bug lord

🪲sam🐞 she/they | ecologist in training | amateur entomologist | aspiring cowboy | wannabe mountain athlete

[bug lord @evrgrn2thebone]

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Oregon, thank you for holding me the past 2 years 🫶🏼

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I’ve officially moved to Colorado (downloaded the CO wildflowers app) !

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last week in the Oregon Cascades

[bug lord @evrgrn2thebone]

having grown up in MD and driven across that bridge many times, I gotta say there is something deeply unsettling about watching a video of your intrusive fears actually occurring.

[Yale Environment 360 @YaleE360]

From our archives: Scientists are turning to the knowledge of traditional people for a deeper understanding of the natural world.

What they are learning is helping them discover more about everything from melting Arctic ice to controlling wildfires.
https://t.co/4y5RzEbxs3

[High Country News @highcountrynews]

How tribes are using natural regeneration to restore western ecosystems.

https://t.co/L6KRIWFtQA

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Your regular reminder that Phoenix, Vegas, and basically every other desert city is fine, actually. There's enough water for them.

The issue is the enormous amount of water that livestock feed crops use. 72% of AZ's total water and 79% of the Colorado River goes to agriculture

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This week's newsletter covers unprecedentedly early wildfires in Texas, greenwashing in the beef industry, and Western states' groundwater problem:
https://t.co/KP2PJ6vXCZ

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The Amazon's critical collapse, Canadian zombie-fires, and climate opinion in US elections.
My environmental newsletter for the week of Feb 19 - 25, 2024: https://t.co/bSb9yxY8QI

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A climate scientist's defamation trial, plants and fire in the West, and Project 2025. https://t.co/MQM4okRzSR

[✨Kei$ha✨ @GlamazonJay]

I want this ran like an ad every five minutes on every television station.

[USGS in Montana @USGS_MT]

New research from @USGS @xercessociety & @BLM_MTDKs tests usings photos as a non-lethal way to ID bumble bees. Non-lethal ID methods may be particularly useful for imperiled bee species 👉 https://t.co/3QpNKnLcdd

@GlacierNPS #NativePollinators #WesternBumbleBee #USGS_NOROCK

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this is my 5 year plan, except it's biogeography books

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As an ecologist, the environmental impact of studying the environment is something I think about constantly (all the plastic for samples, the big work trucks, etc.) so I love seeing scientists like Maj-Britt Buchholz get creative with environmental solutions in research!

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

Wake up!

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"The good news is that parking is changeable. Focus more on the place, and less on the place to park, and the barriers to a better urban environment begin to fall away."

[WyoFile @WyoFile]

Wyoming is experiencing temperatures in the upper 50s in January. While it's a pleasant surprise now, the unusual trend could have notable implications in the future, experts say. https://t.co/Rffa0QPsp2

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A conundrum I think a lot of us have been thinking about:
"One great paradox of our time is that to limit humanity’s harms to the planet, we must decarbonize the economy; but to decarbonize the economy, we must build tons of new stuff." https://t.co/snJ5uSJ0GC

[The Wildlife Society @wildlifesociety]

A recent report found that many of Colorado’s native pollinator populations are plummeting. Several bumblebee species are particularly at risk. #bees #pollinators @CUBoulder https://t.co/jNrpkyglBU