Ecologist, entomologist, photographer, musician. Find me on Bluesky https://nitter.cf/t.co/k2wQeay7In
State College, PA
Joined December 2010
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I'm excited to share our new study:
Bee monitoring by community scientists: comparing a collections-based program with iNaturalist
Published in Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
And look, my photo of a small carpenter bee on the cover!
academic.oup.com/aesa/advanc…
ALT cover of Annals of Entomological Society of America journal with my photo of a Ceratina (the most abundant bee in our collections)
Washinton Post article about our bee monitoring program!
(it's behind paywall but should be able to see it if you make a free account...)
wapo.st/3YDuPPD
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Important new paper led by Melissa Guzman showing that insecticides reduce bee abundances in the United States nature.com/articles/s41893-0…
Our team of community scientists discovered 7 bees species never before seen in Pennsylvania!
psu.edu/news/research/story/…
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The power of community science @AgSciResearch @PAAgriculture @PSU_Entomology psu.edu/news/research/story/…
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I know I've been asking a lot, but does anyone who is entering the postdoc stage have a CV they're especially proud of they would be willing to share with me? Trying to spruce mine up!
street lights make tree leaves tougher and decrease herbivory, bad news for bugs!
theguardian.com/environment/…
ridiculously cool orange moth with poofy pants
inaturalist.org/observations…
ALT orange moth on a white cloth, black spots on white, darker orange head and thorax, long fuzzy black antennae, legs with puffy orange hairs with white and black feet
Want to help make old natural history collection be digitized and publicly available? Check out all of these projects where you can transcribe labels of old museum collections. It's kinda fun to see what the next one will be :)
zooniverse.org/organizations…
ALT screenshot of a page with photo of a pinned bee with labels and boxes to fill in with the label information
What’s better for bees? More habitat or less pesticides?
anthropocenemagazine.org/202…
"The flickering glow of summer’s fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone"
AP story about firefly conservation
apnews.com/article/fireflies…
Ecologist at UCLA being severely punished by department for speaking out to help students. Read more about it here: pamarasekare.org/
And petition to help her:
change.org/p/tell-california…
Quirky little spittlebug from Ecuador, took me a while to figure out which end was the front :P
inaturalist.org/observations…
ALT rectangular true bug on a leaf, black with large yellow spots
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Do collection-based methods produce more reliable data with fewer biases than photography-based approaches? the value of highly trained communty scientists
academic.oup.com/aesa/advanc…
@saritapajarita @NashTurley @inaturalist
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The power of community science to understand bee biodiversity! Excited to share our new study comparing results from our PA Bee Monitoring Program vs iNaturalist led by @NashTurley @lopezuribelab @PAAgriculture @agsciences
🧵Here are the key findings:
academic.oup.com/aesa/advanc…
we finish the paper by saying "Despite the concerns about lethal sampling of bees for monitoring efforts, our results demonstrate that photo-based monitoring methods cannot replace the unique insight that comes from collections."
This study would not be possible without all the work from community scientists, both our amazing group of dedicated bee collectors (mostly @agsciences Master Gardeners) and all the people on @inaturalist making observations and identifications.
ALT group photo of bee collections 1
ALT group photo of bee collections 2
ALT group photo of bee monitoring folks