Heather Cray 🌱

Ecologist | PhD | Naturalist | Takes lots of macro photos | Reads & reviews scicomm | She/her | Loves insects

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

@prof_smurph They had to get police to make them evacuate...silliness.

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

Always a great event! Go learn and explore 🌱🦋🦇🐦🐝🐞🦟🐍!

[UWaterloo Ecology Lab 🌱 @UWEcologyLab]

Looking for something fun to do next weekend? Join @raresites at their new property for their 2019 community BioBlitz!

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

ERS 341 soil analysis in the @UWEcologyLab! From sample design to collection, analysis to interpretation, the students are gaining some serious skills! #fieldcourse #fieldwork #labskills ☀️

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

Great day at Sixteen Mile Creek with @ConservHalton learning & participating in stream and wetland restoration #fieldcourse @ers_uw @envwaterloo 🌊🌱☀️

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

Back from a successful field trip to Wiarton with ERS 341 @ers_uw #fieldcourse

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

Friday was bug day! We were fortunate to have Dr @JustinGaudon speak about Malaise traps and his conservation+restoration research with @raresites & the students learned their insect orders, ID, and monitoring techniques in the sunshine @ers_uw

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

@AntoniaGuidotti @Ecology_forlife You may want to net it - sounds silly but all 11 of mine were predated in their last instar!

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

Off to Cabot Head to teach a 9 day field course! #ecology #teaching 🐍🐝🐦🦇🐿️

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

No better feeling than when you and your leech bucket feature prominently in University event photos 😂

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

@Mussel_Michele Bring props! A bust out the amazing lure photos/photos of mussels grabbing the fish's face halfway through when their attention might be drifting.

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

The weather held for our benthic invertebrate workshop! Great enthusiasm from our alumni #envwaterloo50 @UWEcologyLab

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

@GrowShareRepeat @MPRnews I vote for Bombus borealis

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

@GrowShareRepeat Something in Trichiotinus? I would post to BugGuide 🐞

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

My birthday gift finally came and not a word of a lie these were the first two goal cards I drew. How could I choose?! #ecology #tallgrassprairie #wingspangame

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

Pollinator plant sale alert!

[Pollination Guelph @PollinateGuelph]

Plants! Plants! Plants! Visit our giant plant sale this Saturday, May 25 from 9am-2pm for a diversity of #native #pollinator-friendly #plants for your #garden. 29 Water Works Place, #Guelph (City Water Services). Visit https://t.co/ijsbPD1vjF for a list of plants we're selling.

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝 My resident Mason bees have been busy this week - I've seen 5 at a time making themselves at home #Beetweet #pollinator

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

An entry in my ongoing quest to convince people wasps are awesome 🐝

[Leah B @LeahBeeSchmidt]

If not now, when?

Today is Endangered Species day AND the last day to submit comments on Ontario's proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act. Submit comments here: https://t.co/ymjZSUqfhd

[Informed Perspectives @InformedOps]

On #WorldBeeDay, @savewildbees & @RANalepa of @EnvironmentYork, write about the uncertainty and critical endangerment of wild pollinators, rusty-patched bumblebees, via @ConversationCA. For #HerInformedOps contact Colla @ https://t.co/hogX4ObXA1. https://t.co/s8NnE5SEp2

[Heather Cray 🌱 @Crayvish]

Today was for the birds. Barn Swallow, Green Heron, Tree Swallow #spring2019 #maximumzoom