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Beautiful Pyrgomorph (Greyacris picta) One of Australia's most incredible grasshoppers, it is found across the arid landscapes of central Australia. The strong aposematic colouration warns potential predators they are distasteful and when startled reveal their small red wings!

Our new paper on the rapid evolution of insect flight loss following widespread deforestation in New Zealand: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Great article featuring our paper on flight loss in stoneflies by Veronique Greenwood of the New York Times. nytimes.com/2021/08/11/sci…

Check out my new blog on Zoology_Otago Brodie Foster amazing new research showing human-induced flight loss in an NZ insect as a result of prehistoric forest clearance sciblogs.co.nz/lost-worlds/20… Jon Waters Graham McCulloch University of Otago Science Media Centre NZ Sciblogs NZ

Derbid Planthopper (Rhotana sp., Rhotanini, Derbidae) These tiny planthoppers are included in a complex of arthropods who, by virtue of their wing markings and postures, are believed to be mimicking jumping spiders (Salticidae). flic.kr/p/2m98fkg #insect #China #Yunnan

#Spider #Moth (Ambia instrumentalis, Musotiminae, Crambidae) Members of a few Musotimine genera have wing markings strongly suggestive of spiders, presumably as an anti-predation strategy. flic.kr/p/2m94wCb #insect #China #Yunnan #entomology #Lepidoptera #itchydogimages

New paper from my Honours research looking at the diversity of Trichogramma egg parasitoids in Samoa and their potential for controlling a major pest of Brassica crops in the Asia-Pacific region: doi.org/10.1016/j.bioc…

Are you thinking about doing Honours next year? Why not move to the Northern Territory and do an amazing ecological research project with RIEL. Charles Darwin University is offering $3000 scholarships for students who relocate to the NT to do Honours. Message me for info on how to apply.

An incredible feather mimic caterpillar from Ecuador even taking steps back periodically to give the appearance of a dropped feather, moving in the breeze. Filmed by Andreas Kay Full video cutt.ly/0mDRb3l

Flight loss can drive insect diversification across very small spatial scales! Our new research on the recently discovered flightless Maungatua stonefly, published open access at Insect Systematics and Diversity: doi.org/10.1093/isd/ix… Jon Waters Gracie Kroos Marsden Fund

The first paper from my PhD School of Biological Sciences, Monash with @StevenChown1 and Matt McGee is finally out! I explored the relationship between range size and speciation in honeyeaters, to see what we found (and for some pretty pictures) check out the paper here: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Cladonota treehopper, female. 1

This is spectacular 🥹, a parasitoid flat wasp ovipositing in its host beetle larvae in 100 mio year old amber! 👇 fr.pensoft.net/article/82469/

巨大なナガクシヒゲムシ 種小名まで同定できていないのですが、おそらくこのグループで最も触角が大きく発達する種ではないかと思います。

Amazing opportunity to join the CSIRO National Collections as a research scientist. jobs.csiro.au/job/Cairns%2C-…

How do insects adapt to harsh alpine environments? In our new paper, we show how environmental conditions have driven rapid and repeated wing loss in an upland stonefly. doi.org/10.1093/isd/ix… Jon Waters Marsden Fund @ludo_dutoit Brodie Foster

In the world of #dataviz sometimes art meets science! 🖌👩‍🔬 We plotted parrot data in the ALA to celebrate #WorldParrotDay 🦜 using the dominant plumage shades for each genus 🌈 and created some accidental art in the process! Watch out Monet ‍🎨 @accidental_aRt #rstats #Rtistry

An amazing case of 'cheating' in NZ #insects - where only some individuals of a harmless stonefly mimic the warning colours of an unrelated toxic (cyanide-producing) stonefly Molecular Ecology Brodie Foster Graham McCulloch onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me… otago.ac.nz/news/news/otag…

Thrilled to see this work published Science Magazine @peterkdearden Graham McCulloch @ludo_dutoit @TK_Dunedin Brodie Foster Gracie Kroos Dr Mei Peng Human-driven evolution of color in a stonefly mimic | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…