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  1. I just finished making a new tiny diffuser and headed outside. This amazing girl was sitting on a mango and posing nicely. Despite having my cheapest most underpowered flash on my camera, I'm still pretty happy about the result. This tiny wasp was probably looking for fruit fly larvae.

    More photos here:

    inaturalist.org/observations/3

    #Nature #Photography #Diachasmimorpha #Opiinae #Braconidae #Hymenoptera #SriLanka #Parasitoid #Insects #InsectInteraction

  2. I'm a little surprised by this 1919 description of a parasitic #wasp (#Hymenoptera #Ichneumonidae), the only described species from #Australia in a genus that includes dozens of #species.

    The opening #Latin section gives rich detail on coloration and markings. The #English section describes morphology but has nothing about coloration. I would have expected the Latin to document a subset of the English, not to be fully complementary.

    Is this normal for some taxa?

    biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1

    #entomology #taxonomy

  3. Another laptop visitor, this time, a parasitoid wasp, perhaps of the kind that parasitises the hundreds of ladybugs out and about at the moment. Likely in the Eucoilinae family.

    Update: not a parasitoid wasp but an oak gall wasp, tribe Cynipini. Thanks to Luis Nastasi for the identification at the tribe level.

    inaturalist.org/observations/3

    #iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #wasplove #entomology #wasps

  4. I'm speaking today at the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra meeting (held in the Slatyer Seminar Room at #ANU at 19:30). Visitors are welcome.

    I'll give an overview of some of the interesting insects collected in a #MalaiseTrap over a year in a Canberra suburb, including some of the things we can learn from the resulting specimens and #DNA. Many of the specimens were sequenced as part of the International Barcode of Life project (#IBOL). There will be plenty of photos of insects and other invertebrates.

    The FNAC meeting each month starts an hour and a half after the monthly meeting of the Canberra #Python Users Group, also on the #ANU campus, so it's quite possible to attend both. The topic this month is a "Talk Writing Workshop".

    fieldnatsact.com/event/march-m

    meetup.com/canberra-python-mee

    #entomology #taxonomy #Australia #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #insects

  5. I'm speaking today at the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra meeting (held in the Slatyer Seminar Room at #ANU at 19:30). Visitors are welcome.

    I'll give an overview of some of the interesting insects collected in a #MalaiseTrap over a year in a Canberra suburb, including some of the things we can learn from the resulting specimens and #DNA. Many of the specimens were sequenced as part of the International Barcode of Life project (#IBOL). There will be plenty of photos of insects and other invertebrates.

    The FNAC meeting each month starts an hour and a half after the monthly meeting of the Canberra #Python Users Group, also on the #ANU campus, so it's quite possible to attend both. The topic this month is a "Talk Writing Workshop".

    fieldnatsact.com/event/march-m

    meetup.com/canberra-python-mee

    #entomology #taxonomy #Australia #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #insects

  6. I'm speaking today at the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra meeting (held in the Slatyer Seminar Room at #ANU at 19:30). Visitors are welcome.

    I'll give an overview of some of the interesting insects collected in a #MalaiseTrap over a year in a Canberra suburb, including some of the things we can learn from the resulting specimens and #DNA. Many of the specimens were sequenced as part of the International Barcode of Life project (#IBOL). There will be plenty of photos of insects and other invertebrates.

    The FNAC meeting each month starts an hour and a half after the monthly meeting of the Canberra #Python Users Group, also on the #ANU campus, so it's quite possible to attend both. The topic this month is a "Talk Writing Workshop".

    fieldnatsact.com/event/march-m

    meetup.com/canberra-python-mee

    #entomology #taxonomy #Australia #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #insects

  7. I'm speaking today at the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra meeting (held in the Slatyer Seminar Room at #ANU at 19:30). Visitors are welcome.

    I'll give an overview of some of the interesting insects collected in a #MalaiseTrap over a year in a Canberra suburb, including some of the things we can learn from the resulting specimens and #DNA. Many of the specimens were sequenced as part of the International Barcode of Life project (#IBOL). There will be plenty of photos of insects and other invertebrates.

    The FNAC meeting each month starts an hour and a half after the monthly meeting of the Canberra #Python Users Group, also on the #ANU campus, so it's quite possible to attend both. The topic this month is a "Talk Writing Workshop".

    fieldnatsact.com/event/march-m

    meetup.com/canberra-python-mee

    #entomology #taxonomy #Australia #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #insects

  8. I'm speaking today at the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra meeting (held in the Slatyer Seminar Room at #ANU at 19:30). Visitors are welcome.

    I'll give an overview of some of the interesting insects collected in a #MalaiseTrap over a year in a Canberra suburb, including some of the things we can learn from the resulting specimens and #DNA. Many of the specimens were sequenced as part of the International Barcode of Life project (#IBOL). There will be plenty of photos of insects and other invertebrates.

    The FNAC meeting each month starts an hour and a half after the monthly meeting of the Canberra #Python Users Group, also on the #ANU campus, so it's quite possible to attend both. The topic this month is a "Talk Writing Workshop".

    fieldnatsact.com/event/march-m

    meetup.com/canberra-python-mee

    #entomology #taxonomy #Australia #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #insects

  9. Bombus vestalis, a cuckoo bumblebee, deep asleep on a leaf in full sun. Notice the position of the antennae. Observed today - seems early for cuckoos, far more abundant in the late spring and summer.

    inaturalist.org/observations/3

    #iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #bumblebees #entomology #Pembroke1347

  10. 🆕Article: Genetics, Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles, and Bacterial Endosymbionts are Associated with the Nestmate Recognition in the Invasive African Big-Headed Ant 𝘗𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘢 in Taiwan
    Chiu, Y.-C., Wang, C.-C., Nai, Y.-S., Peng, M.-H., Hsu, J. & Neoh, K.-B.

    #hymenoptera #biological #invasion
    #microbiota

    myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/ind

  11. Four (parasitic) #wasps (#Hymenoptera) from a SLAM #Malaise sample in #Canberra #Australia over the last three weeks. Natural areas everywhere are (or should be) full of beautiful #insects like these, all just going about their business.

    A #FairyWasp in the genus #Mymar - the first I have seen here in the nominate genus - see how tiny this #insect is.

    An #ichneumon wasp (#Ichneumonidae) in the subfamily #Campopleginae - probably possible to get this one to genus, but most Australian species are unnamed.

    #Vosleria australia (or at least that's the only named Australian species in the genus) - family #Encyrtidae

    #Anastatus, unknown species - family #Eupelmidae

    #biodiversity #entomology