Forested city bike path--urbanism done correctly 🤩

For the last week I have been sitting through bee photos on iNat trying to find good genus example photos.

Now when I close my eyes I see bee faces and little stripey abdomens...😂🐝🐝

I don't hate it.

Working on Prototype 2.0!

After a bunch of play testing I'm ready to reprint the bee cards. I want to update them with prettier photos.

Do you or does someone you know have beautiful bee photos I could use for the prototype?

I need all the North American Genera of bees.

Asking for coding help on Stack overflow: *Spends an hour creating a carefully crafted example and question*

Responses: "my god you're such a f**king idiot how are you even functioning?!?🤬"

Asking ChatGPT: how do code?

Response: "Oh my god yes, Queen! Lets figure this out! 🫰💙"

If you thought missing a bus after running for it was dejecting? Try hobbling as fast you can (not being able to run) and missing it by 5 seconds

Two buses today pulled away as I tried my best to reach them 😭

#brokenachilles

I managed to cut my code time from 22 hours down to 15 minutes!

Am I god?!

British Columbia does have some pretty buildings on occasion

Im in the process of updating my native bee board game prototype after some major mechanic revisions.

One of the fun little things Ive done is redrawn the resources tokens in #Procreate

They are stone, leaf and water. Then combos of each.

I'm excited to see the spring Camas in a few months!!

A few paintings I finished last fall. I've never felt good at painting cause my colour blindness makes it really hard, but I like these "busy" blobbies

surely we didnt do this....right?....right?

What softwares do people use to manage their insect databases? Im looking to set my lab up with a collections database. I have microsoft access in the past, but am curious if there is something better.

Needs:
*label creation
*specimen tracking
*easy data entry
*modularity

The print sale is live, bug people.

If you had heaps of money to spend on ecological equipment what would you buy? 👉👈

Bonus points for insect, bird, and argoecology focused things.

Time to rebuild from the bird site!! Im looking for fellow bee-ecologist and wildlife enthusiasts!

go.bsky.app/PrjzU94

Just popping in to say hello! My name is Tyler Kelly I am a native bee ecologist in Western Canada!

This cutie is a cactus woodboorer bee (Lithurgopsis) having a little snooze in the Opuntia bloom.