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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli
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🦋 A crazy entomologist of sorts who will lead you around Ecuador🇪🇨 to look at bugs and stuff.

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The talk was so good and Sebastian is so great. You should check out his website / research if you like bugs and good photography.

Nature Photographer and Researcher | Sebastián Padrón share.google/Ortfp3XITDbQ...
A man in front of a TV showing various clay figurines and a velvet ant.
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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And here a clay figure thought to represent Leshmaniasis
A clay figure of a person with facial disbursement including lesions all ober the face. The text reads Representaciones idrectas Leshmaniasis - protozoos leishmania -bahia Vector insectos mosca de la arena (flebótomo)
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Here, another piece from an Ecuadorian coatal culture shows a shaman with a fetching butterfly barette.
A clay shaman with a shell on his forehead and two butterflies on either side of his head. The text reads "Mariposas Jama Coaque"
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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The left is a clay representation. Sebastian thinks its of this genus of moth which is typically a pest on Yucca. Something that would be grown a lot. This is from a preincan costal culture
Slide showing a clay representation of a moth pupa, a real moth pupa, and a brown moth with its wings spread. Title reads Noctuidae Spodoptera
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Went to a presentation today showcasing insect iconography in Ecuador's precolombian and preincan cultures!

Presented by Sebasian Padron a great entomologist in Cuenca
A picture of an artifact. Its a solid gold butterfly. The text reads "Mariposa [butterfly] La Tolita [an Ecuadorian preincan culture]
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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this emerald jewel wasp wearing its prey's dead husk of a body like a hat as it newly emerges is the most disparagingly cute thing I think I've ever seen

Photo by Emanuele Biggi
Emerald Cockroach Wasp (Ampulex compressa) adult female, emerging from dead body of American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana) after it fed upon it as larva and pupated inside, South Asia, Africa and Pacific Islands (controlled conditions) Photographer Emanuele Biggi Species Emerald Cockroach Wasp Ampulex compressa
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Painted again after like a month.
Here's the strategic emperor - Scorpions can choose to inject pre venom that just causes pain or deliver the whole cocktail
A dynamic painting of a scorpion. Half is blue - glowing under uv light with a black background. Half is the yellow color of the true scorpion on a red background
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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The Empress!! I was so worried when I started because like ... all the spindly eggs - but where we have a whip scorpion with her noodly babies.
a stylistic image of a tailless whip scorpion with bright green babies and their noodly legs on her back. The text reads "3. The empress"
September 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I mean ... maybe humans also have "cooperation among mutually tolerant individuals"
Biology of spiders. The hilighted text reads "what exactly is meant by social spiders? ... A more recent discussion of social spiders called simply for a 'cooperation among mutually tolerant individuals (downes, 1995'"
August 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Making progress!! The chariot and the pseudoscorpions that use the harlequin beetle like a literal bus
August 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Excuse me while i chuckle at some memes
Text says "Local man thinks the woman trying to kill him asked him out. he shows up anyway" Jinu from Kpop demon hunters, stands in front of purple mountain in the evening with a "save the date" card
August 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I found a pigeon with feather feet!!!!!
A black and white pigeon. His outstretched foot is hidden under a covering of feathers
August 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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For instance the mindo-nambillo reserve is the work of many people each buying a chunk of land for their own reasons. This creates a mosaic of protected forest that now is about 20,000 hectares (~50,000 acres / 78 square miles). And it connects to other reserves reaching Quito.
Satellite image of the protected forest
August 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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What's one thing you wish people understood about conservation?

For me - is that it takes many forms. It's not just putting a fence around d a chunk of land.

Often it requires collaboration but one person or a small org can do more than you think.
A woman with a pink umbrella in front of a ginormous tree
August 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Working on a thing!
Mockup of a website featuring a bug tarot deck. The home page features 4 cards- one from major arcana (the sun), wands, cups, swords, and pentacles A mockup of a web page featuring the ace of Pentacles. The card has a green background and a leaf insect tossing an egg down to the ground. There's a mandala behind rhe egg. The text has the title of the card, a mantra, the insect and the insects range
August 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I've never been tempted to buy a vinyl in my life. I don't even have a player ...

But it's called the shiny bug!! Collection
Screenshot of an email The Life of a Showgirl is written in large purple glitter Shiny bug collection is written under in white font
August 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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These are my favourite trees in Quito. Arupo- native to Ecuador and Peru - looks like something out of the Lorax
A pink tree in bloom in front of a Turqoise building
August 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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And finally, here's a page from my nature journal I did highlighting all the orange stuff we found.
graphic bold drawings of orange things we found around the jungle. top to bottom, left to right. Caterpillar, leafhopper, cup fungus. lovebug, daddy long legs, orange cheeked parrot, howler monkey. the image is framed by an orange background
August 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I may have gotten a little carried away ...
Three bees in a pod. An orange cutout where three women have their faces in where bee faces are on a background of orange honeycombs. The text reads "Apicola, Santa Anita". the image is framed by orange glitter a hand holding orange flowers. The image is framed by orange glitter Top: A woman sitting on an orange giant metal sign reading QUITO. Two children are sitting in the Q Bottom: A woman sitting on a sign that says "MINDO". The "o" is orange featuring a toucan. The images are framed by orange glitter orange hair lichen. the image is framed by an orange glitter frame.
August 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Since Taylor Swift teased TS12 ... I couldn't let the opportunity pass.

So here's a little glimpse into my life around Ecuador
It says in neon font in retro movie theatre styled font "the life of a tourgirl." There's an orange glitter border. There's a woman sitting in the front of the canoe in the Amazon headed into an orange sunset Three orange tree hoppers. Two are females guarding their eggs looking at each other. The right treehopper has a male sitting on top of her. The image is framed by an orange glitter border. By orange light, a woman is giving a presentation in the jungle about insect reproduction. the image is framed by an orange border an orange costal sunset
August 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The World and the symbolism behind Japan's dragonfly
August 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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And the neon glowing tree
August 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Here are the things labeled not in my weird code
August 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Waita after dark.
Many things glow under uv light! One of thr most surprising to me was the trees covered in ... a mold? Lichen? I'm not sure but it popped in the UV light like a neon camouflage pattern.

See second image for lables

Scorpions and daddy long legs also glow blue under the uv light.
A drawing on black paper. A blue scorpion, a blue daddy long legs on a red leaf, and a tree with a yellow neon camo pattern.
August 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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There's always so much to learn.
Waita Lodge, Ecuador
A woman with orange hair, a red shirt, quickly dry pants and pink boots is standing in a forest surrounded by roots coming down from the canopy taking notes in a notebook
August 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM