Rachel L. Walsh
@swamplily.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate in Interdisciplinary Ecology w/ focus in conservation biology & entomology at the Florida Museum of Natural History 🦋 📚⛺️🍄
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Rachel L. Walsh
@swamplily.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Excited to wrap up a successful conservation policy symposium at #EntSoc25!
Takeaways:
✍️ Make public comments
📍 Get involved at state & local levels
🗣️ Practice sharing science with family & friends
🦋 Highlight wonder inspired by charismatic species
🤝 Focus on our common humanity
Keep persisting!
Takeaways:
✍️ Make public comments
📍 Get involved at state & local levels
🗣️ Practice sharing science with family & friends
🦋 Highlight wonder inspired by charismatic species
🤝 Focus on our common humanity
Keep persisting!
This year at #EntSoc25, I was honored to win an award for a talk I gave on my birthday 🎂, along with three of my talented labmates at the McGuire Center! 🦋 🙌
Thanks to @entsocamerica.bsky.social & @floridamuseum.bsky.social for the support & recognition! 🙏
Thanks to @entsocamerica.bsky.social & @floridamuseum.bsky.social for the support & recognition! 🙏
Congrats! 👏👏👏🦋 Four of our @ufl.edu students were recognized at the Entomological Society of America’s 2025 meeting. Proud of the hard work of Anastasia Baluk Garavaglia, Jahir Rayhan, Skyla Sheehy & Rachel Walsh! #EntSoc25
More:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-...
📸: @swamplily.bsky.social
More:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-...
📸: @swamplily.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This year at #EntSoc25, I was honored to win an award for a talk I gave on my birthday 🎂, along with three of my talented labmates at the McGuire Center! 🦋 🙌
Thanks to @entsocamerica.bsky.social & @floridamuseum.bsky.social for the support & recognition! 🙏
Thanks to @entsocamerica.bsky.social & @floridamuseum.bsky.social for the support & recognition! 🙏
Excited to wrap up a successful conservation policy symposium at #EntSoc25!
Takeaways:
✍️ Make public comments
📍 Get involved at state & local levels
🗣️ Practice sharing science with family & friends
🦋 Highlight wonder inspired by charismatic species
🤝 Focus on our common humanity
Keep persisting!
Takeaways:
✍️ Make public comments
📍 Get involved at state & local levels
🗣️ Practice sharing science with family & friends
🦋 Highlight wonder inspired by charismatic species
🤝 Focus on our common humanity
Keep persisting!
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Excited to wrap up a successful conservation policy symposium at #EntSoc25!
Takeaways:
✍️ Make public comments
📍 Get involved at state & local levels
🗣️ Practice sharing science with family & friends
🦋 Highlight wonder inspired by charismatic species
🤝 Focus on our common humanity
Keep persisting!
Takeaways:
✍️ Make public comments
📍 Get involved at state & local levels
🗣️ Practice sharing science with family & friends
🦋 Highlight wonder inspired by charismatic species
🤝 Focus on our common humanity
Keep persisting!
Make sure to check out our science & conservation policy symposium at the upcoming ESA meeting! We've got a great lineup of speakers focusing on new methods for insect biodiversity monitoring & how entomologists can engage w/ policymaking. Join us! @entsocamerica.bsky.social bit.ly/SysEBPolicyS...
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Make sure to check out our science & conservation policy symposium at the upcoming ESA meeting! We've got a great lineup of speakers focusing on new methods for insect biodiversity monitoring & how entomologists can engage w/ policymaking. Join us! @entsocamerica.bsky.social bit.ly/SysEBPolicyS...
Thank you @oacevedocharry.bsky.social! Also great talk on using state-space models to estimate extinction risk from community science data, with promising results from a case study on the endangered Everglade snail kite.
I recommend checking out their paper! doi-org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1111/1365...
I recommend checking out their paper! doi-org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1111/1365...
@swamplily.bsky.social terrific talk! Many butterflies at risk but not enlisted in the Endangered Species Act need more research!
To help them:
1) maintain a pollinator friendly backyard
2) leave the leafs (they hibernate)
3) engage with conservation initiatives like @xercessociety.bsky.social
To help them:
1) maintain a pollinator friendly backyard
2) leave the leafs (they hibernate)
3) engage with conservation initiatives like @xercessociety.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Thank you @oacevedocharry.bsky.social! Also great talk on using state-space models to estimate extinction risk from community science data, with promising results from a case study on the endangered Everglade snail kite.
I recommend checking out their paper! doi-org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1111/1365...
I recommend checking out their paper! doi-org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1111/1365...
Excited to be presenting my work on ESA listing and research effort for U.S butterflies tomorrow at the UF SNRE Symposium, along with several other talented graduate students & faculty! snre.ifas.ufl.edu/news-and-eve...
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Excited to be presenting my work on ESA listing and research effort for U.S butterflies tomorrow at the UF SNRE Symposium, along with several other talented graduate students & faculty! snre.ifas.ufl.edu/news-and-eve...
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Tune in TOMORROW for the "Insect Rally" to support the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, w/ National Wildlife Federation Action Fund (@wildlifeaction.bsky.social), Xerces Society, and Entomological Society of America. ⬇️
Calling all entomology and biodiversity enthusiasts: Take action on behalf of declining insect and arthropod populations by supporting the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act! www.mobilize.us/nationalwild...
Buzzing for the Recovering America's Wildlife Act: Insect Enthusiasts Virtual Rally · National Wildlife Federation Action Fund
Are you an insect lover? From bees to butterflies, fireflies to ladybugs, insects of all kinds need your help to thrive in the face of climate change, pesticides, and habitat loss.
Join the National ...
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November 18, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Tune in TOMORROW for the "Insect Rally" to support the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, w/ National Wildlife Federation Action Fund (@wildlifeaction.bsky.social), Xerces Society, and Entomological Society of America. ⬇️
Check out this blog post by @floridamuseum.bsky.social about my summer fieldwork studying the Loammi skipper. Thanks to the FLMNH outreach team, everyone who helped me in the field and lab & to my funders! #FloridaMuseum #DisneyConserves #UFSNRE 🦋🌾
Protecting rare butterflies of Florida’s pine flats and prairies
The Loammi skipper (Atrytonopsis loammi) is a small, wedge-shaped butterfly with stubby antennas and bulbous black eyes in a fuzzy face. It once lived throughout a good deal of the Southeastern U.S. b...
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November 16, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Check out this blog post by @floridamuseum.bsky.social about my summer fieldwork studying the Loammi skipper. Thanks to the FLMNH outreach team, everyone who helped me in the field and lab & to my funders! #FloridaMuseum #DisneyConserves #UFSNRE 🦋🌾
Had so much fun pinning butterflies & moths with kids and playing with katydids at a recent @FloridaMuseum outreach event! #ScienceComm 🦋🐛
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Had so much fun pinning butterflies & moths with kids and playing with katydids at a recent @FloridaMuseum outreach event! #ScienceComm 🦋🐛
This is what hurricane prep looks like at the Butterfly Rainforest 🦋🌀@FloridaMuseum @swamphiker @UFEntNem @UFBiology
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 AM
This is what hurricane prep looks like at the Butterfly Rainforest 🦋🌀@FloridaMuseum @swamphiker @UFEntNem @UFBiology
Happy #WomenInScienceDay! Had a great day w/ @JCDanielsLab doing science activities with young future scientists @FloridaMuseum!
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Happy #WomenInScienceDay! Had a great day w/ @JCDanielsLab doing science activities with young future scientists @FloridaMuseum!