🪲 Meet @bughuntertom.bsky.social. He studies beetles because these tiny insects help pollinate plants, recycle nutrients and keep forests healthy. That research helps improve forest management, conservation and wildfire planning, but recent federal cuts can impact this important work.

Between error and discovery ⚖️ #NHMs house lots of labelled specimens; some representing occurrences outside spp known distributions! 🗺️🪲 But, how do we know we are seeing an actual collection event rather than a mislabelling error? Today we talk about an unresolved case! ⤵️ doi.org/10.7717/peer...

Rainbow mixer at #entsoc25 always a blast. 💋 InverteBrittany 🌈 💩 🪲

New article I co-wrote about the financial struggles of graduate school and what you can do to help! academic.oup.com/ae/article/7... #unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social

Underpaid, Overworked, and Essential: Graduate Labor Organizing

Graduate students—including those in entomology—are severely underpaid, almost always falling far below the local living wage (Kirchner and Petzoldt 2022,

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Coreopsis is POPPING right now

Get it diva. So much fun performing at EarthGAY! 🌍🌈🏳️‍🌈♻️ Queer joy, y’all! #InverteBrittany #drag #bugs #firefly #lightningbug #lampyrid

Well, I’m shocked. The Endangered Species Act is under attack (again). By redefining the meaning of “harm” to remove protections for habitat, the path to recovery for listed species is grim. It would be like burning down your house and expecting you to thrive. We are living The Lorax. #Resist

A close up of a Water Stick Insect...which isn't a type of Stick Insect but a type of Water Scorpion...which are not Scorpions but insects, members of the True Bugs as demonstrated by that needle like rostrum mouth What is confusing about that? Lol #bugsky #inverts #PondLife

When you get distracted by your nails under the scope. 💅 🪲 🔬 #chrysomelidae

Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…

The antidote to despair is activism. WORKERS OVER BILLIONARES. #unionstrong #fuckfascism

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

FRIDAY: Join @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies around the US to protest funding cuts, illegal firings, and censorship of scientists. In response to the attacks, the most important thing we can do is to visually show that science has strong support in this country, so please show up if you can!

Folks attending @entsocamerica.bsky.social SEB meeting!! Got any cool #insect #photos you’d like to share? Submit by 3/6 to be featured in the banquet slideshow. Categories include macro, micro, entomologist at work, and memes! Upload to: forms.gle/PqMNteMx2Xmc... #arthropodPOTW #bugmemes #ESASEB

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

First pub of the year in the books

Dave Coyle@drdavecoyle.bsky.social · 2y ago

New work in the @entsocamerica.bsky.social's Journal of Economic Entomology examines an eruptive native herbivore, the baldcypress leafroller (Archips goyerana), in the southern U.S. (aren't baldcypress swamps cool?) and shows they're more common than we thought... academic.oup.com/jee/advance-...

Dr. Roger Airliner Young earned her PhD in 1940. Dr. Young studied #marine #biology and was the first African American woman to publish on #zoology in Science in 1924! marinesanctuary.org/blog/celebra... #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

Celebrating Wave Makers for Women's History Month: Dr. Roger Arliner Young | National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

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Any coleopterists get it? #coleoptera #beetle #puns

The censorship begins: According to officials, the Trump administration is instructing health agencies including the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.

Pin-striped vermillion slug #moth from October on Sapelo Island, GA. No touchy!! ‼️⚠️ but absolutely beautiful. #Lepidoptera #Monoleuca

Solidarity. Love. Community.

Athens Politics Nerd@athenspoliticsnerd.bsky.social · 2y ago

UGA students held a “march against Nazis” on Wednesday protesting a university employee, George Haynie, who has ties to the Aryan Freedom Network, a neo-Nazi group. Should Haynie be fired for his neo-Nazi ties? Opinions varied. athenspoliticsnerd.com/students-pro...

Want to know how to support trans and gender nonconforming colleagues things you can literally do right now to help? Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...

This is an incredible image of insect behaviour. One individual (probably male) has its pheromone glands protruding (pair of yellow organs). It's fanning its wings to puff pheromone toward the other individual (probably female). The mating display involves scent and likely vision and sound. 🪳🪲

@bony1.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have been photographing butterflies but never captured what something like this … i was pleasantly surprised.. love was on the air definitely #butterflies #nature #insects #sony #photography

Holly with slush, Athens, GA January 10, 2025. I’m grateful I didn’t have to shovel!

Whenever you hear about water issues in the west it's like "wow that sounds like a really complicated problem" and it's not. literally just stop growing cattle feed and lettuce in desert or semi-arid places

Richard Waite@waiterich.bsky.social · 2y ago

potatoes 1% winter wheat 7% corn 5% spring wheat 2% cattle feed 83% barley 5% someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying (someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)

Two bark #scorpions with a #pseudoscorpion between them. 🦂 So cuuuuuute! From the canopy of a longleaf pine tree 🌲

Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

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PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...

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Interviewer: Can you please explain this gap in your resume? Entomologist: Pupation.

🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋@humanbyweight.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Engineer: Tolerancing.

My talk last week at The Coleopterists Society: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Pi... Listen if you dare. #Coleoptera #longleaf #beetles

Thomas Sheehan - Beetle diversity in the imperiled longleaf pine ecosystem

YouTube video by The Coleopterists Society

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SO NOW EVERYONE CAN STOP SENDING ME IMAGES OF EUROPEAN HORNETS, CICADA KILLERS, FLIES, BEETLES +++ RIGHT?!?!?!? 😵 This is great news and shows with early detection there are chances to eradicate invasive pests before they establish. www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...