Monique J. Rivera 🦋

We’re excited to launch the URBAN-VECTOR Training Program! A new initiative by the Urban Malaria Network (lnkd.in/eBUGMbcu) designed to equip researchers and public health professionals with the skills needed to detect, study, and respond to An. stephensi invasion in urban settings.

This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!

Bees 🐝

congratulations!! this is really cool!!

MERRY #CRUSTMAS

New this year: a fossil crustacean preserved in this manner that displays the sternum (underbelly) complete with food groove, and possible labrum in part I! These animals may have been up to 10 mm long and may resemble modern fairy shrimp #Crustmas 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

😍😍😍😍

eye stalks!!!

Omg #Crustmas

Merry #Crustmas and Merry Christmas yall! 🎄🦀🐚💗

i havent logged on here in a bit AND ALMOST MISSED #CRUSTMAS !!!!

Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪

I'm not a tattoo person, but if i was ......

Detail of the water pot decoration. Grasshoppers carrying flowers are also accompanying a palanquin, used to carry... presumably high ranking lady grasshoppers. A couple might also be katydids based on antennae length, but let's not get uptight about imaginary anthropomorphized bugs, eh?

The little freshwater pot, with a wooden top. This side shows more grasshoppers (possibly a katydid) carrying fruit and flowers as they march along on their hind legs.

Let's start Monday with some whimsy. These delightful grasshoppers (possibly also katydids?) are from a water jar created by Makuzu Kōzan in 1870. To see full size images: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

they look like they are dancing!!! and it's so happy 🥲

Let's keep the whimsy going Gwen! this is so cute!!

Danarma eurymerus found in Okinawa Island. Watch how he moves the eyes. This species was recorded from Japan just this month.
(ref/参考文献)
u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/20216...
ルリメベンケイガニが目をきょろっとさせるあざとい動画です。沖縄本島にて。本州は先月日本から記録されました。
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#crab #カニ #invertebrate

A vibrant illustrated poster featuring 14 species/varieties of isopods of various colors. They are illustrated on a yellow-vibrant orange background and have numbers with a key describing which species is which.

Isopods!! 🧡

awesome!!! congratulations <3!!!

We'll have snacks! #Entsoc25 and #FITatEntSoc25

it's giving me the IIIIICCCKKKKK DUDE

if youre not cringing at Wood, that's ....................

Wonderful plates with lice, fleas, fairy shrimps, mite, mosquitoes, copepods and other tiny beasts, from The Micrographic Dictionary, published in 1883
Full source: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...

dudeeee. it is bad. real bad. LOL i really could not make it through.

you know what is cool?

being interested.

being sincere.

not being mad all the time.

committing. especially to hard things but also knowing how to not take it too personally hard on yourself.

deep focus.

taking care of yourself.

and especially, being good to other people.

Two folded origami cicadas on a wooden table top. On the left is an adult with wings spread, and on the right is a nymph. Both models are cleverly designed so that using a single piece of paper, and exposing either the front or back, both models show different shades of green for their eyes than for their body, and wings on the adult.

Cicada adult and nymph, designed and folded by @brianchandesigns.bsky.social using handmade Origamido paper. A birthday gift for my partner, keeping her company on her sabbatical 💚💚

See U in Portlandia! 😇

Photo and illustration of a stag beetle, including a few drawing steps from sketch to final

The stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) — from the first sketch to the final drawing. 🪲
First in a new series of animal illustration plates I’ve been working on.
#SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates

Fall colors are starting to appear in East Tennessee Over the next few weeks, East Tennesseans will start to see even more vibrant colors across the region.

Made it onto the local news this evening talking about #FallColors #Phenology

www.wbir.com/video/news/s...

Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...

Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪

Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Toddler safe after German shepherd tracks her for hours in cold dense woods The 2-year-old left her fenced yard and wandered in the New Hampshire woods for hours as search parties tried to find her.

Dogs are the best!