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Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species
Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say
Iberian harvester ants are the only known organism that propagates two species by itself, according to new research.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/47sVFyS
15.09.2025 13:39 — 👍 107 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 5
Little brown weevil with a black snoot nearly as long as its body, poking into a green acorn
Acorn weevils are back 🤎
05.09.2025 02:36 — 👍 123 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 3
Anne Chao and @piambr.bsky.social, the 100% perfect dialogue duo at #gfoe2025! ✨
Thank you for sharing statistical insights on sample coverage and it's standardization in the first @gfoesoc.bsky.social keynote session using #BETAFOR data.🌳🌱
@uni-wuerzburg.de @cofeuniwue.bsky.social
02.09.2025 09:29 — 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Having a great time at the #gfoe2025 conference in Würzburg. Inspiring talks and great opportunities for scientific exchange 😊 @gfoesoc.bsky.social @reassemblynet.bsky.social @melvinopolka.bsky.social
04.09.2025 07:10 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Several dozen flies on a leaf. They have red eyes on the ends of long stalks protruding from their heads.
In India, abhiapc saw this group of Teleopsis sykesii stalk-eyed flies and it's our more-than-#TwoferTuesday Observation of the Day!
More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
25.02.2025 15:49 — 👍 164 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 3
#Reassembly of a tropical #rainforest: A new #chronosequence in the #Chocó tested with the #recovery of #ree attributes
Our basic article is now online, with all the information on our study design and exciting results for trees.
www.reassembly.de/posts/basic-...
17.02.2025 10:57 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A spindly legged white assassin bug nymph emerges from a brown egg case on a green leaf.
When you’re willing to move slowly through the world, you’ll find amazing things. I call this Birth of an Assassin. #bugsky
31.01.2025 03:03 — 👍 228 🔁 38 💬 15 📌 1
Macro photograph of two small, light brown ants sitting in a large, swollen green cup on a tree leaf.
Linepithema tsachila ants drink from an Inga nectary in Ecuador. I described and named this species with funding from the National Science Foundation. #NSF #Ants #Science
28.01.2025 12:35 — 👍 207 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 1
Am 23. #Hexapodezember zeigen wir euch die Ameisen-Sichelwanze. Mit ihrer Ameisen-Taille gerät die Larve der Wanze bei Bestimmungsversuchen leicht einmal in die „falsche Schublade“. Die #RoteListe verzeichnet sie als ungefährdet.
Mehr dazu ➡️ www.rote-liste-zentrum.de/de/Mit-Ameis...
23.12.2024 09:48 — 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
A quick insect pinning tutorial featuring Brachyponera (needle ants)! (Also quickly saving/sharing here in case we lose TikTok) #entomology
18.12.2024 22:51 — 👍 55 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 1
The first chapter of my PhD🎉 Super thrilled about this! 🐆
20.12.2024 10:33 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hey science writers! As you prep your annual list of coolest species described in the past year, I humbly suggest you highlight the Dragon Ball pill millipede! Discovered by a team of Thai scientists, no parachute science here! Look at these beauties!
18.12.2024 03:36 — 👍 521 🔁 158 💬 13 📌 9
a picture winged fly specimen that has shiny fake eyes on the back of its thorax and markings on its wings that look like spider legs. it's a convincing mimic
a picture winged fly specimen that has shiny fake eyes on the back of its thorax and markings on its wings that look like spider legs. it's a convincing mimic
At least some are patterned to mimic jumping spiders, viewed from behind - common in many Tephritoidea (see Ulidiidae below). Many also use their wings to signal to mates, so they may function to distinguish species. Otherwise?????
07.12.2024 16:25 — 👍 66 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 1
Enjoy the #scientific and #adventurous journey through many facets of a #recovering #tropical #rainforest 🌴 🇪🇨 with us:
Our 3️⃣rd NEWSLETTER 📰 is out!!!
#Ecuador #tropical #forest #biodiversity #conservation #networks #animals #plants #recovery
www.reassembly.de/posts/third-...
02.12.2024 20:19 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The sounds of #forest loss: how the #cicada communities’ song patterns change when forests are converted and isolated. New open access paper 🇪🇨 🌴
reassembly.de/news/sounds-di
22.11.2024 23:02 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
PhD student at Leuphana University of Lüneburg interested in insect ecology
🐜🧬 Genomics & evolbio of red wood ants 🎓📚 SciComm and teaching of entomology, biodiversity genomics, & citizen science 🌍 By UniBo UniFi & UniPv, supported by @sib.swiss @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/antswoodwide
Interdisciplinary research training group investigating the functioning of pure & mixed beech/conifer forest ecosystems. @dfgpublic.bsky.social funded @unigoettingen based
Website: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/574316.html
Ant passionate PhD student @unibayreuth.bsky.social | Working with red wood ants and their myrmecophiles throughout Europe as part of the @monitant.bsky.social project 🐜🌳
Developing a European-level monitoring strategy for moundbuilding Formica ants and their myrmecophiles 🐜🐞🌍 | Part of @biodiversa.eu 🔬
www.monitant.de
Double Degree International Master Program between 🇩🇪 Würzburg & 🇳🇴 Bergen in 🌱Ecology, 🌿Conservation & 🌡️Global Change
https://www.ecology-conservation.de/
Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels (Bonn & Hamburg)
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (Bonn & Hamburg)
#biodiversitychange #collections #naturalhistorymuseum #outreach #exhibitions #evolution #taxonomy #genomics
Biologist, PhD student at Uni Freiburg and MfN Berlin 🐒🦇🐀🌱
Professor of Forest Genetics @uni-freiburg.de 🌳🌲🧬
Research on evolutionary ecology & (epi)genetics of trees.
(Tropical) Forest enthusiast. Emmy Noether group leader.
🇪🇦 PhD candidate at University of Vienna 🇦🇹 | Working with birds and bats in Amazonian cacao agroforestry systems 🦜🦇🍫🇵🇪
PhD in Ecology and Biological Biodiversity. Botanists. 🌱🌴🌳
Tropical ecologist/🇪🇸 PhD at @Zoo3_Wuerzburg (🇩🇪) Researching in cacao agroforestry systems in Perú🍫🌳🐜 (@AgroEcoDiv) Arthropods/Ants/Socioecosystems
Nature Conservation & Landscape Ecology at Uni Freiburg. Sustainable farming, functional biodiversity, bee-flower interplay 🚵♀️ @naturealexk@freiburg.social at Mastodon
Entomologist | PhD @ Uni Freiburg
🐝 Insect ecology & multitrophic interactions
🌿 Food web dynamics in growing forests
📸 Macrophotography
MultiTrophic interactions in a forest biodiversity experiment in China - www.bef-china.com - DFG research unit - plant & animal lovers - ecosystem functioning
Post-doc at UMR CESCO
Bat person working on multitrophic interactions & conservation in the tropics as well as in temperate 🦇🦇
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The Society for Tropical Ecology hosting the European Conference of Tropical Ecology 🌍 https://www.soctropecol.eu/
Conference website #ECTE2026 :
https://gtoe2026-passau.de/
Led by Prof. Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, we’re the 🐝-hive of biodiversity research at the University of Würzburg’s Biocenter, Germany 🇩🇪 From buzzing tropical forests to European farmlands, we decode how climate and land use changes shape the web of life.
professor at university Freiburg, ornithologist, conservation geneticist,
❤️outdoors, mountains ⛰️, open water swimming 🏊 and birds 🦤 (not necessarily always in this order, but sometimes all together)
#teamscience, #teamvorsicht #lowcarbonbirding