

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Pull a Scranci leg! Congrats Ryan et al!

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Right or wrong, when elevating an infraspecific taxon to species, what is your preferred language. Example: "Taxon A represents a [???] species."

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@irussell21 Half or tricolored dots for those sites with multiple categories?

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@punkflies You might think, but I have three reared tachinid adults, all identical as far as I can tell, and all reared from black eggs. I have dozens of photos of Stamnodes larvae with these black eggs attached on the thorax. It's unusual...

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@ymilesz Well let me know if you proceed! I'm interested in doing something similar and precedence would be fantastic.