A good morning out with @theswordlab.bsky.social
exploring the Skunk Trail at the Soltis Center 🇨🇷. Always something that catches the eye.

Having a wonderful time in Costa Rica helping to teach ENTO455 Field Entomology in the Tropics at the Texas A&M Soltis Center! @stbehmer.bsky.social @tamu.bsky.social

Here’s the VR in action.

South of Dinosaur National Monument in Northwest Colorado chasing Mormon cricket migratory bands with an awesome team of Sercan Sayin, Pavan Kaushik, Vishwanath Varma from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Jackson Linde (TAMU) and Li Murphy (Yale).

Behold the world’s first off the grid Mormon cricket virtual reality system! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de @sercansayin.bsky.social @1imurphy.bsky.social @vishwanathvarma @pvnkmrksk.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social

Here’s the VR system in action.

South of Dinosaur National Monument in Northwest Colorado chasing Mormon crickets migratory bands with an awesome team of Sercan Sayin, Pavan Kaishik, Vishwanath Varma from the Max Plank Institute of Animal Behavior, Jackson Linde (TAMU) and Li Murphy (Yale).

Here' a really nice story about locusts that mentions our ongoing monitoring for the potential arrival of the Central American locust along the US-Mexico border. ambrook.com/research/cro...

Scientists use VR + lab + field study to rewrite the rules of locust swarming 🦗🦗

Latest @science.org from first author @sercansayin.bsky.social and #Konstanz team ⬇️

@einatcouzin.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Greetings from the US-Mexico border with the legendary Dr. Koutaro Maeno looking for potentially invasive Central American locusts.

Speaking of the Mayans, the Pyramid of the Magician (Pirámide del adivino) in the ancient Mayan city of Uxmal is in the background of my profile pic. Fun coincidence.

Thrilled to be part of this new study that links the origin of the boll weevil as one of the most notorious agricultural pests to the domestication of Upland cotton by the Mayans thousands of years ago!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Outstanding work. Thanks, Henry and Chris! This was an excellent collaborative effort that yielded fascinating results. #genomicsurveillance

As I have a few followers now I figure I could post about some recent papers: @henrylnorth.bsky.social analysed sequence data from @theswordlab.bsky.social for North American Helicoverpa zea - we found just two individuals from 400 with introgressed armigera allele for insecticide resistance

🦗 The Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute (BPRI) launches its docuseries on locusts! 🌍✨ Discover how science reveals the transformation of solitary locusts into swarming pests. Join the journey! 📺▶️
#nsfbpri #NSF

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTOy...

Take a bite out of this: agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2024/12/04/e...

Kicking off the bluesky party with some tasty treats cooked up for the final lecture in my Insects in Human Society class. Ento-fortified street tacos and cookies! #entomphagy