Peter

People pay me to do horticultural science. I take photos of bugs. If I mess up, please call me on it! Tweets his own. @peterlcoffey on Instagram

[Peter @petercoffey]

Paper wasps never seem to settle down like other insects so I've resorted to bribery.

[Peter @petercoffey]

Yo are any entomologists still on this thing? And if so then have you heard if your @EntsocAmerica abstracts have been accepted yet?

[Peter @petercoffey]

@bekahwal @SarahMackAttack @minnesota_mel @isabetabug oh wow sorry, I deleted twitter off my phone!

Yes! B looks like a Euschistus nymph, one of our native brown stinkers. Your other IDs all look correct too!

[Peter @petercoffey]

@sommbub I figured it out eventually

[Peter @petercoffey]

@sommbub I read these out of order and i was so confused.

[Peter @petercoffey]

@evolutionarypsy That's where Carolyn Coffey did her phd

[hannah @dogfanhan]

Trans Day of Visibility has been on March 31st since 2009, Biden has issued a recognition of it since 2021, Easter moves around (will be on 4/20 next year). Anyone trying to make you angry about this has an agenda (either election year hijinks or just hating trans people)

[Dr. Lauren Diepenbrock🐞👩‍🔬 @LMDiepenbrock]

I just learned of the two graduate students injured in a shooting during the @EntsocAmerica
Southeastern Branch meeting. Grad insurance is pretty awful and these are going to be big bills for these young people. Please help if you can.
https://t.co/XmvAlWjN3J

[Sarah Taber @SarahTaber_bww]

Let's talk about how this race for Commissioner of Agriculture is going! #ncpol

First off: I've raised more $$$ than every single Dem candidate for this seat since 2004.

COMBINED.

Pictured below: the confidence that comes with a good crop 🥬💸

[Talia Ben-Ora @taliaotg]

Loved ones of Aaron Bushnell, 25, reached out to me and gave me consent to post a blurred version of Bushnell’s protest today against genocide in Palestine.

“Aaron is the kindest, gentlest, silliest little kid in the Air Force,” said Errico, who met Bushnell in 2022.

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

Gather round: this @abcnews story is not only one of the most horrific, violent, mysogonist police murder nightmares possible, it's maybe the most depraved framing I've ever seen in copaganda—starting with the headline omitting the woman the cop killed! https://t.co/G17cUKrBKa

[Peter @petercoffey]

@GNunezUF Whoa!

[Peter @petercoffey]

@am_anatiala I just got this book and it rules.

[Andrew Mountcastle 🦞 @amtcastle]

HONEY BEES ARE NOT NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICA THEY ARE DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND THEY DON'T NEED SAVING NATIVE BEES POLLINATE MOST FLOWERING PLANTS AND ARE THE ONES THAT NEED SAVING

[Eli Wyman, your own personal Beesus @eli_wyman]

Got a new orchid #bee tattoo last night, based on a beautiful photo by @wizentrop . I’m really pleased with how it came out.

[🔻 Harish 🔻 @fruitymonkie]

whenever this is brought up it will *always* remind me of one of my favourite exchanges between Sean Astin and the LoTR DoP Andrew Lesnie on the Return of the King commentary

Astin- “where is the light coming from?”

Lesnie- “same place as the music”

[Dr. Kylie Soanes @kyliesoanes]

Most of us will have seen images of crossing structures like this by now. They’re becoming popular all over the world, for everything from crabs to cougars. But how well do they actually work? Do they mitigate the barrier effect of roads on wildlife movement? 🧵

[yes, really @simonefiii]

MAKE IT MUPPETS AND THE ONLY HUMAN IS DETECTIVE BENOIT BLANC, YOU COWARDS!

[The Bug Chicks @TheBugChicks]

You hear that? Ohio is a “total banger” for arthropod diversity and we are off to find some fairy shrimp and milli-rares.

[🇩🇲 Chelsea, Biologist/Magical Girl/Frogletito 🦎 @ChelseaHerps]

OK don't laugh.
I spent 3 days watching every frame of the animated classic FernGully: The Last Rainforest. I cross referenced lists, maps and my own approximate area of where the movie took place around Wollumbin (formerly Mt Warning), Australia to figure out a species list.