Journey alongside #insect #scientists + @CoyotePeterson to explore #painful #stings + the fascinating unseen lives that surround you. #insecta #scicomm
Tucson, AZ
Joined October 2017
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Did you know flowers hear the buzz of bees and respond by increasing sugar concentration in there nectar? Super cool study out of Israel discovered this relationship.
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Fly School is back! Join us in Los Osos, California for two weeks in June & July 2019 to learn all about the biology, taxonomy, and identification of flies. Register today! dipteracourse.com/ #Diptera
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Hello everyone I need to deliver to you the important message that SCORPIONS GLOW UNDER UV LIGHT and apparently there’s still no officially accepted reason other than THEY LOOK FRICKIN’ AWESOME
ALT A scorpion glowing blue-green with its claws extended while standing on the dirty palm of a park ranger. The UV light gives the hand a purple glow.
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Insect of the day. Vampire moths. Pretty new to drinking mammalian blood and described by one entomologist as "clumsy suckers". Here's one sucking blood from a chap's thumb. More here: buff.ly/2uqf2aX
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There are a couple of spaces left on our expedition to southern Peru later this year. If you want some of this then give me a shout. The diversity of life here is staggering.
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"With four crickets providing as much calcium as a large glass of milk, and one dung beetle containing more iron than a steak, chefs ... and a range of startups across the world are trying to remove the yuck factor." buff.ly/2pwhu9W
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#insect management is a HUGE part of this. HT to our stellar #IPM folks at the AZ Pest Management Center xitter.gq/azextdirector/status/9…
#NationalAgDay UA Cooperative Extension supports farmers, and the more than **$20 Billion** agriculture industry in Arizona... Happy National Ag Day! @azcoopext @UAAgLifeVetExt @UACALS @uayuma @UofA @UofAPres @azleafygreens @azfb
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Last summer @nature published a comment calling for regulation & oversight of taxonomy because the authors were annoyed by changing names. Today a *very large cohort* of taxonomists, including me, have responded doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio…
Please RT!
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We’d like a little more science in this article and a lot less petty, competitive bullshit.
Science needs to be communicated in many different ways b/c there are many kinds of people. It’s not one-size-fits all.
#scicomm #strongertogether sciencemag.org/careers/2018/…
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Insect of the day: Any other beetles out there that are more metal than this? Just look at this fungus beetle. Even has demonic 'eyes' at the top of the elytra. The larger orange things are mites. Good name for these too - Cacodaemon sp. (Photo - Anthony Kei C)
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Field Museum's 'curiosity correspondent' speaks at Women in Science event next week dailyamerican.com/field-muse…
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“Most firefly flashes are pure romance, a sexy form of skywriting. But one variety copies the mating signals of others to lure them to their demise.” via @KQEDscience buff.ly/2FBSENM
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This just in - Congratulations Tucson Village Farm @TucsonVillageFa on winning a grant from Angel Charity...more details to come! @KVOA
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Finally caught it on camera!
The cutest thing: beetles clean their “whiskers” just like kitties. 🐱
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Insect of the day. Tired of animals where the male and female look the same? If so, fig wasps are for you. Female (left) and the bonkers male (middle and right). He never leaves the fig, battles his brothers and mates with his sisters (Courtella medleri. Photos Simon van Noort)
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Non-pollinator ecological risk assessments for four neonicotinoid pesticides issued for public comment by @EPA in December 2017. The deadline for public comment has been extended to April 21, 2018. Details and links to submit comments here: buff.ly/2ElV0Pm
