Most under-appreciated album

Serves as a launching pad for Alicia Keys and Destiny’s Child. Not to mention Tribe and De La, with the tongues contributing too.

Get down on it, tunes from 4th grade

Blapstinus, not welcome

Pogonomyrmex harvester ants dump scraps outside their nests.

Pogos at night.

For scavengers, this can be a lucrative place to visit for a meal. Tenebrionidae are frequent visitors. During our trip to TX this past summer, Blapstinus were very diverse and abundant around Pogonomyrmex nest entrances at night.

Blapstinus just eat trash so they’re a benign existence, but nonetheless are not welcome in the eyes of the ants.

This Blapstinus is not welcome.

New Tarsal Formula for Aleocharinae

It’s funny how life works out sometimes. Back in the day, tarsal formula was THE way to classify aleocharines. It’s a nice idea, very numerical and exacting. But, we now know, and this stinging fact is becoming more and more apparent with each additional study, that tarsal formula is super homoplastic and usage needs a bag, not a pinch of salt when considering.

Another addition to the aleocharine tarsal formula collage: 3-4-5!

Fore leg with 3 tarsomeres.

Script for comparing two matrices of equal dimensions

https://sites.google.com/site/staphylinidae/research-methods/script-for-comparing-matrices

Thanks to Boryana for writing this script for me.May be silly to the more computationally inclined, but I thought I’d share this in case there wasn’t already a way to do this that’s available.