a cockroach is loudly jangling the cans in the recycling bin. can I get you something

Y'all, I've found a lot of weird things in my urban moth traps, but METH PIPE is certainly a new one. Ps. At what age do you talk to your bugs about drugs?? #entomology #thatsenoughfortoday

I live for berry season. Cloudberries and my first blueberries of the year 🫐 #AlaskaHarvesters #blueberries

In my element, lolloping through the bog meadows with my malaise trap💃 like oh this? It's a *Bugdorm*. My purse? A Conoco Phillips, and yes, the rust stain IS genuine. My hair? Styled by the shrubbery I crawled through to get here 💅✨️ #FieldFashion #Entomology 🧪

A good morning spent crawling around in the dirt 🍓 #AlaskaGardening #turnips

I have been waiting for this day! 📯

Charley Eiseman@ceiseman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Stop everything! Ray Gagne has just finished the second edition of "The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America" and it's freely available here: zenodo.org/records/2137...

How sweet are these two yellowjackets huddled under a haskap berry in the rain together 💛 They sure do look dry under there, clever girls. #WaspWednesday #entomology #WaspFarm #AlaskaGardening 🧪

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

scubapopeye.bsky.social@scubapopeye.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Maybe I’m a sap but I don’t care. I love flowers I love animals I love seeing people in love I like sunrise and sunset If you don’t take the time to enjoy the little things in life you’re missing out

Today I discovered that this industrious aerial yellowjacket has been stripping the wood from the fancy moulding on my cavity nest boxes. That moulding was entirely blue last week. I'm simultaneously impressed and exasperated. Happy #WaspWednesday 🐝🧪 #entomology #yellowjacket

My first two turnips of the year! These Hakurei turnips have a softer flesh and are perfect for biting into fresh, just like an apple. #turnips #alaskagrown #gardening

Soaking up the sunshine in my own "wasp farm" for #WaspWednesday 🐝 I love the way Evans writes about wasps; he's objective, observant, but best of all is the way his admiration and affection for aculeates lights up his prose. Wasp Farm (1963) by Howard Ensign Evans #hymenoptera #wasps #entomology

Excited to find this large marble butterfly on my survey transect! The Fish & Wildlife Service is coordinating butterfly surveys with partners across Alaska in an effort to map their distribution, due to the recent petition for their listing as threatened by Xerces 🦋 #Lepidoptera #XercesSociety 🧪

Absolutely delighted to see the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social listed in the credits of the series "This is a Gardening Show" hosted by Zack Galifianakis! #ILoveBHL #thisisagardeningshow 🧪

Happy #WaspWednesday to this cutie little Passaloecus cuspidatus that has been gathering up every aphid out of my currant bushes 💛 #hymenoptera #entomology 🧪

How delightful are these pollinator signs at Georgeson Botanical Garden in Fairbanks, AK! Illustrated by Renee Nowicki 🐝🪰🦋 #GeorgesonBotanicalGarden #AlaskaPollinatorWeek #entomology 🧪

Beauty, buzz, and a little sting in time for Alaska Pollinator Week! Just a little yellowjacket appreciation for this year's pollinator week 🐝 www.adn.com/opinions/202... #hymenoptera #yellowjacket #alaskapollinatorweek #anchoragedailynews 🧪

Opinion: Beauty, buzz and a little sting, in time for Alaska Pollinators Week

They may not be cuddly, but Alaska’s much-maligned wasps are busy pollinating, pest-hunting and keeping gardens alive.

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Happy Alaska Pollinator Week!4 species of aerial yellowjackets (out of AK's total 7) are to thank for my harvest of currants this year #hymenoptera #yellowjacket #pollination 🐝🧪

New Crabro, who dis? Crabro nigriceps is now added to Alaska's checklist of known species! Shield? 10/10, love a good shield #hymenoptera #crabronidae #Alaska 🐝🧪

If you can only do the science that the political elite want you to do, that's not really doing science.

Did you know #Alaska has over 30 species of lady beetle? Here's a great article for Alaskans who want to make their garden #bug friendly. Thanks @awenninger.bsky.social www.uaf.edu/ces/publicat...

One Saturday I took a climb in north Queensland I met an ant up there who bit me on the hand Punk rock ant, can i take a pic Punk rock ant, your mohawk's sick Let's get a science grant Just you and me, punk rock ant

Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I missed that someone finally managed to find and photograph the rare punk rock ant Camponotus thadeus.

The Man Who Loved Wasps - a nice collection of essays by pompilid taxonomist Howard E. Evans. This collection covers a variety of topics, but mostly insects and birds. Perfect for passing time waiting for the fish to bite. #Hymenoptera #entomology #naturalhistory 🐝🧪

I met the cutest little sea star yesterday while fishing for sablefish in Prince William Sound. About 1"/2.5 cm across, so tiny! It came up from 2400 ft, quite a journey. Someone on iNaturalist identified it as the cookie-cutter sea star, Ctenodiscus crispatus #seastar #Alaska #deepsea

My department just dropped their new sock line: an ode to research on the use of kelp in livestock feed. Hilarious? Yes. Oddly charming? Also yes. 🧦🐄 #UAF #sciencefashion

My tiniest niece insists that it's only a fart if it makes a sound, so for her sake I hope Vachal knew what he was doing and this is, in fact, a very noisy bee.

Ainsley S@americanbeetles.bsky.social · 7mo ago

it's Friday post rude weevil names

So excited to find these two books from the Natural History Literature Rescue in my mailbox today! NHLR keeps books and other literature out of the trash and in the hands of folks who can use them. Adopt a book and/or send them your books! goodoldpaper.org #naturalhistory #goodoldpaper #literature 🧪

I had the joy of watching this little aphid wasp over the course of a couple weeks last June. So many trips gathering resin! I reared out the offspring of this tunnel over the past month: mostly Passaloecus cuspidatus with a few Omalus aeneus for good measure #hymenoptera #entomology #Alaska 🐝🧪

I love reading acknowledgments sections for their little bits of warmth and humor. This inexplicable "non-endorsement" of Special Kitty Cat Food, in a study which as far as I understand makes absolutely no use of cat food whatsoever, is truly 10/10. #entomology 🧪

Hello and welcome to my bee pit: a phrase made possible by this year's unusually cold spring 🐝 I'm asking this scattering of spent coffee grounds to work some real magic here. #beekeeping #alaska