Malcolm is STILL PUBLISHING at age 99, including a new technical report based on his massive collection of SEM-prepped specimens and micrographs thereof

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to say nothing of the extraordinary Oskar Vogt, Nazi-hating socialist and neurobiologist who maintained a suspiciously large staff of entomologists and bumblebee collectors. He is pictured here holding a slice of Lenin’s brain.

Their historical material includes 19th-century insects from Dutch visitors to Japan and the extensive Hymenoptera collection of S. C. Snellen van Vollenhoven

Once the U of Guam collection got cleaned up and put into order, workers found a number of both new spp records for the island as well as “last records” of spp that may already be extinct

Bill and Luke report that when the collection was transferred to university museums, they found not a single dermestid nor one broken antenna

And finally, Lubo’s message to the young: LESS COMPUTER, MORE COLLECTING

Lubo’s ultimate sweep net: fishing nets modified for durability and screening out any leaves, leps, or other debris that might mess up your sample of tiny wasps

Now THAT’s an imaging workflow (iPhone held by clamp)

FYI: catering carts are the perfect dimensions to freeze large numbers of CAS drawers…