Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator, was born #OnThisDay in 1647. She collected insects and raised silkworms as a young girl, and was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly and document metamorphosis. Watch our video with BBC Ideas💡:

11 new articles were just published by Association for Tropical Lepidoptera: Visit journals.flvc.org/troplep for more information about the journal and the society.

Sacada spp. I prefer photographing them from the same angle. Not OCD, right? right?

📢 Exciting news! Our paper "Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective" has just been published online in The Royal Society's journal #PhilTransB. 🦋🌍 Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2… #InsectMonitoring

Life/career update 🦋🚨 I have joined the University of Göttingen to embark on my #PhD journey with Prof. Andreas Schuldt's group as part of TreeDì. Excited to work on insect herbivory, moth ecology and the field work in China! 🐛

New paper alert! we report on host selection of parasitoid wasps, important biocontrol agents in agriculture! Making a healthy choice: Tactical host selection behaviour of a parasitoid wasp - Sasidharan - Ecological Entomology - Wiley Online Library resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ee…

🙏We are hiring, Please share🙏 Our lab in the Dept of Entomology at National Taiwan University is looking for motivated Postdocs/PhD students interested in plant-insect interactions (start date flexible). Plz contact [email protected] with your CV attached. Thanks😄

Fully-funded PhD on moth trapping, automated ID, climate extremes & predator responses, with David Roy 🐛 and me at University of Exeter CEC in Cornwall. Deadline ** 29 July **. Please share! exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Yup. That's true! 3yrs ago

New #openaccess paper out in Ornithological Applications (American Ornithological Society)! Now some ways away from the peak frenzy of COVID-19, showing us the bigger picture, we explored how exactly the pandemic impacted eBirding in India. (⚠️ birders!) Nature Conservation Foundation doi.org/10.1093/ornith… 🧵below.

An important article, laying bare the misplaced paranoia directed at wildlife researchers trying their best to study, document and raise awareness about India's wildlife riches. Researchers & Forest Department should be natural allies against other bigger threats! IFS Association

The life strategies of #parasitoids are stunningly diverse, but no wasps that attack and develop inside adult flies have ever been described. Our article describes the first one. Its hosts: Drosophila melanogaster and other species of #Drosophila #Entomology #Braconidae

Hexapoda, a renewed journal from ESI - Call for Manuscripts For more info., visit our web. at hexapoda.in. Pls feel free to share this with your network. We appreciate your support and look frwd to engaging with the scientific community through our publication (ESI)

Like a moth to the flame? Not really..... In a new study we show that not all moths fly to lights directly but are disturbed way beyond the lit area 👀 Project leader Jacqueline Degen from Uni Würzburg can stick little antennas on moths and track them with radar

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So good to see the EcoEvo community building up where the skies are blue 🌥️🐛 I'm sailing over there at 🦋 lepidosrachit.bsky

There are whole books on psychology that don't get anywhere near this paragraph from Dostoevsky

Really pleased to see #phytools phylo.heatmap being put to such good use in "Genome assembly of a nocturnal butterfly (Macrosoma leucophasiata) reveals convergent adaptation of visual genes" by Rachit Pratap Singh et al. in Communications Biology: doi.org/10.1038/s42003….