Imagine being the first scientist to notice that some of the ants being studied had two butts & that one of them was a beetle that had latched on for a free ride.
See the mandibles of the beetle (yellow arrow)? Latched on to the ant's 'waist', blending seamlessly.
Ants with detachable butts.
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Truly had the most amazing time exploring the diversity of gall wasps (Cynipidae) today! Found 11 species on one oak 🤔 I unfortunately also spotted some larvae of the invasive Rhagoletis completa (walnut husk fly) in our walnut tree. These guys have some very cool Wolbachia though!
28.09.2025 18:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Amazing!!!
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Big congrats to one of the most inspiring people I've ever met, eDNA for the win!
11.09.2025 10:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is incredible!
05.09.2025 07:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So cool!
02.09.2025 11:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Had a blast presenting my work on Wolbachia and Spiroplasma-induced sex allocation distortion in haplodiploids at #ESEB2025!
22.08.2025 09:29 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Fascinating talk by @emmavanreempts.bsky.social & Fien Van Reempts at #Nerdland Festival 🥼 Wolbachia to stop mosquito-borne diseases 🦟 With amazing illustrations by Ward Dermaut
07.06.2025 20:26 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The 2026 edition will be held in Lille (France) on 7-9 January ! https://populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk/
Evolutionary Biologist at University of Iowa in beautiful Iowa City. I love studying parasitic wasps and flies. Also like food, reading (mostly fiction), and character-driven film and TV. Views are my own. https://t.co/PGUMaqmVqw
Community ecologist - biodiversity, species interactions, insects (ants & wasps). Associate Prof. @Binghamton University SUNY - http://priorecologylab.com
Associate Professor @UniBZ interested in insect symbiosis and insect pathogen interactions
http://hschuler.people.unibz.it
PhD student at Ghent University researching the evolution and diversity of colours in mammals🐼🐯
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PhD candidate, PEARG, University of Melbourne. Studying plant-insect-microbes interactions for a more sustainable agriculture.
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Genome regulation, chromatin, cell types, and evolution. https://www.sebepedroslab.org
Microbes & mucus 🤩 | Gut Microbial Ecology | Wageningen University, NL
🎓Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at WUR 🇳🇱 |🍎Teacher, 🔬Scientist, 🎙️Sci-com! |🧟♂️🪲Zombie Beetles and 🌱Discipline-Based Education Research (He/Him)
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Greek Scientific Society of MikroBioKosmos; all microbes and their environments; Science, Education, Outreach, Networking; FEMS & IUMS member.
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Developing a European-level monitoring strategy for moundbuilding Formica ants and their myrmecophiles 🐜🐞🌍 | Part of @biodiversa.eu 🔬
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Fish biology | Freshwater Ecology | eDNA-based (bio)monitoring 🧬
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Population and evolutionary genetics @UCDavis. Posts, grammar, & spelling are my views only. He/him. #OA popgen book https://github.com/cooplab/popgen-notes/releases
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Next symposium #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand in August 2026.
Using genome engineering to solve humanity’s greatest problems in health, climate & sustainable agriculture. UC Berkeley, UCSF, UC Davis. https://innovativegenomics.org/
#Mycorrhiza #Soil #Evolution #PlantScience #Fungi #Sustainability, leads @sheffieldpps.bsky.social at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, Senior Editor @funecology.bsky.social, Deputy EiC @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social
Little 🦈. Historian of race, science & empire. Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction (Penguin) shortlisted for Royal Society’s Trivedi Science Book Prize 2025. 🦤
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