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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Indigo milk cap, today at Biotopo del Quetzal.

Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

prickly cucumber, Echinocystis lobata, one of our few native annuals, a vine with burr fruits, each with 2 watermelon-like seeds that disperse by gravity

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I knew it was bird poop, and thought it was a decent caterpillar mimic... then was worried that I had it all wrong - who knew that chicks often excrete in a fecal sac that is discarded by the parents? thanks Scott and Jason

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Parasitic arthropod (maybe?) on the tiger bee fly, the latter, a parasitoid of Carpenter bees #naturalhistory

Black and white colored bee fly with a gray glob on its back

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sandhills milkweed (Asclepias humistrata), setting seed earlier this month in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment, in South Carolina Endemic to the southeastern U.S. coastal plain, this might be my favorite milkweed. Look at those leaves!

Sandhills milkweed (Asclepias humistrata) leaves

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Pussy willow, Salix discolor, can you tell I'm pleased that spring has arrived. #springflowers

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Another early flowerer, Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) on the unrelated Cornell campus, a small Eurasian dogwood tree that produces edible red fruits in autumn; typically highly tannic until they fall on the ground. #springflowers

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Hepatica acutiloba, sharp-lobed hepatica, (Ranunculaceae), one our first ephemerals, these in the flood plane forest next to 6-mile Creek in Ithaca

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867

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Cornell University, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Job #AJO31867, WDR-00057721 Postdoctoral Associate, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Xosé López Goldar @xosegoldar.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Prof. Juan Núñez Farfán and I are co-editing a special issue in the journal Insects, titled 🔴Evolutionary and Ecological Mechanisms of Plant Defense against Insects🔴. We are looking for original work that explores the links between plant defense and insect herbivory! Please see more details below!

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Flatbacked #millipede I think, cruising unmolested amidst this #ant colonynon the move in Costa Rica. A #parasite, I guess?

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Cardenolide toxin diversity impacts monarch butterfly growth and sequestration doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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Cardenolide toxin diversity impacts monarch butterfly growth and sequestration

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Oak Galls Exhibit Ant Dispersal Convergentwith Myrmecochorous Seeds par.nsf.gov/servlets/pur...

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Chris Thorogood @christhorogood.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Earlier on the expedition we found the most beautiful flower, and here, my friends, is the biggest: Rafflesia arnoldi seen in full bloom today in the Sumatran jungle. This is the largest flower on earth and one of the greatest wonders of the natural world.

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

A mentor, Spencer Barrett, and mentee, Marc Johnson - 20 years apart

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David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Part of a large patch of Devil's Fingers fungus (aka Octopus Stinkhorn) in Rye, East Sussex. I smelt them before I saw them. An intense bouquet of rotting flesh to attract insects that then help spread spores. Brilliant! @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #fungi #mycology #UKwildlife

A patch of bright red fungi that look like clawed-hands reaching out of the ground.

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The wooly bear, or #Isabella tiger #moth #caterpillar, Pyrrharctia isabella, still looking for overwintering spots on warm days. I'm still collecting them for research. Many years ago I became allergic to the hairs, a painful reminder of my love gone sour: agrawal.eeb.cornell.edu/2018/11/24/c...

A collection of 15 wooly bear caterpillars, orange and black, all curled up

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

By popular demand, I'm offering "More #MONARCHS - No #Monarchy!" shirts and mugs at cost (no profit, just joy). Spread the word, decent quality for <$20 monarchs.printful.me #NoKings #butterfly #peace #naturalhistory #plantinsect

T-shirt design with monarch butterflies and Statue of Liberty

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 01/11/2025

🕷️ Britain’s craziest creature? Meet Megabunus diadema — a harvestman with eyes on a spiky turret! Not a spider, but part of its own Order: Opiliones. Learn more in our UK Harvestmen webinar on 5 Feb 2026: 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1720584467... @britishspiders.bsky.social @megabunus.bsky.social

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Eric R. Eaton @bugeric.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I am an author being overwhelmed by emails from people offering their services to promote my new book. This is a brand new problem, and I do not have an agent or publicist to sift through the offers. Help? #writingcommunity #authors

Older White man standing behind a chair, and a table featuring four of my book titles. A large poster representing the cover of my newest book, Bugwatching: The Art, Joy, and Importance of Observing Insects, is on the floor to the right of the table. All of this is inside a public library.

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Witch hazel, Hamamelis virginiana, Hamamelidaceae in the Saxifragales, now in #flower around #Ithaca

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

My monkey slug getting ready to transform to hag moth, Phobetron pithecium Limacodidae

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Pear rust's spore-dispersing bodies... This #fungus, Gymnosporangium sabinae, is an obligate host - alternating #parasite (like many fungi and aphids) - alternate host = juniper

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Melampyrum pratense has a huge distribution across Europe to central Siberia thanks to ants. It has myrmecochorus seeds—seeds carried by ants—unlike most holo- and hemiparasitic species, which have wind-dispersed seeds. #parasite #Orobanchaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of green and leafy herbaceous plant bearing narrow leaves and yellow, tubular flowers. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Monkey slug caterpillar, or "hag #moth" Phobetron pithecium. A late season Limacodidae of eastern forests, A generalized feeder of mostly blue plants Courtesy of Sam Jaffe and the amazing #caterpillar lab in New Hampshire! www.thecaterpillarlab.org

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Matelea cyclophylla, a vining succulent #milkweed vine with a corky #caudex from western Mexico, hairy burgundy #flowers

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Two more Asclepiadoideae (among 3000 #milkweed species), a Hoya and Cynanchum - every thing comes in fives #flower #oldworld

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Hoodia and Huernia, two Ascleps flowering in my house

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Two pairs of wild turkeys in Cambridge, Mass

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Echinopsis tubiflora an Argentinian endemic Cactaceae, night blooming, open <18 hours (120x = 2 hours) #timelapse #cactus #flower #sweetsmell

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Scaldweed, Cuscuta gronovii, a native annual non-photosynthetic #parasitic #plant - haustoria instead of roots; shares #herbivores with its host plants (you are what you eat) - but a #flowering plant nonetheless. Most plant communities have several distantly related species of parasitic angiosperms

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Temnothorax sp., a small #ant that lives in colony in acorns (and in #galls formed on #oaks

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Galling #aphids on staghorn sumac make plump succulent galls full of aphids and predators - near Watertown, NY

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I've been seeing more of the Jerusalem artichoke Helianthus tuberosus around the great lakes region. This is from the sandy east shores of Lake Ontario. Said to be native, I wonder if it's being planted more and spreading?

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The American searocket, Cakile edentula, a sand loving semi-succulent #Brassicaceae. I knew this plant from the west coast; here on the shores of lake Ontario. Fruits have two-parts, one that breaks off and floats for water dispersal. immature silliques are edible, like radish pods

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

A leaf mining #moth on a quaking Aspen, caterpillar apparently secretes cytokinins which suppress senescence in leaf sectors. Adaptive for the moth? #fallcolors

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Phil Ngo @squamate.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

A baby sidewinder's tracks tell the story of the last few minutes. First, an elegant change in direction and in sidewinding handedness, like the jibe of a sailboat. Then a startled squiggle as it realizes it's being followed. Mojave Desert Sidewinder - Crotalus cerastes cerastes #herps

The elegant track of a baby sidewinder zigs and zags up a sand dune. The sidewinder is visible at the end of the track at the top.

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