Rick Overson

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@AndrewBurchill @InsectEvolution Ha! Hi there neighbor!

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@AndrewBurchill @InsectEvolution Smaller than a Milton Bradley ant farm.

[Rick Overson @RickOverson]

@InsectEvolution Aha! He said it so declaratively "So!, you have a really big ant nest..." And my young internal monologue was like: "it's E. O. Wilson, save face at all cost!" I can't quite remember what I said, but it wasn't graceful.

[Rick Overson @RickOverson]

@InsectEvolution @BrooksAlbin @ArianneCease Haha! Yeah that bike was "always" falling over. Good times :) Papasan seems like a very legit successor.

[Arianne Cease @ArianneCease]

@GlobalLocust @EntsocAmerica I'm looking forward to being on this @EntsocAmerica panel tomorrow morning with @FAOLocust Shoki Al Dobai & Keith Cressman, and @GlobalLocust @RickOverson to talk about the current locust situations and the @GlobalLocust Network! 🌱🦗🦗🦗 https://t.co/dCv0P3x9oa @ASUgreen

[Rick Overson @RickOverson]

@InsectEvolution Oh yikes! Sorry to hear that, but sounds like you've got it under control. All of those are surmountable problems with the right attitude, except for the Nickelback incident.

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@AndrewBurchill @netflix Also completely minor compared to all the other errors but at the end of episode 1 (yes I watched it to the end), the camera zooms out from the Sonoran Desert above the state of Georgia! and then out to space.

[Rick Overson @RickOverson]

@mandy_bouvier @AndrewBurchill @netflix It also borrow a technique from Disney's "White Wonderland" (where they went to film lemmings killing themselves, couldn't find them, and pushed lemmings off cliffs on camera). Lots of scenes with animals being forced to do stuff they normally would never do.

[Rick Overson @RickOverson]

@mandy_bouvier @AndrewBurchill @netflix It is so bad it's comical, worst I've ever seen. There are handfuls of biological errors in the first ten minutes of E1, misrepresentations of life histories, all with otherwise paradoxically high production value.

[Rick Overson @RickOverson]

@laceyOphoto Oh shit. That's unfortunately my entire life-coping strategy.

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@jessika_arts @osuc_curator Cool photo! That is a mating pair of the Peachtree Borer Moth (Synanthedon exitiosa). The female on top and the male on the bottom. Most likely both of them have evolved to mimic wasps.

[SD Biju @SDBiju1]

#Taxonomists as a community find it hard to publish their work in peer-reviewed journals without page charges. Zootaxa has filled that gap and played an important role in publishing taxonomic research. We continue to publish and cite our work in Zootaxa. I support #Zootaxa.

[Rick Overson @RickOverson]

@InsectEvolution I remember fielding an "Ask a Biologist" question that came into ASU about this many years ago. The gist of it was "why didn't these ants die when I microwaved them?". And my scientific response was two part: 1) "Say wha?!" and 2) "I have no idea!"

[Rick Overson @RickOverson]

@MedinaHectorE Oh my! I'll bet that was scary

[Adrian Smith @DrAdrianSmith]

Aww, man! My video was ripped off all the way to the reddit front page. Uncredited.

It’d make me feel better if people could watch the content from my channel. There’s more to this content than flashy, front-page-worthy clips! https://t.co/bP54sqiiD8

[Rick Overson @RickOverson]

@DrAdrianSmith Fantastic. Man, re-impressed upon me that that guy's voice goes all the way to your bone marrow.

[Ross Piper @DrRossPiper]

Let us now turn our attention to the lovely, bloated FLIES that live only in termite nests. Isn't nature wonderful (and a bit messed up). More here: https://t.co/CUSCa9Hbzq
📷Maruyama et al 2011.

[Rick Overson @RickOverson]

@laceyOphoto @disneyplus Haha! That doesn't look very wholesome! Looks like she's learning some pretty intense dog judo maneuvers.

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@InsectEvolution @DrStrangeAnt Haha! Yay! Find more!

[. @ThomasShahan]

This beautiful velvet worm was found by the nightly frog walk group in a rotting log during BugShot Ecuador. Onycophorans are of their own distinct and ancient lineage, more closely related to arthropods than worms.