Kendrick Nakamura
@soulsynapse.bsky.social
PhD student @ ASU's Social Insect Research Group 🐜🐝 ants, bees, wasps, social behavior, phylogenetics, evolutionary game theory
❤️ Community science, documenting the natural history of ants @ AntSciHub.com, discord.gg/antkeeping, reddit.com/r/antkeeping
❤️ Community science, documenting the natural history of ants @ AntSciHub.com, discord.gg/antkeeping, reddit.com/r/antkeeping
Deflate style hand vacuum as an electronic aspirator. Best of both worlds. Needs a pooter with a filter built in. #entomology #antkeeping #ants
May 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Deflate style hand vacuum as an electronic aspirator. Best of both worlds. Needs a pooter with a filter built in. #entomology #antkeeping #ants
Interestingly weavers can climb up a thin oil film alone
May 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Interestingly weavers can climb up a thin oil film alone
Corn starch baby powder works great as an ant barrier. Comes off easily but at least it's not a known carcinogen 😅
May 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Corn starch baby powder works great as an ant barrier. Comes off easily but at least it's not a known carcinogen 😅
A seed passes inspection (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
April 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A seed passes inspection (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
Finally taking the time to learn Fusion360. Design for a co2 hose that will make noise (so people don't forget to turn it off) but diffuses the flow to knock out ants.
March 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Finally taking the time to learn Fusion360. Design for a co2 hose that will make noise (so people don't forget to turn it off) but diffuses the flow to knock out ants.
A timely assist.
December 4, 2024 at 6:49 PM
A timely assist.
Pretty happy with this feeder. Ants seem to like it too.
November 28, 2024 at 3:16 AM
Pretty happy with this feeder. Ants seem to like it too.
Pheidole rhea annoyed that I'm looking at em.
November 22, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Pheidole rhea annoyed that I'm looking at em.
Cephalotes clypeatus?! 🤯 via @alexwild.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Cephalotes clypeatus?! 🤯 via @alexwild.bsky.social
So icy and cool
Cricket-cockroach I think not
Grylloblattidae
#insecthaiku #EntSoc24
(photo by Joyce Gross)
Cricket-cockroach I think not
Grylloblattidae
#insecthaiku #EntSoc24
(photo by Joyce Gross)
November 11, 2024 at 1:06 AM
So icy and cool
Cricket-cockroach I think not
Grylloblattidae
#insecthaiku #EntSoc24
(photo by Joyce Gross)
Cricket-cockroach I think not
Grylloblattidae
#insecthaiku #EntSoc24
(photo by Joyce Gross)
Legend has it that if you cite all five Wheelers in one manuscript, you can slot them into the myrmecology gauntlet and solve eusociality with a snap of your fingers. This paper got pretty close..
October 24, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Legend has it that if you cite all five Wheelers in one manuscript, you can slot them into the myrmecology gauntlet and solve eusociality with a snap of your fingers. This paper got pretty close..
Temnothorax quercicola with featherweight forceps for scale
October 23, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Temnothorax quercicola with featherweight forceps for scale
Polistes fuscatus 🫠 heart was beating pretty fast taking these photos, they were not happy with me
October 28, 2023 at 3:02 PM
Polistes fuscatus 🫠 heart was beating pretty fast taking these photos, they were not happy with me