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New Ant Lab video out today, guest narrated by Joe Pera!!!!

Guest-narrated a slow motion beetle video for Ant Lab: youtu.be/IUQSZHr9h9Q

Narrated by comedian Joe Pera, this video offers new insights into the physics and biology of how beetles are able to take to the air Joe Pera Adrian Smith aeon.co/videos/beetles…

Nice coverage of our new paper comparing the relative importance of climate, habitat and human factors on 25 North American Mammals - climate #1 for most species, suggesting we'll be seeing some changes in their abundance and distribution w climate change news.ncsu.edu/2024/07/climat…

Very excited to say that these insect flipbooks are awesome and real and now available!

I just published a bunch of cool stuff on globular springtails! Read about it and watch them here: news.ncsu.edu/2024/08/this-t…

Fresh off the presses! Jumping Performance and #Behavior of the Globular Springtail Dicyrtomina minuta Adrian Smith, J S Harrison doi.org/10.1093/iob/ob… & see his insta on it instagram.com/reel/C_QZDwdOv… #insects #museum #science #bugs

Scientists needed a camera shooting 40,000 frames per second to capture the tiny-but-ultrafast globular springtail. trib.al/JfyeWuP

This tiny backyard bug does the fastest backflips on Earth. "It’s the closest you can get to a Sonic the Hedgehog jump in real life,” says NC State Sciences' Adrian Smith. #ThinkAndDo 🔗 Read more: ncst.at/Xgwv50TczIS

MOMENT OF SCIENCE: Catch you on the flip side! I spoke with Adrian Smith at NC State Sciences about his research into globular springtails: the tiny insect with the world's fastest backflip.

Trilled to announce that today, NC Museum of Natural Sciences’s paleontology #citsci project CretaceousCreatures had its NATIONAL launch 🚀 🤩 inside the community where our microfossils derive—Garfield County High School in Jordan #Montana! This year we’ll be all over the USA!

.Adrian Smith new study features the first in-depth look at the globular springtail’s jumping prowess. Learn how the diminutive hexapod backflips into the air faster than any animal on earth. ➡️: ncst.at/niVf50Ts2iE

Wade through enough camera trap pictures of deer in the western USA and you eventually get something like this! #Puma #Cougar #Predation

New Ant Lab video up on YT today: all about an art project that we published in National Geographic earlier this year. GO find it!

New pub! Honeybee nests are super symmetrical, the pattern of cell contents is mirrored on either side of the comb. This symmetry 1 is unique to each comb in the nest 2 evolves over time while maintaining symmetry 3 aids in thermoregulation and rearing 4 conserved across Apis🔗⬇️

New Ant Lab video out today on YouTube! Jump parasitoid wasp cocoons!!!!!!!!!!!

New Ant Lab video today: HONEYBEES! In it, I try to capture macro slow mo footage of the honeybee stinger pumping venom. Head over to YT to check it out!

Let's Talk Comics BONUS: A Real Bug Expert Adrian Smith Talks Bug Wars with Jason Aaron hosted by James Viscardi Check out all the listening options in the thread below imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-…

Amazingly, my interests in both comics and entomology got to be useful together!!!

“What’s the Point of Natural History Collections?” Is up on YouTube/AntLab new today! Go find it!