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BybeeLab

@BybeeLab

Insect Evolutionary Biology lab at Brigham Young University

 Provo, UT
Joined February 2018
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Why fireflies first started to glow during flight

Why fireflies first started to glow during flight

Nature - Mature fireflies lit their lanterns before birds and bats evolved, suggesting that sexual signalling drove this dazzling behaviour.

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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
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Winners!!! Senior personnel prevail! Thanks ESA. #ESA2019 ⁦@ZaspelLab⁩ ⁦@Dr_Akito⁩
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Nice #firefly poster by @BybeeLab members. Atyphella species from Vanuatu. #Coleptera #Lampyridae #EntSoc19
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Two populations of Pyractomena out last night. It might be a little late, but Utah fireflies are continuing to light up!
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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
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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
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I’m sure it was with flying colors!
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Odonates everywhere, probably because of water features like this....
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Just finished chasing fireflies in the highlands of Maewo, Vanuatu. 88 captured.
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We spent two days at the top of a volcano collecting. More insects there than you would think
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Ambrym Vanuatu
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
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Walking Sticks have been found on Ambrym! @stickinsect71 obligatory headshots. Two large females.
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⁦@carpophilus⁩ Gareth collecting in the river in Malekula. Seriously he is!!! Check the pics attached. Best Trichoptera collecting I’ve ever seen! #thisisourjob #biologyisawesome ⁦@BYUKennedyCtr⁩ ⁦@paulbfrandsen⁩
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Those are tricops all over his back! @carpophilus @paulbfrandsen seriously the best way ever to collect. #fieldwork
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@SysEB_Entsoc
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You know you are in a different place in the world when one of the most deadly animals in the world is constantly at your feet. #seasnake #poison #beauty
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I should also say they are exceptionally docile and no threat to us.
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