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Caroline S. Chaboo
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entomologist, beetles, Chrysomelidae
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Caroline S. Chaboo @cschaboo.bsky.social · Sep 21
Our lovely volume cover @zookeys.pensoft.net! #beetles
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#insects #ants on #exhibitions #museums
ksepkalab.bsky.social Ksepka Lab @ksepkalab.bsky.social · 1d
Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives is officially open at the Bruce Museum! Enter the tunnel and you will meet "Buckley", our five foot long scaled-up Dinoponera ant.

Buckley is named after her creator, the great Dan Buckley.

The smaller ant is my daughter, dressed as an alate queen for the opener.
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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#museums www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
The Kids Are Up All Night, With Jewels and Bones
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November 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Not any news to love these days, but I do love this paper on caterpillar sensory ecology. I can't wait to use figures from this for teaching. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The sensory ecology of caterpillars - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Caterpillars (larval Lepidoptera) are one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily significant taxa on Earth. As both feeders and food, they shape the dynamics of enumerate ecosystems on land. Key ...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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#insects #Kansas
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Bee Happy: They’re Saving Pollinators in Kansas
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November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Megan Biesele’s wonderful memoir starts with her #anthropology #fieldwork with #San #indigenous #Bushmen (1970s) in the #Kalahari #Africa. I went there 40 yrs later & published with Megan.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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#AnimalArchitecture
coleopsoc.bsky.social The Coleopterists Society @coleopsoc.bsky.social · 7d
#LiteratureNotice Greig et al. Passive debris cloaking in beetles provides non-visual camouflage against predatory ants doi.org/10.1093/behe... #Beetle #Beetles #Ecology #ants
Zopherid beetle species used for this project. From top left: (a). Pristoderus bakewelli (not cloaked), (b). Pycnomerus sp.1 (not cloaked), (c). Pristoderus insignis (not cloaked), (d). Tarphiomimus indentatus (partially cloaked), (e). Chorasus sp.1 (partially cloaked), (f). Epistranus c. f. lawsoni (fully cloaked), (g). Protarphius sp. 1 (fully cloaked), (h). Rytinotus squamulosus (fully cloaked). Scale bars = 0.5mm.
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Gorgeous #beetles
coleopsoc.bsky.social The Coleopterists Society @coleopsoc.bsky.social · 9d
#LiteratureNotice Cai et al.Comparison of Mouthpart Sensilla of Two Rapeseed Pests (Xenostrongylus variegatus and Brassicogethes aeneus) Using Scanning Electron Microscopy (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) doi.org/10.1002/jemt... #Beetle #Beetles #Nitidulidae #electronmicroscopy
Sensilla on the maxillae and labium of Xenostrongylus variegatus male. (A, B) The ventral view of maxillae. car, cardo; sti, stipes; lac, lacinia; map, maxillary palpus; ST1, sensilla trichodea 1; SC1, sensilla chaetica 1; (C) the sensilla on the lacinia. SC2, SC3, sensilla chaetica 2, 3; BB, Böhm bristles; (D) the sensilla on the maxillary palpus. SP1, SP2, sensilla placodea 1, 2; ST1, sensilla trichodea 1; (E, F) the sensilla on the tip of the terminal segment of maxillary palpus. SB1, SB2, SB3, SB4, SB6, and SB8, sensilla basiconica 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8; SCo1, sensilla coeloconica 1; (G, H) the ventral view of labium. lap, labial palpus; ST1, sensilla trichodea 1; BB, Böhm bristles; (I, J) the dorsal view of labium. lap, labial palpus; hyp, hypopharynx; SCo1, sensilla coeloconica 1; (K, L) the sensilla on the tip of the terminal segment of labial palpus. SB3, SB4, SB5, SB6, SB8, and SB9, sensilla basiconica 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9; SCo1, sensilla coeloconica 1
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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#museums www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...
Director of Philadelphia Art Museum Is Dismissed After Unpopular Rebranding
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November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Large old trees sustain avian communities and critical plant-bird interactions in highly urbanised environments | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Duarte-De-Mélo, Chaboo, Cajé, Suênia-Bastos & De Moura Lima. 2025. #Brazil #Chlamisus #leafbeetles on #Malvaceae #AnimalArchitecture #Chrysomelidae #Beetles Fragmenta entomologica 57(2).
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Why tequila depends on Mexico's bats
Conservationists and communities are planting thousands of agave plants to protect endangered bats, and the future of Mexico's tequila production.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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#Egypt #museum www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/s...
More than $1 billion and two decades later, the Grand Egyptian Museum is — finally — ready to share its treasures | CNN
After innumerable interruptions, delays and setbacks, the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization comes to life.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A beautiful bit of art for your morning. Painting by Yamamoto Baiitsu, Japan, 1847. The full work is 250cm long! Full scroll with 50 insects at: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
a watercolor/ink painting with beetles, cicadas, and butterflies on a tree. Damselflies and a mantis, as well as a paper wasp nest are also visible. Another section of the watercolor/ink painting, with flying dragonflies, katydids, and a wasp.
October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#leafbeetles
coleopsoc.bsky.social The Coleopterists Society @coleopsoc.bsky.social · 17d
#LiteratureNotice Rêgo et al. Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Beetle #Beetles #evolution
a, Populations were collected from California (yellow), Brazil (teal) and Yemen (orange) and adapted to benign lab conditions (29 °C) for approximately 200 generations. Thermal performance curves (with 95% confidence intervals shown as shaded bands) of the three populations show the classic asymmetric shape and depict how population growth rate (adult offspring production/generation time) changes with temperature. While mean growth rates are slightly lower at 23 °C compared with 35 °C, the slope of the performance curve is steeper at temperatures higher than the optimum. To start experimental evolution, lines were placed at either 23 °C or 35 °C, with two replicates in each treatment per genetic background. Horizontal black bars in the arrows depicting each experimental evolution line indicate the time at which lines were sequenced. The sequencing of heat-adapted lines at generation 3 represent the genomic estimates of ancestral variation. b–e, For both the seven life-history phenotypes (b,c) and for all genomic SNPs (d,e), principal component analysis (PCA) summaries are presented of evolutionary change between ancestral (grey) and heat- (red) and cold-adapted (blue) lines. Phenotypes were measured in a common garden design including both the low and high temperature. The world map was generated using the R packages ggplot and maps. Scientific illustration of C. maculatus drawn by Milena Trabert.
October 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Just up on the 'Value in nature' blog, a look at how wild genetic resources can sustain and enrich the world of spices:
🌐 #biodiversity #nature

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Variety - the life of spice - Value in nature
Future dinner table conversation? Father: “Johnny, could you please pass the pepper?” Precocious child: “I would, Dad, but last year’s entire pepper crop was wiped out by disease and you...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I hace these as earrings! #Cassidinae #leafbeetles
americanbeetles.bsky.social Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 19d
got an email asking if we could ID the beetles attached to some Victorian-era "scarab" stickpins. Still waiting for the photos, but I started looking around in the meantime and SOMEBODY was doing an incredible trade in cassidines (cc @cschaboo.bsky.social)
allegedly antique Victorian stickpin or tie pin with a greenish-blue "scarab" affixed to the top (it is a tortoise beetle) different allegedly antique Victorian stickpin or tie pin with a green "scarab" affixed to the top (it is a tortoise beetle) another allegedly antique Victorian stickpin or tie pin with a "scarab" affixed to the top (it is, again, a tortoise beetle)
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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How to Revive California’s Underwater Forests? Smash a Spiky, Hungry Foe.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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#LiteratureNotice Hu et al. Ancient divergent evolution of specialized swimming modes in aquatic beetles doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #Beetle #Beetles #waterscavengerbeetles #waterbeetles #convergentevolution
igure 3. Three-dimensional reconstructions of internal pterothoracic anatomy, including muscles involved in swimming movements of the legs.
October 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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#Ecuador #biodiversity #Conservation
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Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests
PAKAYAKU TERRITORY, Ecuador — Deep in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon, where the Bobonaza River winds through ancient forests in Pastaza province, Sacha Gayas spreads out a hand-drawn map across her woo...
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October 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#exhibition
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What Does an Ant Smell Like?
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October 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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#AnimalArchitecture #wasps
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There’s a Wasp Nest in the Living Room. On Purpose.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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This 'magical' dinosaur specimen emerged from the ground like a polished jewel
A new pachycephalosaur, officially named Zavacephale rinpoche, was described in the journal Nature. The word rinpoche is Tibetan for "precious one" and refers to the domed skull.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Bee Happy: They’re Saving Pollinators in Kansas
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October 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Beetle pollinators anyone? Learn more about some unsung symbioses in 'Beetles and the plants that love them', just posted to the 'Value in nature' blog!

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Beetles and the plants that love them - Value in nature
Whether looking out your window, or looking in your refrigerator, the view would be very different were it not for pollinators. Modern plants have evolved in concert with a diverse...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM