User talk:Eickwort

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Xyleborus glabratus

Thanks for offering to step in and clean up Xyleborus glabratus. You're right; it does need a lot of work. I gave up after some editor with an axe to grind deleted the Mike Thomas dorsal and lateral images of the beetle because I couldn't prove that he had authorized the agency we both worked for to upload his public-domain images. If you'd like, I can upload additional images of eggs, larvae, and adults. --Aderksen (talk) 07:23, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

@Aderksen: Thanks! I was planning to upload some fresh images of a female at least (I have lots of them, but I've been getting better at montage pics lately). But if you have some good ones handy, go for it! The distribution and biology info is all out of date. I'm also planning a major revision of the bark beetles page, which is frankly awful. I work in the DPI building too - I guess you have probably heard about Mike's passing last month. Eickwort (talk) 13:57, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Aw, jeez. No, Leroy/Cyndi/Brad didn't mention it. I guess that isn't a huge surprise, just a sad reminder of inevitability. My girlfriend asked me who Mike was, and I could only describe him as the most important North American coleopteran taxonomist of the last sixty years. I suppose that is as fitting a eulogy as any. I will try and dedicate more of my free time to updating both pages. As you suggest, they are out of date. My photos are not of the greatest quality - but at least they demonstrate some of the life stages. Dan Carrillo down at TREC in Homestead definitely has some better stuff, as does Jiri up in your neck of the woods. Thanks for letting me know about Mike. Aderksen (talk) 23:01, 24 November 2019 (UTC)