Tanner Matson

"ACG is a success story, a powerful example of what can happen when humans help forests heal." @ACGuanacaste #reforestation #restoration #biodiversity #CostaRica They turned cattle ranches into tropical forest — then climate change hit theverge.com/24137380/fores… via @Verge

While playing in the garden, my 2-yr old daughter came across a rolly-polly and, intrigued, decided to taste it. When her mother asked in shock, 'Did you just eat that?!' She calmly replied, 'Yeeees, it's... SPICY! So now you know...

Stunning work by @ryan_stlaurent et al! doi.org/10.1080/002229… 4/4 on new Cerurinae life histories from eggs...in a part of the world with desperate need for this type of research!

Just realized that an article was published last week on the new species of moth my students worked on naming! #lqb80fwgyugmuz5hsqc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">kansas.com/news/state/art…

@irussell21 News to me too! 🤣🤣 I don't check my voicemail enough apparently 😬

Exciting news! 16 new Mexican #Geometridae in the genus Stamnodes @ejtaxonomy Dive into Mexican #biodiversity and #biogeography ! 🦋🔬 #NewSpecies #Biodiversidad #Lepidoptera europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/…

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@irussell21 I know I keep saying this...BUT the manuscript that includes that moth should be published any day now....🤞

Crazy how much time has passed. I was teaching an amazing class of 8th graders in Topeka. I had student taught them as 5th graders. Left for spring break and never saw them again, although we did name a new species of moth with a virtual group thanks to @MothMatson

@EerikaSchulz doi.org/10.11646/zoota… Actually this one is Achagua magna now.

Achagua obsoleta from Finca Heimatlos Eco Lodge and Farm, near Puyo, Ecuador.

@EerikaSchulz I have a paper in review that describes this genus as it is presently a manuscript name that was never formally published. And I'll also be raising the Andean subspecies 'mirafloresa' (that you have pictured here) to full species status!

Cyphoedma transvolutata from Finca Heimatlos Eco Lodge and Farm, near Puyo, Ecuador.

@ANStillman @JAppliedEcology Awesome work!

Three newly described species of the Neotropical genus Achagua - a rarely encountered geometrid moth #Lepidoptera #Geometridae #newspecies doi.org/10.11646/zoota…

@SciencePicard I do regularly. The TSA agent will just ask you what kind of cake or sweets you have if you carry them in a white Schmitt box. Then you get to tell them about your insects!

Anyone know if one can bring pinned insects as carry on in the US?

@americanbeetles Today's Tom Sawyer, mean, mean pride...doodoo do do doodoo do do doo do do🎵🎸

@ryan_stlaurent That was my attempt at a joke! But my delivery has always suffered 🤦‍♂️

Pull a Scranci leg! Congrats Ryan et al!

Right or wrong, when elevating an infraspecific taxon to species, what is your preferred language. Example: "Taxon A represents a [???] species."

@irussell21 Half or tricolored dots for those sites with multiple categories?

New idea for my hominin map- categorize Neanderthal sites by 150ka+, 149,999 - 70,000ka, 69,999-40ka. Visually would be seen as dark blue, blue, and light blue dots. Potential problem is sites that were used for all three categories. Thoughts?

@punkflies You might think, but I have three reared tachinid adults, all identical as far as I can tell, and all reared from black eggs. I have dozens of photos of Stamnodes larvae with these black eggs attached on the thorax. It's unusual...

@MothMatson It looks like a Patelloa species but that genus has mycrotype eggs, those eggs are tiny and laid on the host-plant. Perhaps the egg in the first picture corresponds to a different tachinid species.

@ymilesz Well let me know if you proceed! I'm interested in doing something similar and precedence would be fantastic.