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Yonathan
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Entomology research tech with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, living in southwest BC.
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Yonathan @snoozriel.bsky.social · Nov 17
Ok here's an intro post: I'm a research tech working in a small fruit entomology lab - I am all about bugs and berries. I will post here occasionally about my work, my hobbies, and my family.

Anyways here's a photo from the backlog - a strawberry blossom weevils rostrum-deep in a blackberry bud.
A strawberry blossom weevils eating a blackberry flower bud. He's really getting in there, drilling down past the sepals and the petals to the sweet sweet pollen underneath.
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cmacquar.bsky.social
I've been fortunate to work on gov't science for a while. For what it's worth a lot of inefficiency & waste in gov't is a consequence of what society wants from gov't. A good example is travel. We are told the public hates the idea of public servants travelling on the public dime. I get that. 1/5
March 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Springtime is grub time. Based on the raster (butt hair) pattern this looks like a European chafer beetle 🪲
A small scarabidaeform grub that I dug up from the soil.
March 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Are you looking for a job in soil science? Come be my coworker!
Posting closes March 10th

emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
Research Assistant, soil and nutrient
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca
February 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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My latest project - a snail mail box. The pattern is my own, if you look close you can see I was workshopping it on the go.
Knitted bag for holding mail. There's a snail pattern.
February 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
I was listening to Harry Belafonte's hit "Day-O," wherein he notes "a beautiful bunch of ripe banana/Hide the deadly black tarantula"

The obvious question: it's probably not tarantulas, they're terrestrial, so what kind of spider IS Harry Belafonte singing about?
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Harry Belafonte - Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) (Live)
YouTube video by Harry Belafonte Television and Video Archive
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February 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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If you are an entomologist affected by these federal terminations or know someone who was, please DM me. I’m working on an advocacy plan and need to start gathering support.
As a first step, if you’re a member of the Entomological Society of America, I have a link for you, DM me. #entomology 🧪
February 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
snoozriel.bsky.social
Reading up on the history of corn flakes
February 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: meet GeoSpy, a powerful AI tool that lets cops (& stalkers) geolocate photos in seconds. Trained on millions of images, it picks out soil, architecture, etc. GeoSpy closed public access after asked for comment, now marketing to police www.404media.co/the-powerful...
January 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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lindzeamays.bsky.social
Giant conifer aphid ink doodle!

These (true) bugs are all over the pine barrens of NJ. My husband and I found some in a decomposing wood pile and he snagged a few awesome macro shots.
IG: @kurt.lindhult.photo

#SciArt 🎨🕷️🌱🐡🐞🐛📸
#invert #insertaninvert
Ink drawing of a giant conifer aphid Giant conifer aphid walking on a decomposing wood pile in the NJ pine barrens. Giant conifer aphid walking on a decomposing wood pile in the NJ pine barrens.
January 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Just found out there's a group on Inaturalist, "Observational Comedy" dedicated to showing only the silliest observations
A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features a newt with an orange belly poking its head out of the water, mouth open and with a splayed pose that makes it look like its humorously gasping for air. A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features two desert ironclad beetles, a species with a rough gray shell, lounging on a small toy chair with a shotglass of beer placed beside them. A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features a medium sized dark gray bird with a long bill called a Great Cormorant in the midst of defecating. A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features a common raccoon at night clinging to a birdfeeder upside down. It is looking at the camera as if the viewer just caught it off-guard.
January 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
snoozriel.bsky.social
I'm assembling a team
Sea apple. It's a type of sea cucumber. Looks awful. Sea cucumber. A classic. Sea gooseberry. To be honest I'm not sure about this one. Maybe it's a salp. Sea lemon. It's a dorid, a kind of sea slug.
January 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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ukbutterflies.bsky.social
Many people have seen the incredible 'courtship' of our Wood Whites (Cryptic in this case), where the male flicks his proboscis either side of the female's head, but this rarely leads to a pairing. Unlike other Pierids ('whites'), an unreceptive female just sits there, saving her energy!
December 21, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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A Merry Licemas Eve to one and all!
December 24, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Are you interested in plant physiology or microbiology? Would you like to develop bacteriophages as a control method for bacterial blight in berry crops? If so, a new PhD position has opened up at AAFC Agassiz/Summerland.

Apply here until Jan 6: emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
December 11, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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Went for a walk with @bonmotmilo.bsky.social and we found some mossy rose gall! One of my faves. The second photo is an old one, it shows the wasp larvae developing inside. #BestGall
This is a tumor-like growth that looks like a ball of moss. These galls are caused by a tiny wasp, Diplolepis rosae, which lays its eggs inside the stem of a rose plant. The wasp larvae produce a hormone which causes the gall to develop. This is an old photo from 2022 showing a cross section of a gall with wasp larvae growing inside.
December 8, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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Happy little cranberry fireworm egg under the scope 🙂
This is a highly magnified image of a cranberry fireworm egg. The image is focus-stacked, a technique where multiple macro photos with thin focal planes are taken along a z-axis, then the focal planes are stitched together to make a single high resolution image. The egg is full of yellow fat globs and some vague shapes that look a little like a smiley face.
December 4, 2024 at 4:03 AM
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Saw some really nice winter colour today at Pacific Spirit Park with @bonmotmilo.bsky.social!
Bird's nest fungus on a log. Yellow mushrooms. Maybe sulfur tufts, maybe armillaria. Orange mushrooms! I'll come back and ID these later Shelf fungus on a nurse log. I don't know what these are, but they're cute!
December 2, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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I tried to make lavender infused whipped cream and accidentally made a sweet, floral butter. Still delicious!
December 1, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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I'm coming back to this because it's driving me crazy. I understand what the name means but, as a Jew, if someone called me a Setaceous Hebrew Character I would probably have them put on a watchlist
snoozriel.bsky.social Yonathan @snoozriel.bsky.social · Nov 27
Common names for moths are famously kind of weird, but for me this takes the cake.

It's named for the markings on the wing, which resemble the Hebrew נ (nun) and sure?? Ok?? I guess?? that's fine but why so nonspecific? "Setaceous" means hairy so just call it the Hairy Nun.
Screenshot of a Wikipedia page for the Setaceous Hebrew Character, a small brown moth.
November 28, 2024 at 6:46 PM
snoozriel.bsky.social
Common names for moths are famously kind of weird, but for me this takes the cake.

It's named for the markings on the wing, which resemble the Hebrew נ (nun) and sure?? Ok?? I guess?? that's fine but why so nonspecific? "Setaceous" means hairy so just call it the Hairy Nun.
Screenshot of a Wikipedia page for the Setaceous Hebrew Character, a small brown moth.
November 27, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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bonmotmilo.bsky.social
Now she’s festive 🥳
A tiny beaded katydid with red berries on a black background, with a festive green, white and red frame
November 27, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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Walked into the living room and my cat's sitting here in his spacebowl like "we need to talk"
My fat cat Arvid sits in his silly bowl throne, looking down on me with a sort of nonchalant disdain.
November 26, 2024 at 3:06 AM
snoozriel.bsky.social
Alright here's a long shot — anybody know who this is? A farmer came in with about 200 of them in a Ziploc bag. If you have a guess but need better photos to narrow it down, let me know
Some unknown weevil, top view. Maybe a root weevil. Same weevil, side view. Lookin' sharp!
November 25, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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bonmotmilo.bsky.social
I don’t know what I’m going to do with this little guy yet, but I love him 💚
A tiny beaded green insect with bright fuschia eyes (a katydid) surrounded by beaded red berries
November 25, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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This is a great read, there's lots of insight into some of the larger problems with modern agriculture. I'm going to be thinking about this passage for a while lol
November 22, 2024 at 8:46 PM