Miles Zhang | 张远濛

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| Hymenoptera taxonomy, phylogenomics, and evolutionary ecology | inordinate fondness for insect galls https://ymilesz.github.io/

Lateral habitus of Phylloxeroxenus sp
Full UCE phylogeny of Eurytoma and Phylloxeroxenus associated with US oak galls
Gall of Diastrophus nebulous
George Melika wearing a "crown" made from oak galls
Josephiella leaf and stem galls
Illustration of Kavayva davidsmithi, by Taina Liwak
Amphibolips megalokokka
Tanaostigmodes johnlasallei from Australia
Belonocnema mesoamericana from Mexico
Diastrophus emeiensis, gall on Rubus found in Sichuan, China
Image of Quadrastichus erythrinae and its galls
Cartoon of Euderus set, the crypt keeper wasp wearing a dead host head around its neck, responding to an off screen comment of "nice costume!" with "thanks!"
Movie poster of Nezha II featuring Ne Zha, with its head replaced by Diplolepis nezha
Kirk Fitzhugh’s Facebook post on the results of my Eurytomidae paper is invalid…
Kilauea fountaining above the caldera
A jar of Japanese candy shaped like rose galls
Ancestral State Reconstruction of Eurytomidae, phytophagy have evolved at least seven times!
Divergence dating and historical biogeography of Eurytomidae
UCE Phylogeny of Eurytomidae, with four habitus images representing the four subfamilies
Poster titled: "Weather vane" Wasp catching adventures from China to the world. The weather vane part is a play on word as the word for wasp has the same sound as wind (weather vane is called wind sign in Mandarin).
Hymathon 2024 keynote speaker session 1, John Heraty UC Riverside, A passion for parasitoids - 45 years of chasing eucharitid wasps
Pteromalid propodeum diagram from Graham 1969
Summary of key divergence date estimates within Hymenoptera.
Consensus phylogeny of Hymenoptera, and some of the unresolved nodes.
A photo collage of oak galls found in Sichuan
A photo of the book Wasps of the World: A Guide to Every Family by Simon van Noort and Gavin Broad
Image of a Ceroptres inquiline reared from oak gall.
Holotype of Austrocynips mirabilis
Orange pumpkin-like Araneus marmoreus
Graham Stone happily doing lab work in his pink lab coat, while under the watchful eye of grad student and postdoc.
Andricus quercuscalicis
Oxford Nanpore MinION
Miles Zhang with Barb Sharanowski
Bran Castle