What's new?
I'm currently working from Sydney, where I'll be on maternity leave May-September 2012! You can always reach me by email; try ainsley.seago [at] csiro.au
or
aseago [at] gmail.com.
Book chapter: Photonic crystals in Coleoptera
January 2012
Many weevils and longhorn beetles derive their extraordinary structural colours from three-dimensional photonic crystals. We describe the structural and taxonomic diversity of these crystals in Nature's Nanostructures, Amanda Barnard and Haibo Guo's delightful review of naturally occuring (organic AND inorganic!) nanomaterials.
New paper: Phylogeny of Coccinellidae
May 2011
There are more species of ladybirds than of all the rest of the Cerylonid Series families combined. What's the secret to their success? Find out in MPE. [DOWNLOAD]
New paper: What can morphology tell us about beetle phylogeny?
May 2011
Results of a collaboration between the best and brightest of the beetle world, also me. Now out in Annales Zoologici! [ABSTRACT]
New website.
August 2010
Ainsley vs. CSS, round 3. Ding ding!