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Kit Straley, PhD 🐦🤓💚

@earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social

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#ornithology #ecology, bird nerd, Mothra, she/they, looking for work!, banner by James Smith 📸, @erlynerdgetbird from twitter

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Kit Straley, PhD 🐦🤓💚 @earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

sound up for a rainy waterfall

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Kit Straley, PhD 🐦🤓💚 @earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

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Two people standing under a colorful banner that reads “Dr. Kit Straley congratulations!” The banner has a bird with a graduation style cap.

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Kit Straley, PhD 🐦🤓💚 @earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

we learn about the food web early on in school, but it’s another thing to witness the spectacular growth of herbivores, all through the power of native plants! insects are declining, and one way we can help is by providing them with their native host plants. 🐛🌿💚

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Kit Straley, PhD 🐦🤓💚 @earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

bonus smiley butt

A fifth instar Promethea caterpillar on sassafras leaves. The camera is focused on its posterior, where a pattern of 3 black marks looks like a cartoon face.

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Kit Straley, PhD 🐦🤓💚 @earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

caterpillars will never cease to amaze me. this is happening every day all around us. in the woods. in the parks. in your yard, especially if you have native plants!

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Kit Straley, PhD 🐦🤓💚 @earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

they start out so smol 🥹

The view inside of a small tupperware container full of Polyphemus moth eggs and newly hatched caterpillars. There are many. The eggs are cream colored ovals with a thick brown band and are tiny! roughly 3 mm. There are also little green caterpillars with brown faces crawling out of the eggs and up the side of the container.

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Kit Straley, PhD 🐦🤓💚 @earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

wow thank you for all the moth love, everyone! he is a male Polyphemus moth that I raised last year. he started out as a teeny egg like these (see photo) and through the power of native plants - Quercus rubra specifically - he was able to pupate, chill all winter, and emerge as an adult this year!