Codey Mathis

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Dissertation defense advertisement for Codey Mathis. Dissertation is titled "Assessing the impact of floral resources and vertical stratification on insect behavior and biases of common trapping methodologies for insect communities". Defense is scheduled for Wednesday, January 28th, from 10-11am Eastern time at Penn State and on Zoom. Top left image is Codey holding a bunch of ropes that have gotten tangled and botom right image is Codey sitting in the middle of one of her research plots holding her late beagle Remus.
From left to right: Bombus bimaculatus female, Syrphidae fly (Probably Mallota sp.), and Bombus impatiens female
Two australian shepherds, background is a black tri 3 year old named Stella, foreground is a 4 month blue merle named Peopercorn.
text from one of the recent documents released by the house oversight committee that epstein says that Trump "is an archetypal narcissistic psychopath"- or whatever the precise term is
a racist email Peggy Siegel sent to Jeffrey Epstein about the movie Avatar
A flier for a workshop at the Entomological Society of America's annual conference in Portland, Oregon. The workshop is titled 'Diverg-Ent: Challenges, Successes, and Strategies of Neurodiverse Entomologists" and is in Room C125-126 of the Oregon Convention Center on Tuesday, November 11th from 2-6pm PST. The middle of the flier has a logo made by Francisco Bassó Medel and is a brain that is filled with bugs of various colors and types with a butterfly resting on top.
A crowd starts amassing in front of Old Main at Penn State.
ant on a tree
ant on a tree
A checklist that is an attempt to ID the beetles in the previous picture. 11 incorrect answers, 8 correct answers, and 10 empty
Ventral view of a beetle (maybe ptinid?) tucking all of its appendages into lil pockets
small round beetles that can roll into a ball. Tentatively ID'd to leiodidae
Posterior view of a bee's metasoma with a parasite that lives in the abdomen of hymenopterans.
Vespid wasp in ethanol with a giant worm coming out of its abdomen
a male strepsipteran (twisted-winged parasite) in ethanol. Collected with a clear-cane trap in August 2023 in a Pennsylvanian forest edge understory.
A zoomed in photo of a point mounted big headed fly in the family Pipunculidae. When I saw big headed I mean her head is as big as her thorax. I would bet her body weight is like 90% eyes.
A picture of arthropods and debris floating in ethanol. Prominent in the image is a blessed angel, a cutie patootie, a pseudoscorpion.
acrocerid fly with a chonky body and a head that is probably a 8th of the size of the thorax. A heckin goober.
Point of view: you're a bug video and a ~1 year old grey and orange sentient lint (kitten) and a woman are watching you.
Stella, a 2 year old tri color australian shepherd, cuddles up to Remus, a 14 year old beagle. Remus is not sure how he feels about it.
Close up version of a bark beetle, with a dark mass at the junction between the head and the abdomen. Possibly a parasite?
Body of a larval-looking insect with 6 legs but polishing the head. A mystery.
A hand holding a 12 year old curly-haired tarantula , spider taking up majority of the palm of the hand. Spider is missing a patch of fuzz on her opisthosoma because she itches it for some reason.
Through a microscope, looking at insect specimens from a monitoring project. In the center, a pseudoscorpion.
Membracid in ethanol with elaborate thoracic exaggerations
Bigfoot-style blurry photo of a less than 1mm scale insect, ventral view.
three beetles ~3mm each viewed through a microscope
A ~5mm fly from the family Phoridae suspended within ethanol, viewed through a microscope.
living room with a tricolor australian shepherd sleeping on the floor and an old beagle curled up on a dog bed. Bluey is on the television.
A meme that says "I don't know what happening here and at this point I'm too early in my analysis to say much more" with John's face over the meme.
dogs lying on a bed. 10 month old tri color australian shepherd is getting belly rubs in the foreground- 12 year old beagle is sleeping in the background