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TeonQuick costume change! Happy Pride folks!
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Sunguramy 
I'm really glad Orfelia fultoni are getting more popular in the caving community because they are neat critters and I can always use more study sites. But I really wish people would not spread false info. So. Here are fun facts:
1) They are not worms, they are a larval form of a fungus gnat.
2) Their webs are not really 'sticky', prey have been observed moving across just fine, however there *is* oxalic acid in play.
3) While you may think of the famous caves in New Zealand, these are in the US southeast region and even have a distinct chemistry to the bioluminescence.
4) They are super cool. And despite every news story saying they're impossible to photograph, or reporting even NatGeo couldn't video them.... I can. I even have a lovely hi res video of a prey capture. But...I'm a queer fem so what do I know.
Boost so maybe they see that someone can do this?
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New Paper! 
About a new cave silverfish - not just a new species but a new genus - that we discovered here in Alabama: Spinanycta alabamensis
https://subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/119986/
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A new genus and species of nicoletiid silverfish (Insecta, Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae) from caves of northern Alabama, USA
A new genus and species of troglobiotic nicoletiid (Insecta, Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae) is described from northern Alabama, USA. The type species was collected from three caves in the Highland Rim section of the Interior Low Plateau physiographic province on the northern side of the Tennessee River Valley. Morphological and genetic analysis using the mitochondrial 16S rRNA locus show that Spinanycta alabamensis sp. nov. is quite distinct from related nicoletiids in North America. The species differs from members of other genera by its urosternum I, which in males is modified with a central pointy extension. The new species significantly extends the distribution of cave-dwelling members of the family into the southeastern United States and suggests that additional nicoletiid diversity remains to be discovered from karst regions of the eastern United States.
Orfelia fultoni
aka “Glowworm”
It is not actually a worm, but a fly larvae! I have an ongoing research project studying their use of caves.
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Dr.ConcussionLet the me like the cool kids are doing a hashtag post. I wonder how many of these I’ll have to do to think of everything
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