Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱
@thatsophiareyes.bsky.social
Chicana PhD student studying California native plants, TEK, and restoration ecology. 🐦⬛🪻🐝 | UCSD ‘22 🔱
This account is long overdue for some art updates, here is my Honeycomb Filefish I did recently.
September 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This account is long overdue for some art updates, here is my Honeycomb Filefish I did recently.
Here again with a slew of more pollinator pics, this time an Acmon Blue Butterfly, commonly found near the coast on many of our native buckwheat plants!
August 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Here again with a slew of more pollinator pics, this time an Acmon Blue Butterfly, commonly found near the coast on many of our native buckwheat plants!
Doing edits on the prospectus in between logging butterfly sightings…this is a field crescent
July 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Doing edits on the prospectus in between logging butterfly sightings…this is a field crescent
Logging in to drop some Gray Hairstreak photos before logging off again to focus on quals ✌️
July 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Logging in to drop some Gray Hairstreak photos before logging off again to focus on quals ✌️
I saw El Segundo Blue Butterflies today! #Lepidoptera
June 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I saw El Segundo Blue Butterflies today! #Lepidoptera
Life comes at you fast, a year ago I was walking with my advisor to get my Master’s Degree and now I’m in the wetlands harvesting cattails. 🥲
June 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Life comes at you fast, a year ago I was walking with my advisor to get my Master’s Degree and now I’m in the wetlands harvesting cattails. 🥲
Meadow Fritillary in Big Basin Redwoods! #Lepidoptera
June 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Meadow Fritillary in Big Basin Redwoods! #Lepidoptera
Seep Monkeyflower growing in a drainage ditch of runoff to the ocean. Our native plants are incredibly resilient. #CaliforniaNativePlants
June 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Seep Monkeyflower growing in a drainage ditch of runoff to the ocean. Our native plants are incredibly resilient. #CaliforniaNativePlants
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AMLT is a land trust acquiring and managing land on behalf of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, who were not given any land by settlers as a result of the 1927 Dorrington Report which said, “These Indians have been well cared for by Catholic priests and no land is required.” amahmutsun.org/history
I went with AMLT to the San Benito grasslands yesterday and there were so many incredible plants! #CaliforniaNativePlants
May 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
AMLT is a land trust acquiring and managing land on behalf of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, who were not given any land by settlers as a result of the 1927 Dorrington Report which said, “These Indians have been well cared for by Catholic priests and no land is required.” amahmutsun.org/history
I went with AMLT to the San Benito grasslands yesterday and there were so many incredible plants! #CaliforniaNativePlants
May 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I went with AMLT to the San Benito grasslands yesterday and there were so many incredible plants! #CaliforniaNativePlants
It’s the season for Seaside Wooly Sunflower Blooms! #CaliforniaNativePlants
May 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
It’s the season for Seaside Wooly Sunflower Blooms! #CaliforniaNativePlants
I swear I don’t just post about plants, I post about pollinators too! Behold the beautiful Gray Hairstreak (S.melinus)
May 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I swear I don’t just post about plants, I post about pollinators too! Behold the beautiful Gray Hairstreak (S.melinus)
First Globe Lilies of the year are showing up on campus! #CaliforniaNativePlants
May 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
First Globe Lilies of the year are showing up on campus! #CaliforniaNativePlants
Yesterday on our weekly AMLT excursion one of my department mates said to me: “Do you ever think about how we are winning at life, since we end up roaming the hills with a bunch of native plant nerds every week?” And I said yes, yes I think about it all the time. 🩷
May 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yesterday on our weekly AMLT excursion one of my department mates said to me: “Do you ever think about how we are winning at life, since we end up roaming the hills with a bunch of native plant nerds every week?” And I said yes, yes I think about it all the time. 🩷
Tricolor Gilia! #CaliforniaNativePlants
May 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Tricolor Gilia! #CaliforniaNativePlants
This native long-horned bee was out in the campus community garden enjoying the purple sage.
April 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This native long-horned bee was out in the campus community garden enjoying the purple sage.
Just saw an incredibly special species today - the native Death Camas Mining Bee! These bees are the only bees to be able to tolerate the pollen of the highly poisonous death camas plant. #CaliforniaNativePlants
April 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Just saw an incredibly special species today - the native Death Camas Mining Bee! These bees are the only bees to be able to tolerate the pollen of the highly poisonous death camas plant. #CaliforniaNativePlants
It’s absolutely insane that we have golden violets all over the fields here on campus! They’re so pretty. #CaliforniaNativePlants
April 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It’s absolutely insane that we have golden violets all over the fields here on campus! They’re so pretty. #CaliforniaNativePlants
Welcome back, Woodland Madia #CaliforniaNativePlants
April 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Welcome back, Woodland Madia #CaliforniaNativePlants
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USDA orders California national forests open for major logging www.desertsun.com/story/news/e...
USDA orders California national forests open for major logging
Mudslide risk could increase in Southern California burn areas if trees are cleared, public lands advocate says.
www.desertsun.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
USDA orders California national forests open for major logging www.desertsun.com/story/news/e...
The only thing better than Ceanothus is Ceanothus with a native bumblebee on top of it. 🐝🪻#CaliforniaNativePlants
March 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The only thing better than Ceanothus is Ceanothus with a native bumblebee on top of it. 🐝🪻#CaliforniaNativePlants
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Late last year, we celebrated Klamath dam removal. With salmon already returning to the upper basin, many saw Klamath as a model for removing harmful dams. Progress is at risk as Trump cuts federal funding for Klamath and similar efforts nationwide.
Read more here: tinyurl.com/NYT-KlamathSalmon
Read more here: tinyurl.com/NYT-KlamathSalmon
March 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Late last year, we celebrated Klamath dam removal. With salmon already returning to the upper basin, many saw Klamath as a model for removing harmful dams. Progress is at risk as Trump cuts federal funding for Klamath and similar efforts nationwide.
Read more here: tinyurl.com/NYT-KlamathSalmon
Read more here: tinyurl.com/NYT-KlamathSalmon
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Erysimum menziesii is a California and federally listed endangered species. The Menzies' wallflower is a bright yellow flowers are a nice early tell of spring in our North Coast Dunes!
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Erysimum menziesii is a California and federally listed endangered species. The Menzies' wallflower is a bright yellow flowers are a nice early tell of spring in our North Coast Dunes!
Blooms in the LA chaparral environment in the white point nature reserve. #CaliforniaNativePlants
March 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Blooms in the LA chaparral environment in the white point nature reserve. #CaliforniaNativePlants