Neal Evenhuis
@bfly52.bsky.social
Biologist, bee fly guru, nomenclaturalist, bibliographer, flying disc record holder. Throws left, bats right, blows bubbles when necessary. Me/mine/mine
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
Okay biogeographers. Have at it.
Waves within Earth’s mantle can carry traces of past continents across hundreds of miles, explaining why their chemical fingerprints appear in unlikely places.
Remnants of Lost Continents Are Everywhere. Now, We Finally Know Why.
Waves within Earth’s mantle can carry traces of past continents across hundreds of miles, explaining why their chemical fingerprints appear in unlikely places.
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Okay biogeographers. Have at it.
The Death of Empathy. Frame it.
The entire scene looks like Norman Rockwell painted The Death of Empathy, directed by Jeffrey Dahmer and executive produced by Satan. Hang this next to The Scream and the painting would lean over and whisper, Is that guy okay.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The Death of Empathy. Frame it.
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This statement about “young children” being something under 14 seems particularly detestable given Trump’s close personal relationship with Jeffery Epstein.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Epstein Ballroom
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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October 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This statement about “young children” being something under 14 seems particularly detestable given Trump’s close personal relationship with Jeffery Epstein.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
youtu.be/BbiXMQwBEaA?...
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
youtu.be/BbiXMQwBEaA?...
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I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.
October 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.
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Future folk etymologists are going to have a field day, aren't they.
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Future folk etymologists are going to have a field day, aren't they.
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/t...
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Future folk etymologists are going to have a field day, aren't they.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/t...
Future folk etymologists are going to have a field day, aren't they.
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Nature is healing
September 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Nature is healing
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Do full-eaten ants smell differently?
"Researchers have discovered a plant that attracts pollinating flies by mimicking the odour of half-eaten ants." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plant that mimics odour of half-eaten ants to attract pollinators discovered
Botanist says new Japanese species of dogbane is first evidence of plants copying ants
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Do full-eaten ants smell differently?
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September 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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ANTIFA is using fake wasp nests to hide cameras
KNOCK THEM DOWN
KNOCK THEM DOWN
September 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
ANTIFA is using fake wasp nests to hide cameras
KNOCK THEM DOWN
KNOCK THEM DOWN
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I met president of Mongolia and made mistake of mentioning historical ownership of territories...
September 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I met president of Mongolia and made mistake of mentioning historical ownership of territories...
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We're taking our knowledge of robotic and drone aided plant conservation to the extreme cliff habitats of Madeira Island in the waters off the coast of Morocco. Read more about our work here: ntbg.org/stories/ntbg...
NTBG takes drone conservation to Madeira Island - National Tropical Botanical Garden
Photography by Ben Nyberg In July 2025, NTBG’s GIS and drone program coordinator, Dr. Ben […]
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August 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
We're taking our knowledge of robotic and drone aided plant conservation to the extreme cliff habitats of Madeira Island in the waters off the coast of Morocco. Read more about our work here: ntbg.org/stories/ntbg...
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Hot tip for anyone trying to teach entomology on a budget: simply embed yourself in a department full of talented designers who will build you an elegant rolling cart that holds AND charges 20 tomlov scopes at once
August 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hot tip for anyone trying to teach entomology on a budget: simply embed yourself in a department full of talented designers who will build you an elegant rolling cart that holds AND charges 20 tomlov scopes at once
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International shipments and museum loans: some helpful, aggravating notes from Chris on the ECN listserv that I'm leaving here for future reference.
![The Privacy Act and Reducation [sic] act do not supercede the laws in 50 CFR (14,etc). Guidelines written on the eDec instructions may have been followed 30 or even 5 years ago, but today boxes without a 3-177 document attached on the outside are being siezed and destroyed by CBP and USFWS, especially coming through the NY office. CAS has lost one package from China already. When they sieze a package they do not notify you, rather they wait 180 days until the grace period has expired for us to submit a 3-177, and then notify you of your violation and seizure. Our petitionthrough the NY district court was met with silence.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywua4qjetzwsq5hzyty3exua/bafkreighwarbj5ao4jowsfzayh2zsjogi56mwbhkdsralan3cl3m24dbbu@jpeg)
August 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
International shipments and museum loans: some helpful, aggravating notes from Chris on the ECN listserv that I'm leaving here for future reference.
Just when you thought you could fish…
August 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Just when you thought you could fish…
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THIS is good.
July 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
THIS is good.
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Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS
The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent
or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...
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July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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July 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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‘They digest externally’: the artist who creates paintings with live flies
‘They digest externally’: the artist who creates paintings with live flies
For over a decade, John Knuth has created art using the regurgitation of flies and after he lost his home in the California wildfires, his work has a new perspective
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
‘They digest externally’: the artist who creates paintings with live flies
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Through the power of digitisation, millions of Kew's plant and fungal specimens have stepped out of the archives and into the hands of the world 🌿
Explore the new Data Portal yourself and uncover centuries of botanical history - now just a click away!
www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
Explore the new Data Portal yourself and uncover centuries of botanical history - now just a click away!
www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
June 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Through the power of digitisation, millions of Kew's plant and fungal specimens have stepped out of the archives and into the hands of the world 🌿
Explore the new Data Portal yourself and uncover centuries of botanical history - now just a click away!
www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
Explore the new Data Portal yourself and uncover centuries of botanical history - now just a click away!
www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
Six months ago we came into the port of Algier just before sunrise. The dipterist JMF Bigot spent winters here in the 1890s.His place still exists and I was fortunate to be able to see it later that day.#FlyFriday
May 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Six months ago we came into the port of Algier just before sunrise. The dipterist JMF Bigot spent winters here in the 1890s.His place still exists and I was fortunate to be able to see it later that day.#FlyFriday
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Look at the bombyliids
LOOK AT THEM
LOOK AT THEM
May 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Look at the bombyliids
LOOK AT THEM
LOOK AT THEM
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A Japanese researcher has taxonomically classified fish-shaped soy sauce bottles into 76 different ‘species’. (📷: 沢田佳久)
April 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A Japanese researcher has taxonomically classified fish-shaped soy sauce bottles into 76 different ‘species’. (📷: 沢田佳久)