Tarantulas are on the move in Soledad Canyon! The Chihuahuan Desert is so cool. #invertebrates 🌎

I had a rainy hike with the pups over the Labor Day weekend. We ran into this beautiful tarantula hawk along the way. 🌎 #invertebrates #insects

And a few more photos of the seriously beautiful butterflies we saw this week on our hunt for the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly. (2/2) #invert 🌍 🧪

This year I've joined the search for the endangered Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly. It hasn't been seen since 2022, but we aren't giving up! In the meantime, we spotted some beautiful butterfiles within the historical range. (1/2) #invert 🌍 🧪

It has been two weeks since the 2025 Quantitative Modeling for Biologists workshop at Ghost Ranch. I am so grateful to all of our participants for making the event a wild success and for sharing your beautiful pics! Thanks also to the Organismal System-type Modeling Network for funding the event.🧪🌏

So excited for our quantitative modeling workshop starting tomorrow at Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center in Abiquiu, NM! Probability distributions and gorgeous vistas, what more could we ask for?