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.
Ksepka Lab
New today: Bees That Come Out of the Ground?!
youtu.be/jje1LPrsHbc
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
🚨 Lifer alert! 🚨 Check out this deer bot #fly that @dradriansmith.bsky.social found while we were hunting bugs - my first time getting pics of a wild adult of this family! It's a convincing bee mimic, whose babies live in the sinuses & throats of deer 😋 👀
#Oestridae: #Cephenemyia phobifer
NC, USA
New Ant Lab video out today - moth biodiversity!
youtu.be/I5L3_UW1flY
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 😳 🤢
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...
