Bryan Pfeiffer

Field biologist, writer, aspiring botanist, fledgling geezer, boy explorer. (Owned by an English shepherd named Odin.)

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@BrianBanks Made The Boston Globe today:

Bog elfin butterfly had never been confirmed in Vermont, until now https://t.co/JfnVlB7sHu

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A little brown butterfly and an exuberant biologist (me) make the front page of The Boston Globe online today. #lepidoptera #butterfly #nature #vermont

https://t.co/JfnVlB7sHu via @BostonGlobe

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For birdwatchers and botanists, for biologists and naturalists of any kind, my online photography seminar launches March 1:

https://t.co/e5q0k72UOQ

#birding #naturephotography #nature #inaturalist #botany #wildlifephotography

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A sedge, a ruse and a butterfly. Read all about them:

https://t.co/Zsysmh97Nd

#botany #lepidoptera #butterfly #macrophotography #nature

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@BrianBanks I'm honored, Brian. Thanks. (Although you might take issue with my COP15 piece; I'd welcome your view on it.) In any event, I'd love to read YOU on Substack!

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As a new writer on Substack, I'm finding meaning and substance among a community of readers and writers. My newsletter, Chasing Nature, features wildlife, wild places and the human condition:

https://t.co/8KfYHJ5EVp

#birding #birdwatching #nature #ecology #environment #substack

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A ritual observance on the Winter Solstice: Moths copulating in the cold on the shortest day of the year. The female, in her evolution, has made an unusual sacrifice. Here's my essay:

https://t.co/GnF3RtA8mL

#lepidoptera #moths

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I'm leaning toward Mastodon, where I'm finding sanity, intelligence and even relative social-media serenity.

https://t.co/0bpfBhbpes

#MastodonSocial

P.S. Here's a moth montage (for no particular reason):

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The Queen (Danaus gilippus) — at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum on 21 December 2015.

#butterfly #lepidoptera #insect #macrophotography

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Warming up for National Moth Week (23-31Jul), here's Arctia parthenos (St. Lawrence Tiger Moth), which was still on the wing this week in Quebec.

@Moth_Week #mothweek #nationalmothweek #lepidoptera #moths #macrophotography
https://t.co/Ykg04pGbZo
https://t.co/3RzLR8Zalh

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A good night at the light here in Vermont anytime you see Pink-sided Fern Moth (Callopistria mollissima) AND Wavy Chestnut Y Moth (Autographa mappa).

#lepidoptera #moths #moth #macrophotography #NaturePhotography #nature

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Bog Fritillary (Boloria eunomia), now near the end of its all-too-short flight period here in northern New England. #lepidoptera #butterfly #butterflies #macrophotography #nature

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Baltimore Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton). I've got 'em feeding on Black Ash (Fraxinus nigra) in Montpelier, Vermont.

#lepidoptera #butterflies #macro #macrophotography #NaturePhotography #caterpillar

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My latest essay in The Boston Globe: ‘Silent Spring’ at 60 https://t.co/sI5bdoshED via @BostonGlobe

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A Dryocampa rubicunda (Rosy Maple Moth) "napping" last night (on a brick) at my moth light.

#lepidoptera #moths #nature #insects #mothsmatter #Vermont #NaturePhotography

[Charley Eiseman @CSEiseman]

This dazzling 2 mm wasp emerged from a gall of Ctenodactylomyia watsoni (Cecidomyiidae) on a leaf of seagrape (Coccoloba uvifera) collected in Florida. Anyone recognize it?

[Dr. Akito Kawahara @Dr_Akito]

New butterfly evolutionary study is out as preprint! 2244 spp sequenced for 391 genes. Butterflies likely originated in what is now Americas, ~100 million years ago. Research led @FloridaMuseum #McGuireCenter. Global study w/87 scientists from 28 countries https://t.co/mNqRNHfJQF

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The hot pink filaments of Amelanchier (serviceberry, juneberry, shad or shadbush) now flowering here in Vermont and in lots of other places.

#botany #macro #macrophotography #phenology

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My homemade lamp (from a Witness Tree brand maple syrup bottle here in #Vermont) next to my prized set of Walker’s volumes on the #Odonata of North America — two things that make me very happy in my office. #dragonflies @OdonataAmericas

[Eagle Hill Institute @eaglehillmaine]

Upcoming Eagle Hill Summer Seminar!

Introduction to #Tardigrade Study and Identification
Instructors: Emma Perry and William Miller
Dates: June 12–18, 2022

https://t.co/4znFRw4Le7

#naturalhistory #tardigrades #moss #mosses #ecology