Bugs are in trouble, and our yards are part of the answer!🍂 ➡ If each of us — you, your neighbor, your friend down the block — takes a step, that adds up to a lot. ✅Learn more about the importance of microhabitats here ➡ beecityusa.org/blog #BeeCityUSA #Gardens #Microhabitats #LeavetheLeaves

A morsel for your #WorldFoodDay: We can grow food in ways that restore our planet’s health. Across forests, farms and seas, regenerative food practices can help reduce climate change and biodiversity loss. Here’s how: https://nature.ly/47rGC7V

Anyone attending BeeCon in person this week and would like to grab coffee? :)

It’s time for one of the easiest things you can do for wildlife: just #LeaveTheLeaves! Leaves are vital homes & winter shelter! 🐝 🍂 Follow our easy tips & meet the animals you’ll be saving ➡️ xerces.org/blog/leave-t... 🪧 Get your own yard sign, now available in English & Spanish ➡️ xerces.org/gifts

Join us for a free 3-day virtual symposium on firefly research & conservation! Each day will include 6 presentations & time for networking. Everyone interested in fireflies is invited! 🪲💡 🗓️Oct 28-30 at 9am PT / 12pm ET 🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Second Wave of Longhorns is in full swing around here. No fewer than three sets of Sleepytime Twins in the Cosmo patch on the way to work this morning (and many lone ones). [Berkeley, CA 7-2-25] #bees #nativebees

This Indigenous Peoples' Day, it's a good time to review how Land Grant Universities have profited from stolen lands. This article only covers Land Grants; many other universities (U of Michigan, for example) have benefited similarly. (1/2) www.landgrabu.org

You're looking at the first iNaturalist observation of Fives Heath (Erica sicula) in both Libya and North Africa more generally! 📷 abdulnaser on iNaturalist 📍 Libya 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Want to learn how to identify insects? Come to our insect identification workshop tomorrow at 6:30 pm in Natural Science Room 352! No prior ID knowledge necessary - feel free to bring your own specimens as well. #msu #msuentomology #msunatsci

None of our research exists in a vacuum. We are weavers. We take a thread of tech made to do complete a different task, join it with preclinical work from a different species, and weave it together with statical approaches that were made to ask a similar question in a completely different field. 🧵

🌼 New paper showing that it's not just pollinators shaping flowers—abiotic factors like humidity and temperature also influence floral form and function. Check out this new paper on a more complex picture of floral evolution. 🌬️🐝 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow! These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here: eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Indigenous-led conservation is reshaping philanthropy. A new Alliance Magazine article spotlights how the PFP model empowers long-term stewardship and sovereignty. Read how First Nations leaders are driving change.

MSU Entomology professor Dr. Rufus Isaacs and former graduate student Dr. Gabriela Quinlan collaborated with a team of 80 researchers on a global study examining pollinator habitat needs in agricultural landscapes! Read more: www.canr.msu.edu/news/spartan... #Entomology #Ecology #Conservation 🧪🌎🍁

Another exciting discovery from 2025! Though the half-black bumble bee is fairly common in other parts of the US, Missouri is at the southern extent of its range, so this is a rare find. Learn more about the Atlas and how you can get involved at our website: bumblebeeatlas.org

Like rivers & lakes full of fish? Then you need rivers & lakes full of insects! On this #BugBanterPodcast we'll dive underwater to meet freshwater insects, & discover the conservation work they need! Audio & transcript 📻 xerces.org/bug-banter/s... Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=22sh...

Are you a POC student, early career researcher, or professional entomologist from a country in the Global South? We are now funding memberships! Apply from October 1st to December 15th. More info: www.entopoc.org/apply.html Apply: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

Tired of the corruption and anti-science in our government? You're not alone—and you don't have to do it alone! Meet like-minded scientists, activists, and allies in Stand Up for Science at our two Action Hours coming up this month — Join us in the fight to protect science! zurl.co/viaW8

Consider signing - Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition 🧪🌐https://laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

This bee looks like it just got back from the salon. Such perfect floof and a marvelous mustache #invertebrates 🌿 🐝

Holy cow a lot is going on in the US right now. You may also need to take a deep breath and look closely at a painted lady butterfly.

Job Posting - University of Illinois Assistant/Associate Professor in Agroecology "[...W]ill serve as Director of the Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture Program (ASAP). ASAP aims to promote sustainable food systems while conserving biodiversity." illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

You may also need a beestache this evening 🐝

Pinkscale blazing star (Liatris elegans) is blooming in the SRS Corridor Project experiment and attracting many visitors

Healthcare is a basic human right Housing is a basic human right Education is a basic human right Food, clean air and water are basic human rights A universal basic income would ensure everyone has their most basic needs met It’s doable, we just have to demand the rich pay their fair share!

We need much more semi-natural habitat (6-37%, depending on species group) in agricultural landscapes to effectively conserve pollinators. Large collaborative synthesis study looking at 59 studies in 1250 landscapes from 19 countries now published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

These teachers at historically underfunded schools have insect related projects -- Donations at @donorschoose.bsky.social are DOUBLED today! 🍎❗🧪🪲🐛 www.donorschoose.org/donors/searc...

Book mail from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social ! I’m so excited to read @berondam.bsky.social ‘s new book!!

FACT CHECK: Acetaminophen (Tylenol) has no credible link with autism. Tylenol is the leading option to combat dangerous fevers during pregnancy — fearmongering around tried and tested medicine puts pregnant people and children at risk. #impeachthequack

Yesterday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, CMS Director Mehmet Oz, and FDA Director Marty Makary silently flanked the president — complicit in his unscientific claims and pseudoscience agenda. We're naming and shaming them. They are a public health risk.

Where do bumble bees build their homes? Where do they spend the winter? And how do you protect bumble bees if their nests * overwintering sites are almost impossible to find? Join us to get all the answers! 🐝 🗓️Oct 2 at 10am PT / 1pm ET 🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

To those that fly, but keep me grounded. 🪻🌷

Plants use more than color to talk to pollinators - there’s a whole world of chemical communication, too! In this #BugBanterPodcast, we dive into the intriguing world of plant chemistry! 🌻🐝 Audio & transcript 🔗 xerces.org/bug-banter/b... Video w/ captions ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVpE...

I just passed my 50,000th identification on @inaturalist.bsky.social! Identifying is a huge but often ignored part of the #iNaturalist community and dataset so I wanted to share why and how I identify. 1/14 🧪 #ecology #taxonomy #botany #CommunityScience

Interesting new study documenting the only rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) overwintering observation: scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol58/i...

I struggle with the word “radical” in American political discourse. There is nothing radical about wanting everyone to have food & shelter. There is nothing radical about wanting everyone to have healthcare that isn’t handcuffed to capitalism. These are the most rational & normal things to want.

Do you know someone who has contributed to strengthening the evolutionary biology community by promoting inclusion and diversity? Nominate them for the IDEA award! More info: www.systbio.org/idea-award.h... You may self-nominate!!!

What a treat to watch this leafcutter bee bring the petals of a blanketflower back to line her nest, transforming a drainage hole into its own kind of bloom. #bees #Inverts

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻

Bumble Bee Atlas participants have made some amazing discoveries this year! This sighting of a Morrison's bumble represents just one of only a handful of records from Nebraska—what a cool find. Learn more about the Atlas and how you can get involved at our website: bumblebeeatlas.org

In a survey of nearly 1,400 scientists released this week, 83% said federal government policies since January 20, 2025, had caused an "extremely negative impact" or "irreparable harm" on their field of science.

💛 this new @sophietaddeo.bsky.social Urban Ecosystems paper on combining/comparing herbaria, lit, & @inaturalist.bsky.social plant observations in Cook County. Citizen science gives us a window into private property, while lit is biased towards conservation areas. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌻Sunflower Appreciation Post 🌻 In our latest blog, we highlight 8 standout native sunflowers (Helianthus spp.) for your gardens and landscapes. 👉 Read the full post: wildones.org/native-sunfl...

It's my birthday today, and I'd love it if you could donate any amount to @msu-entomology.bsky.social to help fund weekend insect programs. 🐛🪲 😀🎂

It's almost time for our block party! Join us tomorrow 1-4pm to learn about and celebrate our plant & pollinator neighbors. 🐝🌻 Won't you be our neighbor? 😊

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

omg check out this very cool new observation, not mine, of a bombus on ghost pipe! Please id if you recognize them! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Im behind this year, but Bee Palooza planning is in full swing with 4 days left to do all the overly ambitious things i always wanna do 😂 This Sunday, Bee there or be square.

Digging a nest in soft sand is pretty close to trying to make a hole in water, so it’s not a surprise Bembix wasps dig lightning fast and keep testing dozens of spots before they’re satisfied. [Alameda, CA 8-16-25] #entomology #wasps