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Given that some SLF relatives communicate with vibrations, this makes sense! Here's hoping it becomes a useful tool. www.usda.gov/media/blog/2...

Spotted Lanternfly Reveals a Potential Weakness

USDA scientists have discovered that the spotted lanternfly, an invasive threat to fruit crops and many trees, may have an Achilles heel – an attraction to vibration.

A bug! A bug! A live bug in February! Taeniopteryx, the winter stonefly

Super excited to share our first lab paper of 2024! This work, published online ahead of print in Mycologia, is the hard work of former post-doc @lovettbr.bsky.socialwww.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Beatrix Potter, Mycologist: The Beloved Children’s Book Author’s Little-Known Scientific Studies...

“Imagination is the precursor to policy, the precondition to action. Imagination, like wonder, allows us to value something.”

Today is Penguin Awareness Day, so please be aware that penguins are capable of projectile pooping, and can eject poo to distances twice their body lengths. Even better: scientists did a deep dive into the physical forces in penguin guts & rectums that make this awesome achievement possible 🐧🧪

Penguins shoot 'poop bombs' more than 4 feet, incredibly important study finds

Adorable penguins are champs at projectile pooping

Get ready for the year of scream www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/s...

The World Hasn’t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803

Brood XIX and Brood XIII will both emerge this spring. The last time these bugs showed up at the same time in the United States, Thomas Jefferson was president.

This is encouraging me to get it. 👀 😅

Winterthur #newacq from Roy Young: a MASSIVE book of type specimens from the American Type Founders Company, published in 1912 📜

#InsertAnInvert2024 Bugs Among Us - In Leaf Litter Garden symphylans (Scutigerella immaculata) are common animals that live worldwide. Despite this, they're smol, scuttly, and like to hide in moist soil, so most people don't even know these critters exist under their plants. 🎨 🐡