Jedidiah Nixon

Unido: 24.ago.2020 Última actividad: 28.feb.2024 iNaturalist

Hi! I've been officially slithering in quest of insects for over a decade now. Feel free to contact me!

I got my start as a HS freshman, volunteering at the USDA-ARS-NCARL lab under the tutelage of Dr. Louis Hesler, dissecting and identifying ladybeetles, primarily of genus Scymnus, by genital morphology.

My BA was at Luther College, under Dr. Kirk Larsen, and my senior paper focused on burying beetles of genus Nicrophorus, based on a summer as an RA in Dr. Rosemary Smith's lab at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.

Since then, I've worked for the USDA in western SD, surveying grasshopper communities in rangeland, recording species, instar, and population densities.

I went on to complete a Biology MS at Western Kentucky University under Dr. T. Keith Philips, studying the Pseudanophthalmus, a genus of blind troglomorphic ground beetles endemic to the karst regions of the eastern United States.

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