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DUDE. I just found out there is a Spider-Man character called "Thousand". Carl King ate the radioactive spider that bit Peter Parker and turned into a colony of 1000 spiders. My first name is Carl, my last name means King. Now I know what I want to be when I grow up.
From #TeamWasp, @FuSchmu discusses the Crypt Keeper Wasp which manipulates a gall wasp host into excavating an emergence hole, plugging the hole with its head, so the crypt keeper can BURROW THROUGH ITS FACE. Amazing natural history and #museum reseach. #ABS2020 #HostParasite
Revising previous tweet because not everyone wants decapitation on their timeline:
We seemed to hit carrying capacity with zombie movies many years ago, but unique stories like this are refreshing: a First Nations perspective, great practical effects, and interesting characters!
The researchers found no differences in bacterial composition between tissues, which is very surprising but also interesting! I've always wondered about book lungs as a route for bacterial entry.
Luckily, the majority of larval ticks are unable to vector pathogens to humans, because most of the tick-borne diseases we fear are not vertically-transmitted from infected mothers. Rather, they pick up pathogens from an infected host, and then can transmit it to their next host.
What do you get when you combine my love of horror with @LKeiser33’s love of preparedness? Nerds in ponchos at Halloween Horror Nights. #HHN29
@MyShellSpicer @Agelenopsis And what a profound quote from me, a professional biologist:
“Microbes are so ubiquitous,” said behavioral disease ecologist Nick Keiser from the University of Florida in Gainesville. “They're on everything.”