May is crab month for #insertaninvert2024 - here, a humble farmer rides his lollypop crab to market.
Tommy McElrath
@monotomidae.bsky.social
This is where I'm supposed to fit in a box right? Boxes of choice: beetles, twin-dadding, Christian, evolutionary biology, disc golf, minecraft, climate change? Tweets personal views and not representative of my institution.
I would love to give my children a Covid booster shot but they get it so fast from daycare every three months it’s basically impossible. I can basically schedule it at this point. #covidisnotover #covid
"Choose your own adventure in mental anguish and suffering" WILL YOU -count nearly invisible tarsomeres on a 2mm beetle? Turn to... COLEOPTERA -count individual bristles on a made-up sounding body segment? Turn to... DIPTERA -not be able to ID anything that's not spread? Turn to... LEPIDOPTERA
Managed to snap a few more #Invertefest shots, favorite is definitely this goldenrod leaf mining beetle. #coleoptera #chrysomelidae
Want a nice, fact-filled overview of this year's periodical cicada emergence? Here you go #InverteFest 🧪https://entomologytoday.org/2024/04/25/periodical-cicadas-2024-brood-xix-xii-entomologists-prepare-six-week-serenade/
Periodical Cicadas, 2024: Entomologists Prepare for the Six-Week Serenade
Entomologists across the U.S. share their research plans for the much-anticipated—and quite rare—dual emergence of Brood XIII and Brood XIX periodical cicadas in 2024.
entomologytoday.org
My first #Invertefest shot: nice little hover fly cooled down too much to fly away. Probably Allograpta but not sure. iNat Observation here: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Dear parents of one sick child who insist upon sending them places to spread their disease: Don’t. Sincerely, a parent of twins who just spent a whole week without sleep dealing with dual Upper Respiratory and Ear Infections. #twinparenting #nosleep
The Chinook got shook when their truck got cooked. Now the salmon are swimming — but in the wrong brook.
Fish out of water story ends with 77,000 young salmon in the wrong water
The Chinook got shook when their truck got cooked. Now the salmon are swimming — but in the wrong brook.
npr.org
Since periodical cicadas are trending again, I've copied a thread I originally posted to Twitter in 2021 that answers the question "How loud would a periodical cicada be if it were the size of an F-35?"
“CSU Management Walks Out of Bargaining.” So we doing this thing…the California Faculty Association will begin a 5-day, systemwide strike in the Cal State system starting Jan. 22. To be clear, that’s a systemwide strike (23 campuses) in the largest public university system in the county.
We’ve survived the first week of 2024! Now what’s going to define the year ahead? CICADMANIA of course! Who’s excited for 17 yr and 13 yr cicadas to emerge simultaneously for the first time in 221 y? #cicada #entomology #bugs
Looks like Dr. Johanne Brunet, of the Brunet bee lab, is finally out from the USDA. This comes years after she left UW Madison in 2019 after they initiated a dismissal for cause. For background see: web.archive.org/web/20230221...
She's so flat 🥹 (forgot to post more grizzled mantis pics from the other day) 🌿
Me, all December: we don't need Spotify Wrapped-like retrospectives for everything, please Also me, January 1st: but #InverteFest Wrapped though?
Maxime Dahirel@mdahirel.bsky.social · 3y agoLast #InverteFest, I made a phylogenetic tree of the species recorded in the iNat project (R code here: github.com/mdahirel/inv... ). Will probably do the same for this session after the project closes
#InverteFest recap: This is what our map looked like at the end of the event. We had 54 participants upload 1245 different animals, at least 672 of which were unique species. Thank you for everyone who played along! The next event will be in April, which coincides with Northern Hemisphere spring.
As I deal with twins sick with RSV, this reflection, shared with me by my dad, meant a lot to me. I hope it helps any of you dealing with sick children over the holidays. #RSV
Finally got a chance to go out for #invertefest - not much out even on a warm Tennessee day but was able to find one adult beetle and some stunning translucent fly larvae. Collembola abounded under bark.
We begin on MONDAY. I'll be mostly offline except for #InverteFest stuff. Don't forget to join the iNaturalist project to participate in community science! www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 3y agoGreetings, chordate comrades. #InverteFest is upon us. It's a periodic event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you for an entire week. It's happening on whichever platform you're on, so feel free to reupload this image to spread the word!
RIGHT NOW, GBIF is highlighting the BEST image/specimen they've EVER highlighted! www.gbif.org to check it out: Screenshot for those who miss it:
For those of you who like #entodesign this rug is on point. Seriously it has an identifiable #rhipicerid ruggable.com/products/iri...
Iris Apfel Flutterby Rug
ruggable.com
Posted a meme here from FB that went uncredited in the other place. Folks here shared that it was from @whysharksmatter.bsky.social! So if you liked it, follow him cause it's cool. (I nuked the original cause I couldn't update the alt text to reflect this.)
