Rosy Christopher
@envirosyment.bsky.social
Molecular entomology PhD student NCL @ForagingEcology 🕷️🧬 • RES Student rep 🪲 • First gen • She/They • #NeurodivergentinSTEM #PrideinEnto
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Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.
So excited for the bees to come back! All the early bulbs are starting, and spring is sooooo close
February brings us closer to the return of bumblebees – you might be lucky enough to see some this month 🤞
Bumblebee queens emerge from hibernation in spring. Keep your eyes peeled this month for early emerging Tree and Buff-tailed bumblebees 👀
Have you spotted your first bumblebee of 2026?
Bumblebee queens emerge from hibernation in spring. Keep your eyes peeled this month for early emerging Tree and Buff-tailed bumblebees 👀
Have you spotted your first bumblebee of 2026?
February 1, 2026 at 12:06 PM
So excited for the bees to come back! All the early bulbs are starting, and spring is sooooo close
We are a go! The student forum will be held at my very own Newcastle University this year, and we've got some cracking talks from some brilliant entomologists lined up for the key note spots, some fab workshops and as always we'll have the ENTOquiz! So please send your abstracts over #entomology
📢 Abstract Call!
🎓 Our annual #StudentForum is back and coming to @newcastleuni.bsky.social on 30–31 March!
Submit your abstracts to share your research & be part of the programme 💡
🗓️ Deadline: 28 Feb
👉 buff.ly/yQsZcMK
#Entomology #StudentScience
🎓 Our annual #StudentForum is back and coming to @newcastleuni.bsky.social on 30–31 March!
Submit your abstracts to share your research & be part of the programme 💡
🗓️ Deadline: 28 Feb
👉 buff.ly/yQsZcMK
#Entomology #StudentScience
Call for Abstracts!
Share your research at the Student Forum 2026 - Deadline 28 Feb
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January 31, 2026 at 8:29 PM
We are a go! The student forum will be held at my very own Newcastle University this year, and we've got some cracking talks from some brilliant entomologists lined up for the key note spots, some fab workshops and as always we'll have the ENTOquiz! So please send your abstracts over #entomology
So excited to be giving this talk in June, be ready for everything commensalisms, crab spiders and community science! 🌼🕷️🧬
FREE NEW EVENT!!! 🕷️
Join us on Friend, Foe, or Freeloader? The Flower Crab Spider webinar on 2nd June.
@envirosyment.bsky.social explores how Misumena vatia hunts on flowers—and how you can get involved in the research too! 🌍 🧪
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1915221742...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Join us on Friend, Foe, or Freeloader? The Flower Crab Spider webinar on 2nd June.
@envirosyment.bsky.social explores how Misumena vatia hunts on flowers—and how you can get involved in the research too! 🌍 🧪
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1915221742...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 5:06 PM
So excited to be giving this talk in June, be ready for everything commensalisms, crab spiders and community science! 🌼🕷️🧬
Not only will you be getting first hand experience in how societies are run behind the scenes but all the connections and opportunities that come will the role are unmatched!
@idrisadams.bsky.social and I will be ready to bring you up to speed on everything to do with the position! 🪲🐝🐞
@idrisadams.bsky.social and I will be ready to bring you up to speed on everything to do with the position! 🪲🐝🐞
📣🐞 Vacancy for a @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Representative! 🐞📣
Join @idrisadams.bsky.social & @envirosyment.bsky.social for one of the best opportunities around! Contribute to the RES and organise events, such as the renowned Student Forum
Deadline: 5/10/25
www.royensoc.co.uk/opportunitie...
Join @idrisadams.bsky.social & @envirosyment.bsky.social for one of the best opportunities around! Contribute to the RES and organise events, such as the renowned Student Forum
Deadline: 5/10/25
www.royensoc.co.uk/opportunitie...
Student Representative vacancy 2025 - Royal Entomological Society
The Royal Entomological Society is recruiting one new volunteer to be a Student Representative. The 1-2 year role includes helping to organise the annual Student Forum with RES staff, and providing up...
www.royensoc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Not only will you be getting first hand experience in how societies are run behind the scenes but all the connections and opportunities that come will the role are unmatched!
@idrisadams.bsky.social and I will be ready to bring you up to speed on everything to do with the position! 🪲🐝🐞
@idrisadams.bsky.social and I will be ready to bring you up to speed on everything to do with the position! 🪲🐝🐞
This was my final straw today, thought I could perfectly consolidate these samples into one box, but my ability to hold it together at the end of this field season is being tested
August 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This was my final straw today, thought I could perfectly consolidate these samples into one box, but my ability to hold it together at the end of this field season is being tested
So it's been a minute, July was busy! I finished up my Cornwall fieldwork, drove 500 miles back to the north, had some leave, did my night time spider surveys, graduated from my master's in cardiff, had one car die and bought my first car in my own, and then started my candy stripe spider fieldwork
August 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
So it's been a minute, July was busy! I finished up my Cornwall fieldwork, drove 500 miles back to the north, had some leave, did my night time spider surveys, graduated from my master's in cardiff, had one car die and bought my first car in my own, and then started my candy stripe spider fieldwork
It's #insectweek !! Here's some of the Flower Crab spiders I've seen this field season, but don't forget to submit your photos to foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
June 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
It's #insectweek !! Here's some of the Flower Crab spiders I've seen this field season, but don't forget to submit your photos to foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
The awaited day two of field work! Come with me to collect in my community data sample and do some nectar sampling 🕷️🌼
#fieldwork #comewithme #flowers #spiders #entomology #arachnology #phdlife #phdstudent #womeninstem
#fieldwork #comewithme #flowers #spiders #entomology #arachnology #phdlife #phdstudent #womeninstem
June 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The awaited day two of field work! Come with me to collect in my community data sample and do some nectar sampling 🕷️🌼
#fieldwork #comewithme #flowers #spiders #entomology #arachnology #phdlife #phdstudent #womeninstem
#fieldwork #comewithme #flowers #spiders #entomology #arachnology #phdlife #phdstudent #womeninstem
What is spider spies? Speaking a bit about the project, what goes into the kits, and what your participation goes towards!
Link for the page: foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
#communityscience #arachnology #entomology #womeninstem #research #spiders #networkecology
Link for the page: foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
#communityscience #arachnology #entomology #womeninstem #research #spiders #networkecology
June 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
What is spider spies? Speaking a bit about the project, what goes into the kits, and what your participation goes towards!
Link for the page: foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
#communityscience #arachnology #entomology #womeninstem #research #spiders #networkecology
Link for the page: foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
#communityscience #arachnology #entomology #womeninstem #research #spiders #networkecology
June 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This is the kind of Jurassic park I'd be keen for
Imagine, if you will, a field of buffalo-sized beetle lumps calmly grazing
June 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is the kind of Jurassic park I'd be keen for
Reposted by Rosy Christopher
A very well matched and green cucumber spider, Araniella, tucked away by it's web @britishspiders.bsky.social @sewbrec.org.uk
June 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A very well matched and green cucumber spider, Araniella, tucked away by it's web @britishspiders.bsky.social @sewbrec.org.uk
Reposted by Rosy Christopher
#EmotionalSupportSpood 🥹
Had to dig up some old spood pics for a friend, found this Phidippus richmani lad 🖤
Had to dig up some old spood pics for a friend, found this Phidippus richmani lad 🖤
June 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
#EmotionalSupportSpood 🥹
Had to dig up some old spood pics for a friend, found this Phidippus richmani lad 🖤
Had to dig up some old spood pics for a friend, found this Phidippus richmani lad 🖤
June 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Back in the field this week after some very turbulent weather, the spiders are still kicking though!
I've now received records across 8 counties for #spiderspies including records from both England and Wales, this weeks task is learning some programming for a nice interacting map for the website!
I've now received records across 8 counties for #spiderspies including records from both England and Wales, this weeks task is learning some programming for a nice interacting map for the website!
June 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Back in the field this week after some very turbulent weather, the spiders are still kicking though!
I've now received records across 8 counties for #spiderspies including records from both England and Wales, this weeks task is learning some programming for a nice interacting map for the website!
I've now received records across 8 counties for #spiderspies including records from both England and Wales, this weeks task is learning some programming for a nice interacting map for the website!
It's always a joy but the tiniest bit frustrating when I find these guys away from my fieldsite. I spent all afternoon walking fields searching to find one female, and then I'm just walking around my parents farm checking on foals and spot this bright yellow #misumena
#arachnology #spider
#arachnology #spider
May 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It's always a joy but the tiniest bit frustrating when I find these guys away from my fieldsite. I spent all afternoon walking fields searching to find one female, and then I'm just walking around my parents farm checking on foals and spot this bright yellow #misumena
#arachnology #spider
#arachnology #spider
Despite the dismal weather down here in Cornwall, I managed to get out to sample this afternoon and found this beauty! This one had the reddest abdomen stripes I've seen yet
#spiders #arachnology
#spiders #arachnology
May 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Despite the dismal weather down here in Cornwall, I managed to get out to sample this afternoon and found this beauty! This one had the reddest abdomen stripes I've seen yet
#spiders #arachnology
#spiders #arachnology
Reposted by Rosy Christopher
You've got ~a week left to pre-order our collab w/@franzanth.bsky.social, Bigger Than Binaries!
I'll order some extras in orange in a limited size range because I lack a warehouse, I have only a room full of lizards.
Printed locally on 100% cotton.
Get 'em while you can! squidfacts.bigcartel.com
I'll order some extras in orange in a limited size range because I lack a warehouse, I have only a room full of lizards.
Printed locally on 100% cotton.
Get 'em while you can! squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
You've got ~a week left to pre-order our collab w/@franzanth.bsky.social, Bigger Than Binaries!
I'll order some extras in orange in a limited size range because I lack a warehouse, I have only a room full of lizards.
Printed locally on 100% cotton.
Get 'em while you can! squidfacts.bigcartel.com
I'll order some extras in orange in a limited size range because I lack a warehouse, I have only a room full of lizards.
Printed locally on 100% cotton.
Get 'em while you can! squidfacts.bigcartel.com
Today's #fieldwork life lesson was if you're leaving a pan trap in a field of cows 🐮🐄 pin it down because they will steal it
May 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Today's #fieldwork life lesson was if you're leaving a pan trap in a field of cows 🐮🐄 pin it down because they will steal it
Of course after posting about seeing them so rarely this morning, I found another yellow morph flower crab #spider today, and she was a stonker 🌟🕷️💛
May 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Of course after posting about seeing them so rarely this morning, I found another yellow morph flower crab #spider today, and she was a stonker 🌟🕷️💛
Reposted by Rosy Christopher
Read about the brilliant #CitizenScience project on crab spiders and their host plants by RES Student Representative @envirosyment.bsky.social - Get involved 🔽
Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.
May 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Read about the brilliant #CitizenScience project on crab spiders and their host plants by RES Student Representative @envirosyment.bsky.social - Get involved 🔽
Despite having seen my fair share of these #spiders at this point, I've only found two yellow morph Misumena vatia and they really are gorgeous 🌟💛☀️
May 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Despite having seen my fair share of these #spiders at this point, I've only found two yellow morph Misumena vatia and they really are gorgeous 🌟💛☀️
The first sample kits are in the post for #spiderspies and should be on their way to the wonderful people already participating in this scheme! We even got spider themed stamps to get them to you guys 🕷️✉️
May 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The first sample kits are in the post for #spiderspies and should be on their way to the wonderful people already participating in this scheme! We even got spider themed stamps to get them to you guys 🕷️✉️
After such a great response to #spiderspies yesterday and so many people sharing it, I've already had 6 responses in just one day, and 3 people have requested sample kits! So I'll be making a trip to the post office this afternoon to get those sent out to people 🕷️✉️ spider mail here we come
May 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
After such a great response to #spiderspies yesterday and so many people sharing it, I've already had 6 responses in just one day, and 3 people have requested sample kits! So I'll be making a trip to the post office this afternoon to get those sent out to people 🕷️✉️ spider mail here we come
Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.
May 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.