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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Day one of the Ohio Renaissance Festival down! Everyone loves a unicorn 🦄✨

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

POV: you’re scouting sorghum fields with me for aphids.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It’s sorghum time! Out field sampling the plant tissue, soil microbial communities, and any aphids I can sweep into my nets.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Absolutely I love with the new piece I got from @magicmudcat.com ! Look how pretty I am!

Pink dragon with horns, wing ears, and a whole lot of sass

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Whoa! Found a clubbed mydas fly on my lunch walk. So large and beautiful coloration!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New aphid I found while sweep netting the sorghum fields - Sipha flava, better known as the yellow sugarcane aphid. They can transmit sugarcane mosaic virus.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My baby, Sencha, wants to craft too!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Igni (my husband) and I went to Isle of Berk in June and we are still absolutely obsessed! I still listen to the mead hall music while I’m writing. It was SO good!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

For reference, this is what aphids look like and why I need my scope. Otherwise they are just green dots.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Sorting aphid samples at my boss’s home today!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

How I feel each workday after working on my research proposal.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Spoiled by the incredibly generous @tokoriart.bsky.social! I absolutely love this piece; each of my characters are so special to me and it’s so fun to have them all together. It’s a Nat mood board! Please give them a follow if you’re not already. Their art is highly deserving of more eyes.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

First monarchs I’ve seen this summer. And at my favorite park too!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Spilosoma, why you like the bricks by the door to my work building? Such a fluffy cutie pie.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Finally able to produce some attacks! This one is for a user on artfight (NyancarXwX), of their fox Friday, since they drew my sweet Matcha.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Back in the fields today, scouting for aphids in sorghum. I’m especially hopeful to find Melanaphis sacchari.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Little guys are all in a row! They look like Flatid planthoppers of some variety, maybe Ormenoides venusta considering there are many pawpaws around.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’m cooking up something ✨good✨

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My Hoya carnosa decided to bloom this morning! There are 5 more bloom spikes coming in, so I can’t wait to see them all.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Blueberry harvest weekend!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

That’s my favorite part of the Universal parks too, is that every detail has been lovely crafted and themed to fit the environment. It’s brilliant! I’m so over this AI is better than the craft. I DESIRE human made art, lovely made by master crafts. Please I’m begging. I want the whimsy of it all!

Dining hall details including dragon tapestries, tables that appear like out of an animated film, and wood carvings that adorn support beams.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Made it to Orlando, FL for my holiday with family! It’s been so sunny and can’t wait to start the day. Hoping some sunshine does us good.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Bluesky might be stupid, but I swear this reference is Disney PG. 🙃 Flag: 🩷💜💙 Always out here pondering those orbs! Fireball 🔥

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My son is so cute! (His name is Nori)

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I had to! I love my skink boy, Nori, and this looks just like him!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My partner and I cleaned the porch and organized the space so I can use it for plants and our child, Sencha, can use it for bird watching. It’s been a huge success.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Burle Marx are literally adorable. Mine has been going crazy since I gave it a moss pole to climb. Hopefully yours takes off too. (Also have my cat for fun)

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Absolutely gorgeous giant ichneumonid on my daily walk!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Working on single aphid DNA extractions today! I want to look at how plant defenses influence aphid microbial allies. So the first step to peering into the microbial world is through the aphid’s DNA, especially because their microbial allies are present in their guts.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

More no choice tests, where insects are cages to one individual plant. Hoping to see how each plants defensive phenotype (observable characteristics) influence insect symbionts (their microbial allies)! I’ll be presenting my findings at a conference this spring!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Caitir, the unicorn. 🦄 💫 She’s a unicorn with a love of all things botanical. Can be found in a lilac forest somewhere, if you’re lucky. She’s pretty shy.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

New leaf reveal today! This plant looks so fake with every new leaf.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Sorghum thriving in the greenhouse while I’m freezing my butt off in the negatives this week!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

More sorghum for the next round of aphid trials!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Meet a small but mighty aphid, Melanaphis sacchari, more commonly referred to as the sugarcane/sorghum aphid. These little ladies are an emerging pest in my region and are specialist feeders on sorghum (broomcorn,millet). Economically important pests because of their yield loss potential!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Obsessed with this D&D piece @tokoriart.bsky.social did for me, which was a gift for my husband! He loves his Dragonborn character so much.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

My little Sencha is 7 today! 🎉

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

In celebration of attending my first Entomology 2025, here’s some adorable art @tokoriart.bsky.social did of my unicorn with her arthropod friends!

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Monarch butterfly enjoying some blooming milkweed. I don’t blame them, milkweed are fragrant and beautiful. Milkweed is in the dogbane family, which funny enough so are the popular houseplants called hoyas! If you look closely, you can see the familiar flower shape - shooting star clusters.

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Sweet corn season is delightful! 🌽

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Nat @nattlebug.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

They might not seem like much, but those are ghost bells (Monotropa uniflora). They lack chlorophyll which is why they lack that distinctive green coloration. They are also parasitic and suck the nutrients from other plants! Truly vampires of the plant world. 🧛‍♂️

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