Claire Netto

B.S. Natural Resource Conservation & Wildlife Ecology 🐸🦎🐛🪲🐝🍄🏔🌈 scientist & artist👩🏻‍🔬🎨 catchin’ newts in my muck boots 🥾 with NEARMI (views=my own)

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

I drew some of the species I work with for NEARMI! Wood frog, Eastern newt, Spotted salamander, Shenandoah salamander and the red-backed salamander (w/ lead-backed morph, too)! @USGSWetlands @USGS Screen printing this on shirts for the field crew to rep during field season🦎🐸

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

@grizkidd perhaps the gabagool was the friends we made along the way

[Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer]

Really weird to me how many people in North America think starting a honey bee hive helps the environment.

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

one of my favorite parts about winter time is all of the silly little wildlife tracks in the snow ❄️ 🦝🦃

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

@AmbystoMax real talk !!! this is why some of the best & realest conversations I have are on walks/hikes or car rides where we are both looking forward or like doing an activity like crafts where we’re using our hands and not expected to just stare into each others eyes the whole time lmao

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

I’m currently working as a science TA for 7-8 graders and they are so funny — they make me laugh every day! this week when asked what an agar plate was one of them said something about “a place where stinkies grow” which is honestly so true 🧫 couldn’t have said it better myself

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

@AmbystoMax OH & get this — even after getting a doctors note, other associates (not even managers!) keep mentioning how I can’t have a water bottle and it irks me so badly. it’s not their place & it’s none of their business about my medical note. it made me mad enough to rant on twitter lol

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

@AmbystoMax that’s exactly what my doctor said!!! sadly I had to get a retail job for the Winter because there’s slim-pickings/competitive for natural resource jobs in my area. Thankfully I’ll be outta there in 11 days & have interviews coming up!! Hoping to get back in the field come Spring

[Desiree L. Narango, PhD @DLNarango]

When #yards include nature, it's a win-win solution for both people and biodiversity.
We reviewed ecological/social benefits of yard restoration & show the footprint of US residential area goes beyond urban areas--much higher than previous estimates (30%) https://t.co/ymPrlyc1sy

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

Them: Can you make a normal, non-dramatic PSA about rec safety in the fall

Us:

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

found this lil snake in the sand and vegetation while surveying tiger beetle larval burrow holes the other day. their tongues always remind me of the 🥳 emoji

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

@maggiekellerbio The Adirondacks, New York! Here’s a closer look at the little fella hidden in the habitat

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

spot that salamander

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

the bilateral skedaddle ⬅️🦎➡️

[Maddie @SalaMaddie]

One of my favorite parts of being an amphibian scientist is introducing people to the critters I work with, I was lucky enough to be able to show my kiddo friend his very first salamanders! We scored 2 juvenile spotted sals and a leadback! #happyherping

[Salamander Jill (Fleming) @salamander_jill]

I equate achieving full confidence in tadpole ID with reaching nirvana. Would any enlightened ones out there care to help me ID these sent to me by a partner? Taken in Eastern MA last week. Please and thank you!!!!

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

Froggy field work
@SalaMaddie

[Maddie @SalaMaddie]

Spring salamander surveys are in full swing! Here are some of the beauties that graced the streams and provided the NEARMI team with valuable data so far this season #Gporphyriticus

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

welcome to the toad abode

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

@PHiLLProject that one bee has the flyest pair of pollen pants I’ve ever seen

[Claire Netto @herpentomyco]

painted my cap with some of the critters and places that made my undergrad experience so magical 🐝🪲🐛🦎🐸🍄 and had a little grad photoshoot moment with the bug buddies in Fernald