🐝 🌎 The #Bee Genera of North and Central #America #Hymenoptera: #Apoidea: Second Edition
The Bee Genera of North and Central America (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): Second Edition | Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
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Socrates Letana
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“an unexamined fly is not worth leaving.” https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1776-3672 zetetic polyjamorous entogonist earthling.
Prehistoric mass invasions: The Great American Biotic Interchange www.sciencenews.org/article/mamm...
Mammals moving between the Americas stopped over in Mexico
Ancient mammals may have had an easier time moving across the Isthmus of Panama from north to south thanks to Mexico’s climate.
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The #Plant-Feeding #Gall #Midges of North #America, 2nd edition (2026) by R. J. Gagné:
The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America
This revision of The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America, originally published in 1989, began as soon as the earlier book was in press. Since then, more than half again as many records of plant...
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Dr. Kent E. Carpenter not only made significant contributions to our knowledge of understanding of marine shorefishes in the 🇵🇭 Philippines, he also helped solidify our claim on and sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea. www.rappler.com/philippines/...
American biologist who testified for PH in South China Sea arbitration killed
(1st UPDATE) Dr. Kent Carpenter provided expert written records on the environmental harms of China’s reclamation and destructive fishing practices in the West Philippine Sea
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🪰 A new wormlion fly species - Vermitigris tsangyanggyatso - was recently described from Xizang, China, named after the 6th Dalai Lama, a Tibetan poet-monk renowned for his romantic verse. 🕵️ @pensoft.net's blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/24/n... 📖 Original study: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
Nice article in @theguardian.com about @biodivlibrary.bsky.social emphasising the wide range of content, the scientific value, and the perilous financial situation… the money runs out at the end 2027 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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🪰🦟 Mercedes Delfinado (1933-2026), trained in @universityofhawaii.bsky.social , worked on Philippine mosquitoes, other group of flies & arthropods, & co-edited a 3-volume Catalog of the #Diptera of the Oriental Region with D. Elmo Hardy. She passed away last June 8. 🇵🇭🇺🇸
Opinion piece: #Ecology is not yet ready for #AI. The field isn’t prepared to integrate AI tools responsibly or interpret their outputs reliably across all contexts. Here’s why that matters. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/J18F50Z87ni #biodiversity #NeuralNetworks #AILiteracy
A decade ago: 🪰 #myiasis #Diptera #screwworm
Traumatic Myiasis: A Neglected Disease in a Changing World
Traumatic myiasis, the parasitic infestation by fly larvae in traumatic lesions of the tissues of living vertebrates, is a serious medical condition in humans and a welfare and economic issue in domes...
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👉"The pipeline really begins with basic research" 👈
The Francis Crick Institute@crick.ac.uk · 5mo ago“I think it’s a real mistake to forget where the pipeline for all this begins.” John Diffley reflects on the importance of basic research, his mission to decode DNA replication and recreate it in the lab, and the scientific optimism of the 1960s that helped shape it. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...
"Sixty Years Later, His Scientific Dream Comes True" Press from @ucanr.edu on “Temporal Dynamics of Color Polymorphism and Hybridization in Colias Butterflies," by Joshua P. Jahner and colleagues: ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ... Read the original study: doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Sixty Years Later, His Scientific Dream Comes True | Bug Squad
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An invasive bug species has made its way to Northern California wine regions. Now, the San Joaquin County Agriculture Commissioner's Office is putting out a warning.
San Joaquin County warns of invasive pest threat to Northern California wine industry
An invasive bug species has made its way to Northern California wine regions. Now, the San Joaquin County Agriculture Commissioner's Office is putting out a warning.
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Save Cal Academy! Public Letter to the California Academy of Sciences Board of Trustees, May 2026
CalAcademy Workers United
Organizing California Academy of Sciences workers for better pay, benefits, job security and working conditions. Joining our colleagues in SEIU 1021, representing over fifty Bay Area nonprofits.
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New World screwworm reaches Northern Mexico Near Texas border, raising alarms over potential U.S. spread https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=8ba7ffcd-89a8-4aec-a4c2-9bc476d5361f&eventid=7a1ae0cb-6d86-4ea3-95cc-c1c141b3f696&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialpost
Screwworm is nearly at the US/MX border.
New World screwworm: Groundbreaking for new facility; emergency use authorization for treatments; Mexico facility 75% complete
The United States Department of Agriculture reported on April 17, 2026, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins and Lieutenant General William H. “Butch” Graham, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (...
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Scenario modelling of nickel supply to meet demand to 2050 identifies extensive overlap between land and coastal mines and high-priority areas for terrestrial and marine conservation, and shows how this tension would increase under a moratorium on deep-sea mining 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Growing nickel supply from the tropics threatens priority conservation areas - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Scenario modelling of nickel supply to meet demand to 2050 identifies extensive overlap between land and coastal mines and high-priority areas for terrestrial and marine conservation, and shows how th...
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#WorldRobberFlyDay Oriental Leptogastrinae: male Ammophilomima sp. (Leptogastrinae, RMNH.INS.1675919) from Sumatra Island, Indonesia - from @naturalis.bsky.social collection #asiloidflies
🦇🪰Fascinating fly: #Diptera #Mystacinobiidae
Torsten Dikow@tdikow.bsky.social · 4mo ago#FlyFriday paratype of New Zealand Bat Fly Mystacinobia zelandica Holloway, 1976 (Mystacinobiidae, USNMENT01312325) in #USNMDiptera collection - details here n2t.net/ark:/65665/3... (images soon there as well) - photos taken on Picturae Pinned Insect Digitization Conveyor
Peter Raven, #botanist and advocate for #biodiversity, has died, aged 89
Peter Raven, botanist and advocate for biodiversity, has died, aged 89
Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines.
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Manny’s dad visited us quite often when I was a kid— with memories of (breakfast) table talks, chickens, and community service.
phanes@phanesforward.bsky.social · 2y agoManny Garibay. "Father and Son". 1999.
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A rock-boring and rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (shipworm) from the Philippines
Abstract. Shipworms are a group of wood-boring and wood-feeding bivalves of extraordinary economic, ecological and historical importance. Known in the lite
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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · 4mo agoVote for Mollusc of the Year 2026. The winner will have its complete genome sequenced. There are some cool species in the running this year! www.unitasmalacologica.org/mollusc-of-t...