Mindy Weisberger (she/her) on Nostr: Writing about hammerhead worms meant looking at the history of their US invasion, ...

Writing about hammerhead worms meant looking at the history of their US invasion, which is how I learned that the invasive species Bipalium adventitium was identified in NY in 1947 (and in California in 1943) by zoologist Libbie Hyman.

At a time when there were few women in zoological research, Hyman literally wrote the book on invertebrates, producing a 6-volume treatise ("The Invertebrates") and 90 articles from 1940-1967.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hyman-libbie-henrietta

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