Skye Bruce

phd @UWMadison entomology // studying butterflies on grazed lands🦋🌿 // organic farmer 👩🏼‍🌾 // she/her

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

I was interviewed in this article on monarchs in @PopSci and our paper is referenced! It feels really special to be quoted in a magazine I read as a little kid.

TLDR: you should plant native milkweed and flowers to help monarchs 🌱🌼🦋

[Popular Science @PopSci]

People's efforts to plant milkweed and other native habitats are helping the orange-and-black-winged butterflies' survival https://t.co/BAfpKsXn7c

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

Picked up these native plants today from @DustinDemmer! Very excited to put all these species in the ground but I think I’m most enthralled with the hoary puccoon, one of which is already flowering. Couldn’t resist woodland phlox and New Jersey tea. Bonus: Indian paintbrush! ☺️🌱

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

Entomology hive mind: can anyone recommend a field guide to butterflies of Korea (preferably in English but not necessarily)? 🦋📚

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

🦋 First butterfly of the season today in Southern Wisconsin! An eastern comma. Bonus pink-spotted lady beetle from yesterday. Pretty dang early to be seeing these critters out and about!

[David Lohman @dj_lohman]

Our paper on Delias evolution and biogeography is out! Island-hopping helped spur diversification in this genus of ~250 species. Thanks to 22 co-authors from 12 countries. Download freely here:
https://t.co/MRRBynkidH
@CCNY_Science @CUNYEEB @GradCenterBio

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@nataliealund @USNavy Thanks for your article, but I found an error. You stated that “In late August 2021, five sailors died after a MH-60R crashed in the same waters due to a mechanical failure” but this previous crash was in an MH-60S, a different helicopter model. Can you please correct?

[Ethan Beaver @ento_ethan]

New paper out on the systematics of the Dark Purple Azure butterflies 🥰
https://t.co/xq1ZEy3bs2

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@jdsicily1898 None!

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@freschly_snipes Oh no, I was paid to go to graduate school! https://t.co/D509pGBYQk

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

Graduated with my PhD in entomology! Ya girl is a doctor of butterfly science 🦋

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@TheKruJue https://t.co/4wH6YkfgEz

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@freschly_snipes Oh no, I was paid to go to graduate school! https://t.co/D509pGBYQk

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@freschly_snipes Kinda wish more people knew this was a thing 😔 it changed my world when I found out graduate students can get paid to go to grad school

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@freschly_snipes Oh no, I was paid to go to graduate school! https://t.co/D509pGBYQk

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@FOGettabout_it Thank you Hen 🤗

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@miq2501 Thanks! It’s a cool mural. The monarch was the focal species for two of my dissertation chapters

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@anh_bugs Thank you Anh!!

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@MMeyncke YES 👏🏼 love this. Keep up the good work! 🦋

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

Hi twitter community, heads up, I’m now on Threads! Follow for more 🦋BUTTERFLY SCIENCE🦋 on there. Not leaving this bird app entirely quite yet, but excited for the potential that Threads holds. https://t.co/gypzlrPj7h

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@dendromecon27 Your ID is correct! Pandora moth. And the wings aren’t deformed, they are just in the process of inflating. https://t.co/tUo7ruQ9Rg

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@jtvannatta So cool! Not collecting any data on this per say, but someone should

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

A very interesting (transitional?) dark morph tiger swallowtail found in our vegetable tunnels today. I’ve seen dark morph tigers before but never one quite like this!

[Skye Bruce @lepidopterlst]

@Hanliconius It’s been a somewhat “normal” spring for SW Wisconsin. We had some warm temps in April followed by cold-ish, and it started heating up a couple of weeks ago.