Great to see this work out! Congrats to all the fantastic collaborators!
Releasing incompatible males drives strong suppression across populations of wild and Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti in Australia https://t.co/WkkMMA4Qsa
Drilling through 4cm of wood is hard work, but it’s what these Braconid wasps are made for. I found them drilling in to the burrow of a Wood Moth (likely Endoxyla cinereus) this afternoon.
#wildoz
@stephen_fricker@j_soghigian@MosquitoLab I only tend to use Ochlerotatus for lesser known species. Might stick to Aedes next time. Not sold it is rubrithorax but in that area. There’s a fine balance between putting a name on pics online so others have something to go off vs. muddying the waters
@stephen_fricker@MosquitoLab Thanks! the proboscis is entirely dark scaled. It keys out well to rubrithorax (amongst common SE Aus mossies) but could very well be something else esp. since i have no ref to compare to. Hind femur 'band' isn't distinct like in alboannulatus. Ochlerotatus vs. Aedes is debatable
it's finally all wrapped up! If anyone is interested in Aedes albopictus and Ae. aegypti pop gen have a gander https://t.co/KqUkYLnm45 #phd#aedes#albopictus#aegypti#mosquito#popgen 🦟🧬🌏
Ochlerotatus rubrithorax. A mid-size mosquito that’s lives it’s aquatic stages in rock pools and groundpools in bushland. I spotted some large-ish larvae in a rock pool in a gully and figured it’d be something I… https://t.co/Vg2KPP3Uka
@JulianBeaman I agree! It reminds me from Mikey from men in black. It’s a fungus weevil (Anthrobidae) - it’s a male I think which have the sexually diamorphic eye stalks
I've been wanting to take this guy's pic for a while and with imports slowing down I've finally had a chance to play around with our camera. A great example of the diversity of beetle body forms - do you know who it is? #beetle#entomology#coleoptera#biosecurity#macro