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Desirée L. Narango

@dlnarango.bsky.social
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Conservation Scientist @VTecostudies studying ecology of plants, insects, and birds. Crazy Cat(erpillar) Lady #urbanecology #forestecology #speciesinteractions #conservation #globalchange what I'm up to --> www.desireelnarango.com

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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We deserve it
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Caterpillars Count! @caterpillarscount.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Still 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
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Many 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
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I wish I could repost this 1000 times. Come on people
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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I 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.
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Proposal in with 45 min to spare! 💪 here’s hoping they want to fund me to get some new urban bird (and bee!) research going…
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
If 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
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Making 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.
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Saying no to others is a yes to yourself :)
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Wow! 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 :)
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
BEAUTIFUL
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Oh yes vincetoxicum is nasty stuff
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This 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! 🐛
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Super interesting results!
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Hi! There is an article in northern woodlands very soon about this paper @northernwoodlands.bsky.social
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Check 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!
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Honestly it’s writing more grants 🤷‍♀️
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
You can read an excellent piece about our work this summer by our lead bander Anna Peel: vtecostudies.org/blog/2025-mo...
Lead bander Anna Peel with a winter wren
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
And of course the obligatory sunrise and mountain peak photos. This view never ever gets old
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We’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)
Magnolia warbler in the handGolden-crowned kinglet in the handCape May Warbler in the handWhite throated Sparrow in the hand
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Sorry 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’
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I love how the default description for white male ecologists is ‘quantitative’ while for everyone else it’s ’so good with people!’
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Resting up this #caturday with some needed naps
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We were surprised they’re so abundant too! We even found a new species for the state!
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Amazing what a week of full bellies and warm snuggles will do #catlove
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Not 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
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/08/2025
OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...
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Deep In Virginia, When The Light Hits Just Right, A "Rainbow Swamp" Appears
Swamps typically bring to mind an array of mushy greens and murky browns, but in Virginia, they do things differently.
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Worked 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.
Small, two or three week old kitten sleeping
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Yes, this happened to us at Urban Sustainability. Completely ghosted. We sent an email pulling the paper and submitted elsewhere.
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Here ya go! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Tree composition mitigates the negative effects of urbanization on specialist and generalist forest moth communities
Urbanization 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....
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Whoops forgot the link! Distracted by moth pictures besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Tree composition mitigates the negative effects of urbanization on specialist and generalist forest moth communities
Urbanization 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....
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Now 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
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Fascinating!
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Grumbling 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.
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Fall 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
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Here’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
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
If you’re having the kind of day I am, you might need this.
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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Some actual good news for once? www.eenews.net/articles/for...
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Forest Service research survives in House spending bill
Republican appropriators also set aside a White House request for a new wildfire agency at Interior.
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Hey how exciting! I hope it’s going well!!
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Tis the season for fun field work, awesome data collection, learning and mentorship, beautiful days on the mountain, and baaaaaabies #vcemansfieldsongbirds #ornithology #pollinators #vermont
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Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Hi, 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
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Would like to sit in on all these talks please! 😎
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
No 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.
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
@vtecostudies.bsky.social
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thanks for sharing Dan!
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
You 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...
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Scientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here's What's Being Done to Save Them Both
In 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
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The 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
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We get to cheat. Some of these ladies have nanotags 🤩 Still squirrelly!
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Could be! They have site fidelity from year to year
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