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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

FYI the state Oregon is pronounced organ not or-eh-gone -- as a kid of the PNW this is a mispronunciation I notice all the time

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There now (for limited time) print copies of our bee guide that you can order for free (just have to sign in, place and order, and pay for shipping)

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

At our entomology seminar yesterday the speaker talked about big-eyed bugs (Geocoris sp.) which in their system were important predators of pests in agricultural systems, they are excellent little bugs that I haven't seen in a long time, just great 😍

drawing of big-eyed bug with ball point pen on brown piece of paper board

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Quite fond of this shiny red ptilodactylid #beetle on an artistically-lichen-ridden leaf 😍 🥰 #Ptilodactylidae: #Ptilodactylus Costa Rica

A shiny red oval beetle with antennae tipped in black (except the very tip) sits on a smooth leaf that has several splotchy and sguiggly lichens growing on it.

Close up of a shiny red oval beetle with antennae tipped in black (except the very tip) sits on a smooth leaf that has several splotchy and sguiggly lichens growing on it.

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New from @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social @llseedsull.bsky.social me and many others: Grassland destruction causes shifts in plant traits that persist during recovery www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... eeb.msu.edu/news/why-anc...

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

are there any good reasons for people to keep using / sharing coordinates in degree minutes seconds format? it's so much more annoying and hard to use than decimal degree format. #GIS

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Big new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper - we show for the first time that plastics affects seabirds at the POPULATION level. Plastic ingested as a chick reduces recruitment of birds to the breeding population. And the story is pretty grim. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

re-running 2000 lines of R code, no errors, it's a miracle

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I like this paper's framework for presenting p-values not as a binary of significant or not, but rather on a gradient based on strength of evidence. Of course should also pair that language with effect sizes, but that's another pet peeve doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

a figure showing gradient of p-values on a log scale, and color-coded bar with text labels going from 'little or no evidence" above p=0.1 to 'weak evidence' above 0.5, to 'moderate evidence' below 0.5 to 'strong evidence' below 0.01 and 'very strong evidence' below 0.001

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This syrphid fly is a spectacular wasp mimic, also check out those eyes! Eastern Hornet Fly (Spilomyia longicornis) #bugsky

black and yellow fly with very similar markings to a big wasp/hornet

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I recently learned this observation I put on iNaturalist a few years ago is of a rare species endemic to Florida's scrub habitat, the McCrone's Burrowing Wolf Spider (Geolycosa xera) www.inaturalist.org/taxa/220348-...

close up of a hairy gray/black spider with big eyes and huge chelicera

top-down view of gray spider on white sand with some dried pine needles

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Blue milkweed beetle (Chrysochus cobaltinus) on dogbane. It was a warm day, but a sprinkle of rain from a brief afternoon thunderstorm cooled things off, plus gave the beetle a few droplets for decoration. (Montana) #BugSky 🌿🐙📷

A macro photo, elevated front 3/4 view, of an oval-shaped, beautiful, metallic lapis-blue beetle on a green leaf. There are several tiny drops of water on the beetle's back, and there is an out of focus pink flower in the background.

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Eastern elderberry borer (Desmocerus palliatus)

a large black and yellow beetle on the underside of a leaf with blue sky background

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

crab spider found the perfect hiding spot for hunting pollinators

two white flowers and developing fruits, in one of the developing fruits is a little spider

crab spider in a green orb that is a developing fruit, behind white flower petals

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Midway Crevasse A nifty mess of ominous boulders in the woods at Ricketts Glen State Park

a big mess of dark grey jagged boulders with a bit of green forest in the background

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Waterfalls and orange critters from Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania

rocky waterfall with glowing green forest on top right, long exposure makes water smooth

close up of orange mushroom poking out from log covered in moss

close up of head of red-orange eastern newt on top of green moss

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I dropped some bee and wasp facts in this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story :) www.post-gazette.com/news/health/...

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Why bees and wasps matter: ‘They’re just doing their thing in nature, pollinating plants’

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

i was tricked for a few seconds amazing syrphid fly mimic of a vespid wasp

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

American giant millipede www.inaturalist.org/observations...

large dark-orange mellipede on tree bark

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I found this little sweat bee (Lasioglossum sp.) inside a giant rhododendron flower (Rhododendron maximum)

a metallic dark-green bee inside a white flower

cluster of large white Rhododendron flowers

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

charming little false flower beetles going bonkers for solomon's plume flowers

a bunch of redish-brown beetles all over white flowers

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

beetles from yesterday's walk in the woods

large glossy black and orange beetle on a shelf fungus

thin black and orage beetle with long antannae

pale orange and black beetle with long antannae on a leaf

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Want to know how wild bee communities in the Colombian Andes change between all the habitats in these photos? Check out our new open access paper :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Habitats go from tropical rainforest to cloud forests to high Andean forest to high elevation páramo

tropical rainforest valley - at less than 1000 m elevation

cloud forest with a hut with mountains - about 2000 m elevation

pastre in the mountians sorrounded by forest - at 2000-3000 m

high elevation >3000 m Páramo grassland, lots of cool spiky plants

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

New paper published today based on data collected during a field course in Colombia, we studied bee communities across 3000m elevational gradient in the Andes, very strong results, it has been such a delight to work with great students on this project! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

a visual abstract made for our paper on bee communities in Colombian Andes - on left says 'low elevation' and are photos of 14 different bee species specimens, on rigt says 'high elevation' and are photos are 4 bee species are are all large bodied

group photo with 4 biologists, Nash Turley and 3 students who collected data for this study

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Today I learned there is a hexagonal storm at Saturn's north pole, the sides are bigger than the width of Earth, and in between 2012 and 2016 it changed colors from blue to gold 🪐

Two NASA public domain images of saturn's hexagon storm, left more blue right more gold

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

look at this lovely syrphid fly (Melangyna fisherii), there are only 45 iNaturalist records for this species, and only 2 other digitized museum records for PA, one being the holotype from 1902. I contend that this may be the best ever photo of this fly :) www.inaturalist.org/observations...

top-down view of black and yellow fly on white flowers, yellow bands on abdomen and wings outstretched, soft green background

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Ocotillo at Joshua Tree National Park

fingery woody plant with about 50 stems reaching up from desert rocky soil into orange and blue sky

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

look at this glorious little moth!

small moth on a leaf - one that holds wings together, wings with lots of little scale slight irredescent black/purple on back and orange patshes up from, long antannae with white tips

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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Truly the death of science as we know it, as well as any societies and journals dependent on funding from U.S. scientists. **Public comments accepted through July 13.** 🧪 🌍 Email and call your representative every day, on top of leaving public comments here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

tiny fly in a wild geranium flower

center of a pink flower with large yellow anthers and a small black fly with red eyes sitting on petal

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

goth crane fly www.inaturalist.org/observations...

close up of a black and leggy black fly with long antannae

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I was delighted to see one of these fuzzy hovering moths visiting flowers - they mimic bumble bees in appearance but behave more like hummingbirds snowberry clearwing (Hemaris diffinis) www.inaturalist.org/observations...

a fuzzy black and yellow moth with clear wings hovering in front of a white flower with soft green background

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

dimorphic jumping spider (Maevia inclemens), check out those zebra-stripped legs! 🦓 this a male grey morph, there is also a black morph that looks totally different

grey jumping spider with big glossy eyes with fuzzy tan pedipalpds and inside of front legs white with black stripes

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

a glorious click beetle with a metallic rosy red pronotum

long beetle on a purple flower, black abdomen, shiny pink/red thorax, serrated antannae sticking out

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Packera flowers with wild geranium in the background

4 yellow compound flowers with two pink flowers blurry in the background

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

these canada geese are serious posers

two canada geese standing in a stream posing facing opposide directions

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

american red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)

small squirel with rusty red tail and redish/brown/grey body

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