Super proud of our lab! Undergrads took home three awards from international summer research! Thanks to my graduate students for excellent mentorship! And @SysEB_Entsoc for all the hard work! #ESA2019 @carpophilus @pyractomena @nsaxton55 @BYU @BYUKennedyCtr

Winners!!! Senior personnel prevail! Thanks ESA. #ESA2019 ⁦@ZaspelLab⁩ ⁦@Dr_Akito⁩

We were invited to watch land diving in Pentecost. It is to bless the yam harvest. #intense. We’ll name a new species of damselfly after the ritual (see other post) BYU study abroads are amazing!!! @BYUKennedyCtr @BYU @carpophilus

You are looking at the gnarly hand of my new killer MS student @nsaxton55 which is holding our most recently discovered new species from Vanuatu. We’re going to name it after the local practice of land diving (see next post). #newspecies #Conservation @BYUKennedyCtr @BYU @byubio

I’m sure it was with flying colors!

Odonates everywhere, probably because of water features like this....

Just finished chasing fireflies in the highlands of Maewo, Vanuatu. 88 captured.

We also have been working with the marine fireflies here. Check out how almost all of the second to last abdominal segment is bioluminescent. That is a first for me! @pyractomena @dr_firefly @skbrannoch @UCSB_OakleyLab

Walking Sticks have been found on Ambrym! @stickinsect71 obligatory headshots. Two large females.