#entmology

[beetlesstuff]

new laptop!

well i say "new" i got it while thrifting and just so happen to know how to reset them from the lockscreen. so i scored a 2tb dell latitude for $25, and the place i purchased it from donates most of their income which is beautiful. i'm excited to finally be able to write on the go again tbh guys. i missed y'all a lot! i'm having a new battery overnighted for this thing though so fingers crossed! i'll also be able to keep you guys updated on how school is gonna go for me!! I'm going to go to college for a degree in forensic anthropology! (i'll be called doctor!!) and also an entmology degree so i can study bugs <3 i'm excited to be back!!!

[kas-e]

Australian Stick Insect.

Portraits, 2 shot stacks at 2x life size

Nikkor 28mm Ai-s reversed at f16

[elf-indulgent]

The Glittery Jewels Of The Bee World

1. A mason, or blueberry bee (Megachilidae), found in Plumas, California.

2. A honey-bellied, sweat bee (Agapostemon melliventris). Found in Austin, Texas. 

3. A bright metallic, blue sweat bee (Augochloropsis metallica), found in Bastrop, Texas.

Photo Credit: University of Texas at Austin’s Insects Unlocked

[scarheaded-ferret]

GUYS I DID IT, I CAN TAKE AN ENTMOLOGY MINOR WITH AN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER MAJOR - taking like 18-19 credits each semester BUT THATS LESS THAN TWENTY SO WHATEVER

(also… pls be my friend if ur an environmental engineer (especially if ur water resources🥺🥺🥺) and ur reading this, there’s only a small bunch of us at my university)

[foreverunfound]

2020 summary - why it didn’t totally suck

*long post warning

This photo was taken at the begining of this year. And I wasn’t totally aware that shit was about to go down (no one was I guess). I visited my boyfriend’s home with him, we saw a lot of nice snow, sunsets, drank some alcohol and had fun. Sounds good.

It’s pretty how I can show everyone millions of photos from past few years, but this year - there are almost none comparing to others cause all year was passing under ‘THE COVID’ sign.  I’d love to say it did not affect my life but it’s not true at all. I’m not usually into long posts, but this one is gonna be long.

So like everyone else I lost my school to online learning, so we could be more safe. I was stressed, like checking statistics every day stressed. And I think I wasted way too much of my energy on stress and fear. I really almost forgot how did it feel  when everything was ‘normal’. But then some good things happened on contrary to sad shit, and that was nice. So here is my 2020 summary:

1. I got a job. Not even one. I tried 3 different kinds of job. And they were all okay. Good for me.

2. I moved out of really terrible flat I was living in and changed it into better one - plus I finally moved in with my boyfriend.

3. Istarted excercising on daily baisis.

4. I DID MANAGE TO QUIT SMOKING AND NOT GET LIKE TOTALY FAT - I see it as like, really biggest success here guys :)

5. I learned to constantly work on myself and rest when I need to instead of quitting.

6. I got to know new people, even opened up a few times.

7. I tried a lot of foods I wouldn’t eat a year before.

8. I started saving money.

9. I improved at drawing, really really good.

10. I got new hobbies like entmology

I didn’t manage to build a perfect boyd, or soul, or mind. But I did manage to build a sustainable every day habits and learned how to take a break from them without ruining everything. And it’s enough for me.

I hope 2020 was good on you, even though it was harsh on everyone.

[entoman-created-by-the-tallgreys]

I really hate modern day taxonomy, the reason for it is because, it takes everything extremely face value it looks too closely to details and misses the big picture.

Yes specific details are important but they're only a sub equation of the mathematics of what something is in nature.

In short example, a cockroach is a beetle, it looks very similar cuz if she has a lot of his DNA !

Worms spiders snails jellyfish and coral, are all insects insects are arthropods !

Mantises come from beetles.

And all bugs start off as a worm, phone call maggots some car larvae some call'em them caterpillars !

My point is that all bugs start off as a worm.

Not all worms are little and white some worms are big white and yellowish, some worms are extremely colorful like the caterpillar is still a worm it's just a very colorful worm !

My overall point is that much things in taxonomy yes I use a lot of Entmology in this but many things in taxonomy are just flat out wrong they don't understand things a lot of creatures have the nose of a dog like bears wolves hyenas, therefore they must all share some sort of ancestry with each other.

There, i gave you a non-bug version !

👍🏻

[queerholmcs]

i was up until one am last night watching videos about languages and entmology. why am i like this.

[cornellentomology]

Check out Bryan Danforth, Silas Bossert, and Elizabeth Murray in this article from the Cornell Chronicle. 

Study challenges widely held assumption of bee evolution       

  A new study rewrites a commonly cited hypothesis about bee evolution and the cause behind an explosion in diversity of bee species some 120 million years ago.Today, bees are incredibly diverse, accounting for around 20,000 species, with nearly all larvae consuming a diet of flower pollen and nectar.Researchers have widely believed that bees evolved from carnivorous wasps and that pollen feeding, called pollinivory, allowed bees to rapidly diversify. The idea was that the new food source promoted new species to develop. But no one had tested this hypothesis, until now.A male of Megachile willughbiella. This species is a generalist, feeding on a variety of unrelated host-plants, such as asters, legumes or stonecrops.The new study, published Nov. 14 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biology Letters, used a recent, existing evolutionary tree of bees and computer models to calculate diversification rates in bees and related wasps. The researchers showed – for the first time – that pollinivory was an important step, but the rapid diversification of bees is better explained by a later development when bees shifted from being specialists narrowly focused on a few host-plant species to generalists that fed on many host plants.“Broadening of plant diets opened up new and unexploited ecological niches,” said Silas Bossert, a graduate student in the lab of entomology professor Bryan Danforth, and a lead author of the paper along with Elizabeth Murray, a former postdoctoral researcher, also in Danforth’s lab. “We found that some of the earliest-originating bees did not partake in the diversification upswing,” Murray said. “Our findings indicate that pollen-feeding was an important evolutionary switch, but does not fully explain the diversity we see today. We postulate that other complementary innovations, such as a generalist host-plant diet, influenced the tremendous diversification of the major bee lineages.”Bees arose from within a group of carnivorous hunting wasps in the mid-Cretaceous period, around the same time that flowering plants began spreading.The researchers used the most current phylogeny (a branching, tree-like diagram that shows evolutionary relatedness among groups of organisms) that offered a new perspective on the origin of bees. That phylogeny offers evidence that the sister family to bees were small wasps (Ammoplanidae)that hunted thrips, tiny pollen-eating, aphid-like insects.A male of Melitta leporina. This bee belongs to the bee family Melittidae, which are host-plant specialists. M. leporina exclusively collects pollen from legumes.The current study shows that rates of diversification between carnivorous wasps and the earliest pollen-eating bees (the family Melittidae) match closely, with low species numbers per family (123 species for Ammoplanidae wasps, for example, and 203 Melittidae bee species). At the same time, most melittid bees are highly specialized and feed on a narrow range of host plant flowers.The bees that appeared after Melittidae in the evolutionary tree are generalists and feed on many host plants; these bee families also show an explosion in rates of diversification, with many more species per family.Prior to this study, Murray had researched a subfamily of pollen-feeding wasps (Masarinae), whose species numbers are also small (around 350). She then questioned why bees are so diverse compared to pollen wasps. It turns out, pollen-feeding wasps are specialists that feed on just a few host plants.“The broader conclusion would be that switches in diet don’t necessarily lead to diversification, unless there’s something else that happens, like a broadening of that diet,” said Danforth, the paper’s senior author.The study was funded by the National Science Foundation.

[fillsyourniche-blog]

A blast from the past to my Master's thesis spider and terrestrial isopod collection. You're looking at a bunch of Wolf spiders (Lycosidae), some Field wolf spiders (Hogna lenta), Rabid wolf spiders (Rabidosa rabida), Carolina wolf spiders (Hogna carolinensis) and a few I was unable to identify. There are a few Six-spotted fishing spiders (Dolomedes triton) in there as well. The wolf spiders are fairly calm and easy to handle after about a week, the fishing spiders never really got used to me. No worries on the "Rabid" genus, spiders cannot contract rabies that's a mammalian virus. Photo taken March 2014.

[jugglingdinosaur]

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[birdoftheday-blog]

AQUATIC LEPIDOPTERA LARVAE!?!:! Aquatic moth caterpillars. Whaaaaat

[wickedwiles13]

Getting this bad boy spread! #herculesbeetle #dynastesherculeslitchi #entmology #buglady