Caroline S. Chaboo

A Hot Plant’s Mysterious Signal Makes Beetles Pollinate It

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Decoding the Peruvian Amazon with in situ DNA barcoding of vertebrate and plant taxa - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Decoding the Peruvian Amazon with in situ DNA barcoding of vertebrate and plant taxa

#Peru #biodiversity
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#WomenInSTEM

It knows it is a beauty

She Studied Mosquitoes to Prevent Malaria

#WomenInSTEM #entomology #insects #malaria
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#insects #Chile

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, British zoologist and Save the Elephants founder, dies at 83 British-born zoologist and founder of the Save the Elephants group Iain Douglas-Hamilton has died at age 83.

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France returns stolen dinosaur skeleton to Mongolia The fossils were looted in the Gobi Desert and were confiscated by French customs officials in 2015. They were returned at a ceremony in Paris on Monday will be displayed at a museum that Mongolia is ...

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Yan‑Da Li, Zhi‐Hao Qi, Di‑Ying Huang , Chen‑Yang Cai. 2025. Divergent defense strategies and #niche partitioning in #Cretaceous micro‐ #beetles. Journal of #Systematics and #Evolution

Liverwort or Moss? Horny Toad or Fence Lizard? Niche Field Guides Can Tell You.

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nitidulid beetle adorably poking its antenna bobbles out of the inflorescence of Thismia tentacula (Guo et al 2019)

thanks to @hellabarnes.bsky.social for alerting me to the existence of Thismia, another entry for my growing database of Deeply Weird Plants Visited By Tiny Beetles

Last day of teaching! Students came bearing various gifts - such thoughtfulness from generous young hearts. I even got a $gift card --feels like taking $$ from babies. One leaves me speechless: home-grown quail eggs, plus special scissors for these membranous shells.

Frank Gehry, whose designs defied gravity and convention, dies at 96 Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. "I've always been for optimism and architecture not being sad," he said.

His single iconic building re-calibrated so much in my other hometown, Bilbao
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#beetles on #oaks

Digital art illustration of cartoon insects partying: fireflies sit on a frame above shining light on a dancing caterpillar, ant, bumblebee, and mantis below. Text top, middle, and bottom reads "do a little dance / you're a little bug / get down tonight"

"Little Dance, Little Bugs"
2022, digital for fun & print products 🦗
#ArtAdventCalendar

starts today, soon

#parentalcare

Graduate student recruitment ad

Big news - I’ll be starting an #insect #systematics lab at University of Nebraska-Lincoln this coming academic year! I’m looking to #recruit #PhDstudents to work in #wasp systematics, especially gall systems, to begin Fall 2026. Please help me spread the word — more details on the flyer below!

Spectacula! Do you have photos of these in phytotelmata pools?

Congratulations @hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social
hardwork make Dreams come true!

Le Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève lutte contre un insecte ravageur | RTS Un foyer d'infestation de la vrillette du pain a été découvert le 24 septembre au Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève (MHNG) lors d'un contrôle régulier. La présence de cet insecte ravageur est limitée à la galerie "Faune de Suisse". Des mesures urgentes de sauvegarde ont été prises.   ther avec ats Publié à 07:36 Modifié à 07:42     "Les observations ont confirmé la présence d'insectes adultes de Stegobium paniceum, dont certains vivants, a indiqué jeudi le MHNG. Des dommages localisés et superficiels ont été observés sur les collections, notamment au niveau des ailes d'oiseaux naturalisés. "Nous n'avons pas vu de larve active, mais le niveau d'infestation a été atteint", a précisé le directeur du MHNG Arnaud Maeder." (...)   "... Cette situation pourrait repousser les réaménagements des galeries et la réouverture du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, prévue pour septembre 2026. Une opération similaire avait été menée en 2023, dans les herbiers des Conservatoire et Jardin botanique de Genève, infestés par un autre insecte ravageur, le Lasioderma du tabac."   ------ ndé   image : La vrillette du pain est une espèce proche de la petite vrillette (Anobium punctatum), insecte ravageur du bois, qui s'en distingue par sa teinte nettement plus foncée et sa tête capuchonnée. Elle est parfois confondue avec la vrillette du tabac (Lasioderma serricorne) qui s'attaque également aux stocks de denrées alimentaires ; ces deux espèces peuvent être différenciées par l'aspect de leurs antennes et de leurs élytres.   via Stegobium paniceum — Wikipédia https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegobium_paniceum  

Les observations ont confirmé la présence d'insectes adultes de Stegobium paniceum, dont certains vivants, a indiqué jeudi le MHNG. Des dommages localisés et superficiels ont été observés sur les collections, notamment au niveau des ailes d'oiseaux naturalisés.

#leafbeetles are so joyful

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Get outside in #nature

#leafbeetles

An illustration of a woman wearing an axolotl costume in front of an audience, with text: Embracing my silly side makes me a better scientist. I wish I’d done it sooner

"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/49B7hRv

nice gift of 90 drawers of #beetles to #museum #exibition
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How an idealistic tree-planting project turned into Kenya’s toxic, thorny nightmare Introduced from South America, mathenge was intended to halt desertification, but now three-quarters of the country is at risk of invasion by the invasive tree

A warning about invasive species and how naive local and world governments can be. One single bad idea spreads out of control.

Don’t mess with the Nature’s carefully evolved balance. Plant #native species only. 🙏🏻🌍💚💙