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Delanik
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PhD Student. Bug taxonomy and goofing off.
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Incredibly relateable.

This is one of my favorite specimens I've run into scouring through museums.
Pinned insect specimen; Small black beetle missing its head with two small labels also on the pin: The first with the number 255, the label below with somewhat sloppily handwritten text saying "I Do not Know"
December 13, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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When you go through specimens to identify molecular vouchers and this is all that remains of the specimen... 😅👍
Photograph through the microscope of a small white piece of paper with only the foreleg and middle femur of a beetle glued to it
November 26, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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I wonder what this little pocket could be for...
Close up photo of the top left of a shiny, reddish-brown beetle's elytron, with a small, setose depression circled in red.
November 23, 2024 at 2:28 AM