Coleopterist, documenting patterns of beetle diversity (especially histerids & staphylinoids); University prof sharing systematics with the next generation; aspiring popular science writer; would rather be in the field.
Michael Caterino
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Nice article by @waspwoman.bsky.social et al. The ecosystem services angle is important. But parasitoids, along with most other minute insects, are also fantastically beautiful little creatures. It's just that most people can't see them to appreciate that. Give every kid a good hand lens!
I mean, how can you not!
Invasive scale insects cost U.S. agriculture at least $4–8 billion each year, yet true losses remain poorly tracked. For scale insects and beyond, an accounting of these losses is a major blind spot that complicates pest control, policy decisions, and efforts to protect food production.
Today's archival episode is a 2019 conversation with Richard Powers about The Overstory
Audio:📻🍃: milkweed.org/between-the-...
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Taxonomy continues to reveal hidden diversity. The discovery of four new Tetraserica species from China and Vietnam shows how careful revisionary work helps refine our understanding of species richness and distribution. #LIBresearch
Wow! Cool beetle. Species name should be flaggelator!
Ménage à quatre? Four ichneumonid wasps ovipositing in the same spot. There must be some good beetle larvae in that log!
Prionus imbricornis identified as a pest on the roots of blueberries (as larvae).
www.popsci.com/environment/...
Only one week left to apply for the full professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research at our institute @unituebingen.bsky.social ! Please re-post.
From fossil evidence, millipedes were the first animals adapted to life on land about 425 million years ago. In this new paper, we reconstructed their ancient evolutionary history across nearly half a billion years. 🌎
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Invasive scale insects cost U.S. agriculture at least $4–8 billion each year, yet true losses remain poorly tracked, complicating pest control, policy decisions, and efforts to protect food…
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Today’s archival episode with Richard Powers, about The Overstory, was recorded in 2019 in the studios of KBOO community radio in Portland, Oregon. Unusually, that same night I appeared with Richard a...
The beetle’s 5-inch-long babies could threaten the state’s $70 million blueberry industry.
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Vasquez-Valverde et al. estimate the ancient evolutionary history of millipedes and
analyze the last two remaining unsampled orders, Siphonocryptida and Siphoniulida,
two rare paleoendemics whose plac...
Ein ur interessanter Artikel über parasitäre Wespen – und wie Citizen Science dazu beitragen kann, dass sie endlich mehr Wertschätzung erfahren!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Millipede Lab
Four new species from China and Vietnam belonging to the genera Tetraserica have recently been discovered.
The keys of the respective genera are updated, diagnostic characters of the new species illustrated, and new records of already known species are presented: doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.10.189744
Dream Job Alert! @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! You work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes? Come and join the @terra-cluster.org and our institute!
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Siagona europaea, what a cool beetle (one of the only three genera in Siagoninae) found here in a hypersaline ecosystem of the Igroviotopos Alikis near Tigaki on Kos island! #carabidae #groundbeetlelove #fieldwork #Greece #🪲🪲🪲
How the public perceive the natural world matters because these emotions shape how society cares and values nature. Organisms that are perceived as us…
