Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD

@pbeasleyhall.bsky.social

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subterranean insect biodiversity & evolution @ adelaide uni • diversity in stem 🌈🧠 • inaturalist enjoyer 🌱 • current hyperfixation: cave cricket taxonomy 🦗 kaurna land, australia📍 • they/them 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A spindly cricket poses on the forest floor, somewhat caught in the headlights by the photographer's flash. Its long legs resemble a spider and its antennae are longer than its dark brown and ochreous body.
A dark brown cave cricket stretched out across a rocky grey cave wall. Its antennae are so long they reach offscreen.
Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/14058957
Windows XP Professional still in its box: front of box
Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/315056868
Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189864718
Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6343096
Maisy Mouse in overalls proudly holding a lesbian flag. Photo credit POKOPIPO: https://x.com/POKOPIPO/status/1285841855280640001/photo/1
A pale insect with tiny eyes digging underground. It looks almost like a fat potato with legs. Source: https://www.visitgympieregion.com.au/great-experiences/wildlife/
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/19990209121149/http://www.insect-world.com/main/six01.html
A side profile of a katydid resembling a brown, crunchy leaf. The wings of the katydid even have veins! Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68304626
Heatmap of the globe showing ignorance re: Orthoptera biodiversity. Ignorance is generally lower in the Northern Hemisphere and further from the equator.
A macro shot of the back of a cave cricket's body. In focus are the plates of the abdomen and tiny spines on the back legs. The final plate of the body is shaped like a W and has well produced lobes. Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/236080897
A cave cricket sitting on a rotting log. The insect is mottled with dark and ochreous brown patches. Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/201391400
Close-up photograph of a brown marmorated stink bug's face
Left, a close-up photo of the female subgenital plate of Micropathus zubat. Two spiked, fang-like lobes project from the bottom margin. Right, image of Zubat with its mouth open, showing its fangs.
Map of Tasmania showing Forest Hills in the south of the island.
Male individual of M. ditto sitting on a cave wall. Image credit Dr Jessa Thurman, source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195459143
Macro photo of the female subgenital plate (SGP), used to differentiate species, of Micropathus tasmaniensis. The plate has two thin, finger-like lobes projecting from the bottom margin.
Micropathus ditto (female) in profile sitting on a cave wall. Superimposed in the corner is a sprite of the Pokemon Ditto. Image credit Tim Rudman, source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/71119620
Two separate images of cave crickets perched on a craggy cave wall. Their bodies are mottled and ochre-coloured with long, spider-like legs. Next to each are pixelated sprites from Pokemon: one is Ditto, the other the Big Nugget item. Photo credits Jessa Thurman, Paul George.
A screenshot of an archived website on the Wayback Machine. The webpage is entirely blank except for the word "fear", unformatted and comically placed in the centre of the page. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20021128225556/http://www.eol.org/
"Who's That Pokemon?" template with a silhouette of a cave cricket
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/19981201230707/http://www.scholastic.com/MAGICSCHOOLBUS/
I rate this an excellent paper, both useful and important. I strongly recommend its publication with minor revisions.
A mottled brown and ochreous grasshopper nestled amongst rocks. Its body is covered in pinpricks of yellow, making it look like it's almost glowing, and blends in perfectly with the surrounding substrate. Its legs are jagged, resembling a leafy sea dragon.
“Paul said: “There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it’s almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed.” “And you, my son,” Jessica asked, “are you one who gives or one who takes?” “I’m at the fulcrum,” he said. “I cannot give without taking and I cannot take without ….” He broke off, looking to the wall at his right.”
Three of Burmy's forms hanging from a tree, cloaked in sand, plant leaves, and "trash" (pink fuzz)
Source: https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20010917213214/http://abc.net.au/science/
Source: https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/19970625153835/http://www.ento.csiro.au/index.html
Source: https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20060912034223/http://www.janegoodall.org/
Source: https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20000618095427/http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20000511012347/http://carlsagan.com/
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/19961105090532/http://www.glaad.org/
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20060130124145/http://australian.museum/