Honored to have a photo on the cover of Current Biology!
Alex Wild
Alex Wild
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Entomologist, Natural History Collection Curator, and Photographer based in Austin, Texas.
Finally got some photos of Australia’s “blue ant”, Diamma bicolor, which is not an ant at all but a shockingly large metallic blue thynnid wasp, wingless and solitary, that hunts mole crickets. Been meaning to shoot this thing for years.
#Thynnidae #Hymenoptera #Diamma #Insects #australianwildlife
Found a nest of one of my favorites! A true oddball. Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus, the red-headed spider ant.
#ants #insects #Leptomyrmex
We are discovering new species at the fastest rate ever. #Taxonomy #Science
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz3071
A cool story about sacrifice and social immunity in ants.
#Ants #insects #Biology
Popular Science
Sick baby ants sacrifice themselves to save their colony
New research shows ill pupae emit a chemical signal before ever leaving their cocoons.
A Formica incerta field ant worker drinks nectar from a Queen Anne's Lace. Tennessee.
#Formica #Ants #Insects
Post a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real.
Hegemona lineata, Belize.
#Tenebrionidae #Photography #Insects
One of my favorite local planthoppers, Dictyonissus griphus. Such distinctive wing venation.
#Tropiduchidae #Planthopper #Insects #Nature
A Trigonarthris atrata flower longhorn feeds from the spring blooms of a rough-leafed dogwood. Austin, Texas.
#Cerambycidae #Longhorns #nature #Insects
Mosquitoes, a photo gallery:
#Mosquitoes #Nature #Insects
Mosquitoes - Alex Wild
Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, ...