An upcoming public appearance!
The fine folks at UF have planned what looks like the perfect week for me. In addition to the talk above, I will be giving a more technical presentation on wasp systematics to the Entomology Department, taking field excursions with the graduate students to photograph local ants, and catching up with friends. Awesome.
Ants – Check
Photography – Check
Wasp Taxonomy – Check
You’ve just covered my main interests in one go!
I was working over the summer at Landcare Research being supervised by Darren Ward, he said that he’s met you. I was mostly working on Ichneumonid taxonomy in the NZ Arthropod Collection.
OMG I WANT TO GO! TOo bad I can’t 🙁
I know this is presumptuous, but I’m going to ask anyway:
Lately your “Recent Images” sidebar has a couple of pictures of Cephalotes clypeatus. Your photos have always been a fabulous menagerie of exotic shapes, but even by that standard these creatures are standouts. Do you have any interesting tales about them?