The first edition of Leafminers of North America is now available on a sliding scale, beginning at $5.00! For details, see: https://t.co/6WhHNdzlLs

And congratulations to the other award winners, Adriana Corrales, Flavia Montaño-Centellas, Timothy J. Colston, and Zhengyang Wang! You can read a little about everyone's work on the Foundation's website. https://t.co/8gFWwiuhXx

A huge thanks to the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation for this award in recognition of my work on leafminers! It will allow me to devote more time to making and sharing new discoveries about these and other underappreciated herbivorous insects.

Here's a weird thing, anyone have an explanation? https://t.co/w52DSBN7N7

Can anyone tell me whether this is honey mesquite (Neltuma glandulosa) or something else? I'm interested, of course, because a leaf mine was found on it...

@NKWhiteman I should be directing this question to you too...The S. pallida specimen is one I sent to Rick Lapoint for ID long ago when he was in your lab in AZ. I'm mentioning it in a paper, and I wonder if you have any idea whether it was kept, and if so where it is deposited.

Same question for this Scaptomyza pallida specimen. Guessing a male for this one as well.

I've never tried to sex a drosophilid before, and I no longer have this specimen, but am I right that this Chymomyza amoena is a male? @Bertonemyia

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And from what I can tell, scorpion stings are rarely fatal for adult humans, but trying to do my due diligence here...

Anybody good with scorpions? My niece's friend just got stung by this one in Kazakhstan and they want to know how worried they should be. iNat's AI is suggesting Mesobuthus.

Leafminer course in Maine this summer! For more information, see: https://t.co/MeBRpo8CCp

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If anybody in California wants to try to solve the Pacific hound's tongue leafminer mystery, now is the time to collect it!

Tiny, nondescript flies are much more interesting than they let on.

You may have noticed I don't post here much anymore. Or maybe not because the algorithm stopped showing my posts to you anyway. You can see what I'm up to by subscribing to my blog or my leafminer book or following me on other places where I'm @ ceiseman.

Here's the presentation about leaf-mining flies I gave at the International Congress of Dipterology this summer:

Got a scan. As suspected, it doesn't say what the book that cited it said it says.

Anyone happen to have a copy of this book? I have a couple of quick questions. Anderson, R.F. 1960. Forest and shade tree entomology. Wiley, 428 pp. ( https://t.co/VLBewnh6XA)

A few updates, including a new leafminer calendar, the third edition of Leafminers of North America, and a leafminer field seminar at Eagle Hill next summer!

Anybody out there good with IDing plants from Nevada? Like this little asteraceous(?) shrub with narrow, somewhat sticky leaves, which is the host of some as yet unidentified insects?