Wolfgang Wüster
@wolfgangwuster.bsky.social
🐍🐍🐍 Herpetologist, love snakes and venoms! 🐍🐍🐍 😎
Professor at Bangor University, UK
All views strictly my own!
Professor at Bangor University, UK
All views strictly my own!
My kind of homecoming after an evening of roadcruising in Arizona!
August 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
My kind of homecoming after an evening of roadcruising in Arizona!
Happy #WorldSnakeDay
Here’s my favourite lifer of the year so far: four-lined snake, Elaphe quatuorlineata, from Krk Island, Croatia, earlier this year. Why not post yours? 🐍 #herp #herpetology #herper
Here’s my favourite lifer of the year so far: four-lined snake, Elaphe quatuorlineata, from Krk Island, Croatia, earlier this year. Why not post yours? 🐍 #herp #herpetology #herper
July 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Happy #WorldSnakeDay
Here’s my favourite lifer of the year so far: four-lined snake, Elaphe quatuorlineata, from Krk Island, Croatia, earlier this year. Why not post yours? 🐍 #herp #herpetology #herper
Here’s my favourite lifer of the year so far: four-lined snake, Elaphe quatuorlineata, from Krk Island, Croatia, earlier this year. Why not post yours? 🐍 #herp #herpetology #herper
A Border Patrol truck will do a more convincing job. You know, for the insurance folks.
June 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
A Border Patrol truck will do a more convincing job. You know, for the insurance folks.
#herpers #herper #herps #herpetology #thanatosis #Natrixhelvetica #grasssnake #snakes 🐍
Me: "God, is there anything more annoying to photograph than a snake that just will not sit still?
God
Me: "God, is there anything more annoying to photograph than a snake that just will not sit still?
God
May 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
#herpers #herper #herps #herpetology #thanatosis #Natrixhelvetica #grasssnake #snakes 🐍
Me: "God, is there anything more annoying to photograph than a snake that just will not sit still?
God
Me: "God, is there anything more annoying to photograph than a snake that just will not sit still?
God
Field course last week: #amphibian swabbing for chytrid for our @bangoruniversity.bsky.social Zoology with #Herpetology students in North Wales. #herps 🐸
March 25, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Field course last week: #amphibian swabbing for chytrid for our @bangoruniversity.bsky.social Zoology with #Herpetology students in North Wales. #herps 🐸
Big shout out to the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina, who let Charles Darwin keep his email account for 143 years!
March 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Big shout out to the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina, who let Charles Darwin keep his email account for 143 years!
Tried a couple of new sites this weekend. When snakes are elusive, #LizardAppreciation becomes a thing: beautiful Zootoca vivipara basking in the spring sunshine.
#addHerper
#addHerper
March 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Tried a couple of new sites this weekend. When snakes are elusive, #LizardAppreciation becomes a thing: beautiful Zootoca vivipara basking in the spring sunshine.
#addHerper
#addHerper
First field trip of the season for the 3rd year #herpetology class @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
First field trip of the season for the 3rd year #herpetology class @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
A day out in the beautiful North Wales countryside yielded specimens of each of our widespread native reptiles.
Spring has sprung!
Spring has sprung!
March 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A day out in the beautiful North Wales countryside yielded specimens of each of our widespread native reptiles.
Spring has sprung!
Spring has sprung!
Successful day training volunteers for DNA sampling adders in the Yorkshire Dales yesterday, for an English Nature led project on population genomics to assess population connectivity. Superb day in the field! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @meebangor.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Successful day training volunteers for DNA sampling adders in the Yorkshire Dales yesterday, for an English Nature led project on population genomics to assess population connectivity. Superb day in the field! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @meebangor.bsky.social
If you see this, post a photo from your device with no explanation.
February 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
If you see this, post a photo from your device with no explanation.
"It would be tragic if species such as this became extinct in parts of their natural range, while thriving introduced populations just to the north of their pre-industrial distribution are treated as undesirable aliens that must be removed."
February 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"It would be tragic if species such as this became extinct in parts of their natural range, while thriving introduced populations just to the north of their pre-industrial distribution are treated as undesirable aliens that must be removed."
"Conservation within the silos of national boundaries is an increasingly outdated way of trying to maintain the diversity underlying global ecosystems."
February 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Conservation within the silos of national boundaries is an increasingly outdated way of trying to maintain the diversity underlying global ecosystems."
"We normally focus on preserving species within their modern ranges, and have traditionally viewed species that end up outside theirs as a problem. But retaining the status quo is increasingly untenable in the face of unchecked climate change."
February 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"We normally focus on preserving species within their modern ranges, and have traditionally viewed species that end up outside theirs as a problem. But retaining the status quo is increasingly untenable in the face of unchecked climate change."
@bangoruniversity.bsky.social MScRes student Harry Searle -Webb presenting his Honours project work on the ecomorphology of viviparous lizards across different habitats in the UK.
February 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
@bangoruniversity.bsky.social MScRes student Harry Searle -Webb presenting his Honours project work on the ecomorphology of viviparous lizards across different habitats in the UK.
At #HWM2025? Don’t forget to check out Neidr’s stall of herp and wildlife goodies in the lobby, or visit the online store - neidr.sumupstore.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
At #HWM2025? Don’t forget to check out Neidr’s stall of herp and wildlife goodies in the lobby, or visit the online store - neidr.sumupstore.com
It’s Wednesday. Rattlesnakes make Wednesdays better.
Crotalus cerberus, Arizona Black Rattlesnake, September 2024
Crotalus cerberus, Arizona Black Rattlesnake, September 2024
January 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It’s Wednesday. Rattlesnakes make Wednesdays better.
Crotalus cerberus, Arizona Black Rattlesnake, September 2024
Crotalus cerberus, Arizona Black Rattlesnake, September 2024
Now out: the release note of the adder (Vipera berus) reference genome for which @meebangor.bsky.social herpetologists provided the sample and logistics. Photo is of “Miss Genome”, who was released unharmed after sampling .
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...
January 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Now out: the release note of the adder (Vipera berus) reference genome for which @meebangor.bsky.social herpetologists provided the sample and logistics. Photo is of “Miss Genome”, who was released unharmed after sampling .
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...
Finally ditched Musk's dystopian hellscape. Looking forward to getting back to chatting science! And here's what I am most interested in: the natural history of venom!
November 19, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Finally ditched Musk's dystopian hellscape. Looking forward to getting back to chatting science! And here's what I am most interested in: the natural history of venom!