Spotted lanternfly first instars have emerged in New Haven, CT, and our basic science-based traps are up.
Here is a banger! Our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social is out! We have used museomics to sequence a 45yr old specimen of Drosophila enhydrobia, a rare and most unusual fly whose larvae are aquatic(!) and predatory(!). Very cool, big success.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Please listen to the firing activity and responses of the neurons. It is fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The response of an olfactory sensillum in a second-instar spotted lanternfly to one of its best activators.
More SLF First instars are hatching
Marcus Stensmyr
The Chemosensory Organs of the Spotted Lanternfly. Here is what we have accomplished so far....
They keep hatching!!!
www.dongascience.com/en/news/77886
Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك)
Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك)
BIZARE! Bombardier beetles defend themselves mixing hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide in an internal chamber, triggering an explosive chemical reaction, producing a 100C/212F scalding toxic liquid that they pulse at predators!
Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك)
Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك)
Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك)
Video
Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك)
In his 1897 novel 'Dracula,' Bram Stoker wrote that garlic repels vampires. This concept, once considered a cliché of Gothic horror literature, unexpectedly gained scientific validation some 130 years
