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Dr. Akito Kawahara

@Dr_Akito

2 years

信じられない数のチョウだ。来年はガイドとして、またメキシコに来ます！

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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The #ICE2024 conference in Japan has been so inspirational. It’s amazing to see so many elementary, jr, highschool presenters. Here’s Jo Nagai, 5th grader, by his poster on learned inheritance. He told me he next wants to do epigenetics/CRISPR on his butterflies! @ice2024kyoto_jp

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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Took this vid yesterday. #Moths #Ecuador

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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Possibly the largest land snail I’ve ever seen. It’s Massive. Mashpi, Ecuador

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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17年ゼミ！いた！目がすごく赤い。ビデオも後でツイート！ #17 年ゼミ #BroodX

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#NationalMothWeek day 9! The final moth of the week is the truly spectacular Picasso moth (Baorisa hieroglyphica). Considered to be one of the most beautiful moths in the world. Photo: msone #MothWeek

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New butterfly evolutionary study is out as preprint! 2244 spp sequenced for 391 genes. Butterflies likely originated in what is now Americas, ~100 million years ago. Research led @FloridaMuseum #McGuireCenter . Global study w/87 scientists from 28 countries

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She’s a beauty! Japanese Silkmoth. Just came to the porch light in Japan. Haven’t seen one in nearly 20 years. They are amazing moths! @ice2024kyoto_jp #moth #ICE2024

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#NationalMothWeek day 6! Today's moth is a wasp mimic, a video I took in Ecuador earlier this year. Hard to believe it's a moth! Protects itself from predators by looking like a wasp. #MothWeek

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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1 year

Went to a reptile show recently in Florida with my kids. Whaat?!?Someone was selling these amazing rhinoceros beetles! They are so fuzzy! Very cute insects.

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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3 years

発表しました！いろんな蛾が超音波を出す！ヤガ、ヒトリガ、スズメガ、シャクガなど。毒を持つことを超音波を出して敵のコウモリに知らせている。音を擬態する無毒の蛾もいる。私達が書いた科学論文はこちら👇夜行性の昆虫は面白い！

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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Lots of beautiful Luna moths this past week in Gainesville. Found 7 the other night, 4 males shown here.

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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6 months

More Luna moths in the yard this morning! Tattered wings on some indicate the first generation of the spring is slowly nearing the end. Truly awesome insects!

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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4 years

地球上の昆虫が急激に減っている。今週、世界中の学者がまとめてPNASに論文を13紙発表した。私は近年の昆虫の減少を止める8つの方法について書いた。この方法に取り組むことで、昆虫の減少を抑制することが出来る。８つの方法: #1 . 庭を様々な野生の生息地にする。(2-8 続く)👇

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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1 year

One of the weirdest bugs in the world! Peanut-head bug!!! Head looks a bit like an alligator. Bizarre! Sumaco, Ecuador, today.

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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1 year

Found this Giant Leopard Moth at the local city park yesterday. Common beautiful species! Hypercompe scribonia

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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3 years

金さんと銀さん。

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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25 days

I often here people saying that moths are not very attractive. I try to convince people that they are! Here is a photo I took of the Green-Banded Urania moth, Urania leilus, in Ecuador last year.

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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1 month

やったー!!! グラントシロカブト、初めて生きているのを捕まえた！昨夜ライトにオスが3頭飛んできた。

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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4 years

Another gorgeous moth to celebrate #NationalMothWeek . Eye-tailed moth, Sematura luna (Sematuridae). Eye wing marks likely to fool birds, twisted tails likely to fool bats. Photo by @BiodiversiLary

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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2 years

Very excited to find this awesome rhinoceros beetle! Check out the horns! #Ecuador Golofa sp.

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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4 years

Very cool paper published today in ⁦ @PNASNews ⁩ showing that scales on #moth wings can absorb #bat #ultrasound

Moth wings are acoustic metamaterials | PNAS

Metamaterials assemble multiple subwavelength elements to create structures with extraordinary physical properties (1–4). Optical metamaterials are...

www.pnas.org

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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2 years

Happy #NationalinsectDay ! Here is a sneak peek of an #insect art piece we’ve been working on. Barely fits on a table!

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

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3 years

河原昆虫研究室の蝶と蛾のリサーチが生命誌研究館の季刊に出た！「昼と夜を分けた鱗翅目昆虫の進化」

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It's the start of #NationalMothWeek ! As a #moth lover and scientist, I'll be posting a moth photo/video each day this week with cool facts about them. Here's the first, one of my favorites - Madagascar Sunset Moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus). Photo: J. Sullivan (L), anonymous (R).

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とても綺麗な日中飛ぶヒトリガ。メキシコの高山でしか見られない。Princely Tiger moth, Chrysocalis prinicpalis (Arctiinae).

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One of Darwin’s Hawkmoths, on my hand yesterday. #AmazingInsects

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夜間採集。大量の蛾だ。昨夜 - Costa Rica, Monteverde. #Lepidoptera #insects

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Day 4, #NationalMothWeek . Today's #moth is Uropyia meticulodina (Notodontidae). Check out the visual illusion! Head points to the left and wing pattern makes it look like a curled leaf! Photo: W.-C. Chang @Moth_Week

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Did you know? We wouldn’t have *Chocolate* if it weren’t for insects? The Chocolate Midge #fly (Theobroma cacao) is the main pollinator of the cacao plant. No chocolate if it weren’t for this little fly! #SaveInsects #NatureEducation

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Our study on #butterfly #evolution , #hostplants & #ranges is now formally out! We built a phylogeny of 2000 sp and found butterflies originated in N. America 100M years ago, likely fed on legumes. ~100 scientists from 28 countries contributed. Thanks all!

A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeog...

Nature Ecology & Evolution - A new phylogenomic tree for butterflies is constructed using 391 genes from 2,300 species, representing 92% of genera. It suggests that butterflies originated...

www.nature.com

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#NationalMothWeek , day 2! Here is an amazing large moth, the long-tailed moon moth, Actias dubernardi. Beautiful, elegant long tails! Tails used for escaping predatory bats. Photo: N. Larson

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Not a butterfly, it’s a moth! You can tell because of its antenna, lacking a club. Tiputini, Ecuador. Chetone sp. (Erebidae: Arctiinae)

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New paper is out! By @anapscarvalho and others - new phylogeny of butterfly family Pieridae (whites and sulphurs) showing diversification is correlated with global temperature @FloridaMuseum

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Male Luna moth landed on my shirt last night. Moths are beautiful!

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New phylogeny of noctuid moths just came out! An evolutionary framework for the 43,000-45,000 species in the superfamily

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Wow! Very cool research, #Hawkmoths lay more eggs on plants that are already damaged by #beetles ! Moths hone in on a chemical that is released when prior insect damage occurs. photo: Mohammed Salman. Thanks @BarberLab for the heads-up

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Day 7, #NationalMothWeek . Moth of the day is a tiger moth that "floats" its pupa in air and creates a golden silk basket around itself to protect against predators. Fascinating defense behavior! Photo: J. Horstman. #moth_week @Moth_Week

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1 year

Hey Science Twitter - does anyone know what these are? I found these in a jelly-like goo. They come up to breathe out of the jelly. I think it’s a kind of fly? Super cool. Mashpi, Ecuador taken today. I have videos too.

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発表しました！新しい世界のカトカラ類(シタバガ属)の系統です！日本のムラサキシタバなど161種入っています! 原稿はこちら：　(New Phylogeny of Underwing Moths)

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Moths are amazing! An incredible tailed moon moth in flight, captured by @braiello . Look at the amazing twisted tails behind the moth. Gorgeous!

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First Luna moth sighting of the year! Came to light last night in Gainesville. Beautiful big green spring moth!

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One of the most spectacular insects! Has the longest ovipositor known. Megarhyssa. Endoparasitoids of horntail wasps; egg is laid on larva that lives in wood using long tail. One is laying in vid! Like most insects doesn’t/can’t sting. My top 10 coolest insect, found in NY!

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#NationalMothWeek , day 4! This is one of my favorite examples of camouflage in nature - the Dead Leaf Moth! Moth looks like a rolled dead leaf. Uropyia meticulodina. Photo: WC Chang. #MothWeek

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One of my favorite photos, a stunning tiger moth, posting here to celebrate #NationalMothWeek . Amerila sp. Philippines; by @BiodiversiLary

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17 years ago, I was in college and had little money and needed protein. So yes, I ate periodical #cicadas consistently for about a week. Earthy version of shrimp. Good on sushi too! #BroodX

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3 years

My 6 yr old daughter taped this sign on the wall of the house. Made me smile.

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Interesting #behavior of Darwin’s Hawkmoth (Neotropical species) - anyone know what this #moth is doing?

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5 years

新しい鱗翅目の系統論文を #PNAS に書いた。蛾は役3兆年前にトビケラから進化し、蝶は1兆年ほど前に昼間飛ぶようになったことが化石と遺伝子を使って分かった。

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This is an amazing #wasp that helps #humans . Attacks roaches and kills their eggs. If you see one in your home, don't kill the wasp! They remove your roaches. The way you can tell these wasps is by the abdomen that attaches at the thorax top (gaster) #BenficialInsects #Insects

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Excited to announce that I’m starting as Director of one of the premier centers on #Butterfly and #Moth research and education — the #McGuireCenter for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity — @FloridaMuseum @UF — starting today! Excited but nervous!

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Very interesting study published today in @CurrentBiology showing that moth wings' ripples may be to lure predatory bats away from their bodies as defense! Moths are just so cool! By @drtomneil , Marc Holderied and colleagues.

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2 years

A really good article that came out today. #Insects are important and many are disappearing from Earth. What should we do?

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10 months

Did you know? There are night-flying butterflies! We assembled the #genome of a nocturnal butterfly, and the DNA shares many similarities with nocturnal moths, such as color vision/ #opsins . This is so cool! @lepidos_Rachit and YiMing Weng lead this study.

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4 years

Special issue on #insectdeclines is out in #PNAS today! Our article is one of many; we present steps on how to slow declines! Insects are important- each of us can contribute to help save them! @PNASNews @FloridaMuseum @BiodiversiLary @BarberLab @XercesSB

Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines | PNAS

Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines

www.pnas.org

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今朝ジャマイカ島で見つけたゾウムシ、かっこいい！なぜ赤い模様が背中についているんだろう。日本のゾウムシとはかなり違う。

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Happy #NationalMothWeek ! There are >150,000 species of #moths in the world and many of them are beautiful, important to us + our ecosystem, yet declining. Help save moths by dimming/turning off exterior lights this week. One of the largest is Atlas moth, from SE Asia! @Moth_Week

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知ってました？世界には夜行性のハンミョウが多い。夜飛ぶハンミョウは敵のコウモリが近づくと、超音波を出す。その超音波は毒を持つヒトリガの超音波パターンに似る。音の擬態をし、ハンミョウは身を守っている。私の学生が書いた研究論文が先週発表された @FloridaMuseum 🔗

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2 years

明日からメキシコの山奥にあるオオカバマダラの産地に行きます! たくさんのビデオをアップする予定です!

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日本鱗翅学会で基調演説を行います！テーマは「3 億年の昼と夜を分けた鱗翅目昆虫の進化」。コウモリと蛾の超音波の進化についても話します。10/29(土) 〜15:30、国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター。内容はこちら:

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10 months

Excited to be giving a different kind of talk today - on cultural entomology at #entsoc2023 . Come check out the subculture of insects in Japan, especially if you're going to @ice2024kyoto_jp next year! => 2:30 pm, Azela 2

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This caterpillar is as an incredible snake mimic. Cat is twisted upside-down inflating its body to look like a serpent; which they do to protect from predators. See legs in middle of snake head. Cat of hawkmoth H. triptolemus. Bugs=Spectacular!!! Photo: the amazing Andreas Kay

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4 months

Check out this amazing Ghost Moth from Costa Rica! Found it last night. Massive! #moths

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3 years

Happy Valentine’s Day! Let’s not forget to love #nature and appreciate all the important things that #insects do for us! Chocolate we eat today wouldn’t be possible if it weren’t for insect pollinators of #cacao !

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4 years

A beautiful Luna moth comes to the porch light today. Florida, spring time. While we are faced with social distancing, let’s spend time looking at amazing wildlife around us. This species is shifting its distribution northward each year due to changing climate.

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A strange thing I saw while on a #shinrinyoku walk in the woods. Looks as if a fungus froze flies. All pointing same way. 1 fly has its arms out, as if calling for help. All found on same tree just outside of NYC. Anyone know whats going on? Nature is odd and amazing! @flygirlNHM

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I'm saddened of the shocking news that my friend, musician & lepidopterist extraordinaire, Jim Miller, died unexpectedly last night. Jim-thank you for that letter of rec that got me in Cornell when I had no direction in HS. I'll make sure our book is awesome. RIP, will miss you

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南米のアマゾンに夜行性の蝶が３０種類ほど住む。和名はシャクガモドキ科だが、蛾ではない。DNA調査で蝶類と何度も証明されている。素晴らしいことに夜行性の複眼をもち、敵のコウモリの超音波を聞く耳ももつ蝶だ。

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Morpho butterflies are amazing. This is one of my favorites, Morpho cypris. Striking metallic blue iridescence! The wings actually don’t have blue pigment, it’s made from scale structure and way the light reflects! Specimens in the #McGuireCenter at @UF ⁦ @FloridaMuseum ⁩

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#Moth fact! Many unrelated moths have clear, see-through wings without scales. It’s not just hummingbird moths that have clear wings. This one, Sesiidae. Photo: S. Padron #MothWeek #NationalMothWeek

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Did you know? The worm in #Tequila #Mezcal bottles is a moth? It is not a butterfly or a beetle, as thought. We ran a small study using DNA, and it's a *Goat moth*!!! Published today. @EmmanuelTouss1 @Jose_IMartinez @kkbugtime @C_Couch17 @FloridaMuseum

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Japan has some very strange things. This is a silkworm moth chocolate gift set covering 3 life stages. I guess the egg stage is missing because it’s too small. Edible! #Bombyx

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Many #insects appear to be declining. We are often asked why insects are important. I suggest every #entomologist know the “5 Ps” by heart. Here it is (slide from prior talk)👇 #EntSoc21

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#NationalMothWeek day 7! Today let's recognize the other moth life stages. One of my favorites is the colorful caterpillar of the Cecropia moth. Vibrant colors of blue, yellow, red and green! Stunning! Photo: M. Smith #MothWeek

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4 months

Check out the eyespot display on this Automeris moth! Taken in Monteverde, Costa Rica yesterday

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5 years

Check this out- male glowing Scorpion in a courtship dance with dark female. Scorpions glow in the dark, but in some, only males glow in UV. Thanks @anapscarvalho @ryan_stlaurent for showing this while in the woods with UV flashlight during filming for #AmericanSpringLivePBS

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First Luna Moth sighting of the year today! Beautiful! On @UF campus by ⁦ @FloridaMuseum ⁩ Dickinson Hall. Likely emerged because of 85F (30C) today. Thanks Robb Stokes for sharing the photo!

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One of the most unusual leopard-like wing patterns found in #butterflies and #moths . Pantherodes pardalaria from South America

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New study by Juliette Rubin and others showing that #MoonMoth tails are driven by #bat predation. Interestingly, seasonal temperature variation has exerted a nearly equally counterbalancing constraint on hindwing length. #LunaMoth #MoonMoth #evolution

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Excited to be talking about big new #butterfly #phylogeny today at 2:54 pm in Room 212 #EntSoc22

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Did you know that #moths have thousands of small lenses that make up their eyes? Take a look inside the moth eye. Bizarre! This is why they are attracted to light. #NationalMothWeek #CTScan | vid by @Mothyash @FloridaMuseum

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(ツイート3/3) 6.昆虫に対する否定的なイメージを払拭する。 7.教育者して昆虫の保護を提唱していく。 8.地域の自治体へ参加し、科学への支援を求める。皆んなで昆虫保護に協力しよう！

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New film on the secret lives of #moths just premiered yesterday at #Sundance2024 film festival. Got great reviews!

‘Nocturnes’ Review: This Immersive Documentary About the Secret Lives of Moths Demands Your Full...

Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan's meditative study of the winged denizens of the Eastern Himalayan forests is a rich, unexpected experience.

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New paper published today in @PNASNews led by @Barberlab shows - lots of toxic/edible #moths produce #ultrasound at #bats . Likely many nocturnal moth acoustic mimicry rings! Collaborative work of 10+ yrs! @BoiseState @FloridaMuseum @UF #McGuireCenter

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Here's a #moth fact - Did you know that moths are more efficient pollinators than bees? Photo shows a hawkmoth with orchid pollen attached to head. Photos: A. Day, J. Webbinton, ; Pollination study: #NationalMothWeek #MothWeek

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Possibly one of the best insect exhibits I have ever seen. Still on display in Tokyo until November. 素晴らしい昆虫展覧会。「虫展-デザインのお手本-」”21_21 Design Sight”. This is just a short clip; you should see the entire exhibit if you can!

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4 years

Our paper on moth tails and bats, led by @JulietteJRubin @8legs2fangs and others is now a science comic! @BarberLab

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Came across this super neat paper on #moths by Rubin et al. and thought I’d share it by drawing a #sciencecomic .

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A beautiful Io moth, found this morning. Check out its eyespots! Photo by Angie Gomez

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Bilateral gynandromorph of a mimicking butterfly. Male side on left, female side on right. Spectacular.

あっくん@きゅうしゅう

@suaedajaponica

2 years

同級生A「結婚しました！」同級生B「子供が生まれました！」同級生C「マイホーム建てました！」ワイ「ｼﾕｳﾓｻﾞｲｸ⁉︎ｵｯﾎ♪ﾔﾍﾞｪ(☝︎ ՞ਊ ՞)☝︎」

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

@Dr_Akito

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(ツイート2/3) 2.在来植物を栽培する。 3.農薬や除草剤の使用を減らす。 4.屋外の照明を少なくする。 5.車の洗浄に使用する洗剤の排水を抑え、車道の防水剤や除氷塩の使用を減らす。８つの方法(残る3つ続く)👇

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

@Dr_Akito

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An amazing thing @UF is seeing bats fly each night on campus! They’re insect feeders+hunt w/sonar in aerial battles. Bugs are declining in numbers; what happens to bats when bugs vanish? If you visit check it out!フロリダ大学内のコウモリの群れ-毎晩見れる! @FloridaMuseum @UF_IFAS

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

@Dr_Akito

5 years

Entomologists!!! I am compiling fascinating/incredible facts about insects for a book. If you have any facts/stories about incredible things that insects do, please share by reply or email. Email is same as my first [dot] last name at gmail. Bugs are amazing! Please RT! Thanks!

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

@Dr_Akito

4 years

Many small moths are beautiful! Check out this leaf roller moth (Pseudatteria volcanica, Tortridae). Not all small moths are brown. Many are colorful, jazzy!

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

@Dr_Akito

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For those going to ICE #International #Congress of #Entomology @ice2024kyoto_jp this month - I made a pdf of things to do in Kyoto during the conference, including my recommendation of local foods, best insect stores to visit, etc. Please share! | #ICE2024

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

@Dr_Akito

2 years

Tomorrow at 17:30 at #ICE2022 - David Plotkin and I will be talking about several of our big recent evolutionary studies including the 2000+ butterfly tree, dating #Lepidoptera , and evolution of #moths and #ultrasound production! Come check it out, Rm 205.

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

@Dr_Akito

3 years

Our new preprint is out! On the extraordinary diversity of #moths that produce #ultrasound against #bats . What's amazing: Possible acoustic mimicry rings - may be largest mimicry complexes! Collaborative w/ @BarberLab @KawaharaLab and others! @Florida_Museum @BoiseState @NSF

Jesse Barber

@BarberLab

3 years

In a new preprint we show that ~20% of moths produce anti-bat ultrasonic warning signals to bat sonar playback – comprising, perhaps, the largest mimicry complexes on earth! A 10-yr effort with @DrAkito @KawaharaLab @BoiseState @UF

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Dr. Akito Kawahara

@Dr_Akito

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Cool Japanese bug net, designed to collect insects off of tree bark so they don’t fall out of net edges. Works well for beetles, cicadas, others, has changeable telescoping insect net handle (not shown).

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