My favorite 50 pictures that I took this year, also this marks one year of me taking wildlife photos but a majority of these are from after may since that’s when I bought my current camera
New paper out! We describe three new species of giant mealybugs from Mexico & Guatemala. You think spiders have a lot of eyes until you look at male Puto mealybugs. Some species have 18 eyes in total!
Pictured alive is Puto decorosus from California.
https://t.co/BkTGqPwxoL
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This was a fun paper, looking at life stage associations we were able to make in barcoding Appalachian arthropods, and advocating for including larvae, females and other 'difficult to ID' morphs when barcoding. Just published in Systematic Entomology:
https://t.co/SdZxVxVlNR
I’d like to take a moment to share a CT scan of my favorite specimen in the entireUMMZ - - a 100 year old mama Massasauga rattlesnake with 12 little pups perfectly coiled inside. I love her. 🐍💜. #umicheeb#ssar2024#ctscan
Woo-hoo! Hot off the presses, 9 new cryptic species of Dasycerus from the southern Appalachians! And they all look exactly like this one (except, of course, in their male genitalia). This rove beetle looks about as unstaphylinid-like as one could imagine.
https://t.co/BsABKKmD0Q