My photo made the cover of Pan Pacific Entomologist six months ago but I just found out recently.

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How is the shipping for a single pin $54?

Buncha turkey vultures hanging out behind our house today. Yesterday they were eating a dead possum.

This was a littlestrange to see today: A poster I worked on for ODA in 2017 and a poster released by WSDA in 2020:

Tariffs going to kill Allen Wrench.

I love these posters I picked up at the last Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social meeting celebrating forceps and insect pins, important tools for any entomologist.
Produced by the Coleopterists Society. @coleopsoc.bsky.social

#entomology #illustration #science

European earwig mothers will tend eggs and care for offspring until their second instar. This is an illustration I did that I plan to turn into a Mother’s Day card someday. #earwig #entomology #parenting ref: entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/ve...

Here you go! This was behind my house.

Also learned after redrawing the map you could use other palettes that displayed more colors. #raspberrypi #python #picoW

I my latest attempt to learn some Python programming and tinkering, this gadget required soldering, getting API information, writing a function to convert the coordinates to the LCD display format, writing a function to change the color of the LED based on sunlight, and redrawing a 240x135 px map.

Spent all Sunday afternoon working on this gadget that displays the current position of the ISS. I think they’re are tutorials but I pieced this together from bits of code. Runs on a Rpi Pico W with @pimoroni.com Pico Display Pack and LiPo Shim.

Tomb of Galileo Galilei. I was fortunate to visit last year. His story seems very important right now. Stay strong to your convictions. Use evidence based reasoning. Make sure if your finger is preserved in a museum in Florence, it’s the middle one.

Spissistilus festinus, three-corner alfalfa hopper, in some weeds under a bridge in Phoenix, AZ, Nov 2024.