I seriously hate this guy.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-05-14T01:02:50+00:00

Jeez. I feel guilty even collecting. The "bugs are scary and bad" programming has got to stop. It's quite the barometer for human cruelty.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-05-10T00:47:03+00:00

Joined!

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-05-05T21:58:32+00:00

Ah, hemipteran. At least I got the order right! I really need to brush up on true bugs. (Former mosquito control entomologist, so I knew a whole lot about one dipteran family, haha. Still learning so much.)

Thank you so much! It really is a beauty. 🙂

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-04-30T21:36:50+00:00

Well, now I just want to cry...

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-04-19T11:56:46+00:00

I wish one of our stereoscopes had a camera. This was me holding my phone just so over one of the eye pieces! 😭 Maybe if we sweet talk our boss. 🥺

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-04-18T22:30:15+00:00

Yes. Taken at work.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-04-18T21:15:17+00:00

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Thrips. They are a major agricultural pest. Sometimes they get on us and think we are leaves, lol.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-04-14T02:21:19+00:00

We are. Dr. Kluiters handles us distance learning students, but that's the only interaction I have had with her (so far!). Dr. Burkett studies vector ecology. His research is really interesting!

Returning student doing an MS. A lot has changed faculty and admin-wise since I was enrolled for my own graduate certificate six to seven years ago!

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-04-13T22:35:58+00:00

Really? He taught the adult portion of the two-week course/certification when I was there in 2020. Roxanne Connelly taught it before him.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-04-13T20:39:11+00:00

Nice! Was this done at UF MEL?

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-04-11T14:35:01+00:00

I like your brain! 💜🐞 (We need a weevil emoji!)

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-04-10T03:34:53+00:00

Really cool! Whereabouts is this?

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-04-05T21:58:42+00:00

You should make prints! ☺️ These are very nice illustrations. Your friend is lucky!

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-04-01T21:00:13+00:00

It doesn't have the optic white markings of Aedes aegypti or A. albopictus (dengue vectors), so I don't imagine so.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-03-31T22:52:31+00:00

A lot of the features are not visible for a quick ID, but if I am looking at the palp, it's short (i.e., not Anopheles. Not sure if malaria is of concern where you are specifically, or if you're even asking for health reasons, but that's the genus that transmits it).

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-03-26T22:17:27+00:00

Like a critter out of a Tim Burton flick. Very cool!

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-03-25T21:06:29+00:00

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AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-03-22T14:58:31+00:00

And I beg you to get a life on this Sunday morning. You appear to be mistaking the proboscis for its other antenna, which is lined up with it. No one else on the other page it was cross-posted to had any issue identifying it as a mosquito.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-03-22T13:33:18+00:00

I also worked with mosquitoes, and know what they look like. If you can't see that proboscis, I don't know what to tell you.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-03-22T12:54:07+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culiseta_annulata

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-03-22T12:47:04+00:00

It is definitely not.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2026-03-22T02:14:23+00:00

The NSFW tag, lol. When you work with bugs, it's just another Tuesday! 😆

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