re-running 2000 lines of R code, no errors, it's a miracle
Nash Turley
@nashturley.bsky.social
Biologist 🐝🌱 photographer 📸🦋🪲🌻🐦 musician 🎸 he/him www.nashturley.com
I like this paper's framework for presenting p-values not as a binary of significant or not, but rather on a gradient based on strength of evidence. Of course should also pair that language with effect sizes, but that's another pet peeve doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
This syrphid fly is a spectacular wasp mimic, also check out those eyes! Eastern Hornet Fly (Spilomyia longicornis) #bugsky
I recently learned this observation I put on iNaturalist a few years ago is of a rare species endemic to Florida's scrub habitat, the McCrone's Burrowing Wolf Spider (Geolycosa xera) www.inaturalist.org/taxa/220348-...
Blue milkweed beetle (Chrysochus cobaltinus) on dogbane. It was a warm day, but a sprinkle of rain from a brief afternoon thunderstorm cooled things off, plus gave the beetle a few droplets for decoration. (Montana) #BugSky 🌿🐙📷
crab spider found the perfect hiding spot for hunting pollinators
Midway Crevasse A nifty mess of ominous boulders in the woods at Ricketts Glen State Park
Waterfalls and orange critters from Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania
I dropped some bee and wasp facts in this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story :) www.post-gazette.com/news/health/...
Why bees and wasps matter: ‘They’re just doing their thing in nature, pollinating plants’
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i was tricked for a few seconds amazing syrphid fly mimic of a vespid wasp
I found this little sweat bee (Lasioglossum sp.) inside a giant rhododendron flower (Rhododendron maximum)
charming little false flower beetles going bonkers for solomon's plume flowers
Want to know how wild bee communities in the Colombian Andes change between all the habitats in these photos? Check out our new open access paper :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Habitats go from tropical rainforest to cloud forests to high Andean forest to high elevation páramo
Tropical Bee Assemblage Diversity Decreases With Elevation While Body Size Increases - Turley - 2026 - Biotropica - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Tropical Bee Assemblage Diversity Decreases With Elevation While Body Size Increases
Photos of bee specimens collected in the Colombian Andes across a nearly 3000 m elevational cline. They are arranged to illustrate both the decline in richness with elevation and the increase in comm...
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New paper published today based on data collected during a field course in Colombia, we studied bee communities across 3000m elevational gradient in the Andes, very strong results, it has been such a delight to work with great students on this project! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Today I learned there is a hexagonal storm at Saturn's north pole, the sides are bigger than the width of Earth, and in between 2012 and 2016 it changed colors from blue to gold 🪐
look at this lovely syrphid fly (Melangyna fisherii), there are only 45 iNaturalist records for this species, and only 2 other digitized museum records for PA, one being the holotype from 1902. I contend that this may be the best ever photo of this fly :) www.inaturalist.org/observations...
