Reposted by Desirée L. NarangoCaterpillars Count! @caterpillarscount.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Still space in our Caterpillars Count! webinar tomorrow, April 21 @ 11 am ET Learn how to survey foliage arthropods 🐛🐜🦋🐞🕷️🪲 and contribute to a continental (and beyond!) scale monitoring project! #insects #phenology #CitizenScience caterpillarscount.unc.edu/getStarted 051
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Many thanks to the bee folks who deal with the fact I butcher their taxon’s scientific names but they still make me feel welcome :D 010
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I wish I could repost this 1000 times. Come on people 180
Reposted by Desirée L. NarangoSteph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I am probably going to be turning down review requests for the foreseeable future. Maybe once I figure out if our office gets closed or not in the USFS reorg... hot tip: cut your USFS R&D colleagues some slack these days. 1234
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Proposal in with 45 min to spare! 💪 here’s hoping they want to fund me to get some new urban bird (and bee!) research going… 150
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 12/04/2026If you’re in Burlington for the Northeastern Natural History Conference next week, come learn more! You can also learn about my projects here: Www.vtecostudies.org/about-us/our-team/desiree-narango 021
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Making a talk this weekend to share some of our first preliminary findings from the Native Plant Ecotype Experiment! Also presenting on our modeling efforts to use big community collected datasets (iNaturalist!) and provide recommendations for plants for pollinators specific to your ecoregion. 1121
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Saying no to others is a yes to yourself :) 130
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Wow! Is this at the organic farm? It looks great! I was wondering what new fun things were happening out there. Would love to check out your setup! This summer we are piloting a similar video set up with bumble bees :) 010
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 09/04/2026This paper is making the rounds again! Exciting update is we just got some funding to study caterpillar performance on local and nonlocal ecotypes! (Plant genotypes adapted to other ecoregions). Stay tuned for more caterpillar pictures this summer! 🐛 19120
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Hi! There is an article in northern woodlands very soon about this paper @northernwoodlands.bsky.social 011
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Check out this amazing fall migration track from our female Gray Catbirds we studied this summer! This lady picked up on that big night of Sept 29th and made a nice 40 miles per hour flight from western massachusetts down to Philadelphia! We're excited to see where she is picked up next! 1171
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 12/09/2025You can read an excellent piece about our work this summer by our lead bander Anna Peel: vtecostudies.org/blog/2025-mo... 020
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 12/09/2025And of course the obligatory sunrise and mountain peak photos. This view never ever gets old 120
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 12/09/2025We’re up on the Mt this week for Bicknell’s Thrush but the spruce-fir is buzzing with migratory birds! Surprisingly the top is very dense with migrants (mostly young) despite the low food and cold conditions. Here’s a few of our bycatch friends. (All birds captured under USGS BBL and state permits) 1347
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Sorry for the snark folks but, it’s 2025. You run mixed models just like everyone else. You are not a ‘quantitative ecologist’ with ‘deep expertise in ecological modeling’ 270
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I love how the default description for white male ecologists is ‘quantitative’ while for everyone else it’s ’so good with people!’ 2110
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Resting up this #caturday with some needed naps 0732
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 27/08/2025We were surprised they’re so abundant too! We even found a new species for the state! 010
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Amazing what a week of full bellies and warm snuggles will do #catlove 040
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Not ever day that longhorn cuckoo bees (Triepeolus sp.) out number the bumblebees during surveys! Three species yesterday on one plot. All on blue vervain (verbena hastata) which appears to be heavily favored by this genus 1161
Reposted by Desirée L. NarangoJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/08/2025OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...iflscience.comDeep In Virginia, When The Light Hits Just Right, A "Rainbow Swamp" AppearsSwamps typically bring to mind an array of mushy greens and murky browns, but in Virginia, they do things differently. 565170732354
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Worked from home this week to play catch up on papers but the cat distribution system had other ideas. Needless to say I haven’t gotten anything done because snuggles took priority. 2170
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Yes, this happened to us at Urban Sustainability. Completely ghosted. We sent an email pulling the paper and submitted elsewhere. 040
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Here ya go! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comTree composition mitigates the negative effects of urbanization on specialist and generalist forest moth communitiesUrbanization alters forest ecosystems, but host tree composition can mitigate its impacts on moth communities. Using light traps in urban forest fragments, we found that interaction-rich host trees e.... 120
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Whoops forgot the link! Distracted by moth pictures besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comTree composition mitigates the negative effects of urbanization on specialist and generalist forest moth communitiesUrbanization alters forest ecosystems, but host tree composition can mitigate its impacts on moth communities. Using light traps in urban forest fragments, we found that interaction-rich host trees e.... 0102
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Now that you’re super stoked about #moths from #mothweek, check out a paper I published this year that I’m very proud of. Spoiler alert: the tree composition in a forest fragment predicts the abundance of specialist and generalist moths. More #keystoneplants = more moth diversity #plantanoak 2283
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Grumbling that lots of concept & opinion papers on urban sustainability/biodiversity get published all the time without real data. We submitted a data-driven paper on plants, inverts, birds, and soil and get rejected because none of the invited reviewers agreed to review it. Frustrating. 290
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Fall migration has started! Techs caught a bay-breasted warbler this morning. The start of the molt migrants that don’t breed on Mt. Mansfield, but spend 2-3 weeks molting fresh plumage for the rest of their journey. #mansfieldsongbirds 080
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Here’s 1 year of blue vervain (verbena hastata) growth from plugs planted in our experimental #nativeplant gardens last year. Lots of activity! #vceecotypeproject #pollinators #buglove #gardensforwildlife 0101
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 17/07/2025If you’re having the kind of day I am, you might need this. 021
Reposted by Desirée L. NarangoSteph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Some actual good news for once? www.eenews.net/articles/for...eenews.netForest Service research survives in House spending billRepublican appropriators also set aside a White House request for a new wildfire agency at Interior. 1204
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Tis the season for fun field work, awesome data collection, learning and mentorship, beautiful days on the mountain, and baaaaaabies #vcemansfieldsongbirds #ornithology #pollinators #vermont 1100
Reposted by Desirée L. NarangoErin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Hi, I'm a climate journalist for the Boston Globe. If you're a federal employee working in New England for EPA or the Forest Service (or you were, until last week..) I'd love to hear from you. My colleagues and I at @bostonglobe.com are dedicated to protecting our sources. Signal: erinmdouglas.23 36744
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Would like to sit in on all these talks please! 😎 110
Reposted by Desirée L. NarangoAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸 999587349051
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 03/07/2025No plant is completely useless. The question is does its benefits outweigh the harm? Or outweigh the natives that have been replaced? In the case of euonymus and multiflora rose, neither is true. But some shrub nesting birds do use it for nest cover. 010
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 02/07/2025You can’t understand bird declines without also understanding insect declines. Grateful our work on insect-bird interactions was highlighted by Smithsonian Mag. If you love birds, think about whether your actions are helping the insects they need to survive. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...smithsonianmag.comScientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here's What's Being Done to Save Them BothIn Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive 212943
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 25/06/2025The pollinators we’re seeing in the garden plots are good and all, but dang was I excited to see this gorgeous creature 💚💚💚 Black swallowtail caterpillar on Zizia aurea 0372
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 21/06/2025We get to cheat. Some of these ladies have nanotags 🤩 Still squirrelly! 130
Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Could be! They have site fidelity from year to year 000