Gelechioidea, that superdiverse superfamily of Lepidoptera that has been a super mess taxonomically, finally gets some structure at the family level with phylogenomics! Read all about it in our article led by PhD student @etkayapar.bsky.social !
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Evolution of complex adaptations can involve changes in multiple traits that lack standalone function. @benitoexplains.bsky.social &co show that leaf masquerade in #katydids evolved via concurrent modification in wing colour & shape, driven by evolutionary synergy @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oUE741

A new theme issue in #PhilTransB looks at how and why animal minds have evolved to be so different from one another, framing animal #cognition as a diverse set of solutions to life’s many challenges buff.ly/csMZa3R

Oh wow, a new lepidopteran fossil dated to 236 My! Along with a reanalysis of molecular data using the new calibration. Are Lepidoptera really older than 300 My?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inkscape plugin to rescale figures without distorting the text, and other useful features!
github.com/burghoff/Sci...

New research in #RESSystematicEnt reports inconsistent performance of multi-type genomic data in #phylogenomics of neuropteridan insects

Read the solutions toward the conflicting results🔽
doi.org/10.1111/syen.12684

@gkergoat.bsky.social @lepidochrysops.bsky.social @wiley.com #lacewings

These sea turtles dance for joy when they magnetically sense it’s snack time.

Learn more on #WorldTurtleDay: scim.ag/42VqsSz

Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.

It is sad that even basic research needs to be defended with utility. For me, basic research is in the same category as art: civilized societies can't do without it, because we all want to know who we are and what our place in the natural world is -- questions that only science can answer.

David Wagner's Moths of the World is a marvelously illustrated guide to the world’s moths.

Out now! Learn more and explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Happy to share my new article on how morphological diversification proceeds during evolutionary radiations: "The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵 1/12

The oldest #ant fossil known to science has been discovered in Brazil! A "hell ant" over 113 million years old. lnkd.in/eFxzyMua

@uspoficial.bsky.social Anderson Lepeco
@currentbiology.bsky.social

When lepidopterist Michael Braby spotted something odd on a rare butterfly specimen, an old case was re-opened: a heist involving Scotland Yard & a forgery that created a flutter throughout the taxonomic world.

cosmosmagazine.com/nature/butterfly-heist-70-years-ago-is-still-causing-flutter/

Several impressive posters at the Korean Applied Entomology Conference. Especially the first one is written by an elementary school student. She made me imagine the Japanese super young and super cool elementary school entomologist at the las ICE conference.

What a fantastic work and splendid vedio!