Some manuscripts take a long time to gestate, some go fast. A Short Communication is even faster to write when it comes on the tail of a bigger synthesis. After Chaboo et al. (2015), my colleagues were all on alert to look for more subsocial cassys (subsocial= adult caring for one brood). Within a few…
Tag: Cassidinae
Let’s Disco!
It began in autumn 2009. Wills Flowers, recently retired from Florida A & M University (FAMU) emailed me from Ecuador, where he was doing researcher and teaching on USAID funds. At the Pichilingue Field Station, Quevedo, Wills noticed nasty ants interfering with a beautiful blue-black adult cassidine. The plant was chopped down but the beetle was…