Coral snake spotted!

Tortoise beetles have to be the cutest insects to get close-ups of!

Fungi like sea anemones 😍

The ground mantids are so cute, saw so many today!

Friend shaped

Now that's a fancy bug!

Evidence of a heist

Love a good leaf hopper 💜

Just a mama caring for her babs 🥰🥰🥰

The banana bandit

Beautiful hemiptera nymph. Those waxy filaments are so cool!

Spotted a pair of woodpeckers!

Smol friend found!

Pseudomyrmex! I love this genus of ants 🥰 big ol bug eyes!

The view from the field station is unbeatable 🥰 meet so many big beaked friends!

I see hundreds of strawberry poison dart frogs every time I'm here but I'll be damned if I don't jump for joy every time I see one!

Not sure who she is but damn she cute 🥰💜🐌💜

Odontomachus hastatus! One of my favorite nests I've found. I love trapjaw ants!

Tapinoma melanocephalum! They smell like blue cheese!

Back teaching in Costa Rica and first day out...find a tent bat roost! They're so precious ;v; 💜

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

Great haul from Little Ghost Books! 🥰

10/10 would climb again

Recording is live! Had some great questions at the end of this talk. youtu.be/Okss7KTfpaY?...

Oh my god. This is a ladybug. I'm outraged www.bugguide.net/node/view/49...

Aww, two teeny pollinators on flowers! Might be the New Mexico groundsel?

How does a Canadian myrmecologist know spring has sprung? Prenolepis imparis nuptial flights! When the winter ant flies you know good weather is here to stay 🥰🐜

Endless cycle

Giving a talk to the Toronto Field Naturalists tonight over zoom! All welcome ❤️ torontofieldnaturalists.org/TFN-events/a...

A great day 🥰💜

Last day of class for the semester! Lovely thing to see on the whiteboard as I walk in 🥰💜

It feels very Spring today and the garden is full of sunbathing ladybirds.

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Bottle opener thighs Sepedon sp. (Sciomyzidae)

I love these two photos of me and my gf @entobird.bsky.social during the eclipse so much

Me and @entobird.bsky.social doing a couples climb 💖💞

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Class

Bees 🐝

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