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B. E. Boudinot

@BoudAnt1

Ants, Aculeata, and the Hymenoptera; evolutionary morphology; phylogenetics. Alexander von Humboldt Fellow @ Uni Jena. Opinions own. To ant-finity and hym-yond!

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Joined December 2012
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Rodrigo Feitosa@rsmfeitosa27 Jun 2024
An illustrated guide for the identification of ant subfamilies and genera in Brazil doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-bja…
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ぺんどら@100legs_NP24 Mar 2023
イレコダニの仲間たち 丸いフォルムでゆっくり動く「 ボク わるいダニじゃないよ」という感じでかわいい。 脚を引っ込めてまるくなることができるとても良いダニ。
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HOLY COW THIS IS AWESOME --- Goodbye Pteromalidae sensu lato!
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Dude, someone broke this beetle and pretended to fix it.
わらび餅 (@warabimochi_ic) profile pictureわらび餅@warabimochi_ic18 Dec 2022
Calodromus sp. マレーシアのアシナガミツギリゾウムシ
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I am recruiting a postdoc to work on an NSF-funded, multi-institutional collaborative project developing new computational approaches to understand the drivers of phenotypic innovation in Cretaceous plants!! Details here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u…
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AntFolk poll round 2: What stage of the ant life cycle deserves more attention? (Note: Poll limited to 4 choices. Also, "larvae" won by a little more than a percentage point in the prior iteration.)
14%Embryo
43%Larva
29%Prepupa + Pupa
14%Adult
28 votes • Final results
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Evan Economo@EvanEconomo13 Dec 2022
Our lab (arilab.unit.oist.jp/) is hiring multiple postdocs and a computing technician. Come join us and have some fun working on biodiversity in Okinawa! Postdoc: live-oist-main.pantheonsite.… Computing Technician: live-oist-main.pantheonsite.…
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Did you need a flatbug? Possibly not. But now you do. A crusty one at that! :D
しぴ鳥 (@sshhiippii) profile pictureしぴ鳥@sshhiippii11 Dec 2022
#お前らカメムシの推し誰だよ
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Maria Sibylla Merian’s book on the Insects of Suriname was a game changer - a book about the insects, their life cycles, their host plants, what they feed on & what feeds on them - 60 species & over 90 animals were studied. She was a #trailblazer & so had many critics 🧵Pt.1
Image from Dr Erica McAlister (@flygirlNHM)
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I love this little alien of a beetle! O_O!
Caterino Arthropod Biodiversity Lab (@CaterinoLab) profile pictureCaterino Arthropod Biodiversity Lab@CaterinoLab9 Dec 2022
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And last, from my favorite staphylinid subfamily, the scydmaenine Plaumanniola, a highly modified myrmecophile that is probably an autapomorphic derivative of the huge genus Euconnus. From @USFQTiputini, ~2mm.
Image from Caterino Arthropod Biodiversity Lab (@CaterinoLab)
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It is official, Ant-y'all! First round of the "needs better study" poll: Larvae are on top with 36.6%, just barely eeking out a victory over Adults (35.2%). Apparently, pupae remain least interesting—for now!
B. E. Boudinot (@BoudAnt1) profile pictureB. E. Boudinot@BoudAnt14 Dec 2022
Antfolk: What do we need to know the most about? Choose one of three! (And tell me why!)
37%Larvae
28%Pupae
35%Adults
71 votes • Final results
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Did you guys need a longfacebug? A longfacewaterbug at that? Here you go! Thank you for sharing this goofy Schnabelweirdo with us, Tim! :D
Tim Jonas (@TimothyJonas) profile pictureTim Jonas@TimothyJonas6 Dec 2022
A Water Measurer (Hydrometridae). Spotted plenty of these tiny (~1cm) stick-insect like creatures under deadwood near water on my walk yesterday.
The very elongate head of a Water Measurer (Hydrometridae) with large, red round eyes.

ALT The very elongate head of a Water Measurer (Hydrometridae) with large, red round eyes.

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Over the moon to announce that I will be starting as full Professor in Evolutionary Biology at @durham_uni @DurBiol next March!    Will be recruiting two postdocs (4 & 2.5y) and a lab technician very soon too.   Looking very much forward to this new part of my academic journey!!
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Phil@myrmecoPhil4 Dec 2022
I love the massive pronotal spines of this Pheidole soldier! 🇵🇬
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Björn Schumacher (@schumacherbj) profile pictureBjörn Schumacher@schumacherbj4 Dec 2022
How to enter a new field of research teapaw.org/_B___S/status/15990323…
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Antfolk: What do we need to know the most about? Choose one of three! (And tell me why!)
37%Larvae
28%Pupae
35%Adults
71 votes • Final results
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パラポネラは働きアリが頻繁に産卵します。 この卵は無精卵ですので、孵化して育てられればオスになりますが、巣の中に女王アリがいる場合は、この卵は育てられることはありません。 ↓自分で産んだ大切な卵をどうするのでしょうか？ blog.livedoor.jp/antroom/arc…
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Shazam! Here is the reveal: ant pupae secrete their molting fluid, and larvae and adults consume it. This creates interdependencies across different ant developmental stages. Thanks also to all our collaborators at the various resource centers @RockefellerUniv!
Orli Snir (@OrliSnir) profile pictureOrli Snir@OrliSnir30 Nov 2022
(1/5) My first paper on ants with @DanielKronauer is out! We discovered that ant pupae secrete the molting fluid, and adults and larvae drink it. Young larvae need the fluid for growth and survival, and pupae die if the fluid is not removed. Open access: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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This is an astonishing piece of very high tech anatomy! Anna, Alexey, and co were able to separate and identify every cell in the chordotonal organ of an *extremely tiny* wasp! O_O!! Awesome!
Alexey Polilov 🕊️ (@AlexeyPolilov) profile pictureAlexey Polilov 🕊️@AlexeyPolilov29 Nov 2022
The first complete 3D reconstruction of insect Johnston's organ has been published. nature.com/articles/s41598-0… @NaturePortfolio This is the main part of Anna Dyakova's Ph.D. and a small part of the great collaboration with the Mitya @chklovskii’ s group and Harald Hess’s lab. 1/3
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Liam Revell@phytools_liam27 Nov 2022
Replying to @baym @urbanevol
Joe Felsenstein has a long-standing rant for this. (felsenst.github.io/rants.htm…) – at Providence, RI
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