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Rachel L. Walsh

@swamplily.bsky.social

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Ph.D. candidate at Florida Museum of Natural History in Interdisciplinary Ecology w/ focus in conservation biology & entomology 🦋 📚⛺️🍄

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Rachel L. Walsh @swamplily.bsky.social · Nov 16

Check out this blog post by @floridamuseum.bsky.social about my summer fieldwork studying the Loammi skipper. Thanks to the FLMNH outreach team, everyone who helped me in the field and lab & to my funders! #FloridaMuseum #DisneyConserves #UFSNRE 🦋🌾

Protecting rare butterflies of Florida’s pine flats and prairies

The Loammi skipper (Atrytonopsis loammi) is a small, wedge-shaped butterfly with stubby antennas and bulbous black eyes in a fuzzy face. It once lived throughout a good deal of the Southeastern U.S. b...

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Rachel L. Walsh @swamplily.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you @oacevedocharry.bsky.social! Also great talk on using state-space models to estimate extinction risk from community science data, with promising results from a case study on the endangered Everglade snail kite.

I recommend checking out their paper! doi-org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1111/1365...

Orlando Acevedo-Charry @oacevedocharry.bsky.social · 1d

@swamplily.bsky.social terrific talk! Many butterflies at risk but not enlisted in the Endangered Species Act need more research!

To help them:
1) maintain a pollinator friendly backyard
2) leave the leafs (they hibernate)
3) engage with conservation initiatives like @xercessociety.bsky.social

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Rachel L. Walsh @swamplily.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to be presenting my work on ESA listing and research effort for U.S butterflies tomorrow at the UF SNRE Symposium, along with several other talented graduate students & faculty! snre.ifas.ufl.edu/news-and-eve...

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · Nov 18

Tune in TOMORROW for the "Insect Rally" to support the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, w/ National Wildlife Federation Action Fund (@wildlifeaction.bsky.social), Xerces Society, and Entomological Society of America. ⬇️

Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · Nov 4

Calling all entomology and biodiversity enthusiasts: Take action on behalf of declining insect and arthropod populations by supporting the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act! www.mobilize.us/nationalwild...