Just spotted a solitary sandpiper, this a shorbird that nest in trees using old songbird nests, and mostly forages in forest ponds and bogs. Also their spanish name sounds really nifty, playero solitario

For International Dark Skies Week -and every week, every night- know that light pollution is a significant contributor to biodiversity declines and animal populations, especially insects. Especially the insects.

Downtown Balitmore as seen from Federal Hill Park

Seen across the street from an elementary school! A bald eagle feeding on a rotting deer carcass.

downy woodpecker keeping an eye on me

there are lots of black vultures near my house and I think that is great!

I’m seeing too many content scraping accounts lately. You know, the ones who post “a frog a day” or whatever. They’re lousy! They steal photos, post without credit to get lots of followers & then often make money off the account. Please block them & try these real photographers instead!

wood ducks are stunning

If you're in need of a bit of color this morning, here's a metallic green sweat bee who wants all the pollen. Anza-Borrego Desert, California. #Bugsky 🌿🐙🐝🌼

Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes)

Nifty leaf katydid (Genus Steirodon) www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Soldier fly (Genus Cyphomyia) from Ecuador

an adult antlion (Genus Myrmeleon), the larvae are predators that make pits where they sit at the bottom with open jaws waiting for bugs to fall in

field sparrow (Spizella pusilla)

"the conservation status of 88.5% of described insect and arachnid species in North America is unknown" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Green Treefrog (Dryophytes cinereus) on a palm leaf Seen near Orlando, FL, Oct 2017

Fulvous Whistling-Ducks I saw at Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive in Orange Co. FL, 24 Jan 2021

New calculations indicate that 90% of flowering plant species are animal-pollinated academic.oup.com/nsr/article/...

Most bee folks are used to saying there are about 20,000 bee species in the world, but this new study estimates that number of more like 25,000! theconversation.com/science-know...

Spring Creek near Bellefonte, PA

In a paper I wrote "we fit linear models..." but someone thinks it should be "we fitted linear models", which sounds very weird to me, thoughts? Seems like it's an American vs. British english difference. writingexplained.org/fit-or-fitte...

some beautiful rove beetles for your Monday! 🤎Mycetoporine on grass, Oklahoma 💙brilliant metallic blue Plochionocerus sp, Ecuador 🖤coupled Stenus alacer in small creek, Oklahoma 🌈unbelievable Phanolinus sp, cloud forest, Ecuador

Another day, another listening-to-the-entire-Rammstein-discography-while-working-on-a-paper-revision session

hey reviewer 1, this goes out to you

Nectar and pollen are the common bee-bribes, but not all flowers offer both. California poppies don't produce nectar, and instead only offer pollen to visiting insects, like this wee sweat bee covered in flower-glitter a couple of springtimes ago.

working today with a GIS layer of all ZIP codes, gives the US an interesting texture :)

Another winter walk in Spring Creek Canyon

It's always tragic when a Horse Grinder song is relevant to current events, this one is shockingly accurate right now: "Plutocratic Governments Terminate Foreign Leaders That Do Not Comply with the Desires of Multinational Corporations" horsegrinder.bandcamp.com/album/plutoc...

Wintery walk along Spring Creek near Bellefonte, PA

This gallery of almost all EU bee species high quality photos is quite impressive: pollinatoracademy.eu/images

I'm an advocate that dinosaurs were likely plump and fluffy (like birds) rather that smooth, sleek, and muscley (like lizards). Here's my guess of what Tyrannosaurus rex might look like, little arms totally obscured by floof.

Icy weather makes for a busy day at the bird feeders Blue jay Dark-eyed junco White-throated sparrow Downy woodpecker Carolina wren Northern cardinal Black-capped chickadee White-breasted nuthatch House sparrow Tufted titmouse Song sparrow All the winter classics ❄️

A few scenes from today's cold and snowy Christmas Bird Count. Red-breasted nuthatch, brown creeper, and cedar waxwings were highlights

Saddleback caterpillar from Belize, look but don't touch

#caturday ☘️

The Sherwin Williams corporation is surprisingly transparent about their omnicidal intentions

can you guess which two data points ended up having data entry errors :P

The colder the house the more tightly wrapped the sleeping fluff ball is

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Here, There and Everywhere: Widespread Non‐Native Plants in the World's Urban Ecosystems - Super fun project to collaborate on! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Never get so attached to a poem you forget truth that lacks lyricism" - Joanna Newsom from the song "En Gallop"

Lovely little mushroom growing in a high elevation tamarack forest, Yading National Park, China.

I did a radio interview on the Organic Gardener show on KDKA AM 1020, talking about wild be biodiversity, bee monitoring, helping bees with native plants, and our guide book to bees of Pennsylvania :)

Some Philadelphia scenes

Yesterday had views of mountains with fall colors and feeding pears to goats 🐐🍁

My costume for gig tonight is... I suppose... David Lee Goth 🤘💀🎸