I’m not affiliated, just sharing… Registration closed for 2023, but maybe there will be another in 2024 https://waspidcourse.wordpress.com/ Downloadable textbook (PDF) here (scroll down for link): https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/a0edbed3-a28f-4212-a8bc-7742851ecbd4

Do you have meetups.com groups there? Common way for folk to find /organise groups here. Or a naturalist organization? We have master naturalist programs that have meetups. And things like sierra club and such too.

I have no idea, but experts here on iNat can definitely utilize it. I’m only familiar with bird society and it only has offline meetings that they translate for people who can’t come, but birds are much easier than insects.

Anyone know where to submit mistakes? [image] The figure is correctly Netelia, but Netlia is in Tryphoninae

yes, give me a sec @egordon88 Found it: "Additionally, comments, suggestions, or errors regarding the textbook may be submitted here: " https://forms.gle/YC52AKEDvMWNwPvq6

This is crazy cool. Family Trigonalidae: Awl wasps are rare; as hyperparasitoids, they rely on several specific events occurring in succession in order to complete their life cycle, and thus have limited opportunities for population growth. Females lay thousands of minute (~0.1 mm), thick-shelle…

Agreed. I’m just reading the chapter on Ecology of Parasitic Hymenoptera. Now I understand monophagous solitary idiobiont endoparasitoids…sort of?

Yeah I saw it on twitter and downloaded the textbook. Going to digest it slowly:)

And you can see them in the https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ovipositing-insects ;)

FWIW there is a 1.1 version now downloadable via the same above link with corrections to minor errors. Just finished day three of lectures and workshops and I am quite impressed by the whole thing. 100% worthwhile. They have prerecorded videos of the slide presentations, as well as slides and trans…

The resource linked by the OP claims to be Open Source but attempts to download the PDF fail with a Permission denied error. You need an account to successfully download the PDF.

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There are sometimes issues with allowing it to fully download before opening.

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