Caroline S. Chaboo
@cschaboo.bsky.social
entomologist, beetles, Chrysomelidae
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Caroline S. Chaboo
@cschaboo.bsky.social
· Sep 21
Our lovely volume cover @zookeys.pensoft.net! #beetles
Donacia koreana is a new reed beetle species from South Korea. Learn all about it in this new research article: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#newspecies #beetles #taxonomy
#newspecies #beetles #taxonomy
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Reposted by Caroline S. Chaboo
"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/49B7hRv
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/49B7hRv
Reposted by Caroline S. Chaboo
A warning about invasive species and how naive local and world governments can be. One single bad idea spreads out of control.
Don’t mess with the Nature’s carefully evolved balance. Plant #native species only. 🙏🏻🌍💚💙
Don’t mess with the Nature’s carefully evolved balance. Plant #native species only. 🙏🏻🌍💚💙
How an idealistic tree-planting project turned into Kenya’s toxic, thorny nightmare
Introduced from South America, mathenge was intended to halt desertification, but now three-quarters of the country is at risk of invasion by the invasive tree
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A warning about invasive species and how naive local and world governments can be. One single bad idea spreads out of control.
Don’t mess with the Nature’s carefully evolved balance. Plant #native species only. 🙏🏻🌍💚💙
Don’t mess with the Nature’s carefully evolved balance. Plant #native species only. 🙏🏻🌍💚💙
love my tree-lined streets and all the ecological enhancements trees bring
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
love my tree-lined streets and all the ecological enhancements trees bring
Reposted by Caroline S. Chaboo
Rafflesia hasseltii: a plant seen more by tigers than people. Watching this flower open by night was the closest thing to magic:
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Rafflesia hasseltii: a plant seen more by tigers than people. Watching this flower open by night was the closest thing to magic:
#LiteratureNotice Alvarenga et al. Mother knows best: maternal subsociality in three Brazilian tortoise beetles (Cassidinae s. str.) enhances offspring survival doi.org/10.1080/0022... #Beetle #Beetles #tortoisebeetle
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Caroline S. Chaboo
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives is officially open at the Bruce Museum! Enter the tunnel and you will meet "Buckley", our five foot long scaled-up Dinoponera ant.
Buckley is named after her creator, the great Dan Buckley.
The smaller ant is my daughter, dressed as an alate queen for the opener.
Buckley is named after her creator, the great Dan Buckley.
The smaller ant is my daughter, dressed as an alate queen for the opener.
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Caroline S. Chaboo
Not any news to love these days, but I do love this paper on caterpillar sensory ecology. I can't wait to use figures from this for teaching. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The sensory ecology of caterpillars - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Caterpillars (larval Lepidoptera) are one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily significant taxa on Earth. As both feeders and food, they shape the dynamics of enumerate ecosystems on land. Key ...
link.springer.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Not any news to love these days, but I do love this paper on caterpillar sensory ecology. I can't wait to use figures from this for teaching. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Megan Biesele’s wonderful memoir starts with her #anthropology #fieldwork with #San #indigenous #Bushmen (1970s) in the #Kalahari #Africa. I went there 40 yrs later & published with Megan.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Megan Biesele’s wonderful memoir starts with her #anthropology #fieldwork with #San #indigenous #Bushmen (1970s) in the #Kalahari #Africa. I went there 40 yrs later & published with Megan.
#LiteratureNotice Greig et al. Passive debris cloaking in beetles provides non-visual camouflage against predatory ants doi.org/10.1093/behe... #Beetle #Beetles #Ecology #ants
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Gorgeous #beetles
#LiteratureNotice Cai et al.Comparison of Mouthpart Sensilla of Two Rapeseed Pests (Xenostrongylus variegatus and Brassicogethes aeneus) Using Scanning Electron Microscopy (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) doi.org/10.1002/jemt... #Beetle #Beetles #Nitidulidae #electronmicroscopy
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Gorgeous #beetles
Reposted by Caroline S. Chaboo
Large old trees sustain avian communities and critical plant-bird interactions in highly urbanised environments | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Large old trees sustain avian communities and critical plant-bird interactions in highly urbanised environments | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
Duarte-De-Mélo, Chaboo, Cajé, Suênia-Bastos & De Moura Lima. 2025. #Brazil #Chlamisus #leafbeetles on #Malvaceae #AnimalArchitecture #Chrysomelidae #Beetles Fragmenta entomologica 57(2).
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Duarte-De-Mélo, Chaboo, Cajé, Suênia-Bastos & De Moura Lima. 2025. #Brazil #Chlamisus #leafbeetles on #Malvaceae #AnimalArchitecture #Chrysomelidae #Beetles Fragmenta entomologica 57(2).
