Rosy Christopher
@envirosyment.bsky.social
Molecular entomology PhD student NCL @ForagingEcology 🕷️🧬 • RES Student rep 🪲 • First gen • She/They • #NeurodivergentinSTEM #PrideinEnto
This was my final straw today, thought I could perfectly consolidate these samples into one box, but my ability to hold it together at the end of this field season is being tested
August 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This was my final straw today, thought I could perfectly consolidate these samples into one box, but my ability to hold it together at the end of this field season is being tested
So it's been a minute, July was busy! I finished up my Cornwall fieldwork, drove 500 miles back to the north, had some leave, did my night time spider surveys, graduated from my master's in cardiff, had one car die and bought my first car in my own, and then started my candy stripe spider fieldwork
August 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
So it's been a minute, July was busy! I finished up my Cornwall fieldwork, drove 500 miles back to the north, had some leave, did my night time spider surveys, graduated from my master's in cardiff, had one car die and bought my first car in my own, and then started my candy stripe spider fieldwork
It's #insectweek !! Here's some of the Flower Crab spiders I've seen this field season, but don't forget to submit your photos to foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
June 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
It's #insectweek !! Here's some of the Flower Crab spiders I've seen this field season, but don't forget to submit your photos to foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
The awaited day two of field work! Come with me to collect in my community data sample and do some nectar sampling 🕷️🌼
#fieldwork #comewithme #flowers #spiders #entomology #arachnology #phdlife #phdstudent #womeninstem
#fieldwork #comewithme #flowers #spiders #entomology #arachnology #phdlife #phdstudent #womeninstem
June 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The awaited day two of field work! Come with me to collect in my community data sample and do some nectar sampling 🕷️🌼
#fieldwork #comewithme #flowers #spiders #entomology #arachnology #phdlife #phdstudent #womeninstem
#fieldwork #comewithme #flowers #spiders #entomology #arachnology #phdlife #phdstudent #womeninstem
What is spider spies? Speaking a bit about the project, what goes into the kits, and what your participation goes towards!
Link for the page: foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
#communityscience #arachnology #entomology #womeninstem #research #spiders #networkecology
Link for the page: foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
#communityscience #arachnology #entomology #womeninstem #research #spiders #networkecology
June 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
What is spider spies? Speaking a bit about the project, what goes into the kits, and what your participation goes towards!
Link for the page: foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
#communityscience #arachnology #entomology #womeninstem #research #spiders #networkecology
Link for the page: foragingecology.com/spider-spies/
#communityscience #arachnology #entomology #womeninstem #research #spiders #networkecology
June 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
It was absolutely rammed and gorgeous, with so many pollinators! The bumblebees were loving it. Here's the full clip🐝🪻
June 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It was absolutely rammed and gorgeous, with so many pollinators! The bumblebees were loving it. Here's the full clip🐝🪻
June 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
and working out how one records a voiceover for a fieldwork based Tiktok/reel, hey #PhDs are about learning but safe to say I've picked up a lot of skills I wasn't expecting just in the first 9 months
June 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
and working out how one records a voiceover for a fieldwork based Tiktok/reel, hey #PhDs are about learning but safe to say I've picked up a lot of skills I wasn't expecting just in the first 9 months
Back in the field this week after some very turbulent weather, the spiders are still kicking though!
I've now received records across 8 counties for #spiderspies including records from both England and Wales, this weeks task is learning some programming for a nice interacting map for the website!
I've now received records across 8 counties for #spiderspies including records from both England and Wales, this weeks task is learning some programming for a nice interacting map for the website!
June 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Back in the field this week after some very turbulent weather, the spiders are still kicking though!
I've now received records across 8 counties for #spiderspies including records from both England and Wales, this weeks task is learning some programming for a nice interacting map for the website!
I've now received records across 8 counties for #spiderspies including records from both England and Wales, this weeks task is learning some programming for a nice interacting map for the website!
It's always a joy but the tiniest bit frustrating when I find these guys away from my fieldsite. I spent all afternoon walking fields searching to find one female, and then I'm just walking around my parents farm checking on foals and spot this bright yellow #misumena
#arachnology #spider
#arachnology #spider
May 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It's always a joy but the tiniest bit frustrating when I find these guys away from my fieldsite. I spent all afternoon walking fields searching to find one female, and then I'm just walking around my parents farm checking on foals and spot this bright yellow #misumena
#arachnology #spider
#arachnology #spider
Despite the dismal weather down here in Cornwall, I managed to get out to sample this afternoon and found this beauty! This one had the reddest abdomen stripes I've seen yet
#spiders #arachnology
#spiders #arachnology
May 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Despite the dismal weather down here in Cornwall, I managed to get out to sample this afternoon and found this beauty! This one had the reddest abdomen stripes I've seen yet
#spiders #arachnology
#spiders #arachnology
Today's #fieldwork life lesson was if you're leaving a pan trap in a field of cows 🐮🐄 pin it down because they will steal it
May 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Today's #fieldwork life lesson was if you're leaving a pan trap in a field of cows 🐮🐄 pin it down because they will steal it
Of course after posting about seeing them so rarely this morning, I found another yellow morph flower crab #spider today, and she was a stonker 🌟🕷️💛
May 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Of course after posting about seeing them so rarely this morning, I found another yellow morph flower crab #spider today, and she was a stonker 🌟🕷️💛
Despite having seen my fair share of these #spiders at this point, I've only found two yellow morph Misumena vatia and they really are gorgeous 🌟💛☀️
May 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Despite having seen my fair share of these #spiders at this point, I've only found two yellow morph Misumena vatia and they really are gorgeous 🌟💛☀️
The first sample kits are in the post for #spiderspies and should be on their way to the wonderful people already participating in this scheme! We even got spider themed stamps to get them to you guys 🕷️✉️
May 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The first sample kits are in the post for #spiderspies and should be on their way to the wonderful people already participating in this scheme! We even got spider themed stamps to get them to you guys 🕷️✉️
After such a great response to #spiderspies yesterday and so many people sharing it, I've already had 6 responses in just one day, and 3 people have requested sample kits! So I'll be making a trip to the post office this afternoon to get those sent out to people 🕷️✉️ spider mail here we come
May 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
After such a great response to #spiderspies yesterday and so many people sharing it, I've already had 6 responses in just one day, and 3 people have requested sample kits! So I'll be making a trip to the post office this afternoon to get those sent out to people 🕷️✉️ spider mail here we come
Now what is the point of all this, by sending us both the photos and the sampled spiders 🕷️ we can start to piece together why Flower crab spiders choose the flowers they do, whether this changes in different areas or habitats, and how this impacts ecosystem services.
May 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Now what is the point of all this, by sending us both the photos and the sampled spiders 🕷️ we can start to piece together why Flower crab spiders choose the flowers they do, whether this changes in different areas or habitats, and how this impacts ecosystem services.
I have created a guide for identifying them and where to find them, despite their camouflage they are pretty easy to recognise, and they love to sit out on the tops of flowers 🌼
May 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I have created a guide for identifying them and where to find them, despite their camouflage they are pretty easy to recognise, and they love to sit out on the tops of flowers 🌼
Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.
May 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.
A very different kind of visitor to my parents holiday let this morning, I felt very powerful on the fact that I had the perfect telescopic sweep net to gently rescue this unsuspecting swallow from the eves. Who says being an #entomologist doesn't save lives, atleast that of #birds
May 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
A very different kind of visitor to my parents holiday let this morning, I felt very powerful on the fact that I had the perfect telescopic sweep net to gently rescue this unsuspecting swallow from the eves. Who says being an #entomologist doesn't save lives, atleast that of #birds
Witnessed the gnarly act of an E. ovata taking down a damsel fly, really showing that size does not matter and a great example of interaction between terrestrial and freshwater inverts
#spider #arachnology #insects
#spider #arachnology #insects
May 12, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Witnessed the gnarly act of an E. ovata taking down a damsel fly, really showing that size does not matter and a great example of interaction between terrestrial and freshwater inverts
#spider #arachnology #insects
#spider #arachnology #insects
They do! From greenish to white all the way through to this bright yellow. Here's a big bright white female with the abdomen stripes too
May 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
They do! From greenish to white all the way through to this bright yellow. Here's a big bright white female with the abdomen stripes too
So the first week of #fieldwork has been a whirlwind! My field site is absolutely gorgeous, I have access to far more land than I thought I would, we've found a great presence of Misumena vatia, and the sun has been blazing
#arachnology #entomology #flowers #spiders
#arachnology #entomology #flowers #spiders
May 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
So the first week of #fieldwork has been a whirlwind! My field site is absolutely gorgeous, I have access to far more land than I thought I would, we've found a great presence of Misumena vatia, and the sun has been blazing
#arachnology #entomology #flowers #spiders
#arachnology #entomology #flowers #spiders
My new hi-vis PPE for #fieldwork from my parents. Protected from getting run over by any tractors 🚜
May 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
My new hi-vis PPE for #fieldwork from my parents. Protected from getting run over by any tractors 🚜