I’ve had this Venus flytrap for a couple years and it surprised me with flowers this week.

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I have ants nesting in the roots of my aloe plants and they actively feed on the sap.

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Petri dish of ethanol-preserved microleps, aka “Moth Broth”

And a useful reminder that even fluid-preserved lep bycatch can be a source of valuable genitalia specimens

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High-resolution flatbed scan of genitalia slide vs focus-stacked output from leica DM6

An impressive comparison of the outcome from a flatbed scanner vs a Leica DM6 plus Zerene focus-stacking

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McGuire center waves their genitalia in everyone’s face, via a concerted effort to digitize their 30,000+ slides of Lepidoptera dissections

Megan Neal of the McGuire Center, with a talk chock full of exquisite genitalia preps

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FSCA’s Jim Hayden tells us about quelling panic around invasive species by digging up evidence they were already present in the area long before “new” observations

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