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Fantastic! The elusive butt of follicle mites has been found! Also they have a dorsal penis. Also - in mutualism with us - they’re losing most of their cells, eg, each leg is powered by one muscle cell. academic.oup.com/mbe/advance…
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WOW, fabulous set of experiments by Zhang et al.
- male uloborids spring off females following copulation (~97% of the time)
-if they don't, they get eaten
-they need both their front legs to do it
-if their 'safety line' is cut, they'll plop on the floor
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I recently learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head.
Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.
Hang onto your hat. This is wild.
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Ray Fisher, left, & Rob Wiedenmann wrote “The Silken Thread, Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History.” Fisher is an AAES researcher in entomology. Wiedenmann is a prof emeritus and former entomology dept. head. Learn about the book & the 5 insects: aaes.uada.edu/news/impacts-o…
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I found this walking strawberry and I would like you to also experience the joy of this waddling fuzzbundle
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SO PEOPLE USED TO THINK ALL PARROTFISH JUST ATE ALGAE & THAT WAS COOL & EASY, BUT WE’RE NOW LEARNING ALL ABOUT HOW THEY’RE ACTUALLY TARGETING PROTEIN-RICH MICROBES, LIKE CYANOBACTERIA, & THIS IS SUPER COOL CAUSE DIFFERENT SPECIES TARGET DIFFERENT SUCCESSIONAL STAGES……
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No disrespect to professional arachnologists, but this morning's talk by Jillian Cowles, who is a clinical microbiologist doing arachnology in her backyard, was by far my favourite #arachnology talk I have EVER heard at any conference! Such incredible, inspiring work #Arachnids21
Wonderful video of a purseweb spider (Atypidae) being badass. Other atypids - Atypus (Eurasia) & Sphodros (NA) - make tube-like webs that reminded someone of a purse, hence the common name. But Calommata (Asia+AF) don't make tubes, they just do this awesomeness from a burrow.
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Part 2 of Napoleon vs Insects is live! In this episode, we explore Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria and how plague helped dash his plans for a French empire in the Near East
arthro-pod.blogspot.com/2021…
As an entomologist, this fly is a species attracted to... well, among other things... bullsh@$#...
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Not sure I can answer that in a tweet... But in short, the same way all hypotheses are tested. It's exactly like ecology or physics.
Maybe nit-picky, but I also wouldn't say "species are our names for patterns." They are testable hypotheses for evol. relationships.
Overall agree. But I see this as true of most descriptions, not species in general. Integrative, multilocus methods largely solve this.
@whknee @MSkvarla36 @beatricebiology @dllavaneras @RosemaryMosco @bug_gwen @Myrmecos Yep. Balaustium (Erythraeidae). Nice ID Mike and Wayne!
This. This is how you taxonomy. zookeys.pensoft.net/articles…
@whknee @ymilesz @dllavaneras Good point! First time I've seen one spilling eggs though. Always neat to see. I'm interested to know the ID.