Recently, Michael has been making the rounds in the news due to a discovery he made starting in 2012 back in his old stomping grounds of Arkansas. What started with insect collected straight off the side of a Wal-Mart has ended with a media blitz covering the epiphany that Mike had in front of a Zoom class in 2020 and the release of a journal article focused on a giant lacewing! Tune in and read on to find out more.
Photograph of the giant lacewing specimen, used as Figure 1 in the publication about the discovery
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| Screenshots of Michael teaching his Biodiversity and Taxonomy class over Zoom when he determined that the specimen was a giant lacewing. This is what the class was seeing as the discovery happened. |
Show notes
If you want to read the paper that reported the discovery, it can be found here. If you can't access it because of the paywall, email Michael (mxs1578_NO_@_SPAM_psu.edu and he will be happy to provide a copy.
If you haven't seen any of the news articles, some of the more prominent can be found below:
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