He/Him | Biology student at @unileiden studying Hymenoptera | Volunteer at @Naturalis_Sci
Joined October 2023
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Milo van Loon retweeted
3 Dec 2024
A new genus and species of club-horned #wasps, with a key to the Old World genera of Sapyginae (#Hymenoptera, Sapygidae)
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Milo van Loon retweeted
8 Nov 2024
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Milo van Loon retweeted
7 Nov 2024
In #Germany, iNat user cristina_krippahl saw this group of sleepy cuckoo #wasps (potentially in the genus Hedychrum) and it's our Observation of the Day!
More details at: inaturalist.org/observations… #nature #biodiversity #entomology
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Milo van Loon retweeted
1 Nov 2024
Megachile pluto has been officially listed as an endangered and protected species in Indonesia! This is an important step, and those of you who know me you will understand this is near and dear to my heart. 💪
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Milo van Loon retweeted
4 Nov 2024
First Record of the Genus Arpactophilus Smith, 1863 (#Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Pemphredoninae) outside Australasia with the Description of a #NewSpecies from Northeastern #India
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24 Oct 2024
This peculiar looking wasp is an ensign wasp, named after its flag-shaped metasoma. They are parasitoids of cockroach ootheca. The species seen here, Brachygaster minutus, is the only species native to Northwestern Europe, but barcoding suggests there may be a second species!
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Milo van Loon retweeted
18 Oct 2024
[#entomology] Revision of subfamily Mesitiinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from 🇨🇳 ⤵
✒ Chunhong Wang, Junhua He & Xuexin Chen
🔗DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.960…
#hymenoptera #Bethylidae #chrysidoidea #mesitiinae #newspecies #newcombination #newsynonym #hymenopterist #entomologist
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Milo van Loon retweeted
18 Oct 2024
Insect levitation with ultrasound: capturing 360° views to automate measurements and create 3D models. More fun devices from KIT to join the DiversityScanner family 🦋🔬 techrxiv.org/users/813834/ar… @mfnberlin @leeselab @myrmoteras @Brent_C_Emerson @TokeHoye
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Milo van Loon retweeted
9 Oct 2024
Four new species of flat wasps in the genus Laelius are described from South Korea. See more here: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1213…
#wasps #newspecies #taxonomy
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Milo van Loon retweeted
7 Oct 2024
🗝 An illustrated key for the identification of the 20 genera of Microgastrinae wasps so far known to occur in Europe: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1212…
#taxonomy #wasps #Hymenoptera @NtlMuseumsScot @snsb_aktuell
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7 Oct 2024
Not something I expected to see on our kitchen cabinet today: a fruit fly infected with an entomophagous fungus! Spores are already emerging from the swollen abdomen.
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Milo van Loon retweeted
6 Oct 2024
今回の四国遠征で見れて一番嬉しく感じたのはこのサワガニとザトウムシのやり取り。
お食事中のサワガニから餌をいただこうと近付くザトウムシ。サワガニはそれが嫌なのか脚であっちにいけとやっている。
その後サワガニは追い払うのをあきらめたのか一緒にモグモグと食べていた。とても良い。
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Milo van Loon retweeted
19 Sep 2024
Taxonomic notes on Baeosega Krombein (#Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), with description of two #newspecies from southern Western Ghats, #India
mapress.com/zt/article/view/…
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Milo van Loon retweeted
12 Sep 2024
The life strategies of #parasitoids are stunningly diverse, but no wasps that attack and develop inside adult flies have ever been described. Our article describes the first one. Its hosts: Drosophila melanogaster and other species of #Drosophila
#Entomology #Braconidae
Nature research paper: Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies go.nature.com/3MFgETh
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Milo van Loon retweeted
10 Sep 2024
作りモノ感あるな〜
ムツバセイボウ
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Milo van Loon retweeted
5 Sep 2024
Taxonomy of Japanese Gonatopus (#Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), with description of a #newspecies
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1 Sep 2024
Sycophila sp., a nice little chalcidoid wasp in the family Eurytomidae. They are either gall-inducing or parasitize other gall-inducing insects such as Cypinidae and Cecidomyiidae in grasses. This one belongs to the latter group.
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26 Aug 2024
This is genuinely shocking and saddening to hear. Stephen was a great contribution to the @inaturalist community and I am sure he will be dearly missed by many 😢.
26 Aug 2024
The Australian Entomological Society expresses its deepest condolences on the tragic loss of Stephen Thorpe. His expertise in entomology, dedication to biodiversity, and selfless volunteer work will be profoundly missed.
Vale, Stephen Thorpe.
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