Bentomologist

When you find a single mum struggling to bring dinner home for the kids, you have to lend a helping hand! This beautiful spider wasp (i think Cryptocheilus sp.) Was struggling to drag her huntsman prey up our back fence. 1/2 #wasplove #entomology

I have LOST THE PLOT finding my FIRST PSEUDOFOENUS!! 🤯🐝 These wasps are cryptic and can be found flying low near the ground patrolling for native bee nests 😱 They’re super hard to spot so I was EXCITED for such a good wasp day in Bendigo on the first warm day of September!☀️

🏆 Insect Investigators is awarded the @ScienceGovAU Eureka Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science. #EurekaPrizes Learn more: youtu.be/jCmmHqqBYdM @SAMuseum @usceduau @MRLandscapeSA @wagouldleague @qldmuseum @CBG_UofG @iBOLConsortium, @sascience @austentomology

Insect Investigators is a finalist in the @eurekaprizes category for Innovation in Citizen Science! We are proud be able to share the contributions our teachers, students and project team have made to documenting insect biodiversity in Australia 🐝🧬 #eurekaprizes

#BeeBDC v 1.2.0 is up with a new function, continentOutlieRs, that works the same as countryOutlieRs but should help people working on taxa without a country checklist or those not wanting to be so precise with that filter ☺️ t.ly/6ieSG

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Very delayed, but I’m a couple of months into my role as a Lecturer at @UOW with @DamienEsquerre! It has been a wild couple of years but I couldn’t be more appreciative of the support from collaborators, friends, and potential employers. Here’s to renewed native bee research!

I just uploaded a printable meshed lid for 50 ml Falcon tubes to keep #insects in an aerated container when collecting in the field! Check it out @printablescom: printables.com/model/828801 #entomology #collection #3dprint

@Mikey_Whitehead @JamesBeeDorey It looks like it might be Heteropelma scaposum (Two-toned caterpillar parasite wasp)

@ParslowBen @JamesBeeDorey If you've got any further ideas about ID, would love to hear it. They were going all Easter long weekend.

Wasp mystery. What are these eddying swirls of male Ichneumonid wasps doing? Two days running, dozens of these guys just bumbling about a callistemon.

@JamesBeeDorey @Mikey_Whitehead The males may be waiting for a female emergence

@JamesBeeDorey @Mikey_Whitehead Cool! I think they are anomaloninae, a sub family of Ichneumonid wasps.

#BeeBDC version 1.1.0 is now live on #CRAN with an important new function that allows users to download taxonomies for ANY TAXA that's available through the #taxadb package! jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/index.h…

👋 Hey Phylogenomics Twitter 👋 We’re adding another tool to the kit, meet: pipesnake An all-in-one raw-reads to species tree pipeline. Written in @nextflowio and designed for portability and ease-of-use. Check out the workflow on GitHub: github.com/AusARG/pipesna…

Eight new Pacific masked bees just dropped 🐝! What’s really cool about these bees is that (i) they’re mostly restricted to forest canopies, (iii) prefer for red flowers, and (ii) resolve how Hylaeus tuamotuensis got to French Polynesia! 1/16 t.ly/qiTh0

#Bee Twitter! I am the editor for a #SpecialIssue in @Insects_MDPI Bee Conservation: Behavior, Health and Pollination Ecology. Please submit your ms, ESPECIALLY if its on #wild bees & their #behaviour, #health & #pollination #ecology #bees #entomology mdpi.com/journal/insect…

Express DNA barcoding published! We combine DNA leaching, NextGenPCR, and MinION to go from specimens to barcodes in hours without breaking the bank. Say hello to fast pest identification, food authentication and species sorting in the field. doi.org/10.1111/1755-0… @nanopore

TWEETER!! 💚 If you haven’t seen all my wildlife reels this year, we just put up a compilation on the tube! New video up!! (Link in bio)! 🎥 Hope you enjoy 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

What a treat! Spotted this stunning Ghost wasp, Gasteruption fluviale, searching the base of a massive redgum here in Adelaide for host nests. I love the elegant long neck and those cute orange-tipped antennae of this species. #wasplove #entomology #adelaideadventure

I'm super excited to share the first chapter from my PhD! We examined 14,000 online advertisements to discover which pet birds Australians are interested in, what traits make them popular, and how this relates to the risk of new invasive species 💻🦜🔍 rdcu.be/dtNsV

As a Christmas surprise, here's a newly published open access paper, out today at Zool. Scripta: "Leveraging museum specimens, genomics and legacy datasets to unravel the phylogeny and biogeography of cryptin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptini)"! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Meet Gasteruption cylindricum, one of the more unique ghost wasps. Just like its species name suggests, the cylindrical body shape is perfectly designed to slip into old wood borer holes where its Euryglossinae bee hosts nest. They look out of this world in flight! #wasplove