Dr Will Kuhn 🏳️‍🌈🐞🐌🐝🌱🪲🦋🐛

Husband, biologist, nature lover. Director of Science and Research at Discover Life in America (@discovrlife) | he/him

[Dr Will Kuhn 🏳️‍🌈🐞🐌🐝🌱🪲🦋🐛 @crossveins]

Come find me at BlueSky:
at willkuhn dot bsky dot social

[Thorben Danke @sagaOptics]

Orache moth, Trachea atriplicis. Of course, this beautiful moth should not be missing. Here too you can discover so many details.

#noctuidae #moth #meldeneule #tracheaatriplicis #carpenoctem #entomology #nachtfalter #lepidoptera

[Sam Fabian @samueltfabian]

NEW PAPER: Ever wondered why insects fly in all sorts of crazy patterns around lights at night? So did we! We set about recording flying insects to work out what's going on. I'll summarise what we found in this 🧵. Spoiler: We don't think they confuse lights with the moon.

[Discover Life in America @Discovrlife]

What have we done this year to catalog, better understand and conserve the #biodiversity of @GreatSmokyNPS ? So far we've...
✅Added 204 species to the #SmokiesATBI include 16 new-to-science
✅Helped 2,000 community scientists add >27K Smokies species observations to @inaturalist

[Dr. Manpreet Kohli 🐞🦋🇮🇳 @Mpreetkohli]

#EntSoc23 #entomology #bugs

[Dr Will Kuhn 🏳️‍🌈🐞🐌🐝🌱🪲🦋🐛 @crossveins]

@concerts_yay @GreatSmokyNPS Those might be kudzu bugs, an invasive insect that loves to eat invasive kudzu, but that also likes to overwinter in homes and other structures like stink bugs and ladybugs do. More info and photos here: https://t.co/bknvxxdWMO

[Dustin Demmer @DustinDemmer]

Daily update of the massive amount of monarchs in our garden:

It’s not luck, it’s native prairie plants!

[Dr Will Kuhn 🏳️‍🌈🐞🐌🐝🌱🪲🦋🐛 @crossveins]

@argold_919 **hug**

[Katie Pennick @KatiePennick]

barbie’s wheelchair vs my actual wheelchair: a critical comparison

aka the best twitter thread i will ever post

strap in

#Barbie

[Dr Will Kuhn 🏳️‍🌈🐞🐌🐝🌱🪲🦋🐛 @crossveins]

@PaulMitchum Big ❤️❤️❤️ to this XKCD!

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

The news is out! The @NANOGrav pulsar timing array collaboration has detected a background of cosmic gravitational waves rippling through our Universe! Let’s talk about it!
(Full press conference tomorrow, https://t.co/7hsBd7IWdO)
1/n

[Entomemeology @entomemeology]

#WorldBeeDay #WorldBeeDay2023 #entomemeology #entomology #nativepollinator #nativepollinators

[Secrets Of The Ice @brearkeologi]

Lendbreen, August 4th 2011. We discovered a large piece of textile in a hollow in the scree, close to the melting ice.

[Dr Will Kuhn 🏳️‍🌈🐞🐌🐝🌱🪲🦋🐛 @crossveins]

@argold_919 Happy nurses week! Your work is extremely valuable to the functioning of society! Thanks for helping keep us all alive!

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

I know a lot of you wanted a technical breakdown of this meme so here it is!

I don't think you will find this level of detail anywhere else so keep reading if you don't want to miss out.

[Dr Will Kuhn 🏳️‍🌈🐞🐌🐝🌱🪲🦋🐛 @crossveins]

@argold_919 @Acyn Preach it, sister! 🙌

[Dr Will Kuhn 🏳️‍🌈🐞🐌🐝🌱🪲🦋🐛 @crossveins]

@argold_919 Keep on going, friend 🫂

[Dr Will Kuhn 🏳️‍🌈🐞🐌🐝🌱🪲🦋🐛 @crossveins]

@cmtribull I've been looking at those too! They look sturdier than bioquip's tube lights