Entobird
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💜 Bug Nerd | Professional Entomologist 🐜 | PhD & MSc Graduate | They/Them 💜
‼️Soil exposure is an important pesticide vector‼️ New open-access paper! Published my research on a novel whole-colony soil bioassay method for Lasius neoniger and found severe effects of imidacloprid at <0.06% of field applixation rates. Read/cite: doi.org/10.1093/etoj...
Camponotus novaeboracensis workers farming some Prociphilus tessellatus aphids on an alder tree! I could watch them work for hours, its amazing how attentive they are!
Attended my first in-person go event today and I had a blast! Great fun walking with 300 people in a beautiful park and getting excited over shinies 🥰💜
Gaster! I should do a video on ant anatomy. Most insects a divided into a head, thorax, and abdomen, but ants body plan split in an odd way to accommodate their tiny waist (called the petiole). Since thorax and abdomen don't work as well in identifying their segments, we started using mesosoma
Did you know ants can TALK? Well...sort of! Some species use sound to communicate! And that reveals some interesting truths about ant diversity. Has an ant ever tried to talk to you before?
Sometimes a strange creature is a familiar friend! Insects with useful defensive compounds are SO cool. Know of any others?
Carpenter ants get a bad rap, but they're actually a valuable indicator group of species! Know of any other indicator insects?
Just some bugs makin cute little homes! Know of any cool bug behaviours like this?
