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(Part 3) We Dan Duran Scott P. Egan Robert A. S. Laroche discovered a new species of beetle in the process, found only in the region surrounding Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the U.S! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Book released: “Insect Decline and Conservation in the Neotropics” Chapter 14 provides an overview of opportunities to evaluate #biodiversity using specimen retained within Historical Collections #IBUNAM #INHS link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

School summer break, it’s research time!! This reminds me, the BeetleMania Lab 🪲🐞

New paper from #VoglerLab Despite data from 101 countries, sampling needs to increase for an assessment of global species richness. The geographic & phylogenetic structure of public DNA barcode databases: an assessment using Chrysomelidae (leaf beetles) shorturl.at/CIPUX

For anyone interested in drawing phylogenetic trees, here’s a new free and powerful tree-drawing software application called TreeViewer. Available on Windows/macOS/Linux, it lets you transform phylogenetic trees, add layers, map data to branches, align text, and much more! 👇

📢🎓#PhD Position in #Beetle #Phylogenomics 🐞🧬🔎SENCKENBERG Frankfurt in an DFG public | @[email protected] funded grant. #Application deadline June 14th 🚀Please RT! #lcwgs #fossils #Morphology #Biogeography LIB Smithsonian University of Memphis Národní muzeum Leibniz-IZW

Here is a very cool way to monitor flying insect biodiversity across a country: run a citizen science project where volunteers drive around with car-mounted nets to collect insects, and use DNA metabarcoding and biomass to monitor abundance and diversity! 👇 This “car-net

Had a lovely time today teaching beetle gut content dissection for BeetleMania A delicate experiment determining herbivore preferences between disturbed / non disturbed habitats. The specimen is as preserved as possible for inclusion as a Coleoptera molecular voucher 🧬 🪲

Our excellent collaborators over Mexico way 🪲 🧬

The student conference NHM_Students is a great platform to deliver updates on our science. 周子琛 Zichen Zhou gave an excellent presentation on #Staphylinidae biodiversity based on multi-hierarchical molecular data 🧬 🪲

Our student Hanwen Cao presented her work on lower Palaeolithic stone tool transition. We know, not beetles! 🪲 🤓 Hanwen is moving on to her next project with #VoglerLab using ITS for beetle gut content analysis NHM_Students

Ariane and Cecilia from our #voglerlab present their results at the NHM_Students conference. On agriculture, forests and biodiversity loss.

Fascinating series of talks for entomology with AI 🪲 🧬 📸 For our BeetleMania , is it possible to replace manual assessment by computer vision?!

Had so much fun working on this one, lots of phenomenal coauthors including BybeeLab Alexandra Duffy, PhD Nicole Gunter CameronGenomes @nsaxton55, Repeated feeding guild evolution: the impact of competition on diversification academic.oup.com/evolinnean/art…

See our #EarlyView #ReviewArticle Evolving perspectives in Hymenoptera systematics: bridging fossils and genomes across time, by @ymilesz @thecriticalbee and colleague. doi.org/10.1111/syen.1… Wiley Ecology & Evolution @RoyEntoSoc #OpenAccess

The classic entomologists at their proudly built flight interception trap! Thanks to @ib_unam for access to the beautiful and diverse Laguna Om reserve Science at the Natural History Museum J. Adilson Pinedo-Escatel 🐝 NHM Bees 🐝 diversity project for beetles bees and leafhoppers 🐝 🪲 🌳

Flight intercept trapping 101 for beetle biodiversity studies with BeetleMania in the beautiful forests of Laguna Om, Quintana Roo, Mexico 🪲 🌳

Happy New Year Beetlers! 2024 was a blast (geddit?!) We imaged and sequenced over 4000 beetles and we would like to say a huge thankyou to everyone that interacted with and helped us identify this beetle diversity! MyFlickrYear24 Photo #flickr flic.kr/p/2qDpes5