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2 of parasitoid of the genera <Jezonogonalos> & <Taeniogonalos> are discovered in Tibet (SW China).

🔓 Study: https://t.co/KddoUUw4X3

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2020-03-16

I feel like I am fighting a losing battle, but I will defend the existence of any time I get a chance!

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2020-02-21

As today is here are some lovely insects collected by the man himself on the Voyage of the Beagle. Most of Darwin's specimens at are of Hymenoptera and Diptera from Brazil, which made their way to Ireland when sent to A. H. Haliday from Co. Down.

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2020-02-12

Your is Megarhyssa macrurus, an amazingly large in the family The females use their remarkable ovipositor to drill into wood and deposit eggs in horntail larvae. Not to worry, they don't sting!

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2020-01-30

Two new species (#Formicidae: from New Caledonia
https://t.co/KTZxDGVBFD
Thibault Ramage, Corentin Jouault, Alexander R. Schmidt, Leyla J. Seyfullah, Vincent Perrichot

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2020-01-29

Photographing live insects can be difficult. They walk around and fly. But sometimes you are pleasantly surprised when the insect strikes a fun pose. You can capture the natural behavior that is lost when you photograph pinned specimens. Like wasp bath time.

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2020-01-11

Look at this super cool wasp I found while sorting through pan traps from last november. Mymarommatoidea maybe?

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2020-01-04

2 of described from Oman & Saudi Arabia in the 1st step towards a revision for the Arabian members of the genus <Crematogaster>.

Monograph: https://t.co/TKlRi4zDhq.

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2019-12-11

Giovanna Garzoni (1600–1670)
Hyacinth with Four Cherries, a Lizard, and an Artichoke.
Branch of Dittany with Four Hazelnuts and Two Pears.
Ranunculus with Two Almonds and a Hymenopteran.
(studies of plants kept in the Uffizi, Florence)

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2019-10-30

The bee Mesoplia insignis, first described in 1879 by my predecessor Hymenoptera curator Frederick Smith. Specimen numner NHMUK013983560 https://t.co/XAc92tzsSQ

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2019-09-07

What did one bee say to the other when they landed on the same flower?

Buzz off.

I'll quit pollen your leg now and wish everyone a happy particularly the entomologists I share an office with!🐝

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2019-05-20

Having examined collections of crabronid at 3 institutions across China, scientists described 5 in the genus Stigmus.

Study: https://t.co/2pV8CNEigd

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2019-05-10

no. 88. Hymenoptera again but no apologies: outrageous ovipositors, of Zaglyptogastra (top) and Labena (below), both ichneumonoid wasps. Different ways of accessing concealed hosts, threading and drilling. On gallery tonight, with .

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2019-03-29

no.39. Sticking with Hymenoptera, here's the first ant of this series: Paraponera clavata, the Bullet Ant. Infamous as its venom is at the top end of the Schmidt index of sting pain. https://t.co/cGovlUQrHu

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2019-02-09

no.27. Trichoptera and Hymenoptera! Look out for caddis cases in rivers with long silk ribbons protruding. The ichneumonid wasp Agriotypus armatus over-winters in the cocoon of its host caddis, in this case (pun intended...), Odontocerum albicorne.

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2019-01-28

Full text now available! Rediscovery of Disepyris semiruber (Kieffer) (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) in Southern Africa, with first description of the male, based on specimens in NHMUK (in part) : https://t.co/bCRZ2nCUqu

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2018-12-12

NISHIMORI, T., K. MIURA, K. MAETO, J. MIWA, and K. YAMAGISHI: Morphological and Genetic Analyses Suggest Some Strains under Tiphodytes gerriphagus Hymenoptera: Platygastridae: Scelioninae), an Egg Parasitoid of Water Striders

JJSE24(2):277–282
https://t.co/sNuwvMKCjs

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2018-12-01