Wei Song Hwang

Curator of #Entomology #Hemiptera @lkcnhm | #taxonomy, #phylogenetics and #naturalhistory of #assassinbugs | SoutheastAsia #biodiversity | Educator @NUSingapore

[Shawan Chowdhury (শাওন চৌধুরী) @shawan_c]

Using @GBIF and @protectedplanet data, we show that 76% of insect species are inadequately represented by protected areas and nearly 1900 species have no coverage at all. https://t.co/m9wPuOAZEF @cyclonewatson
@jeff_o_hanson @PutterT @UQ_CBCS @idiv @RCCUQ @OneEarth_CP (1/8)

[Dr. Dawn Wright + @deepseadawn.bsky.social 🇺🇦 @deepseadawn]

BEHOLD! The new World Terrestrial Ecosystem Explorer, a 1st-of-its-kind mapping of the distribution of global terrestrial ecosystems at a detailed spatial resolution (250 m), by @usgs, @Esri, and @j_a_mcgowan
+ @nature_org https://t.co/K6pEgqCy96 cc @HugePossum @walterjetz

[Wei Song Hwang @curiousreduvius]

@DavidQuammen @SupapornWachar2 If time permits, come visit us @lkcnhm and I'll show you around our natural history collections.

[Wei Song Hwang @curiousreduvius]

@thiswordistaken @NHM_Digitise Could it be possible that "Spore" refers to Singapore? We use "S'pore" as a short form here frequently and the "S.G." on the second label is another common country abbreviation used here. And it's an Oriental species too.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Weird Bug Being Eaten By Even Weirder Bug https://t.co/7ZTwvwgnXl

[CETAF @eurotaxonomy]

"The story of a name is part of the name itself. So, including the implicit bibliographic citation in the authorities of taxonomic names is fundamental and [...]"

👀 Read this joint statement from
#CETAF + @SPNHC + @BioDivLibrary
on @RIOJournal

👉https://t.co/QygU1mMQpf👈

[Zach Emberts @ZachEmberts]

Please share! I’m recruiting grad students at Oklahoma State (MS or PhD) to study insect morphology and/or behavior. Those interested in fighting behavior and injury, wing evolution and flight, or diversification of reproductive organs are especially encouraged to apply.

[Entomological Society of America @EntsocAmerica]

"To try and find out more about where the species could still be living, researchers created 3D images of each wing and determined their resonant frequency. With this information, the team could recreate what the insect's song could have sounded like." https://t.co/KgkWSrZueV

[Professor Heather S Bruce @ArthropodLegs]

Alternate view of novelty: “If an ancestral structure is no longer needed, nature probably just truncates or reduces the tissue rather than deleting it.. because genetic networks are so interdependent”@MBLScience

https://t.co/as9PdS6SLC

[Laura Ross @lross_evoento]

Not all inheritance follows Mendel's laws, we reviewed many of the remarkable genetic oddities among animals @AnnualReviews @AndrewMongue @SchwanderTanja @chodson_evo https://t.co/FahdYeRFPs

[Wei Song Hwang @curiousreduvius]

@bugsicles We have some evidence also that the sticky secretions on the eggs help protect them from egg parasitoids during development as well.

[Wei Song Hwang @curiousreduvius]

Greatest baby assassin bug story I've ever read! From birth to their first self-caught meal with the help of mother's love. 🥲🥲🥲

[bugsicles @bugsicles]

One summer I brought this thing inside my house, and it did this, and that was not the most amazing thing that happened that day...

[Manfred R. Ulitzka @Thrips_iD]

Physogastrism is known from queens of certain eusocial insects such as termites. Their abdomen is greatly enlarged and membranous. Did you know that this exists also in some thrips?
This is a female of Kladothrips augonsaxxos from Australia. It's producing galls on Acacia trees

[Senckenberg Research @geobiodiversity]

Entomologists - we're hiring!
Two exciting tenure-track positions at the Department of Terrestrial Zoology @Senckenberg in #Frankfurt
🐝🦋🪲🦋🐛🦗🐞🐜🪰🦟🐛🪳
Apply until August 31!
More information:
https://t.co/FvBW0fo9mw

[Caitlin Henderson (She's got Legs) @gotlegsmacro]

Water Strider shadows look like balloon animals going for a swim and it's precious. If you look ahead of the shadows you might see the insect responsible "striding" across the surface of the water like bug Jesus.

📸: Gerridae 🇨🇦

[Vibha #SaveSoil @VVibhaForSoil]

@SadhguruJV @IUCN #Biodiversity loss has been going on in such an alarming pace. It is time to take responsible actions! 💪

We must protect their habitat, Soil.

#SaveSoil

Visit: https://t.co/u2A7kS9wlV

@theGSBI @geobiodiversity @FAOclimate @BioDivLibrary @GBIF @TEEB4ME

[Joseph Williamson @JoeWilliamsonDB]

We left a camera out in the tropical rainforests of Borneo just before the pandemic hit 🌳. Just over two years later we collected it in, and boy are the results spectacular. Have a look at some of these! 🦧🐘🐆🦚👌

[DiSSCo @DiSSCoEU]

Take a look at the amazing available courses of @taxonomycourses @eurotaxonomy
Registration is open!⏩https://t.co/K247983Roi
#taxonomy #biodiversity #Entomology #crustaceans @MobiliseAction

[Wei Song Hwang @curiousreduvius]

@marcuschua That should be the title for your dissertation, or book, or both.