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Ainsley S

@americanbeetles.bsky.social

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I hope you like pictures of bugs. Curating at CMNH, teaching at CMU, beetling everywhere

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · Jun 2

I'm proud of our li'l Schoolhouse Rock for Insect Taxonomists cartoon, but if you're not in Bug World here are some annotations for you... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSI... cc @danlwarren.bsky.social

The Pest Is Still To Come

YouTube video by Dan Warren

www.youtube.com

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 2m

this is one of my favorite pseudoscorp habits-- like on smaller cerambycids, they're always grabbing onto a leg or an antenna, but with mega-bycids they just scoot up under the elytra and ride in luxury at the rear of the aircraft

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 20m

I assume that like the stink bugs and harlequin ladybirds they are seeking a place to overwinter

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 21m

She has a point there

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 21m

tis the season, these things just show up in the building

A pile of sweet-smelling smooth green fruits of Asimina triloba

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 1h

FAFO, Francine!!

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 1h

a hero's welcome

photo of Francine the AWOL store cat being carried back into her store, as two lines of assorted employees applaud her return

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 1h

Francine you little shit apnews.com/article/miss...

Purrfect ending: Missing Virginia store cat found after hitching a ride to another state

Francine the cat is back home at a Lowe’s store in Virginia after going missing for a few weeks. The calico cat hitched a ride to a sister facility in another state.

apnews.com

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 1h

I love this, bug equivalent of
"sorry sir but this isn't a taxi, you'll have to-"
"I SAID DRIVE"

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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 3h

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]

A brown pseudoscopion hanging on to the antenna of a wasp. The wasp is yellow with black stripes and transparent wings.

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Dr. Catie Ivy @catieivy.bsky.social · May 6

Do you like songbirds? Are you concerned about how wildfire smoke may impact their physiology?

I'm searching for graduate students who are interested in looking at the effect of wildfire smoke on songbird physiology! Come join my lab @usaskartsci.bsky.social!

research-groups.usask.ca/ivy-lab/

The Ivy Lab! - Welcome to the Ivy Lab!

research-groups.usask.ca

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 1h

do you make these in volume? I bet they'd be a hit at next summer's lepsoc meeting (at our museum)

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 1h

the rare character that is both diagnostic and phylogentically informative!!

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 1h

🚨 DARTER TALK IMMINENT 🚨

Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 2h

Stop on by if you are in Knoxville!

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 1h

Attitude is a synapomorphy for pseudoscorps for sure

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 1h

At least one team would be composed mainly of goats

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 1h

I would also watch a knotweed removal competition show

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 4h

Oh word they discovered a new invasive Agrilus with freakishly long antennae?

NOPE IT’S AI SLOP AGAIN

EPPO @epponews.bsky.social · Sep 3

➡️REGISTRATION OPEN for the EPPO-REUFIS-BFW Conference ‘Safeguarding Forests in Europe: Emerging Risks of Agrilus Wood Borers'

❓The conference is for NPPOs and academia.

🌲The focus is the protection of European forests against quarantine forest pests.

🔗See more www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 12h

It’s so unfair. Kale in my fridge and sorrow in my heart.

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 13h

Follow @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social for actual quality orthopteran content, I bet there’s sandgropers in there if you look hard enough

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 13h

follow me for only the most tortured and inscrutable Mexi-Australian puns please and thank you

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 13h

I love cooloola monsters but let’s be honest this is an antipodean stenopelmatid. Ninos de la Terra Nullius en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammopel...

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 13h

Like I COULD afford to procure a bathtub volume of m&ms at this point, a power level 8yo me could only dream of

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 13h

Physical ability is almost completely replaced by autonomy and sometimes money

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Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social · 15h

I love these tiny chalcid wasps! They’re so cute and shiny! #insects

Tiny bright green wasp on the underneath of a branch with leaves

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