Posts tagged with taxonomy

  1. Uninvited guests in your groceries

    Words, illustraions and photos: Marianne CoquilleauMarianne Coquilleau With spring coming our way, gardens come to life and with it their many inhabitants. It’s no surprise then …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/pearg/2020/09/17/uninvited-guests-in-your-groceries

  2. With great power comes great responsibility…

    Words: Samantha Ward Images: Words: Samantha Ward & Marianne Coquilleau Flying the flag for the PEARG lab! [Photo credit: Marianne Coquilleau] I am a scientist. A …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/pearg/2019/12/19/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility

  3. Finding “Nosy Tiger’s” and other oddly named freshwater invertebrates

    Words – Eddie Tsrline Images – Eddie Tsyrlin and John Gooderham  Towbiters, water scorpions and Nosy Tigers. These are just some the colourful names given to …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/pearg/2019/11/22/finding-nosy-tigers-and-other-oddly-named-freshwater-invertebrates

  4. New open access paper: Morphological and molecular analysis of Australian earwigs (Dermaptera) points to unique species and regional endemism in the Anisolabididae family

    Words and images: Oliver Stuart Link to open access paper Earwigs (Dermaptera) are a challenging group of insects to study. In Australia, earwigs are variously known …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/pearg/2019/03/15/new-open-access-paper-morphological-and-molecular-analysis-of-australian-earwigs-dermaptera-points-to-unique-species-and-regional-endemism-in-the-anisolabididae-family

  5. An adventure in Alice at the AES conference 2018

    Header photo: Marianne Coquilleau, Samantha Ward, Xuan Cheng, Josh Douglas, Tom Schmidt and Oliver Stuart  Words: Oliver Stuart and Samantha Ward Introduction This past September was …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/pearg/2019/01/08/an-adventure-in-alice-at-the-aes-conference-2018

  6. Biology of the babushkas

    Words: Samantha Ward As the name suggests, at the Pest & Environmental Adaptation Research Group we are interested in pest species and enjoy investigating novel approaches …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/pearg/2018/05/10/biology-of-the-babushkas

  7. What’s in a (species) name? Using genetics to map the hidden diversity of earwigs

    By Ryan Hodnett [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

    Written by Oliver Stuart, Image credit: Ryan Hodnett [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons There are a lot of different insects; this cannot be overstated. …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/pearg/2018/04/11/whats-in-a-species-name-using-genetics-to-map-the-hidden-diversity-of-earwigs