An accessible new seminar series highlighting entomological research, with a focus on museum collections. Sponsored by the Entomological Collections Network.
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ALT Advert for the Advances in Insect Evolution seminar. Text reads: Please joins us for a free online seminar open to all! Wednesday 23 March. 2pm EST/11am PST. Join us via zoom. Sponsored by the Entomological Collections Network. Title of presentation: Investigations on Neotropical broad-nosed weevils: the story of why I science a certain way. Image in top right corner shows Dr Jennifer Girón Duque holding a museum drawer full of beetle specimens.
ALT Advances in Insect Evolution in text in upper left-corner, slanted. Text reads: Please join us for a free online seminar open to all! Wednesday, 23 March. 2pm EST / 11am PST. Join us via Zoom: https://bit.ly/AdvInsectEvo. Sponsored by: Entomological Collections Network. Title of presentation: Investigations on Neotropical broad-nosed weevils: the story of why I science a certain way. Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Girón Duque - Purdue University & Museum of Texas Tech University. Picture in upper right corner features entomologist Dr. Jennifer Girón Duque holding a wooden museum drawer filled with beetles as she faces the camera. Picture in the lower right-hand corner is the Advances in Insect Evolution logo - the silhouette of a moth in the shape of the letter A, the silhouette of a damselfly in in the shape of the I, and silhouettes of ants in the shape of an E. And in the bottom left-hand corner is a photo of a black and gray broad-nosed weevil from the group that Dr. Girón Duque studies.
ALT Alt image text: A free seminar open to all! Join via Zoom: https://bit.ly/AdvInsectEvo Sponsored by the Entomological Collections Network
ALT Alt image text: A free seminar open to all! Join via Zoom: https://bit.ly/AdvInsectEvo Sponsored by the Entomological Collections Network
ALT Alt image text: A free seminar open to all! Join via Zoom: https://bit.ly/AdvInsectEvo Sponsored by the Entomological Collections Network
ALT Alt image text: A free seminar open to all! Join via Zoom: https://bit.ly/AdvInsectEvo Sponsored by the Entomological Collections Network
ALT An advert for the talk, featuring a beautiful close up of a tiny wasp on its spherical, peach coloured gall. Addition information in this advert includes the following: A free online seminar open to all. Join via Zoom: https://bit.let/AdvInsectEvo . sponsored by the Entomological Collections Network.
ALT Alt image text: A free seminar open to all! Join via Zoom: https://bit.ly/AdvInsectEvo Sponsored by the Entomological Collections Network
ALT The gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) are specialized phytophagous insects that primarily induces structurally complex galls on plants. This includes characteristic sets of external and internal traits (spiny, hairy, sticky, hollow etc.), which represent the extended phenotypes of gall wasp genes. Parasitoid wasps are natural enemies that can inflict high mortality on the gall inducers, and these gall structural traits have likely evolved as defenses against natural enemies, which then drives reciprocal phenotypic evolution in relevant traits of parasitoid wasps, such as ovipositor lengths. The complexity of this system is further enriched by the cyclic parthenogenetic life cycles of in some lineages, with obligate alternation between spring sexual and autumn asexual generations that induce morphologically distinct galls, which host different sets of natural enemies.
