New Ant Lab video out today - moth biodiversity!
youtu.be/I5L3_UW1flY
Increasing interest in entomology 1 cat at a time
New Ant Lab video today about pincer wasps and a new research project. This one has some really cool, newly-filmed insect behavior in it! youtu.be/9osTBzQ0zbk
I made a spider video! youtu.be/0lpljh1o2w8
New today: Bees That Come Out of the Ground?!
youtu.be/jje1LPrsHbc
One of mine is obsessed with AntLab videos on YouTube
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith
It's 3pm slump time, so how about something to perk you up? Did you know fleas have complete metamorphosis? This is a larval cat flea. @dradriansmith.bsky.social's filming and rearing story will definitely bring you to alertness 😀 (1/2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bsG...
Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives is officially open at the Bruce Museum! Enter the tunnel and you will meet "Buckley", our five foot long scaled-up Dinoponera ant.
Buckley is named after her creator, the great Dan Buckley.
The smaller ant is my daughter, dressed as an alate queen for the opener.
MLL
Still looking for horror now that Halloween's over? Fortunately/unfortunately it's all around! 💀
A parasitoid laid a few eggs in a moth egg. As the caterpillar hatched & grew, wasp embryos multiplied inside to 100s of larvae that ate the entire host, eventually killing & turning it into a husk 😳 🤢
Did you consume too much depressing news on your timeline? Here's your palate cleanser from @dradriansmith.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNa...
In this video, the biologist Adrian Smith @dradriansmith.bsky.social provides close-ups of a diverse array of caterpillars and shows how they support healthy ecosystems, employ a range of strategies to protect themselves from predators and transform into seemingly entirely different creatures
Matt Bertone
From poison spikes to fake snake eyes, caterpillars employ many clever strategies to survive to their dazzling adulthoods
