Whirligig beetles swim on the surface of the water. Why aren't they all quickly eaten by fish and frogs? One of the natural history puzzles that Jerrold Meinwald helped solve.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/obituaries/jerrold-meinwald-91-dies-studied-creatures-chemical-signals.html …
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:-( Tom Eisner was my bio advisor when I was an undergrad and a friend afterward. Sad to see that partnership move on. (I think they team-taught the lucibufagin lecture, which was a riot...)
I wrote his obituary too. It's sad to find out all these fascinating people whom I will never meet.
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Eisner was something else. Once (I think this was right around the time he sent a news crew to my millipede-infested house), he actually proposed that we co-write a story and try to get it published by this paper called The New York Times.
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He and E.O. Wilson went on a two-month road trip collecting bugs during grad school. That must have been awesome. Like Jack Kerouac/Hunter S. Thompson scale of awesome.
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