Top up your wellbeeing with a little bumbleboost 🐝

What do you love most about seeing bumblebees?

🔊 Volume up for that surround sound bumblebee hum 🎶

🎥 Jade Oliver

A crop of a drawing in progress that is mostly illustrating a variety of Andrena mining bees, "often a black bug in a fur coat". Includes specialists and generalists

Drawing my way through march/april native bees and it's almost may 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

This #EarthWeek, let's keep the skies full of monarchs! Whether you’re working with a balcony, yard or community garden, it's easy to make your neighborhood a better place for butterflies. Find everything you need to get started at xerces.org/monarchs 🌻🦋

We are looking for a Head of Outreach 🐝

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with proven experience in a leadership role to influence change and help more people and organisations become champions for bumblebees.

Full details: https://ow.ly/MZP650YsKmP

an image that says "woodland ephemerals: A quick ID guide" with a background of a spring woodland with little flowers popping up

Happy spring! It may be gross and rainy out and too cold for bees, but the spring ephemerals of Eastern North America all seem to be out east of the Mississippi! Come meet some friends in the woods near you!

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Lessons from Plants — Harvard University Press An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving.We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing...

This beauty "Lessons from Plants" debuted 5 years ago on April 6, 2021.
It was a delight to work with editor Janice Audet then @harvardpress.bsky.social.
What an amazing & enriching journey it's been & continues to be.
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
#LessonsFromPlants

Colorful and vibrant illustration of butterflies, moths, caterpillars, and the host plants they rely on to complete their life-cycle. This is a square, cropped version of the full poster design.

It's here! Meet the Life on a Leaf Celebrating Caterpillars and Host Plants poster designed by Avani Hope🐛🦋🌱

Visit pollinator.org/poster-2026 to view the full design highlighting 19 unique caterpillar-host plant pairings and PRE-ORDER yours today!

#Caterpillars #Plants #Pollinators #PollinatorWeek

hello. if by any chance you were someone who spoke to me today at SGC about land access and you showed me your gold necklace pendant, please message me! I was extremely overwhelmed and forgot to write your name down. all others please disregard. :)

Book arrived! "When Trees Testify - Science, Wisdom, History and America's Black Botanical Legacy" by Beronda L. Montgomery. Several leaves and also a cotton twig against a black background.

Funderar på att läsa bok istället för Bluesky en stund. 😊

For Pollinators' Sakes, Don’t Spring into Garden Cleanup Too Soon! Early spring garden cleanup can disrupt critical invertebrate habitat and leave pollinators out in the cold. Our guidelines will help you determine when cleaning up won't bug the pollinators in your…

With spring arriving, it's tempting to begin working on our yards and gardens. But hold on! 🐝
Clearing debris & trimming plants too soon can actually harm bees, butterflies, & other important pollinators. We've curated a list of questions to tell when the time is right ⤵️

“Bumble Bee Atlas 2025 Recap and Celebration” Two Bumble Bee Atlas volunteers looking for bees amidst flowers in a local park.

Join us to celebrate @bumblebeeatlas.bsky.social's accomplishments in 2025, & plan for 2026! This event is intended for current Bumble Bee Atlas volunteers and supporters, but anyone is welcome to attend.
🗓️Apr 2 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: www.bumblebeeatlas.org/pages/2025-r...

Bugs are in trouble, and our yards are part of the answer!🍂 ➡

If each of us — you, your neighbor, your friend down the block — takes a step, that adds up to a lot.

✅Learn more about the importance of microhabitats here ➡ beecityusa.org/blog

#BeeCityUSA #Gardens #Microhabitats #LeavetheLeaves

A morsel for your #WorldFoodDay: We can grow food in ways that restore our planet’s health. Across forests, farms and seas, regenerative food practices can help reduce climate change and biodiversity loss.

Here’s how: https://nature.ly/47rGC7V

Leave the Leaves! One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.

It’s time for one of the easiest things you can do for wildlife: just #LeaveTheLeaves! Leaves are vital homes & winter shelter! 🐝
🍂 Follow our easy tips & meet the animals you’ll be saving ➡️ xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
🪧 Get your own yard sign, now available in English & Spanish ➡️ xerces.org/gifts

“Virtual Firefly Symposium: Science, Conservation, and Education” A female Florida intertidal firefly perched on a red mangrove leaf at a nature center in Broward County, Florida.

Join us for a free 3-day virtual symposium on firefly research & conservation! Each day will include 6 presentations & time for networking. Everyone interested in fireflies is invited! 🪲💡
🗓️Oct 28-30 at 9am PT / 12pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Two male Longhorn bees sleeping on a Cosmo flower.

Two male Longhorn bees sleeping on a Cosmo flower.

Two male Longhorn bees sleeping on a Cosmo flower.

Second Wave of Longhorns is in full swing around here. No fewer than three sets of Sleepytime Twins in the Cosmo patch on the way to work this morning (and many lone ones). [Berkeley, CA 7-2-25] #bees #nativebees

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

This Indigenous Peoples' Day, it's a good time to review how Land Grant Universities have profited from stolen lands. This article only covers Land Grants; many other universities (U of Michigan, for example) have benefited similarly. (1/2) www.landgrabu.org

Striking pink bell-shaped flowers are growing together out of a stem that has oval-shaped green leaves.

You're looking at the first iNaturalist observation of Fives Heath (Erica sicula) in both Libya and North Africa more generally!

📷 abdulnaser on iNaturalist
📍 Libya
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

Want to learn how to identify insects? Come to our insect identification workshop tomorrow at 6:30 pm in Natural Science Room 352!

No prior ID knowledge necessary - feel free to bring your own specimens as well.

#msu #msuentomology #msunatsci

None of our research exists in a vacuum. We are weavers.

We take a thread of tech made to do complete a different task, join it with preclinical work from a different species, and weave it together with statical approaches that were made to ask a similar question in a completely different field. 🧵

Photo by Nash Turley

🌼 New paper showing that it's not just pollinators shaping flowers—abiotic factors like humidity and temperature also influence floral form and function. Check out this new paper on a more complex picture of floral evolution. 🌬️🐝
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!

These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

The future of environmental stewardship is Indigenous - Alliance magazine Lessons from the Great Bear All along the coastal waters of the Great Bear Sea, First Nations Guardians navigate networked waterways, patrolling protected areas, conducting research, and monitoring salmon populations and their habitats. Some 1,500 ...

Indigenous-led conservation is reshaping philanthropy. A new Alliance Magazine article spotlights how the PFP model empowers long-term stewardship and sovereignty. Read how First Nations leaders are driving change.

Spartan scientists contribute to global examination of pollinator habitat MSU Entomology professor and former graduate student collaborate with team of 80 researchers to examine global pollinator landscape needs

MSU Entomology professor Dr. Rufus Isaacs and former graduate student Dr. Gabriela Quinlan collaborated with a team of 80 researchers on a global study examining pollinator habitat needs in agricultural landscapes!

Read more: www.canr.msu.edu/news/spartan...

#Entomology #Ecology #Conservation 🧪🌎🍁

Another exciting discovery from 2025! Though the half-black bumble bee is fairly common in other parts of the US, Missouri is at the southern extent of its range, so this is a rare find.

Learn more about the Atlas and how you can get involved at our website: bumblebeeatlas.org

The Salmonfly Project: Anglers, Insect Conservation, and the Future of Freshwater Streams | Bug Banter Podcast Insects play a critical role in rivers, lakes, and streams, acting as a vital food source for many animals and maintaining the health of these freshwater ecosystems. A few of these insects include: ma...

Like rivers & lakes full of fish? Then you need rivers & lakes full of insects!
On this #BugBanterPodcast we'll dive underwater to meet freshwater insects, & discover the conservation work they need!
Audio & transcript 📻 xerces.org/bug-banter/s...
Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=22sh...

Are you a POC student, early career researcher, or professional entomologist from a country in the Global South?

We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.

More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

Tired of the corruption and anti-science in our government? You're not alone—and you don't have to do it alone!

Meet like-minded scientists, activists, and allies in Stand Up for Science at our two Action Hours coming up this month — Join us in the fight to protect science!

zurl.co/viaW8

Consider signing - Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition 🧪🌐https://laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/