Cole Watson

Hello! I'm a general entomologist who is interested in beetles. Insect related stuff as well as funny, nerdy, Star Wars, and interesting things will occur here.

[Sofía Villalpando @sofiabiologista]

Street art, insects in 3D!

[The Bees In Your Backyard @BeesBackyard]

Zucchini season is well underway thanks in large part to North American squash bees like this Peponapis, a native squash flower specialist.

[. @ThomasShahan]

Back from a wonderful two weeks in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique teaching a macro workshop with @singaporemacro @naskrecki and @AbbottNature ! Check out this Tetraponera sp ant and the excellent ant-mimicking salticid found nearby!

[Cole Watson @that_beetle_guy]

About to database a squash bee (Peponapis pruinosa) that was caught in 1914. Amazing how good it… https://t.co/nxRpQzaLDJ

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Patrick Syme’s “Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours” helped Darwin encode the hues of an unfamiliar world—and carry them safely home. https://t.co/Wxi49cPpV4

[MlZUNO@insect @cicindela1164]

Calochroa mouhoti
ラオスにいる長いハンミョウ

[Katie O'Reilly @DrKatfish]

"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, 'What good is it?'" - Aldo Leopold, considered the father of wildlife ecology, was born OTD in 1887

[Strange Animals @Strange_Animals]

Not all cockroaches are gross! The sky blue neotropical cockroach can be found in the rainforests of Guyana.

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

200 Years ago TODAY- "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" was published on Jan. 1st 1818 FUN FACTS: It was written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley when she was still a teenager & was a breakout role for Boris Karloff in the movie version 113 years later.

[Cole Watson @that_beetle_guy]

Having fun sketching out one of my recent #dungeonsanddragons characters on the back of a Carl's Jr tray paper. And yes, his shield is a hobbit door.

[The Bees In Your Backyard @BeesBackyard]

As @realDonaldTrump prepares to shrink 2 of Utah’s national monuments today we should pause to recognize the unique biodiversity these areas protect. #RainForestForBees

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

Have you seen this giant critter on the beach? Unlikely: with a leg span of up to 4 m, Japanese spider crabs (Macrocheira kaempferi) are the world's largest arthropods and live deep in the Pacific Ocean.

[かりめろ《吉田攻一郎》 @KOH16]

久々の新作。フレンチギアナのチビタマムシです。種名は分からない。。。こんな綺麗なのが日本にもいたらね。

[Gil Wizen @wizentrop]

Can we agree that net-winged beetles (family Lycidae) are awesome, even if they don't look like typical beetles? Photographed in Mindo, Ecuador

[Dr Beulah Garner @thiswordistaken]

Well! It’s an honour to make it into @PrivateEyeNews doing what entomologists have been doing for centuries: recording & preserving the world’s biodiversity because, well, humans. #biodiversity #privateeye #bugs

[Dr Jessa Thurman @jessa_thurman]

Everybody wants to be a wasp. Exhibit A: Ichneumonid wasp mimicry by a true bug

[Dr Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM]

Alkali flies create bubbles like diving suits to survive harsh California lake, study finds - The Washington Post (includes comments from me 😉) https://t.co/ksvEPcAxm0