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Entomologist. Taxonomy, Ecology, Systematics, and the Continuous Pursuit of Tiny Amusements
Clay Lyle 119 has received quite the face-lift! Happy to have an updated, clean space for our entomology students 🐛🐜🐝🪲🦗
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An illustrated poster showing 9 different species of velvet ants, which are actually female flightless wasps. They are mostly brownish, yellow, orange, and red in color, with various degrees of black markings. They are illustrated on a vibrant orange background.
Velvet Ants of North America! 🐜
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20.07.2025 02:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Transactions of the American Entomological Society
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Operation 119 is in full swing! The teaching lab in our building and its teaching collection is getting cleaned up, cleaned out, and de-dermestided
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The Museums in Miniature project provides a drawer of curated local insect specimens for display in schools, libraries, and other educational institutions using specimens of abundant taxa, or those missing data or otherwise unsuitable for research.
doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...
