Caroline S. Chaboo

Spotted lanternflies are all over. What should you do if you see one? Spotted lanternflies are appearing all over the East Coast. The invasive insects damage plants and trees. What should you do when you spot them?

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Everyone hates wasps. But this scientist wants us to love them. | CNN If you think wasps only exist to spoil summer picnics, Professor Seirian Sumner is here to set you straight.

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A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

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Cocoa boom fuels new wave of deforestation in Cameroon Once threatened by palm oil and loggers, Cameroon’s forests now face a new driver of deforestation: booming cacao production to supply the European market. A new report by the environmental advocacy…

Once threatened by palm oil and loggers, Cameroon’s forests now face a new driver of deforestation: booming cacao production to supply the European market.

A new report by the environmental advocacy group Mighty Earth finds deforestation in Cameroon has accelerated.

Mission under way to save 'world's most beautiful' snails Researchers in Cuba and the UK are working together to reveal the biological secrets of the beautiful but endangered Polymita snail.

#Caribbean #conservation #invertebrates
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The Intersection of Art and Biology as Seen Through the Legacy of Maria Sibylla Merian Botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian’s lasting impact on visual culture, scientific observation, and women's contributions to both

Maria Sibylla Merian was the first person to describe "bird-eating" #spiders, although it was dismissed as fantasy until a man confirmed it! It's a story I discuss in my book "Birds & Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship"

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#Ornithology #Biodiversity

August Arthropod Awesomeness 2025 1 Tri-spine Horseshoe Crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, 2 Opabinia, Middle Cambrian (505mya), 3 Black Bladder-bodied Meloid, Cysteodemus wislizeni, 4 Devil Reef Crab, Zosimus aeneus 5 Rhombic Leatherbug Syromastus rhombeus, 6 Epimeria rubrieques, 7 Phantom Crane Fly, Bittacomorpha clavipes, 8 Japanese Rhinocerous Beetle, Allomyrina dichotoma, 9 Bluff Wētā, Deinacrida elegans, 10 Jaekelopterus, Early Devonian (410 mya), 11 European Oil Beetle, Meloe variegatus, 12 Giant Antarctic Sea Spider, Decolopoda australis, 13 Shoveller Crayfish, Scyllarides elisabethae, 14 Slug Caterpillar, Thosea vetusta, 15 Tropical Tent-web Spider, Cyrtophora citricola, 16 Long-necked Ground Beetle, Colliuris pensylvanica, 17 Callichimaera perplexa, Middle Cretaceous (95 mya), 18 Fluffy Crab, Lamarckdromia beagle, 19 Rain Spider Wasp, Tachypompilus ignitus, 20 Striped Gooseneck Barnacle, Conchoderma virgatum, 21 Coffee Bee Hawkmoth, Cephonodes hylas, 22 Walker's Moth, Sosxetra grata, 23 Giant African Fruit Beetle, Chelorrhina Polyphemus, 24 Skeleton Shrimp, Caprella penantis, 25 Dragonhunter, Hagenius brevistylus, 26 Pseudopulex jurassicus, Jurassic (165 mya), 27 Spoonwing Lacewing, Nemoptera sinuata, 28 Ant Mimic Moth, Xestocasis iostrota, 29 Giant Emerald Pill Millipede, Zoosphaerium neptunus, 30 Neon Cuckoo Bee, Thyreus pictus, 31 Black Beauty Stick Insect, Peruphasma schultei #AugArthroAwe @thefuzzyslug Green field with segmented caterpillar squiggle decoration at the bottom of the page, a few icon-like bugs scattered around.

Templates available! https://tinyurl.com/augarthroawe Art card size 2.5”x3.5” A gray scale card template with areas for art, common name, and scientific name, text above “color me in!” squiggle arrow pointing to template then over to a filled in example with an illustration of a tri-spine horseshoe crab, tachypleus tridentatus. Between the two, “or not! You do you!”

August is upon us and there's a new bug filled #MonthlyArtChallenge in town! 💖🦀🐛🐝🕷🦐🪲💖

Celebrate all the good bugges with August Arthropod Awesomeness! Old and new bugges! It's bugs all the way down!
Templates and refs: tinyurl.com/augarthroawe

#AugArthroAwe #ArtPrompt #arthropod #SciArt

A macro portrait, three-quarter profile, of the cephalothorax and partial abdomen and legs of a vinegaroon, a non-venomous arachnid that looks a bit like a mashup of a scorpion and a lobster. It is almost black with deep maroon highlights on the body and red-orange sparse hairs on the legs and thick, armored front claws (modified pedipalps). The photo is at night, and the surface of the vinegaroon is shiny from the damp conditions.

🐙🌿 Vinegaroons are arachnids that, like the Amblypygid I posted yesterday, look fierce but have no venom and are harmless to people. Also like Amblypygids, the 1st pair of legs is long & thin and used not for walking but as antennae. This one in Arizona recently was big, a couple of inches; here's--

A black beetle standing on a twig with a rather large bum

#AugArthroAwe today's art - black bladder-bodied meloid beetle
Baby got back?
#inkart #inverts #sciart

Opinion | Finding Beauty in Spiders It was within the orange tree in our front yard that the first spider appeared, sparking my poet’s imagination.

Beautiful story #AnimalArchitecture #Caribbean
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A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds

#indigenous #exhibition #museums
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/w...

Not Acromis, not beetle. Bugs!

Bizarre #beetles

Their babies do look alien! Bizarre #beetles

This species has sneaker males, looking like the females, and they get the action when the big macho guys are jousting for females!

#WomenInSTEM

'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean A Chinese-led research team captures pictures of life at depths of more than 9km in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

#biodiversity
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Wow

More than Meets the Eye🌱

Cashews, macadamia, almonds, sunflower seeds. Because of your book, I have been searching for Brazil nuts.

‪XIII European Congress of Entomology
🚨 Registration is now open for ECE 2026

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#ECE2026Tours #Entomology #insectscience
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Shrinking bookshelf real estate. While working at AMNH & as student, I subscribed to JNYES #insects. Knew everyone on editorial board & met authors. Friends, coworkers, colleagues, future colleagues. Importantly too, examples of articles I could publish one day. Models to follow!

Felipe Francisco Barbosa joins ZooKeys as a subject editor for elateroids, elmids, and phylogenetics Felipe Francisco Barbosa is a Brazilian evolutionary biologist, phylogeneticist, and entomologist at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). His research focuses on phylog...

Felipe Francisco Barbosa is our newest subject editor! Coming from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, he works on evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, and entomology.

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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Excellent feature story on yesterday's Science Advances article (led by @hrishikeshac.bsky.social and myself) from @propublica.org. Kudos to @abrahm.bsky.social and @lucaswaldron.bsky.social for expert story and graphics. @wisegrouporg.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/wate...

nice paper on important character in #Chrysomelidae Tree of Life: bifid setae in #Criocerinae #Cassidinae #Donaciinae #Bruchidae. Great dedication to Stork & Schmitt by Dagmar & Gorb. 2025. ...branching adhesive setae in two #leafbeetles Zoomorphology 144:48.

Neanderthals likely ate fermented meat with a side of maggots New research highlights the prevalence of maggots as an easily obtained, nutrient-rich supplement of ancient hominin diets.

Today’s special: Meat with a side of maggots. 🪰

New research suggests Neanderthals may have eaten fermented, maggot-rich meat, not just for survival, but as a routine (and nutritious) part of their diet.

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#science #anthropology

Thousands of mosquitoes are being dropped by drone over islands in Hawaii. Here’s why | CNN Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by releasing more mosquitoes.

#insects #mosquitoes www.cnn.com/science/hawa...

#museum #exhibitions #insects
Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600)
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YouTube video by History Hit A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer

A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer youtu.be/eC4T-dD9C6o?...

Breakthrough discovery shows that moths listen to plants — and avoid the noisy ones | CNN Researchers have documented for the first time that insects can hear and react to plants’ acoustic distress signals, which are inaudible to human ears.

amazing evolution:
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