Gwen Pearson

I absolutely loved this book! Was exactly what I needed right now. Looking forward to next in the series :)

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Concern over US travel visas prompts Ig Nobels to move its awards to Europe Organizers of an annual satirical award for scientific achievement are shifting for the first time from the United States to Europe due to concerns about winners and others being able to get visas.

Having the Ig Nobels leave the US for safety reasons is a pretty on point example of the situation here apnews.com/article/ig-n...

Congrats!! 🎉

Nesting & Overwintering Habitat | Xerces Society The availability of nesting and overwintering habitat is one of the most important factors influencing populations of native bees and other beneficial insects. This guide focuses on a variety of natur...

Want to learn how to build native bee habitat? (screws not included.) Here you go! xerces.org/publications...

Putting up my native bee houses today, and realized a few screws are missing (on brand for this year).
Now I'm off to the hardware store... carrying a jar with "BEE SCREWS" on the label. Pretty sure Hijinks will ensue 🐝🪛

An iridescent dark navy blue beetle with short soft wing covers on top of a very large soft abdomen walks across a dead leaf. It has a very narrow thorax and head, and beaded antennae.

An iridescent dark navy blue beetle with short soft wing covers on top of a very large soft abdomen walks across a dead leaf. It has a very narrow thorax and head, and beaded antennae.

An iridescent dark navy blue beetle with short soft wing covers on top of a very large soft abdomen lies curled up with legs tucked in on a leaf. It has a very narrow thorax and head, and beaded antennae. There is an orange-yellow droplet of oily cantharidin coming out of the middle leg joint.

Close up of an orange-yellow droplet of oily cantharidin coming out of the middle leg joint of the beetle.

Excited to finally get pics of this genus of oil/blister beetle! This female played dead when disturbed & exuded droplets of cantharidin from her legs. This sticky substance can cause blisters & has been called "Spanish fly". Larvae are parasites of solitary bee nests. #Meloidae: #Meloe; NC, USA

Everyone's a queen: The ant species with no males or workers Temnothorax kinomurai, a parasitic ant species found in Japan, reproduces asexually and all of its young develop into queens that try to take over other ants’ colonies

Today in ants doing weird things: queens all the way down 🐜👑https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516695-everyones-a-queen-the-ant-species-with-no-males-or-workers/

A macro image of the backside of a sleeping bee, whose head is not visible because it's jammed down into the center of a yellow flower. The bee's abdomen is dark with thin light-colored bands of hair. The flower's petals surrounding it are smooth, and the flower's fuzzy stigma is next to the bee, like a yellow pom-pom.

Guess what
Bee butt

A small (under 1 cm., way smaller than a honeybee) male Dufourea sp. bee sleeping in a sun cup (Camissonia campestris) flower in the Mojave Desert last week. Males of many solitary native bees sleep in flowers or use their mandibles to clamp onto thin plant stems. 🐙🌿📷 #BugSky

Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Also see: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

More AI 💩: www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Happy Birthday! 🕷️🎂

Wall painting of a gray centipede on a bike on a red-orange-yellow background

Love the art in Tucson #invertebrate

Side view of a bumble bee collecting pollen from the large cone of a bright yellow flower.

'Rear view' of the same bee, which shows the red belts on the bee's abdomen.

A Red-belted Bumble Bee (Bombus rufocinctus) collects from sneeze weed (Helenium autumnale) near the shore of the Columbia River in Castlegar, BC, last August 8. 🐝

I love this SO MUCH! Brilliant @mothpotato.bsky.social 😀

Absolutely, they are delightful! They have just been on a weird insect kick lately. To the amusement and bafflement of entomologists :D

Beloved lepidopterist Kevin dissects some noctuid genitalia in the Visible Lab, which he has decorated to look like the penalty box at a hockey game. He is wearing a Pens jersey and a hockey helmet while he looks thru the microscope.

I thought our new “visible lab” space felt like a petting zoo but @mothpotato.bsky.social had a much better idea

Making the Invisible Visible: Photographing Native Bees with Krystle Hickman - Bioneers Through photography, observation, and community science, Krystle Hickman is documenting the lives of native bees that most people never notice. In this conversation, she shares her observations and in...

Timeline cleanse: beautiful photos of native bees, by fab photographer Krystle Hickman bioneers.org/making-the-i...

Western Monarchs Head into Spring with a Small Migratory Population The final survey period of the Xerces Society’s Western Monarch Count ended recorded 6,464 monarch butterflies across 193 overwintering sites. This tally is 47% lower than the mid-season count of 12,2...

The late-season Western Monarch Count gives us a look at how many butterflies made it through the winter. The percent of remaining monarchs was typical, but coming from the 3rd lowest mid-season count on record, we hope these monarchs will have a good breeding season.
xerces.org/news/organiz...

Congrats! Very cool 🪰

OMG the beetles 😍

Teachers’ job satisfaction 33% of public K-12 teachers are highly satisfied with their job, and 52% say they wouldn't advise a young person to become a teacher.

2024 data from @pewresearch.org; 15% of teachers satisified with their pay. www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

Walton Family Foundation-Gallup K-12 Teacher Research Exploring the K-12 teacher experience in America.

New year, new survey, same numbers: 71% of U.S. teachers hold at least one second job. 1 in 5 teachers find it difficult to get by on their household income. Over 1/2 say they are just getting by. Full report download: www.gallup.com/analytics/65...

Just racking up the wins lately! Congrats!

The Big Five US Trade Book Publishers With all the imprints out there, it's sometimes difficult to know which imprint belongs to which of the big five publishers.

This is mind blowing. A map of how 100s of publishing houses were assimilated into just 5 massive US book publishers. almossawi.com/big-five-pub...

Oooh! Let me know if you want to do coworking/cowriting virtually! I also am writing a book (In theory). I think you have my email 🪲✉️

Sarah! Are you writing a book?

Timeline cleanse. These amazing animals are not spiders, but Opiliones, arachnid cousins.

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