🥚These are not plant seeds; they're eggs! from Stick + Leaf Insects! —“the diversity of form exhibited in the eggs themselves is simply extraordinary"—#Evolution of Oviposition Techniques in Stick and Leaf Insects (#Phasmatodea) @FrontEcolEvol https://t.co/YMC4LV9hJu #OpenAccess
Meet “DiversityScanner”, the robot that uses machine learning for species discovery: it images, measures, identifies, and moves specimens from Malaise samples into microplates for barcoding; a good companion of “MinION barcodes by everyone, for everyone. https://t.co/Vr1rj1iVbz
Very interesting talk from Eunice Tan. Phasmids behavioral strategies to avoid predators depend on species and life stage. Revealing behaviors were positively correlated with each other while concealing behaviors were negatively correlated.
#ABS2021@AnimBehSociety