taxonbytes is the website and blog maintained by members of the Franz Lab of Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity Informatics at the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Our research and outreach program has three main components: (1) systematic and biodiversity studies of invertebrates - primarily insects - that occur in the New World tropics including the West Indies, southwestern United States, and Sonora; (2) the development of novel logic-based concepts and tools for biodiversity informatics; and (3) novel forms to conceive and deliver outreach related to these themes.