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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Philly Friends, do your best to make it over. For Natural Science! 🙌

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So we want to livestream the rally tomorrow from the Save The Academy instagram account, but the accounts needs 1000 followers to allow livestreaming. Please please please can everyone go follow this instagram account? www.instagram.com/savetheacade...

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yes! I will be speaking at this Save the Academy of Natural Sciences rally 🙌👏👏✨ And it will be live-streamed from the @ SaveTheAcademy account on Instagram

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here we go!! 🦋 Making moves to save the Academy of Natural Sciences!! 🙌

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I hope my brother keeps the family tradition alive 🥲🙌✨

Text exchange in my family text chat. My brother shared a video of a praying mantis he saw.

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

POV - a grasshopper at the scene of the night light in Arizona during monsoon season at 2am on a Saturday. 💡🦋🦗

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The foul is that they scored on Argentina

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

There might be a strepsiptera in the abdomen of this wasp!! See the bulge? I didn’t have a container to use to inspect more closely #EntomologyFail Always have a vial/container on hand!

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Wowww four possible goals called off sides in total in this Portugal vs Croatia game !! #WorldCup2026

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I am at Science on Tap in Tempe,Arizona and wow, yikes… the New World Screw Worm is scary!! Sounds like a Covid-level emergency. Call your reps to express your concerns and urge swift response and funding. This is bad for wildlife, cattle, people…this fly eats living flesh. We want, we need it gone.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Happy #WorldBeeDay – here is a favorite, the death camas mining bee, Andrena astragali, on its namesake toxic flower, death camas (Toxicoscordion sp.). Only a few generalist insects can tolerate the toxic nectar & pollen, but this bee specializes it it. Some of us like our food spicy. #Bugsky 🌿🐙📷

A macro photo of a fuzzy orange bee with dark eyes on a cluster of yellow flowers, against a green out of focus background.

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ASU Biocollections @asubiocollections.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Happy World Bee Day! While the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) targets ground beetles, mosquitos, ticks, macroinvertebrates, and zooplankton with its standardized sampling, not bees, we have bees and all sorts of other organisms to discover in our invertebrate bycatch samples. ✨🐝🪲🐛

Three pinned green shiny bee specimens. The pins have museum-standard locality labels on them.

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I saw Blephariceridae larvae on the bedrock of a small water fall while rappelling in California last week & it was such a delight to see them. They are so unique!! So specialized to waterfalls!! They have suction cups going down their ventral side so they can maintain their grip! Video to follow

Funky looking insect larvae on granite(?) rock. Under a thin layer of water. Large semicircle head capsule with two small floppy antennae.

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Beautiful shot! But there are many perfect photos to share on earth day.Many perfect angles.The beauty can’t be captured in one shot. (Yes say this with the bias of a macrophotographer🤭) Only a collectively made collage of earth’s wonder& beauty can get close to the perfect visual.Share your shots!

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

My Aunt is hosting a station at an earth day event in New Jersey where she is encouraging people to leave old stems for bees.🐝 She found this old nest when she was prepping for the event! Looks like something went wrong for the bees but right for someone else. Do my bee friends here know what’s up?

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day!! 🌎🌱💙💚💙💚💙

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

New year, new life! Happy 2026. A Ceraunas Blue (Hemiargus ceraunus) lays an egg on the budding flowers of a plant in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. The mountains have been so green & full of butterflies this year thanks to the many rains. Last year was the opposite - dry and brown. ⛰️🦋🌿

Butterfly with her abdomen curved to lay an egg at the base of a flower bud.

Photo where we can see the egg between the flower buds.

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

“On the web”-themed @nytimes.com Strands game today! Fastest Strands I’ve ever done 😌🕷️ www.nytimes.com/games/strands

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Play Strands, our newest word-search game with a twist.

Find hidden words and uncover the day’s theme.

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Happy #ECN2025 wknd everyone!! Sadly, I am not there in person this year, but I look forward to tuning in online as much as I can. There is a great line-up of presentations. Big thanks to the presenters and organizers! For anyone who wants to tune in:$20, $5 for students: ecnweb.net/welcome/meet...

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2025 Meeting Program | Entomological Collections Network

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Entomological Collections Network @entcollnet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

📢 Ento job klaxon! Texas A&M University are advertising not one but TWO faculty positions in #Arthropod #Systematics and #Biodiversity 🪲 Full details and to apply: ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/175600

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Ileana Betancourt @ileanabeta.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The bees are loving the flowering Cup Plant! They seem to like resting or sleeping on it too. #NativePlants #bugsky #cupplant @isabetabug.bsky.social

Two bees visiting two separate flowers of the cup plant. One bee has tons of pollen on its hind legs.

A bumblebee resting on the underside of a cup plant.

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Me this past Sunday on the Salt River, east of Phoenix, AZ. Can you guess what I’m taking a video of?? 🔍✨

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The classroom! With Dr. Hojun Song getting us oriented. 🇨🇷🦗 We will be learning Ensifera (katydid and cricket) phylogeny, behavior, morphology, and acoustics this week. #CricketCourse

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Greetings from Costa Rica! I made it through immigration and customs. I am now on the group bus and headed to the field station with the 13 other students and our lead instructor for this cricket and katydid course.

Isa smiling at the camera and pointing to a “welcome to Costa Rica” tourism sign that is in the background.

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I’m headed to Costa Rica for a cricket course! No not the sport but the insect! Can’t wait. I’ll bring you along - posting tidbits, encounters, and updates here in BlueSky :) 🦗🦗🦗🦗🎶

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My friends, you must do the @nytimes.com’s Strands game today (Thursday May 29) ✨🪲😉 www.nytimes.com/games/strands

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Play Strands, our newest word-search game with a twist.

Find hidden words and uncover the day’s theme.

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Entomological Collections Network @entcollnet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

📢 JOB KLAXON! The Yale Peabody Museum is hiring a permanent, full-time Museum Assistant in #Entomology 🦋 Full details & how to apply: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... #EntoJobs #InsectCollections

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Museum Assistant 2 - Yale University - Job Details

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

@blancobercial.bsky.social hi! Are you familiar with freshwater zooplankton archival collection practices?

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

@elizabethbeston.bsky.social hi! Are you familiar with zooplankton archival preservation practices?

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Southwestern tent caterpillar sighting in Prescott, AZ! Happy spring :) Tent caterpillars have a special place in my heart. As kids, @ileanabeta.bsky.social & I ran around our suburban backyard in the spring, collecting the caterpillars as if we were on an Easter egg hunt. PSA: They are native!

Three fuzzy caterpillars - blue with a brown stripe down the back - rest on a their silky tent in the branches on a young tree. A lake with large rocky banks is in the background of the picture.

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Anyone here know about archival zooplankton storage? #help

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Parental care - A watchful mama keeps an eye on little one as they both rest and feed on an oak tree branch. She will ward off predators who seek to snatch up her children for lunch. Bonus: You can see slits in the bark of the branch where the tree hopper mama (Platycotis vittata) laid eggs!

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We started an account for the natural history collections at Arizona State University ☺️☀️🔱

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I had so much fun taking photos of my colleagues at the @asubiocollections.bsky.social last week. Here is Sangmi Lee, ASU Hasbrouck Insect Collection Manager. She poses with her study species -Gelechiidae - the twirler moths.🦋✨

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I made it to my first NatGeo Live event the other day. Dr Heather Lynch shared her work & experiences with studying penguins in Antarctica. It was great! It got me brainstorming how I might craft an insect show to join the NatGeo Live circuit. My mission is to get more insects on the big screen!✨🙌🪲

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Behind the scenes shot of me taking pictures of my colleagues and the students at the ASU Biocollections. We are building our digital assets for our website and social media! 📷 picture cred: Evan Waite🪲

Woman standing on a stool in an entomology archival space. She is pointing a camera towards a young lady who is holding container with pinned insects and who stands between open metal cabinets of insect drawers.

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

So many for the bird to choose from!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14! These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant

Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

At the ESA Annual Meeting, Nov. 9–12, 2025, Portland, Oregon, will be buzzing with excitement as thousands of insect scientists gather for a can't-miss event. Now is the time to make your mark by organizing a symposium or workshop. Proposals due March 14. #EntSoc25 www.entsoc.org/events/ann…

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Looks like videos are not quite crisp yet one Bluesky. Or is there something I need to do to process it to make it more compatible?

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It was so cool to see! And those feathers look so soft 😍

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I am attempting to use my Canon R5C and the Laowa probe lens to record intertidal sea urchins, hermit crabs, and fish.

A woman sits on a rock hunched over a camera with a long slender lens that is dipping into the water of a tide pool

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Found this gorgeous and and huge cowrie in the intertidal zone. It was glowing with life!!

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Codey Mathis @codeymathis.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I am an oracle but instead of reading tea leaves I read trap collections. The spirits say that today you are blessed. 🧪

Through a microscope, looking at insect specimens from a monitoring project. In the center, a pseudoscorpion.

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Michael Skvarla @napoleonicento.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Penn State is hiring a new tenure track Professor of Public Health Entomology at the Assistant or Associate level. The position has a 70% research/30% extension split. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

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Assistant/Associate Professor of Public Health Entomology

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I set up a new imaging system for photographing full trays of beetle specimens. When I first snapped a pic, I was terrified by the inaccuracy of the color! I quickly realized that I hadn’t yet switched from jpeg to RAW. JPEG files are more compressed okay but I’m shocked about the color difference!

Screen image of ground beetle specimens on a pin in a Lightroom software window. The thorax is bright orange

Screen image of ground beetle specimens on a pin in a Lightroom software window. The thorax is rusty orange

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