A nice family friendly start to day 2 of the annual Humboldt Foundation meeting. Very happy to be here. Inspirational meeting so far. #AvHResearchUnites

Zoraptera!

Check out the video of Limnocentropus stalks (in the supplement), shot by our co-author, Ryoichi Kuranishi.

New paper with Xiling, Deng, Jacqueline Heckenhauer and co. examining silk fibroin evolution in weird case-making caddisflies.

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The International Symposium on Trichoptera in July of '24 gave us the perfect excuse to try to make this figure and here is what we came up with--Milne and Milne revisited. It's a lot, but so was the original. Hopefully will be published in the symposium proceedings soon! #insect #caddisfly

🧵 There's this amazing figure depicting the evolution of caddisflies from a 1939 paper by Margery and Lorus Milne. It captured my imagination as an undergraduate and helped influence me to study caddisflies. #scientificillustration

Hello, bluesky (thanks to @roblanfear.bsky.social for encouraging me to re-check it out!). Here is a short video of a marine caddisfly.