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Nash Turley
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Biologist / ecologist / entomologist 🐝🌱 photographer 📸🦋🪲🌻 musician 🎸🤘 he/him www.nashturley.com
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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · Jul 23
Our guide to bees of Pennsylvania is available for free now, you can order print copy (just have to pay shipping) and/or download PDF from Penn State Extension page: extension.psu.edu/bees-of-penn...

For every one of the 47 bee genera we have beautiful photo(s) and natural history facts
two pages from our been book, lots of of images and a bit of text for each bee genera cover of our Bees of Pennsylvania book with photo of green sweat bee
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Lovely little mushroom growing in a high elevation tamarack forest, Yading National Park, China.
mushroom, moss, trees in background
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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I did a radio interview on the Organic Gardener show on KDKA AM 1020, talking about wild be biodiversity, bee monitoring, helping bees with native plants, and our guide book to bees of Pennsylvania :)
screenshot of live feed of KDKA radio with me at Steve Repasky hosting Organic Gardener show
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Some Philadelphia scenes
Photo of philadelphia city hall with the clock tower, rising up into blue sky with the sun, right behind it, making it light halo A photo from inside a hallway of eastern state penitentiary, two stories of cells with the end of the hallway disappearing at the end in the middle of the frame The benjamin franklin bridge crossing the delaware river, looking up at the bridge from water level with blue sky and white clouds in the background
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Yesterday had views of mountains with fall colors and feeding pears to goats 🐐🍁
A bunch of goats looking perky with mountains and blue sky in the background View from the top of a mountain with gray rocks in the foreground.And another mountain with fall colors and blue sky with clouds
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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My costume for gig tonight is...
I suppose...

David Lee Goth 🤘💀🎸
Nash wearing a bunch of brightly colored clothes and a bright headband and black dripping eyeliner, goth makeup, giving the rock and roll hand gesture
October 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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#caturday
Fluffy brown and white cat with big green eyes sitting on wood floor looking up
October 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I hope you enjoy this public domain reading owl :)
www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-imag...
cartoon drawing of an own reading a book while looking off to the right and stack of two books on the left
October 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Saw these strange concrete deals next to a reservoir in central Pennsylvania, ideas on what they might be used for?
A row of concrete domes about 1.6m across with holes in them, lake in background
October 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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A wee native bee tiptoeing on a lupine flower last spring in Montana. Excellent pollen pants. 🐙🌿 #Bugsky
A macro photo of a bee, seen from a front 3/4 angle, standing atop a purple flower petal. The bee is dark brown with orange-yellow hairs, and has a full load of orange pollen on its rear legs.
October 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Challenge, does anyone work in a building with a name that has more syllables than this?

Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building

14!
Brick wall with sign saying "Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building"
October 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Challenge, does anyone work in a building with a name that has more syllables than this?

Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building

14!
Brick wall with sign saying "Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building"
October 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Big fan of this weevil's color scheme, pointy snoot, and huge feet!

www.inaturalist.org/observations...
black and yellow weevil on a green leaf with long thin rostrum and very large foot pads
October 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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more pumpkin content
nash turley with a purple hat holding two pumpkins, dark orange ones with dark stripes and little yellow one with orange stripes
September 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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A few of my favorite pumpkin and gourd photos from the MASSIVE auction going on in Mifflinburg, PA

More photos from the event here: photos.app.goo.gl/eBDM8GGVTgYc...
bright yellow round pumpkins a mix of blue and yellow lumpy pumpkins warty blue pumpkins speckled yellow and orange pumpkins
September 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Yesterday I visited the "Largest Ornamentals
& Pumpkin Auctions in the World" in Mifflinburg PA.

150+ photos of the different variety here:
photos.app.goo.gl/eBDM8GGVTgYc...
a gallery of 12 images of pumpkins, wide variety of colors and shapes
September 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Male carpenter bee hug
A large fuzzyYellow and black bee with a white face on my thumb with golden rod flowers in the background
September 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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blue jay feathers are blue thanks to a microscopic physical structure the refracts blue light, more about how colors in feathers work: academy.allaboutbirds.org/how-birds-ma...
close up of a blue jay feather, a dark glossy blue with black stripes and white tip
September 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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gigantic imperial moth caterpillar I spotted on a hike in the woods last week 😍
giant green caterpillar on a stick with blue spots and long white hairs and yellow legs face and horns
September 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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gigantic imperial moth caterpillar I spotted on a hike in the woods last week 😍
giant green caterpillar on a stick with blue spots and long white hairs and yellow legs face and horns
September 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Cool lichen-covered rocks
Pile of boulders on a mountaintop with light greenish lichen all over them and dappled sunlight with some trees and blue sky in the background
September 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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this little book arrived today! would make a fantastic addition to a K-12 classroom library or a gift for bug-loving kiddos (and adults!)....

extension.psu.edu/bees-of-penn...
copy of the Penn State Extension's publication "Bees of Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Genera" . link to order in post!
September 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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“This book introduces us to the importance, beauty and private lives of Pennsylvania’s mostly unnoticed pollinators."
-Muhlenberg College biology professor Marten Edwards

A nice story about the guide to bees of Pennsylvania we recently released:

www.lehighvalleynews.com/environment-...
'The diversity is astonishing': Penn State Extension publishes free guide to Pennsylvania bees
Penn State Extension this summer published "The Bees of Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Genera,” outlining the commonwealth’s more than 440 species of bees, organized by genus.
www.lehighvalleynews.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Viceroy licking my shoes
Orange and black viceroy butterfly on a black pair of shoes
August 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Who can guess what im doing?
It's a photo of a computer screen with a weird looking fussy round thing on it and some yeah, microscope light equipment on the right side at the frame
August 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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A morning view from my driveway with wildflower garden in foreground and fog shrouded Appalachian Mountain in background
Purple and yellow flowers in foreground and fog shrouded Appalachian Mountain in background
August 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM