Michiel de Groot
Evolutionary biologist | PhD candidate at UGent & INBO working on weird parasitic fungi on ladybirds🐞🍄 | Endless freeform jazz most beautiful
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- Reposted by Michiel de GrootSome big diffs between citizen science observations (from iNaturalist) and specimen records (from digitised museum collections) - cit. sci records biased towards large inverts & exotic spp. Great MSc project with recommendations 🌏🧪@nzhymenoptera.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Slow traffic this morning in Ghent 🐑
- Reposted by Michiel de GrootWant to read the #OpenAccess article itself? Find it here! Effects of #temperature & #humidity on the presence & prevalence of a common fungal #parasite on an invasive ladybird buff.ly/jw3xPTY #Harmonia #Hesperomyces @michieldegroot.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social @inbo.be
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- New paper! We looked at how temperature and humidity affect a fungal parasite on a ladybird in an article in @royentsoc.bsky.social's Ecological Entomology. 🐞🍄 You can find the full journal highlight here: www.royensoc.co.uk/news/tempera...
- Why did we use a hot dog roller for this? Did the ladybirds just enjoy it like a fairground ride? I explain here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JW...
- Reposted by Michiel de GrootThe work reports on abiotic factors influencing the parasite-host interactions of a microfungus & the invasive harlequin ladybird (#Harmonia axyridis). @michieldegroot.bsky.social @adriaenstim.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social @inbo.be Photo credit: Trey Wardlaw (CC-BY-NC)
- New paper! Featuring state-of-the-art technology!
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- Reposted by Michiel de Groot🍄Microfungi on insects🍄 Fungi in the genus Hesperomyces are associated exclusively with ladybirds, visible as yellowish-greenish elongated balloons. We aim to map them in Europe and describe #newspecies. Join the #FunDive campaign! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
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- Gentse Feesten
- Back in 2022, @dhaelewa.bsky.social, Iva Njunjić (@taxonexpeditions.bsky.social), Warre van Caenegem and I went to the Synchrotron in Grenoble to image very small fossil beetles in very small pieces of amber. The resulting paper is now out! (With more to come) subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/1542...
- Leie at dusk
- Practice pool
- The great escape
- Two- and seven-spot ladybirds, cinnabar moth caterpillar (munching on poisonous ragwort to make itself inedible), and a funky long-necked small snakefly
- Harlequin ladybird pupas *everywhere* at the moment, with some stray seven- and two-spots.
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- Very pretty horseshoe ladybirds in the malaise trap in the botanical garden. Look at their little horseshoe patterns! Small ladybirds are often hairy, as you can see. Their real size is around the size of a dot --> .
- Reposted by Michiel de GrootThank you so much @ukladybirds.bsky.social, for joining us in České Budějovice🙏 These were such inspiring three days. Looking forward to write the perspective on priorities for fungal #citizenscience!
- Our first #C4inV4 workshop on citizen science ended today! The last day was full of discussions on motivation factors and priorities for citizen science in mycology. So happy with the outcomes of the past three days! #TeamLaboul #VisegradFund
- Reposted by Michiel de GrootOur first #C4inV4 workshop on citizen science ended today! The last day was full of discussions on motivation factors and priorities for citizen science in mycology. So happy with the outcomes of the past three days! #TeamLaboul #VisegradFund
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- Ladybird lab at the Cryptic Fungi workshop going swimmingly! We were looking for Hesperomyces, a small fungus on ladybirds we caught yesterday. #VisegradFund #TeamLaboul
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- Reposted by Michiel de GrootIt is such a pleasure to be with you all - I am having a wonderful time immersed in the worlds of entomology and mycology (a perfect pair) during this fabulous workshop on cryptic fungi - thank you so much for inviting me @ukceh.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
- 60% of global extinctions have been caused, solely or in part, by invasive alien species—a staggering statistic from @ukladybirds.bsky.social's talk about leveraging #citizenscience data to tackle biological invasions. Part of our #VisegradFund #C4inV4 workshop in České Budějovice.
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- Now for talks by @dhaelewa.bsky.social, @ukladybirds.bsky.social and @robin-hutchinson.bsky.social on knowledge and knowledge gaps of citizen science and @pomscheme.bsky.social
- A very successful ladybird gathering with the #VisegradFund citizen science workshop here in Ceske Budejovice - fridged for now, checking them for miceofungi tomorrow!
- Found some more!
- Reposted by Michiel de GrootOur workshop on #citizenscience started today, supported by a #VisegradFund grant! First off, @michieldegroot.bsky.social is talking about next-level citizen science on Hesperomyces harmoniae, a microfungus parasitizing the invasive Harmonia axyridis, and our #Beetlehangers database.
- Time to look for Marienkäfer (🐞) in Marienbad (🇨🇿)
- Arrived in the ghost hotel 👻 Let's see if I get haunted
- quadruples
- Trying to make plants work on the balcony which finally is bearing fruit (flowers?)
- Reposted by Michiel de GrootWe are inviting you for a public lecture by the wonderful Dr. Helen E. Roy, titled "Increasing Understanding of Biological Invasions Together". Supported by a Visegrad Fund grant. 📅19 May 2025, 19:00-20:00 📍České Budějovice, University of South Bohemia 🔗Registration: forms.gle/5kfREkMBpyjV...
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- Little ecosystem: a beetlehanger fungus on a harlequin ladybird eating an aphid that was eating a rose, all on the side of the river on a sunny day in Ghent (Hesperomyces harmonise, Harmonia axyridis, Macrophisum rosae, Rosa sp.)
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- Bluebells in bloom!
- Sshh... make your nest quietly
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