I finally got to sort through the parasitoids (Torymidae, Eulophidae, Pteromalidae s.l. etc) that I reared from galls/larvae of Cecidomyiidae during 2024. Now, 38 samples have been sent to my friend Dick Askew for thorough identification. The docu shots are entirely handheld 🤡
January 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I finally got to sort through the parasitoids (Torymidae, Eulophidae, Pteromalidae s.l. etc) that I reared from galls/larvae of Cecidomyiidae during 2024. Now, 38 samples have been sent to my friend Dick Askew for thorough identification. The docu shots are entirely handheld 🤡
From 2023, my deep dive into a bag of figs in search of the chalcid wasp, Blastophaga psenes. #FigWasps #insects #figs #wasps #hymenoptera #chalcidoidea #entomology #ficus #botany colinpurrington.com/2023/01/some...
Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe's » Colin Purrington's blog
During an online wasp identification course I participated in several weeks ago, there was a fun discussion about whether commercially-produced figs contained fig wasps (Agaonidae, in the Chalcidoidea...
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January 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
From 2023, my deep dive into a bag of figs in search of the chalcid wasp, Blastophaga psenes. #FigWasps #insects #figs #wasps #hymenoptera #chalcidoidea #entomology #ficus #botany colinpurrington.com/2023/01/some...
Fabulous Astichus arithmeticus 🤩
One of my favorite chalcidoid wasps.
Using her ovipositor she's probing a bracket fungus for beetle larvae within and lays eggs into them so her larvae can feed on them 1/2
#hymenoptera #chalcidoidea #eulophidae #parasitoid #parasitoidwasp #macro #macrophotography
One of my favorite chalcidoid wasps.
Using her ovipositor she's probing a bracket fungus for beetle larvae within and lays eggs into them so her larvae can feed on them 1/2
#hymenoptera #chalcidoidea #eulophidae #parasitoid #parasitoidwasp #macro #macrophotography
February 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fabulous Astichus arithmeticus 🤩
One of my favorite chalcidoid wasps.
Using her ovipositor she's probing a bracket fungus for beetle larvae within and lays eggs into them so her larvae can feed on them 1/2
#hymenoptera #chalcidoidea #eulophidae #parasitoid #parasitoidwasp #macro #macrophotography
One of my favorite chalcidoid wasps.
Using her ovipositor she's probing a bracket fungus for beetle larvae within and lays eggs into them so her larvae can feed on them 1/2
#hymenoptera #chalcidoidea #eulophidae #parasitoid #parasitoidwasp #macro #macrophotography
Our new Chalcidoidea phylogeny is out in Cladistics!
The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps
Read the open-access article here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 3, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Our new Chalcidoidea phylogeny is out in Cladistics!
The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps
Read the open-access article here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#ElkeDagEenInsect #Insect #wesp
Bij deze wesp kom ik (en NIA) helaas niet verder dan #Bronswespachtige_onbekend #Chalcidoidea_indet die ik tegenkwam in de #hekslootpolder bij #Haarlem
Misschien weet @aglaia.bsky.social er meer van? 😚
Bij deze wesp kom ik (en NIA) helaas niet verder dan #Bronswespachtige_onbekend #Chalcidoidea_indet die ik tegenkwam in de #hekslootpolder bij #Haarlem
Misschien weet @aglaia.bsky.social er meer van? 😚
September 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
#ElkeDagEenInsect #Insect #wesp
Bij deze wesp kom ik (en NIA) helaas niet verder dan #Bronswespachtige_onbekend #Chalcidoidea_indet die ik tegenkwam in de #hekslootpolder bij #Haarlem
Misschien weet @aglaia.bsky.social er meer van? 😚
Bij deze wesp kom ik (en NIA) helaas niet verder dan #Bronswespachtige_onbekend #Chalcidoidea_indet die ik tegenkwam in de #hekslootpolder bij #Haarlem
Misschien weet @aglaia.bsky.social er meer van? 😚
The #Eurytomidae UCE phylogeny that I've been working on in the past few years is now out as a preprint. By using museum samples at NMNH and CIRAD, we generated the first global phylogeny of this diverse but poorly studied #Chalcidoidea family. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Phasing in and out of phytophagy: phylogeny and evolution of the family Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) based on Ultraconserved Elements
We present the first global molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the family Eurytomidae, a group of chalcidoid wasps with diverse biology, with a representative sampling (197 ingroups and 11 outgroup...
www.biorxiv.org
February 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The #Eurytomidae UCE phylogeny that I've been working on in the past few years is now out as a preprint. By using museum samples at NMNH and CIRAD, we generated the first global phylogeny of this diverse but poorly studied #Chalcidoidea family. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📢CHALCIDOIDEA STUDENTS!📢
🧨Here is your chance to win a physical copy of the “Chalcidoidea of the World” book by Prof. John Heredy & Prof. James Woolley!
👉All you have to do is give the best Chalcidoidea talk during the #hymathon2025 online symposium, held on 4-5 December 😁
🧨Here is your chance to win a physical copy of the “Chalcidoidea of the World” book by Prof. John Heredy & Prof. James Woolley!
👉All you have to do is give the best Chalcidoidea talk during the #hymathon2025 online symposium, held on 4-5 December 😁
September 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
📢CHALCIDOIDEA STUDENTS!📢
🧨Here is your chance to win a physical copy of the “Chalcidoidea of the World” book by Prof. John Heredy & Prof. James Woolley!
👉All you have to do is give the best Chalcidoidea talk during the #hymathon2025 online symposium, held on 4-5 December 😁
🧨Here is your chance to win a physical copy of the “Chalcidoidea of the World” book by Prof. John Heredy & Prof. James Woolley!
👉All you have to do is give the best Chalcidoidea talk during the #hymathon2025 online symposium, held on 4-5 December 😁
Pseudotorymus species, a Chalcidoidea (Bronze Wasps), composed mostly of parasitoids and a few hyperparasitoids. They look as if they only pay attention to butt and legs at the gymm. Tiny species of 3 mm found on a dead tree. #elkedageeninsect #bugs #biodiversity #nature #macro #naturalscience #wasp
May 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Pseudotorymus species, a Chalcidoidea (Bronze Wasps), composed mostly of parasitoids and a few hyperparasitoids. They look as if they only pay attention to butt and legs at the gymm. Tiny species of 3 mm found on a dead tree. #elkedageeninsect #bugs #biodiversity #nature #macro #naturalscience #wasp
September 12, 2026 at 10:06 AM
September 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Very exciting to see the description of a new extinct family of #Hymenoptera! Protoitidae are the oldest known Chalcidoidea from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber, and 10 new species are described! Great work by Jonah Ulmer et al (@krogmann.bsky.social)
jhr.pensoft.net/article/1054...
jhr.pensoft.net/article/1054...
At the dawn of megadiversity – Protoitidae, a new family of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from Low...
The earliest representatives of Chalcidoidea are described from Barremian age Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber and classified in Protoitidae Ulmer & Krogmann, fam. nov. (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)....
jhr.pensoft.net
October 24, 2023 at 9:42 PM
Very exciting to see the description of a new extinct family of #Hymenoptera! Protoitidae are the oldest known Chalcidoidea from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber, and 10 new species are described! Great work by Jonah Ulmer et al (@krogmann.bsky.social)
jhr.pensoft.net/article/1054...
jhr.pensoft.net/article/1054...
And a new URL for the freshest version of the Universal Chalcidoidea Database! ucd.chalcid.org#/
Universal Chalcidoidea Database, UCD at TaxonWorks
ucd.chalcid.org
November 9, 2024 at 10:02 PM
And a new URL for the freshest version of the Universal Chalcidoidea Database! ucd.chalcid.org#/
3mm wasp, possible Genus Torymus, cleaning her ovipositor. Photographed summer of 2024 in the Proctor section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, found in an overgrown wet field.
#wasps #chalcidoidea #insects #macro #macrophotos #macrophotography #bugs #entomology
#wasps #chalcidoidea #insects #macro #macrophotos #macrophotography #bugs #entomology
December 15, 2024 at 6:05 PM
3mm wasp, possible Genus Torymus, cleaning her ovipositor. Photographed summer of 2024 in the Proctor section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, found in an overgrown wet field.
#wasps #chalcidoidea #insects #macro #macrophotos #macrophotography #bugs #entomology
#wasps #chalcidoidea #insects #macro #macrophotos #macrophotography #bugs #entomology
all scientists please take note: this is how you title a scientific paper
jhr.pensoft.net/article/94263/
jhr.pensoft.net/article/94263/
From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)
The family Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) is reviewed with the goal of providing nomenclatural changes and morphological diagnoses in preparation for a new molecular phylogeny and a book on ...
jhr.pensoft.net
February 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
all scientists please take note: this is how you title a scientific paper
jhr.pensoft.net/article/94263/
jhr.pensoft.net/article/94263/
#ElkeDagEenInsect #Insect
De #Bronswespachtige #Chalcidoidea_indet. is een kleine, vaak metaalglanzende sluipwesp. De soort is niet exact bepaald. Ze parasiteert meestal op insecten en speelt zo een belangrijke rol in ecosystemen.
De #Bronswespachtige #Chalcidoidea_indet. is een kleine, vaak metaalglanzende sluipwesp. De soort is niet exact bepaald. Ze parasiteert meestal op insecten en speelt zo een belangrijke rol in ecosystemen.
March 30, 2026 at 6:17 AM
#ElkeDagEenInsect #Insect
De #Bronswespachtige #Chalcidoidea_indet. is een kleine, vaak metaalglanzende sluipwesp. De soort is niet exact bepaald. Ze parasiteert meestal op insecten en speelt zo een belangrijke rol in ecosystemen.
De #Bronswespachtige #Chalcidoidea_indet. is een kleine, vaak metaalglanzende sluipwesp. De soort is niet exact bepaald. Ze parasiteert meestal op insecten en speelt zo een belangrijke rol in ecosystemen.
A chalcid wasp (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Palos Fen Nature Preserve, a wetland in Palos Hills, IL just outside of Chicago. #InverteFest
April 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A chalcid wasp (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Palos Fen Nature Preserve, a wetland in Palos Hills, IL just outside of Chicago. #InverteFest
Our global phylogeny of Eurytomidae is now published in Systematic Entomology @respublications.bsky.social
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
April 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Our global phylogeny of Eurytomidae is now published in Systematic Entomology @respublications.bsky.social
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Nem toda vespicha, mas sempre uma.
Uma Chalcidoidea azarando uma fileira de ovos de percevejos (acredito eu).
#bugs #chalcidoidWasps
Uma Chalcidoidea azarando uma fileira de ovos de percevejos (acredito eu).
#bugs #chalcidoidWasps
January 24, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Nem toda vespicha, mas sempre uma.
Uma Chalcidoidea azarando uma fileira de ovos de percevejos (acredito eu).
#bugs #chalcidoidWasps
Uma Chalcidoidea azarando uma fileira de ovos de percevejos (acredito eu).
#bugs #chalcidoidWasps
Ok, here we go… top left is probably Eupelmidae, top right Chalcididae, bottom left Torymidae, bottom right… wtf, it’s cute and weird! No clue on the last one beyond Chalcidoidea.
May 11, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Ok, here we go… top left is probably Eupelmidae, top right Chalcididae, bottom left Torymidae, bottom right… wtf, it’s cute and weird! No clue on the last one beyond Chalcidoidea.
How I'd like to have this book. But. The price. £250!
November 19, 2024 at 3:27 PM
How I'd like to have this book. But. The price. £250!
My best attempt at drawing a species of Metapelma sp. viewed from underneath. It's crazy how hairy they are in real life. A very rainbowy species when viewed up close. Perhaps my pencils are a little too saturated? 🤔
#Metapelma #Metapelmatidae #Chalcidoidea
#Metapelma #Metapelmatidae #Chalcidoidea
July 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
My best attempt at drawing a species of Metapelma sp. viewed from underneath. It's crazy how hairy they are in real life. A very rainbowy species when viewed up close. Perhaps my pencils are a little too saturated? 🤔
#Metapelma #Metapelmatidae #Chalcidoidea
#Metapelma #Metapelmatidae #Chalcidoidea
wait wait wait wait holy shit. did any other bugguide users know you could add /all to the end of a taxonomy page url to expand the tree? this changes everything
bugguide.net/node/view/13...
bugguide.net/node/view/13...
Superfamily Chalcidoidea - Chalcidoid Wasps
An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.
bugguide.net
January 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
wait wait wait wait holy shit. did any other bugguide users know you could add /all to the end of a taxonomy page url to expand the tree? this changes everything
bugguide.net/node/view/13...
bugguide.net/node/view/13...
This wasp is a Metapelma sp. , or perhaps even an imaginary species of Metapelma. Coloured pencils and white posca marker on 8½ x 11 cardstock. I tried my best.
#Metapelma #Metapelmatidae #Chalcidoidea
#Metapelma #Metapelmatidae #Chalcidoidea
July 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This wasp is a Metapelma sp. , or perhaps even an imaginary species of Metapelma. Coloured pencils and white posca marker on 8½ x 11 cardstock. I tried my best.
#Metapelma #Metapelmatidae #Chalcidoidea
#Metapelma #Metapelmatidae #Chalcidoidea
Sometime tomorrow a big dataset, decades old, on some of the most economically important insects worldwide, will finish its migration to TaxonWorks, its curators are excited.
Welcome ScaleNet, to your place beside the Universal Chalcidoidea Database, home of your mortal enemies. Fun shall be had.
Welcome ScaleNet, to your place beside the Universal Chalcidoidea Database, home of your mortal enemies. Fun shall be had.
September 19, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Sometime tomorrow a big dataset, decades old, on some of the most economically important insects worldwide, will finish its migration to TaxonWorks, its curators are excited.
Welcome ScaleNet, to your place beside the Universal Chalcidoidea Database, home of your mortal enemies. Fun shall be had.
Welcome ScaleNet, to your place beside the Universal Chalcidoidea Database, home of your mortal enemies. Fun shall be had.
The Chalcidoidea of the World book by Heraty & Wooley looks fantastic! Glad to collaborate with the Agaonidae chapter. www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10....
#Entomology #Hymenoptera #Insects #Chalcidodiea
#Entomology #Hymenoptera #Insects #Chalcidodiea
April 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The Chalcidoidea of the World book by Heraty & Wooley looks fantastic! Glad to collaborate with the Agaonidae chapter. www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10....
#Entomology #Hymenoptera #Insects #Chalcidodiea
#Entomology #Hymenoptera #Insects #Chalcidodiea