The bees are loving the flowering Cup Plant! They seem to like resting or sleeping on it too. #NativePlants #bugsky #cupplant @isabetabug.bsky.social

Me this past Sunday on the Salt River, east of Phoenix, AZ. Can you guess what I’m taking a video of?? 🔍✨

The classroom! With Dr. Hojun Song getting us oriented. 🇨🇷🦗 We will be learning Ensifera (katydid and cricket) phylogeny, behavior, morphology, and acoustics this week. #CricketCourse

Greetings from Costa Rica! I made it through immigration and customs. I am now on the group bus and headed to the field station with the 13 other students and our lead instructor for this cricket and katydid course.

I’m headed to Costa Rica for a cricket course! No not the sport but the insect! Can’t wait. I’ll bring you along - posting tidbits, encounters, and updates here in BlueSky :) 🦗🦗🦗🦗🎶

My friends, you must do the @nytimes.com’s Strands game today (Thursday May 29) ✨🪲😉 www.nytimes.com/games/strands

Hey look, @isabetabug.bsky.social - it's a picture of me and you! 🤗👯 macaulaylibrary.org/asset/633750... #buggirl #birdgirl #naturesky

Monitoring and protecting birds and bees. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025... Check it out @isabetabug.bsky.social

📢 JOB KLAXON! The Yale Peabody Museum is hiring a permanent, full-time Museum Assistant in #Entomology 🦋 Full details & how to apply: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... #EntoJobs #InsectCollections

@blancobercial.bsky.social hi! Are you familiar with freshwater zooplankton archival collection practices?

@elizabethbeston.bsky.social hi! Are you familiar with zooplankton archival preservation practices?

Southwestern tent caterpillar sighting in Prescott, AZ! Happy spring :) Tent caterpillars have a special place in my heart. As kids, @ileanabeta.bsky.social & I ran around our suburban backyard in the spring, collecting the caterpillars as if we were on an Easter egg hunt. PSA: They are native!

Anyone here know about archival zooplankton storage? #help

The #scicomm group COMPASS is offering a free communication workshop on April 2 for current or former government workers - federal, state, and local levels www.compassscicomm.org/event/sharin...

Parental care - A watchful mama keeps an eye on little one as they both rest and feed on an oak tree branch. She will ward off predators who seek to snatch up her children for lunch. Bonus: You can see slits in the bark of the branch where the tree hopper mama (Platycotis vittata) laid eggs!

We started an account for the natural history collections at Arizona State University ☺️☀️🔱

I had so much fun taking photos of my colleagues at the @asubiocollections.bsky.social last week. Here is Sangmi Lee, ASU Hasbrouck Insect Collection Manager. She poses with her study species -Gelechiidae - the twirler moths.🦋✨

I made it to my first NatGeo Live event the other day. Dr Heather Lynch shared her work & experiences with studying penguins in Antarctica. It was great! It got me brainstorming how I might craft an insect show to join the NatGeo Live circuit. My mission is to get more insects on the big screen!✨🙌🪲

Behind the scenes shot of me taking pictures of my colleagues and the students at the ASU Biocollections. We are building our digital assets for our website and social media! 📷 picture cred: Evan Waite🪲

So many for the bird to choose from!

Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14! These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

At the ESA Annual Meeting, Nov. 9–12, 2025, Portland, Oregon, will be buzzing with excitement as thousands of insect scientists gather for a can't-miss event. Now is the time to make your mark by organizing a symposium or workshop. Proposals due March 14. #EntSoc25 https://www.entsoc.org/events/ann…

Looks like videos are not quite crisp yet one Bluesky. Or is there something I need to do to process it to make it more compatible?

It was so cool to see! And those feathers look so soft 😍

Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.

I am attempting to use my Canon R5C and the Laowa probe lens to record intertidal sea urchins, hermit crabs, and fish.

Found this gorgeous and and huge cowrie in the intertidal zone. It was glowing with life!!

I am an oracle but instead of reading tea leaves I read trap collections. The spirits say that today you are blessed. 🧪

Penn State is hiring a new tenure track Professor of Public Health Entomology at the Assistant or Associate level. The position has a 70% research/30% extension split. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

I set up a new imaging system for photographing full trays of beetle specimens. When I first snapped a pic, I was terrified by the inaccuracy of the color! I quickly realized that I hadn’t yet switched from jpeg to RAW. JPEG files are more compressed okay but I’m shocked about the color difference!

Hey folks- do you identify as being a member of a systemically minoritized group? Have you also worked, recreated, and/or conducted research in the outdoors? We're looking for more folks to contribute short narratives regarding their experiences. Ping me if interested! 🧪🌍

Now, I totally don't have favourites...but if I did this species would come close. Feared extinct after fire burnt all of its known range in 2019. Finding this girl during post-fire surveys in an unburnt area of vegetation was like magic. Kangaroo Island Assassin Spider, Zephyrarchaea austini 🌏🧪

Hypnobug. Don’t stare too long at it or you’ll go under. (Derbidae, Ecuador)

*Be my new work supervisor!* Arizona State University is hiring a new Director of the ASU Biocollections with a concurrent appointment as a tenured associate or full professor. *I'd really love for this person to be an entomologist so ento friends, please share!* apply.interfolio.com/159166

We just finished up the livestream and it was jolly fun! 🤩 You can catch the recording on the same link :) Merry Bugsmas everyone!! 🎄🐞🪲🐛

I’m so grateful to have had my twin sister, @ileanabeta.bsky.social to explore the natural world with as kids! We’d run around the backyard together and look & wonder about the things we found. Here we are, with our mom, checking out a starfish. Can you guess who is who? Happy #NationalTwinDay.

Happy National Twin Day, @ileanabeta.bsky.social ! 🫶

Loved exploring birds in the Bornean rainforest with @isabetabug.bsky.social today during her presentation with National Geographic Kids! So fun to see videos of climbing trees, orangutan nests, and bright and funky-looking bugs! #entomology #insects

Interlocking chelicerae of a mating Tetragnatha hasselti pair

It was brilliant to spend some quality outdoor time with @isabetabug.bsky.social whilst I was in Arizona! 🪲 Here’s a few more cacti photos, because I am now obsessed. 🌵

Due to an amazing response, there are now two Conservation + biodiversity 🌱 starter packs: go.bsky.app/SSa4Azz go.bsky.app/SDWEKyn Click both links to follow some great people + organizations. Let me know if you'd like to be included. (Check both lists to make sure you aren't already.) 🍄🐝🦍🦠🌵🏔️

BILF: Bugs I'd Like to Find

I’m going to look into doing this. I have lots of tweets I’m proud of from the many years of twitter and I’d like to archive and not lose them. 🦋✨

Tip for people switching over from X: Comsider keeping the same profile picture you had for a bit so it’s easier for your twitter community to refind, recognize, and reconnect with you. 🔍

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

We’ve made a starter pack, to help you find people actively working with insect collections. Get in touch if you’d like to be added. 🦋 Entomological Collections Crew go.bsky.app/C5VpWiw

Yesterday, @beetlequeen.bsky.social was zoomed in on carabids (Ground Beetles) in the Arizona State University (ASU) Insect Collections ✨🪲🔍

We’re getting there ☺️✨

I. LOVE. THESE. #FLIES. 🥰 If you like #chocolate, so should you! The genus #Forcipomyia (Ceratopogonidae) is the main pollinator of cacao. They're tiny & their larvae live in decaying plant matter. These have sticky droplets along their body for defence. Costa Rica (August)

Hello #EntSoc24 👋😊 I wonder if BlueSky will become what Twitter gave us- community wise. It’s so different attending the conference without that! Do you agree?