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Matt Greenwell
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Postdoc at the University of Reading working on plant-insect interactions in tropical forests 🌿🪲

Lover of all things wild with a bias towards butterflies 🦋

Fieldwork blog: https://mattgreenwell.wixsite.com/ecology
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El oro de Panama es Verde - The gold of Panama is green 🌳🌴🌱

My favourite bit of graffiti welcoming me back to Panama for another three months in the forest
A small building in front of a railway line, painted with the words el oro de Panama es verde
February 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Teaching Lepidoptera ID with @unirdgento.bsky.social today.

A chance for me to brush up on my moth skills but mostly a good opportunity to have a look through the amazing pinned collection we have here 🦋
A collection of pinned butterflies from the UK in a glass topped display box A pulled out drawer display box filled with large, black, white and yellow butterflies A glass topped display box filled with pinned Hawkmoth specimens
February 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Also, it turns out that lab meetings at Oxford are a bit more intense than at Reading with this guy in the meeting room
A meeting room with a large table in the middle and chairs around the table. On the wall looking over the table is a large picture of Charles Darwin A painting of Charles Darwin with a gold painted frame
January 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Our lab group meeting with collaborators at Oxford this week ended up with a quick trip to @morethanadodo.bsky.social
Their display on insect colour was truly beautiful 🦋🪲
A view of a museum inside an old building, looking down from the floor above. The museum is filled with cabinets of natural history specimens and animal skeletons A ball covered in lots of different green pinned insects including butterflies and beetles Multiple balls covered in pinned insects. Each ball has different coloured insects, two blue, one black, one green
January 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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A few favourites from home and away for this year's #BlueMonday #BlueBugs campaign

1 Azure Damselfly, UK
2 Wasp (ID tbc) - part of our current insect rearing project in Panama. 📷 credit Marleny Rivera
3 Common Blue, UK
4 Jewel beetle, Panama
A blue damselfly sitting on a finger Close up image of a pinned metallic blue wasp with a large red eye and long ovipositor Common blue butterfly sitting on a plantain seed head A metallic blue jewel beetle with a red stripe across it's back
January 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Ending 2024 with a NYE trip to RSPB Ham Wall and thousands of starlings coming in to roost
#UKWildlife
December 31, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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23 species in flower on a slightly damp #NewYearPlantHunt including herb-robert, my favourite little wildflower 🌸

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Yellow gorse flowers Red dead nettle flowers at the top of a green leafy plant Single, pink herb-robert flower at the end of a stem with pale green leaves
December 29, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Accomodation booked ✅ Preparations for next year's fieldwork in Panama are underway. Time for another three months of trees, boats and bugs 😁
Looking up at bright yellow flowers in the canopy of a tropical tree A small motorboat parked next to a smaller canoe at the edge of a swamp-like pool A large moth on a wall with a hand below for size comparison. The moth is as big as the hand
December 18, 2024 at 10:44 AM