Packed room to kick off the Evolutionary Ecology session at #EMPSEB30 with a talk by @theobrown.bsky.social, who wonders whether it pays off to be lazy… if you are a butterfly, that is! 🦋🐥@empseb30.bsky.social
A great LUOVA Spring Symposium! Presented the preliminary results from an ongoing experiment. @helsinki.fi @aplantaginis.bsky.social
Bibiana Rojas
Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social presents his awesome work on false head evolution in butterflies with very beautiful animations.
#EMPSEB30 #conference #phdstudents #evolution #butterflies
Theo Brown
This is a perfect opening for session 2B. Theo Brown asks, 'Does it pay to be lazy?' He tested the 'lazy flight' hypothesis of aposematic butterflies.
#EMPSEB30 #conference #phdstudent #evolution #aposematic_butterflies
Can you spot the moths? This is a perfect illustration of Akhil Sadiq's talk, 'Blending at borders: the role of background boundaries in camouflage'.
#EMPSEB30 #conference #phdstudent #evolution #camouflage
EMPSEB 31
EMPSEB 31
EMPSEB 31
Free link! Our article on bird flash plumage signals is now officially out in Ornithology.
Huge thanks (again) to David Allen Sibley for allowing us to use his artwork in it. #ornithology @amornith.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/auk/article/...
ABSTRACT. Animal coloration patterns are wildly variable. Despite this, there are plumage traits that occur similarly across taxonomic groups, suggesting t
