Some of my favorite macro shots from #Bugshot Arizona! I feel so lucky to have learned from @alexwild.bsky.social @dradriansmith.bsky.social and @abbottnature.bsky.social! Bombardier beetles ripping apart a scarab, Thermonectus nigrofasciatus, Ululodes owlfly, and Notonecta milky backswimmer

Reaaaally fell in love with Idaho and its aquatic biodiversity at the 2025 Life Outdoors Biodiversity Workshop! Such an honor to help our students learn this week! 🪰💓

Attention all anglers! 🎣 We want to understand changes in aquatic insect hatches over time and need your help! 🐟 Please share widely and/or complete our survey to gather information on aquatic insect decline to advocate for their conservation! 🪰 Direct link here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXLMY89

Saw my first brood emergence of Magicicada septendecim yesterday with the Ware Lab!! And @entobiologist.bsky.social found the first crayfish species that was described in North America, Cambarus bartonii! So cool and such a wholesome day - I love our lab!!:))

Such an honor to have our Arctic research featured in a PBS.org docu-series about insects with @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social, Manpreet Kohli, and Göran Sahlén! Check out Episode 3 of Bugs That Rule The World! 🦟❣️

Link to episode: www.pbs.org/video/eat-or...

Moved the insect and mollusk collection from Long Island University to the American Museum of Natural History yesterday with @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social @mantodeology.bsky.social @mollusksatamnh.bsky.social @rebeccalopez.bsky.social and others friends! The diversity of mollusks was awesome!!

Had so much fun surveying aquatic inverts, building a drift fence, setting out gills nets and minnow traps for fish demographics, and collecting eDNA with some dear friends this weekend in the Adirondacks! 💌