Gwen Pearson
@bug-gwen.bsky.social
Pinned
Spread the word: we are providing multiple $5k awards for grad & undergrad research on invertebrate conservation !! In addition to our continuing DeWind Award (for Lepidoptera research), we now have the 1st annual BanDrosky Award (for any invert in decline). Details in thread🧵 ⤵️
Pls share with grads and undergrads! Multiple grant opportunities from @xercessociety.bsky.social
Deadline is January 7, 2026.
Deadline is January 7, 2026.
Pls share with grads and undergrads! Multiple grant opportunities from @xercessociety.bsky.social
Deadline is January 7, 2026.
Deadline is January 7, 2026.
Spread the word: we are providing multiple $5k awards for grad & undergrad research on invertebrate conservation !! In addition to our continuing DeWind Award (for Lepidoptera research), we now have the 1st annual BanDrosky Award (for any invert in decline). Details in thread🧵 ⤵️
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Pls share with grads and undergrads! Multiple grant opportunities from @xercessociety.bsky.social
Deadline is January 7, 2026.
Deadline is January 7, 2026.
I am loving that people can get tattoos at the ESA meeting! I hope the editor that insisted on a disclaimer on my American Entomologist paper about insect tattoos was livid 😈
Scenes from Tuesday, November 11, at Entomology 2025 in Portland, Oregon #EntSoc25
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I am loving that people can get tattoos at the ESA meeting! I hope the editor that insisted on a disclaimer on my American Entomologist paper about insect tattoos was livid 😈
Attn graduate and undergraduate students! 🚨 🪲 🦋🚨 New research funding opportunity from @xercessociety.bsky.social! $5000; deadline is Jan 7 2026. xerces.org/bandrosky
Deborah BanDrosky Award | Xerces Society
The Deborah BanDrosky Awards are made to students engaged in higher education studies and research related to invertebrate conservation.
xerces.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Attn graduate and undergraduate students! 🚨 🪲 🦋🚨 New research funding opportunity from @xercessociety.bsky.social! $5000; deadline is Jan 7 2026. xerces.org/bandrosky
Love Fulgorids! The butt fireworks are wax lines along which honeydew waste can drip away from the body. They also serve as a defense.
Nog een foto van Borneo - echt een bijzonder, en bijzonder klein, beest, was deze cicade (Auchenorrhyncha), behorend tot de Fulgoroidea. Dat vuurwerk uit zijn "kont" zijn wasdraden waarlangs de honingdauw kan wegdruppelen, maar die natuurlijk ook dienen als afweer/afleiding. #ElkeDagEenInsect
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Love Fulgorids! The butt fireworks are wax lines along which honeydew waste can drip away from the body. They also serve as a defense.
This is a spectacular mosquito sculpture. And these students were charged with *felonies* and held on thousands of dollars of bail! SHAME UCPD. Someone let me know if there is a place to help with bail.
UCPD has charged four UC Berkeley undergrads with *felony vandalism* because they attempted to hang a cardboard bug on Sather Gate.
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is a spectacular mosquito sculpture. And these students were charged with *felonies* and held on thousands of dollars of bail! SHAME UCPD. Someone let me know if there is a place to help with bail.
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Also a small nag to some of the AMAZING insect macro photographers that are joining us here: please don't forget to add alt-text to your photos! You can enable a reminder for that here:
November 25, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Also a small nag to some of the AMAZING insect macro photographers that are joining us here: please don't forget to add alt-text to your photos! You can enable a reminder for that here:
Y'all. I do know that the F's are just how S was printed then. Pls stop S-plaining.
I absolutely snorted out loud in an important, quiet historic reading room. And then had the giggles for 5 minutes. Fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers!
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Y'all. I do know that the F's are just how S was printed then. Pls stop S-plaining.
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Get offline for a day. Create something.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Get offline for a day. Create something.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
I absolutely snorted out loud in an important, quiet historic reading room. And then had the giggles for 5 minutes. Fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers!
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I absolutely snorted out loud in an important, quiet historic reading room. And then had the giggles for 5 minutes. Fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers!
Reposted by Gwen Pearson
Western Pygmy Blue, America’s smallest butterfly and one of the world’s smallest. About the size of a thumbnail. [Alameda, CA 11-8-25] #butterflies
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Western Pygmy Blue, America’s smallest butterfly and one of the world’s smallest. About the size of a thumbnail. [Alameda, CA 11-8-25] #butterflies
Read the thread for a lovely story of teens making a difference 🪲🦋🙂
If you attended the @entcollnet.bsky.social meeting last year in Phoenix, you may have met some of our youngest attendees, Connor Hsu & Cole Crammer. Here they are with @drfirefly.bsky.social!
They’re now in 11th grade and this year they’re back to deliver their first ever ECN talk! [1/3]
They’re now in 11th grade and this year they’re back to deliver their first ever ECN talk! [1/3]
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Read the thread for a lovely story of teens making a difference 🪲🦋🙂
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The very beautiful and always very welcome Aphanus rolandri.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The very beautiful and always very welcome Aphanus rolandri.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
Always here for a giant spider web story www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black
A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it was built by spiders we didn't know liked the company of others.
www.livescience.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Always here for a giant spider web story www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
A delightful weevil for your morning.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A delightful weevil for your morning.
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My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story
Hmmm, between the crab lice and harvest people, maybe too much? Here is a pretty orchid mantis as a palate cleanser www.flickr.com/photos/total...
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Hmmm, between the crab lice and harvest people, maybe too much? Here is a pretty orchid mantis as a palate cleanser www.flickr.com/photos/total...
A closer look at this cutie (not a spider; a relative) www.sciencealert.com/what-the-hec...
This Tiny Arachnid With a Black Bunny Head Is Totally Real, We Kid You Not
The natural world is a strange and wonderful place.
www.sciencealert.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A closer look at this cutie (not a spider; a relative) www.sciencealert.com/what-the-hec...
This is a bunny harvest-person (Opiliones) giving itself a good clean before the day starts. Self care is important! From the late Andreas Kay; wish you were here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=483t...
Bunny Harvestman in action, Metagryne bicolumnata, Cosmetidae, Opiliones
YouTube video by Andreas Kay
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a bunny harvest-person (Opiliones) giving itself a good clean before the day starts. Self care is important! From the late Andreas Kay; wish you were here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=483t...
Fantastic news!! This entomology club was fully funded to purchase pinning and other supplies. Thank you friends! 🪲🐛🥳❤️
Hey EntFriends #EntSoc25: This high school entomology club in California is looking for funds to support their pinning and collections. Can we make that happen? Any donations large and small will help! www.donorschoose.org/project/inse...
Insect Pinning! Small Creatures, Big Impact: Support Cah Entomology Club!, a project from Mr. Lopez
Help me give my students an insect pinning kit to be able to have active and engaging insect pinning projects. The Entomology Club has the goal of engaging students in the scientific process throug...
www.donorschoose.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Fantastic news!! This entomology club was fully funded to purchase pinning and other supplies. Thank you friends! 🪲🐛🥳❤️
Reposted by Gwen Pearson
Are you a POC student, early career researcher, or professional entomologist from a country in the Global South?
We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.
More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.
More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
October 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Are you a POC student, early career researcher, or professional entomologist from a country in the Global South?
We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.
More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.
More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
A moment of beauty on a lovely fall day 🍂
Scalloped sallow (Eucirroedia pampina) on an oak. Almost all of the leaves on the tree were green so I'm wondering whether the moth chose this one for a good color match, then situated itself so that the wing shape blended with the sharp leaf margins. A lovely moth. 🌿 #noctuidae #moths #insects
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A moment of beauty on a lovely fall day 🍂
And now for something completely different: #EntSoc25 Entomologists! Please contribute to the iNaturalist collection of pubic lice! It's mostly from the EU at the moment. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/395978-...
Crab Louse (Pthirus pubis)
The crab louse or pubic louse (Pthirus pubis) is an insect that is an obligate ectoparasite of humans, feeding exclusively on blood. The crab louse usually is found in the person's pubic hair. Althoug...
www.inaturalist.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
And now for something completely different: #EntSoc25 Entomologists! Please contribute to the iNaturalist collection of pubic lice! It's mostly from the EU at the moment. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/395978-...
*SHINY!!* 😍🪲
The black velvet is an optimal backdrop for these use cases, because even black paper or plastic tends to reflect a lot of light. Velvet is especially good for iridescent insects, IIRC it's what we used for these guys at DPI:
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
*SHINY!!* 😍🪲
A beautiful #SpotTheInsect challenge for your afternoon 😍
Second visit from Merv, glad I kept this lichenous stick for the photoshoot
Merveille du Jour, Griposia aprilina, one of the noctuid, or owlet, moths
La Runique in France, The Runic
Die Grüne Eicheneule in Germany, Green Oak Owl
Diana-uil in Netherlands, Diana's Owl
Merveille du Jour, Griposia aprilina, one of the noctuid, or owlet, moths
La Runique in France, The Runic
Die Grüne Eicheneule in Germany, Green Oak Owl
Diana-uil in Netherlands, Diana's Owl
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A beautiful #SpotTheInsect challenge for your afternoon 😍