I wonder if there'll be "no bird home" tomorrow when it's snack time...

It is well past Bedtime For Parrots, but Gabe is trying to convince me there is "no bird home" (therefore no bird to send to bed), and he keeps laughing uproariously at this joke that he clearly just made up. 😑 Awful lot of giggling coming from a room where there's "no bird home"...

It is very important that you look at this bee butt right now.

I think these are baby stinkbugs hatching on my partridge pea pods (which are popping open so loudly it sounds like I have a fire crackling in my yard!!) Cute little stinkers 😂

It's just too pretty to be real!!

CW: spider This little lady was so cute I wanted to bring her home with me. I left her in the wild though, after she finished inspecting and tapping on my fingertip. She was the size of a Nerd candy!! Bronze jumping spider.

All tucked in! Sweet dreams, monarchs. 🦋♥️

Definitely sang to my Ecology students as they handed in their snail samples, 🎶"Heels, snails 🐌, blade, mascara..."🎶

Getting ready to make a chrysalis!! 🦋

I went to school with Mean Captain America and it's still super weird to see him on screen. 😶

They're getting so big!! C'mon cuties, eat up so you can pupate! 🦋

Please lounge if you are able for the benediction. Treats be unto you.

It is time for cat church.

CW: smol snake Look who's two years old! Waffles arrived in a little deli cup and immediately burrowed into his new terrarium substrate... and into my heart. ♥️

THE MONARCHS FOUND THE MILKWEED. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I'M SO EXCITED!!!!

"Ya readygotobayyyyyd?" Yes Gabe, I am very much ready go to bed 😅

I didn't plant these spider lilies either what is even going on anymore

Why are there tomatoes growing in my yard?? I didn't plant these?!

Some wild Alabama beauty from today's hike.

Peek-a-boo!!

Aww, this poor tussock moth caterpillar is just bursting with parasitoid wasps pupae. Gross but cool.

The beautyberries are here! Come and get'em!

My army shall be unstoppable.

Someone decided to mail me 100 tiny toy duckies for absolutely no reason. I should NOT be trusted with this kind of power.

Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/

Can you spot the American goldfinch snacking on the sunflowers? He blends in perfectly! 🌻🐥

You heard the squid emperor, everyone. Leave those leaves!

A perfect, precious little dumpling. (He's seriously smaller than a pecan sandie.)

First confirmed monarch sighting of the year. I've been fascinated with them since childhood. I hope they like the milkweed I planted for them.

"Mom, Carter hit me again!" "We will TURN THIS LEAF AROUND, mister!!"

Eep!! You're a big one, but that's a very pretty web with all those dewdrops on it.

First pop gen paper from our lab! We find repeated evolutionary turn over of sex chromosomes in darters contributes to reproductive isolation. Turnover may be an escape hatch to resolve mitonuclear conflict & neo sex chromosomes evolved via a rare recessive mutation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I was worried that my ecology students would react to the dubia roaches in their behavioral experiments with fear and disgust, but to my delight they named them! Just for fun here are the names of their little buddies (1/2): Edward Nigma Skarlette Mariposa Juliette Vidella Biggie Lenard Richelle

The mighty hunter lies in wait for its prey. Look closely! (American green crab spider)

One of my favorites! A clearwing moth. It looks like a hummingbird!

Well now the hummingbirds have figured out the system, so when they want a refill they fly around my head and buzz RIGHT IN MY EAR!

"Hello yes I will take one cricket to go please". Steel blue cricket-hunter wasp in action!! A story in four acts.

Almost didn't see this large creature! Excellent camouflage!

CW: snake Plz. Take me out and. Hold me. i promise I will give. normal hug and not. forever hug.

The only "Bowl" I care about this football season is the Marble Bowl, and UNA is in it this year for the first time! We will document ALL the species!! Woohoo!! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

"I'm sexy and I know it".

The small but mighty dragon sits atop its hoard.

CW: scorpion. My darter ink has been scorpion-inspected and approved. Thank you, Hantu (and Jason).

🎶"La La La LA la la laaaaa..."🎶

Gabe the parrot is doing arpeggios and I can't breathe. 😂😂😂 They're really good!!

Dang, these sunflowers go hard. I didn't even know they could sprout so many heads on one stalk!

The milkweed wasn't supposed to bloom until next year, but somebody didn't want to wait.

AHA!! Caught you in the act, evening primrose!

The Perseid meteor shower did not disappoint this year. When all around you is dark... look up!!

She's even more obnoxious when I open a bottle of scotch. Wants nothing more in the world than to smell my breath. Which means I get dozens of little scaly puppy kisses 🙄 (she smells with her tongue).