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Gleefully crafting an “insect colors” display that doesn’t center FRIGGIN BUTTERFLIES

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Having a romp in the hemimetabolous zone this morning

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Struggling beneath the knowledge that a Mr. “C. Krautwurm” visited Florida in 1912 and expended great effort to collect hundreds of odonates, each of which has been meticulously labeled “dragonflys”

This is worse than V. B. Wigglesworth, you can’t just waltz in here with a name like that

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Completely replacing some of the older displays, good bug times. Love to fiddle around with actual specimens for a few days instead of editing spreadsheets and word docs

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The problem with working in a museum is that no one ever throws anything away. I understand, tho, sometimes that century-old box of random papers has treasure in it.

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Wood’s jewel scarab (Chrysina woodii) from Arizona

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African woolly chafers, genus Sparrmannia, Melolonthinae, Scarabaeidae

Photo 1 by rjbasson, 2-3 by alexdreyer, 4 by renecarbonaio, 5 by riana60, and 6 by hrodulf

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Uh oh it’s euchromiines

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Old Man Weevleton

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More of them

We decided the layout needed more crab

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Today I learned about: shrimp whitening

A historical crustacean taxonomist technique that produces b/w photos indistinguishable from SEMs, honestly this rules

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Assembling the creatures

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Now THAT’s what I like to see, my actual figure from my actual paper getting used correctly in context :3

Also realizing I need to start using “pringles” in more talks

Diffraction gratings babyyyy

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Diffraction gratings babyyyy

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Shrew wizard summoning breakfast. This is @bowelfly fan art

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Today’s unexpected museum find: entire 1989 shooting script, props list, and call sheet for Silence of the Lambs (as filmed in our section)

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Good morning and happy new year SPECIFICALLY to the party snake (Maria Sybilla Merian, 1705)