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Amanda Jorgensen
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Entomologist and artist. All views are my own.
Alberta, Canada.
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Why are they lepidopterists not mothematicians
May 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Peas have a sort of alien beauty to them. Definitely in my top 3 favourite field crop to survey.

It also helps that I'm counting Weevil bite marks - cute even though they are destructive.

#pealeafweevil #westcdnag #agsky #fieldwork #entomology
A young pea plant in an agricultural field. The newly opened leaves are back out and semi-translucent, with the veins standing out in thin shadows. One 'u' shaped pea leaf weevil bite mark is on one of these leaves. A low angle photo of a young pea field. Light green peas extend in rows to the horizon, where a road and dark trees stand against a clear blue sky. A silver truck is just barely visible past the grass at the field margin.
May 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
nemandatode.bsky.social
An easy fri-yay quiz here..

Where do Andrena bees like this one here like to nest?

#nativebees #nativepollinators #insectphotography #quizzes
A black and orange Andrena sp. Bee sits on a bright yellow, hairy dog toy.
May 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Flea beetles are out in force! These were taken on volunteer canola around Edmonton. They've been active in S AB for a month now - but will be an issue as canola emerges.

Photos snapped on a windy day - and the amount of stem feeding is pretty high.

#cdnag #agsky #fleabeetles #macrophotography
A crucifer flea beetle and a striped beetle feed on a damaged canola leaf. Two crucifer flea beetles feed on a heavily damaged canola stem.
May 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
nemandatode.bsky.social
We are getting reports of damage in alfalfa fields (tiger moths - larva pictured below) and winter wheat and forages (army cutworm) in Southeastern Alberta.

See the cutworm live map, report sightings, and read more at www.alberta.ca/cutworm

#agsky #westcdnag #cdnag
A close up photo of a tiger moth larva. The black caterpillar has black and orange spines.
April 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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xercessociety.bsky.social
Nothing brings people together like the joy of finding a cool bug. You and your friends can be part of real conservation research, all while meeting the wildlife you can help protect.
➡️Get started 🔗 xerces.org/community-science
🌎Find more #EarthWeek activities & ideas 🔗 xerces.org/blog/stronge...
“This Earth Week, Grab a Friend and Go Bugwatching for Conservation” Several Firefly Atlas volunteers gathered around, looking at photos of a firefly they have just found.
April 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
nemandatode.bsky.social
Already reports about cutworms waking up and wandering about in #Alberta

It's already time to scout fields for bare patches and clipped leaves (in fall-seeded crops, and as more start to emerge!) Read more at alberta.ca/cutworm and see the live cutworm map!

Photo credit: Ryan Hodnett CC-BY-SA 4.0
A bronzed cutworm larva in wheat stubble.
April 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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One of the reasons why natural history collections are so important!! What a great use of collections specimens!
aukeflorian.nl Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · Apr 9
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet. A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
April 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
nemandatode.bsky.social
Another one for the list of ID descriptions for students that seem incomprehensible until they make complete sense!
alexwild.bsky.social Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Apr 17
Trying to explain the gestalt difference between ichneumonid and braconid wasps, and the best I could come up with was, horses and donkeys.
April 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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It's #BatAppreciationDay! Did you know that bats eat 40% of their weight in insects every night? That's billions of dollars' worth of natural, non-toxic pest control.

In fact, a study from last fall found that loss of bats is linked to the death of human infants.

The study ➡️ biodiv.us/4ije3Mg
A group of little brown bats perched under a wooden beam, photographed by Troy Gipps, MA Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.
April 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I know many academic journal editors here - who else is getting these letters?
eric-reinhart.com Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · Apr 17
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
April 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I hit 1.5K followers over the weekend, so I thought I'd host an #ArtShare! Thank you for all the wonderful engagement and support!

✨ Share this post for visibility!
✨ Reply with your art!
✨ Engage with others!
🚫 No A/I/ or N/F/T. Keep it SFW!

Will repost throughout the day!
Art Share image with my marker drawing of a greater road runner. The top reads Art Share, the bottom reads Thanks for 1.5K followers!
April 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Spring hoverflies (3): Criorhina floccosa ♂ today in Bengeo garden, superb mimic of bumblebee Bombus pascuorum. #saproxylic
Criorhina floccosa male
April 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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darkviolet.bsky.social Dark Violet @darkviolet.bsky.social · Apr 16
You are who you say you are.
A Painted Dog dripping in trans colours, with 'Stand Tall' underneath it. Trans rights are human rights.
April 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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April 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
nemandatode.bsky.social
For anyone who does fieldwork: How excited are you to start at the beginning of the field season?

I get giddy, even after 10+ years. Beautiful AB prairie views like this help, though!
A photo taken out of the passenger side of a truck window. The view is of a wide prairie landscape - pale, dormant grassland stretches to the horizon that is lined in dark patches of trees. A ragged fence post crosses the view from right to left of the image. Two-thirds of the image is filled with moody, dark blue clouds. Faint wisps of rain are visible in the far distance.
April 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
nemandatode.bsky.social
Weevils all the way!
domenicpennetta.bsky.social Domenic Pennetta @domenicpennetta.bsky.social · Apr 1
Do you have a favorite #bug? 🪲 Let me know in the comments! In the meantime, enjoy four digital illustrations of insects I shared last month! ✨

#sciart #scientificillustration #wildlifeart #nature #invert #arthropods #bugsky #insects
Digital illustration of an adult common cotton stainer bug, Dysdercus suturellus. Art by Domenic Pennetta. Digital illustration of a male scorpionfly, Panorpa communis. Art by Domenic Pennetta. Digital illustration of the checkered beetle, Trichodes alvearius. Art by Domenic Pennetta. Digital illustration of a black and yellow Mud Dauber, Sceliphron caementarium. Art by Domenic Pennetta.
April 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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This Thursday!
xercessociety.bsky.social The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · Apr 7
Questions about mosquito control? We have answers! 🦟
Join us for our new webinar to discover practical — and pollinator-friendly — mosquito management strategies for use at home.
🗓️Apr 17 at 10am PT / 1pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
“The Truth About Mosquito Sprays: Investigating their Impact on Pollinators” A mosquito, black with small white stripes on its legs, perches on a red flower petal.
April 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
nemandatode.bsky.social
Picked up a truckload of treasures... It's starting to feel like a real entomology lab!! 🤩
April 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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This is what all entomologists feel like in the winter I think...
April 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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WELL no wonder I don't get cabbage seedpod weevils when I'm N of 54!

Reading Ross Weiss et al.s paper modelling CSW range, average canola yields, and overlap for current, hotter, and cooler climates.

Current model shows CSW as an issue S of Edmonton.

Quality work from many years of survey data!
Bioclimatic analysis of cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhyncus obstrictus (Marsham) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and canola, Brassica napus Linnaeus (Brassicaceae) responses to climate
The cabbage seedpod weevil (CSW), Ceutorhynchus obstrictus (Marsham) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is an important pest of brassicaceous crops, including canola (Brassica napus Linnaeus). CSW consumes s...
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April 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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If you missed my webinar about how to communicate science in difficult times, here's the recording! Link to references in 🧵 youtu.be/7lOI3wFNMrQ?...
Facts Are Not Enough: Science Communication and Audience Emotions
YouTube video by Xerces Society
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March 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
nemandatode.bsky.social
AGI bug crew is still looking for a few more pea fields to scout this year for pea leaf weevil!

Check 2024 survey results to help make seed treatment plans.

We will be out in the spring counting notches along field edges from 4-6 node stage.
A pea leaf weevil looks into the screen and asks the viewer "Hey, growing peas in Alberta?" Results of the 2024 pea leaf weevil survey in Alberta. Results are displayed as a heat map across the province, with a scale ranging from 0, 0-1, >1-3, >3-9, >9-27, and >27. There is data from 224 fields across the growing region of Alberta. Most fields are in the lowest category for number of notches. Areas around Lethbridge and to the NE and NW have moderate levels, while moderate- high levels South of Edmonton to Mountainview county, and North of Edmonton to Athabasca. The eastern third of the province has low counts. Text in front of an image of a field of peas. The text reads "If you have a pea field we can scout for pea leaf weevil, send me a DM, tweet @Megarhyssa, or email bugs.r.us@gov.ab.ca
March 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
nemandatode.bsky.social
Excited to take on my new role with AB Ag as the Insect Management Specialist! I will be joining the talented Shelley Barkley and have amazing examples to try and live up to in her and Scott!!
February 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM