Julio Bernal
@juliobernal.bsky.social
Entomologist and agronomist interested in all things 🌽 and crop domestication, and Mexican and Latin American literature and culture
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A gift from good friend Esaú de la Vega, from Ixtenco, Tlaxcala, 🇲🇽
March 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A gift from good friend Esaú de la Vega, from Ixtenco, Tlaxcala, 🇲🇽
Spraying insecticides is expensive and messy with all the mud and stuff. Why not add insecticide to the water in the paddy fields? We mean, what could go wrong, right?
1960s International Rice Research Institute
1960s International Rice Research Institute
March 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Spraying insecticides is expensive and messy with all the mud and stuff. Why not add insecticide to the water in the paddy fields? We mean, what could go wrong, right?
1960s International Rice Research Institute
1960s International Rice Research Institute
This is the tool, btw...
January 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This is the tool, btw...
This one makes sense
January 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This one makes sense
Balsas teosinte near Ameca, Jalisco. It's probably the first record for that locality.
January 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Balsas teosinte near Ameca, Jalisco. It's probably the first record for that locality.
Looks like the deer herd at my mom's has grown since my last visit. If you look closely, you can see that it now includes what clearly is an elite inbred deer, as evident by its small size at maturity. #mexicanwildlifeisawesome #deergenetics
December 30, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Looks like the deer herd at my mom's has grown since my last visit. If you look closely, you can see that it now includes what clearly is an elite inbred deer, as evident by its small size at maturity. #mexicanwildlifeisawesome #deergenetics
December 26, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Evidently, I forgot to switch off my Bat signal...
December 19, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Evidently, I forgot to switch off my Bat signal...
This scene from ca. 2000 years ago reveals for the first time and forever that maize 🌽 (and some cacti) in the Old World predates Columbus
December 14, 2024 at 8:57 PM
This scene from ca. 2000 years ago reveals for the first time and forever that maize 🌽 (and some cacti) in the Old World predates Columbus
Breakfast this morning at one of my favorite tia's house 🥰
December 9, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Breakfast this morning at one of my favorite tia's house 🥰
Notice how green the diploperennis is compared to parviglumis above...
December 8, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Notice how green the diploperennis is compared to parviglumis above...
This is diploperennis
December 8, 2024 at 3:47 AM
This is diploperennis
In heaven, collecting bugs and teosinte
December 8, 2024 at 12:06 AM
In heaven, collecting bugs and teosinte
Maize landscape, Jalisco, 🇲🇽
November 14, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Maize landscape, Jalisco, 🇲🇽
Perennial teosinte in Las Joyas, Sierra de Manantlán, Jalisco, 🇲🇽
November 13, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Perennial teosinte in Las Joyas, Sierra de Manantlán, Jalisco, 🇲🇽
Maize and teosinte microbiome in Jalisco, Mexico
November 10, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Maize and teosinte microbiome in Jalisco, Mexico