Noctuidae. Probably Noctuinae. Hard to get beyond that.
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Noctuidae. Probably Noctuinae. Hard to get beyond that.
Multiple people thought I was a statue yesterday. They were very surprised when I turned to them and started talking lol.
Yeah I can't figure out what the cat in the photo is, but it's much too large to be the bone collector. It looks like something in the family Noctuidae.
That's a different species
That photo is of a different species. Not sure what it is. Looks like it's in a totally different family.
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kΔkΔpΕ chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
A little behind on posting, so here are some foggy views of #Pittsburgh from a few weeks ago. The fog was amazing how it just sat on the river, giving the city this eerie yet beautiful vibe. Eventually it engulfed the city, but not before I captured these.
Thank you to @americanbeetles.bsky.social for her phenomenal Steely McLep meeting logo :)
I'm hosting this year's Lepidopterists' Society meeting June 24-28 at Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Submit an abstract for a talk here: lepsoc.org/2026-meeting...
We'll have a couple of collecting trips, go to a Pirates game, and we'll have a Silence of the Lambs viewing.
Join us!
Booooooo (contractually required to boo as a Bostonian)
A yellow historic tram travels along a narrow cobblestone street lined with bright-colored buildings in Lisbon, Portugal. The 10kLepGenomes and LepEU logos are overlaid in the bottom corner.
(1/4) π’ Applications are open for the #LepEU Workshop 2026: a joint training + hackathon event focused on the analysis of #Lepidoptera genomic data.
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Save the date! β¬οΈ
Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!
So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the βExample...β button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
This party keeps getting better and better
Our beloved fence pets are back. [Xylocopa sonorina male, Alameda, CA 2-28-26] #bees #nativebees
Hell yes that party looks great
Itβs crazy that itβs basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history
Randy Newman: In my song "Political Science" I invented the narrator as a cautionary tale
United States of America: At long last,
Nothing is surprising about the US starting another war. Nothing is more dangerous to Earth and mankind at large than the United States and its complete and utter failure to curtail the worst excesses of humanity. The US oligarchy and its influence on global politics must end.
YAAAAYYY!!!
NSF leaders have just acknowledged what many scientists have long suspected: Presidential directives to boost AI and quantum have upended its traditional way of doing business. www.science.org/content/arti...
An amazing new species of Cordyceps-mimicking spider has just been described from the Ecuadorian Amazon - Taczanowskia waska
www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
America United poster above big out of order sign
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Bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln at the stone steps to the New York Historical Society. On his head is a giant cylindrical hat of snow.
At the New York Historical Society.
A sphinx moth came to slurp at a desert lily as we were watching the sunset over the Anza Borrego badlands.
Black and white head and shoulders portrait of Bill Mazeroski in a Pirates uniform. (Don Wingfield/National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)
The Hall of Fame remembers Class of 2001 inductee Bill Mazeroski, who passed away Friday at the age of 89. ow.ly/JC2r50Yjlzg
