A new #Opinion piece in #RESSystematicEnt discusses how declining rates of species description call for improved taxonomic strategies, using insights from a megadiverse #insect order
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70019

#Taxonomy #SpeciesDescription #Diptera
@gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social

Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature that are important for all life on Earth.

However, all around the world, just 22% of the land delivering the most critical ecosystem services is protected.

Find out why it's time for that to change 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

We know that many animals are in danger due to human-caused climate change impacting their habitats. This #ClimateWeekNYC, Columbia University and Richard Gilder Graduate School Graduate Fellow Ellie Gamett explains what we can learn from the resilience of blue dasher dragonflies.

"Una madre da a luz a hijos de dos especies distintas".

Parece imposible, ¿verdad? ¡Pues agarraos!

Un estudio publicado en Nature sugiere que las reinas de Messor ibericus 🐜 son capaces de producir descendencia de una especie completamente distinta 😱.

Pero... ¿Para qué? 🧵👇

🇨🇴 El Gobierno de Gustavo Petro, uno que aprovecha cada escenario internacional posible para hablar de la urgencia de la acción climática, suma seis meses de retraso en actualizar sus compromisos climáticos ante las Naciones Unidas
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Hello my love, it’s been a minute… 🌱🦈 Testing assembly of the bronze and silver thorn bug before final surface finishing 🛠️

Tried out my new blacklight funnels I built. Got chased off the eastern New Mexico plains by a nasty thunderstorm, but less than an hour produced quite a few beetles!

Mesquite 4.0 released! A major update — many new features, small and large (phylogenomics, visualizations, workflow management, &c). Check out the trailer video: www.mesquiteproject.org.

Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social ‬🧪 #evolbio

Our initial moth Night schedule is OUT!

We gather at Brendan T Byrne State Forest, do a dusk tour of the Pine Barrens ecosystem, then hang out for a couple hours and enjoy the moths.

July 5
July 12
July 19 *Artist Edition*

RSVP: linktr.ee/SarahMackAttack

If all these fill, I'll add dates!

Look how how much fun people are having when they are looking at insects!

Well, horseshit. An inconvenience that cannot be avoided, especially around horses. The silvery blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus) isn't bothered by it, on the contrary - horseshit is celebrated as an opportunity to gain vitality. I'm sure there's a metaphor here for something bigger..

LABBOR 2025 🧡

Pra variar, tá faltando gente nessa foto 🤭 Mas o que não falta nesse grupo é dedicação ao estudo das borboletas 🦋

Bora para mais um ano! 🙌

If you would like to learn more, I highly recommend my newest book - The Cicadas of North America - which contains over 400 full-color illustrations of every cicada species on the continent*!

*(except for the two new ones from Martinique and Guadeloupe that were just described in September)

Visiting the forensic entomology collection at Tecnologico de Antioquia. Look all the bees 🐝collected in fish 🐟 and gut 🥩 traps!!!

Acceptance of species delimitation/description based on #barcode sequence clustering thresholds is growing yet not without controversy. This paper focuses on the topic while addressing prospects and challenges for #DNAbarcoding in #biodiversity research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How to publish a scientific manuscript in a high-impact journal

Open Access
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The RES has announced the winners of its 2024 #PhotographyCompetition, unveiling a selection of amazing up-close images of fascinating insects.

📸 Congratulations to all the winners!

View all winning images and enter the 2025 competition 🔽

www.royensoc.co.uk/news/winning...

“There needs to be more emphasis on the ecological component of One Health as we consider the problems of biodiversity loss, climate extremes, habitat fragmentation, and emerging disease”https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413367121

Since XKCD’s “Types of Scientific Paper” is making the rounds again, here’s the Entomology one I made a few years ago.