Mastodawn

ellipsoptera Dec 28, 2022

neville park Dec 27, 2022

Reminder: #InverteFest is on till December 31!

Join the project and all your invertebrate observations from this week will be automatically added: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/invertefest-december-2022

And if you can't get outside or it's winter where you are, join in by sharing invertebrate-related art and media, IDing stuff for people, engaging with other participants, and more!

More info: https://www.metrofieldguide.com/invertefest/

(Paging #bugs #bugstodon #insects #spiders #spider etc.; cc @franzanth)

#InverteFest December 2022

What is #InverteFest? is a periodic online event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. The hashtag was conceived when and went looking for bugs and slugs in Bali. Kelly Brenner, stuck in Seattle, wondered if we could invite our online friends to look for bugs and slugs together in spirit, even though we’re physically far apart. Besides, what may be an everyday creature to you is often exciting to someone who lives half the world away! More info on invertefest.com

iNaturalist

ellipsoptera Dec 21, 2022

Tim Jonas Dec 21, 2022

Found this little beetle on a tree when on a night walk this week. I believe it's the nationally scarce the scarce Rabocerus gabrieli.

ellipsoptera Dec 5, 2022

Alex Wild Dec 5, 2022

“The lie is that if we address the climate crisis, we will also solve the biodiversity crisis.”

So true. What's threatening most species isn't climate change but habitat destruction.

#Nature #Biodiversity

Article by Christopher Ketchum:

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/03/climate-biodiversity-green-energy/

Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet”

The dismal reality is that green energy will save not the complex web of life on Earth but the particular way of life of one domineering species.

The Intercept

ellipsoptera Dec 3, 2022

RT @[email protected]

If you didn’t realize earwigs have wings, or you haven’t seen them unfold and flap in super slow motion: please enjoy this next 38sec of your life

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrAdrianSmith/status/1598862569531658242

Adrian Smith on Twitter

“If you didn’t realize earwigs have wings, or you haven’t seen them unfold and flap in super slow motion: please enjoy this next 38sec of your life”

Twitter

ellipsoptera Dec 2, 2022

RT @[email protected]

Hey Beaufort friends, I'll be part of this forum on how we fight back against book banners & teacher censors. Dec. 11, 2pm at Technical College of the Lowcountry, hosted by the Pat Conroy Literary Ctr, w/ @[email protected] @[email protected] + @[email protected]'s Josh Malkin https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/book-challenges-forum-2022/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Paul_Bowers/status/1598328273175470080

Book Challenges Forum 2022 - Pat Conroy Literary Center

Join us for a public conversation about the forces, funding, and politics surrounding banned books, censorship, and challenges to free speech and intellectual freedom.

Pat Conroy Literary Center

ellipsoptera Dec 2, 2022

RT @[email protected]

Almost two years to the day, but I can finally reveal that this is a giant lacewing (Polystoechotes punctata)!

And that it's the first specimen discovered in eastern North America in more than 50 years!

Link to the paper here, thread below

https://bioone.org/journals/proceedings-of-the-entomological-society-of-washington/volume-124/issue-2/0013-8797.124.2.332/Rediscovery-of-Polystoechotes-punctata-Fabricius-1793-Neuroptera--Ithonidae-in/10.4289/0013-8797.124.2.332.short https://twitter.com/mskvarla36/status/1329575745614712833

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mskvarla36/status/1598382777618948098

Rediscovery of Polystoechotes punctata (Fabricius, 1793) (Neuroptera: Ithonidae) in Eastern North America

Polystoechotes punctata (Fabricius, 1793) (Neuroptera: Ithonidae) was formerly widespread across North America, but was extirpated from eastern North America by the 1950s. We report a specimen collected from Fayetteville, Arkansas, which represents a new state record and the first specimen recorded in eastern North America in over fifty years. We also reexamine a previously published dataset and discuss the history of P. punctata in eastern North America. The importance of community science efforts are discussed and compared with museum holdings. We propose that P. punctata may have always been uncommon in eastern North America, or at least when insect collecting began in earnest in the late 1800s, and support our case by examining collection effort in other insects. This discovery suggests there may be relictual populations of this large, charismatic insect yet to be discovered.

BioOne Complete

ellipsoptera Dec 1, 2022

RT @[email protected]

huh, I didn't know crab spiders could move their AMEs https://twitter.com/madjanev/status/1598362503028752390

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/spiderdayNight/status/1598398341448359938

ellipsoptera Nov 30, 2022

RT @[email protected]

a prospective grad student (currently a tech in a sexual selection lab) reached out for help finding an animal behavior lab that:
-is in the NY/NJ area or connected by easy transit (bus/train)
-already works w/ spiders or open to student starting a spider project
any leads??

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/spiderdayNight/status/1597984442328698880

Dr. Sebs A Echeverri, PhD @ THE BBC EARTH PODCAST on Twitter

“a prospective grad student (currently a tech in a sexual selection lab) reached out for help finding an animal behavior lab that: -is in the NY/NJ area or connected by easy transit (bus/train) -already works w/ spiders or open to student starting a spider project any leads??”

Twitter

ellipsoptera Nov 30, 2022

RT @[email protected]

Even in the world of book banning, the rhetoric that removing a book from library shelves should not be considered a ban because the book still exists in society is mind-boggling.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ACLU_SC/status/1597662771285757957

ACLU of South Carolina on Twitter

“Even in the world of book banning, the rhetoric that removing a book from library shelves should not be considered a ban because the book still exists in society is mind-boggling.”

Twitter

ellipsoptera Nov 30, 2022

RT @[email protected]

Why yes, I'll take an unfamiliar lacewing at my black light. Barber's Brown Lacewing (Sympherobius barberi), perhaps? 🤎

N. Florida

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/apsciencebydan/status/1597790022408994817