BybeeLab@BybeeLab

Insect Evolutionary Biology lab at Brigham Young University

 Provo, UT
Based in Gabon
Joined February 2018
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Why fireflies first started to glow during flight

Nature - Mature fireflies lit their lanterns before birds and bats evolved, suggesting that sexual signalling drove this dazzling behaviour.

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Super proud of our lab! Undergrads took home three awards from international summer research! Thanks to my graduate students for excellent mentorship! And @SysEB_Entsoc for all the hard work! #ESA2019 @carpophilus @pyractomena @nsaxton55 @BYU @BYUKennedyCtr
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Winners!!! Senior personnel prevail! Thanks ESA. #ESA2019 ⁦@ZaspelLab⁩ ⁦@Dr_Akito⁩
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Nice #firefly poster by @BybeeLab members. Atyphella species from Vanuatu. #Coleptera #Lampyridae #EntSoc19
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Two populations of Pyractomena out last night. It might be a little late, but Utah fireflies are continuing to light up!
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We were invited to watch land diving in Pentecost. It is to bless the yam harvest. #intense. We’ll name a new species of damselfly after the ritual (see other post) BYU study abroads are amazing!!! @BYUKennedyCtr @BYU @carpophilus
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You are looking at the gnarly hand of my new killer MS student @nsaxton55 which is holding our most recently discovered new species from Vanuatu. We’re going to name it after the local practice of land diving (see next post). #newspecies #Conservation @BYUKennedyCtr @BYU @byubio
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I’m sure it was with flying colors!
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After 5 years filled with many exciting discoveries and the occasional trying moment, I have successfully defended my Ph.D.!
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Totally awesome! We saw this coming many years ago and it is no surprise that you nailed it.
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Odonates everywhere, probably because of water features like this....
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Just finished chasing fireflies in the highlands of Maewo, Vanuatu. 88 captured.
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My 7 month old was screaming in church so I took him out and tried to calm him down. He kept flopping around, grunting and screaming. In desperation, I started singing @PearlJam to him. He immediately calmed down and is now sleeping on my lap. Parenting nirvana?
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100% nirvana
We also have been working with the marine fireflies here. Check out how almost all of the second to last abdominal segment is bioluminescent. That is a first for me! @pyractomena @dr_firefly @skbrannoch @UCSB_OakleyLab
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Wait a sec, marine? Do the larvae live fully submerged in saltwater?
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They can. Not sure if they do.
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Replying to @UCSB_OakleyLab @BybeeLab @pyractomena @dr_firefly @skbrannoch
Whoa. Such a huge lantern! So bright from both dorsal & ventral sides! Are these intertidal larvae?
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Ya they live on the rocks in the intertidal as far as we can tell. But we also think they may actually be living underwater for extended amounts of time hunting. Some bucket experiments show that we have 100% survival in salt water after 14 hours across all stars.
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We spent two days at the top of a volcano collecting. More insects there than you would think
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Ambrym Vanuatu
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Walking Sticks have been found on Ambrym! @stickinsect71 obligatory headshots. Two large females.
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