John McVay

Section Head-Plant Pathology, Division of Plant Industry, FDACS
------------------Evo. biologist, budding plant pathologist, nature enthusiast

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@sarahmhird I'd get down on that.

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@Sara_and_Snakes thinkin' bout that snake juice.

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@ringstem Nice to meet you, 153P/Ikeya-Zhang

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What kind of animal would yank a blueberry bush right out of the ground?! In the literal sense...

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@mammalgirl @ecologyonfire @schlingding @FloridaMuseum It would be hard for me to tell until it was completely metamorphosed, but given pop. densities around here, I'd say there's a pretty good chance it's a cuban tree frog.

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@peter_a_larsen @zoom_us Not enough circos plots in this picture.

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@AndrewLHipp @CavenderG9 Looking for a couple of good molecular markers for quick distinction between Q. virginiana and Q. geminata. Any advice?

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@mossMatters I read "Moses".

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@mossMatters Guns up!

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@texcroc PCR power.

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@AndrewLHipp I don't think so; this looks like one of the native ones. Here's one for comparison:

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@AndrewLHipp We have the asian woolly hackberry aphid here (and they are EVERYWHERE), whose filaments make them look more like dryer lint.

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@popgengoogling

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@plantdisease any interest in this for your archives? I found it tucked away in an old book.

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@alabamaED https://t.co/D63MIjmnjq

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@seanmhoban @CwdickD @AndrewLHipp @RolliEcology @KathleenSKnight @treebreederKoch @MartineBotany @indfnsofplnts Here's a starting place: https://t.co/jqm6nAkcYo

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