A good morning out with @theswordlab.bsky.social exploring the Skunk Trail at the Soltis Center 🇨🇷. Always something that catches the eye.
Greg Sword
@theswordlab.bsky.social
Regents Professor & Charles R. Parencia Chair in Entomology. Affiliations: Dept. of Entomology & EEB PhD Program Insects; ecology; evolution; population genomics; behavior; agricultural entomology; beneficial microbes; swarming!
Having a wonderful time in Costa Rica helping to teach ENTO455 Field Entomology in the Tropics at the Texas A&M Soltis Center! @stbehmer.bsky.social @tamu.bsky.social
Behold the world’s first off the grid Mormon cricket virtual reality system! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de @sercansayin.bsky.social @1imurphy.bsky.social @vishwanathvarma @pvnkmrksk.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social
Here' a really nice story about locusts that mentions our ongoing monitoring for the potential arrival of the Central American locust along the US-Mexico border. ambrook.com/research/cro...
Are You Ready for the Locusts? - Ambrook Research
As swarming grasshoppers move north from Mexico, researchers are scrambling to minimize crop damage.
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Scientists use VR + lab + field study to rewrite the rules of locust swarming 🦗🦗 Latest @science.org from first author @sercansayin.bsky.social and #Konstanz team ⬇️ @einatcouzin.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts
Collective motion, which is ubiquitous in nature, has traditionally been explained by “self-propelled particle” models from theoretical physics. Here we show, through field, lab, and virtual reality e...
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Greetings from the US-Mexico border with the legendary Dr. Koutaro Maeno looking for potentially invasive Central American locusts.
Thrilled to be part of this new study that links the origin of the boll weevil as one of the most notorious agricultural pests to the domestication of Upland cotton by the Mayans thousands of years ago! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Pangenomics Links Boll Weevil Divergence With Ancient Mesoamerican Cotton Cultivation
The boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman, and thurberia weevil, Anthonomus grandis thurberiae Pierce, together comprise a species complex that ranges throughout Mexico, the southwestern re...
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As I have a few followers now I figure I could post about some recent papers: @henrylnorth.bsky.social analysed sequence data from @theswordlab.bsky.social for North American Helicoverpa zea - we found just two individuals from 400 with introgressed armigera allele for insecticide resistance
Rapid Adaptation and Interspecific Introgression in the North American Crop Pest Helicoverpa zea
Abstract. Insect crop pests threaten global food security. This threat is amplified through the spread of nonnative species and through adaptation of nativ
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🦗 The Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute (BPRI) launches its docuseries on locusts! 🌍✨ Discover how science reveals the transformation of solitary locusts into swarming pests. Join the journey! 📺▶️ #nsfbpri #NSF www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTOy...
NSF BPRI Video Docuseries Part 1: "Why locusts require interdisciplinary research"
YouTube video by Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute
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Kicking off the bluesky party with some tasty treats cooked up for the final lecture in my Insects in Human Society class. Ento-fortified street tacos and cookies! #entomphagy
