Field biologist, writer, aspiring botanist, fledgling geezer, boy explorer. (Owned by an English shepherd named Odin.)
Montpelier, Vermont USA
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A little brown butterfly and an exuberant biologist (me) make the front page of The Boston Globe online today. #lepidoptera #butterfly #nature #vermont
bostonglobe.com/2023/06/26/m… via @BostonGlobe
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For birdwatchers and botanists, for biologists and naturalists of any kind, my online photography seminar launches March 1:
chasingnature.substack.com/p…
#birding #naturephotography #nature #inaturalist #botany #wildlifephotography
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A sedge, a ruse and a butterfly. Read all about them:
chasingnature.substack.com/p…
#botany #lepidoptera #butterfly #macrophotography #nature
ALT Cassius Blue (Leptotes cassius)
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As a new writer on Substack, I'm finding meaning and substance among a community of readers and writers. My newsletter, Chasing Nature, features wildlife, wild places and the human condition:
chasingnature.substack.com/
#birding #birdwatching #nature #ecology #environment #substack
ALT Snowy Owl / © Bryan Pfeiffer
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A ritual observance on the Winter Solstice: Moths copulating in the cold on the shortest day of the year. The female, in her evolution, has made an unusual sacrifice. Here's my essay:
chasingnature.substack.com/p…
#lepidoptera #moths
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I'm leaning toward Mastodon, where I'm finding sanity, intelligence and even relative social-media serenity.
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P.S. Here's a moth montage (for no particular reason):
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The Queen (Danaus gilippus) — at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum on 21 December 2015.
#butterfly #lepidoptera #insect #macrophotography
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Warming up for National Moth Week (23-31Jul), here's Arctia parthenos (St. Lawrence Tiger Moth), which was still on the wing this week in Quebec.
@Moth_Week #mothweek #nationalmothweek #lepidoptera #moths #macrophotography
nationalmothweek.org
inaturalist.org/projects/nat…
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A good night at the light here in Vermont anytime you see Pink-sided Fern Moth (Callopistria mollissima) AND Wavy Chestnut Y Moth (Autographa mappa).
#lepidoptera #moths #moth #macrophotography #NaturePhotography #nature
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Bog Fritillary (Boloria eunomia), now near the end of its all-too-short flight period here in northern New England. #lepidoptera #butterfly #butterflies #macrophotography #nature
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Baltimore Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton). I've got 'em feeding on Black Ash (Fraxinus nigra) in Montpelier, Vermont.
#lepidoptera #butterflies #macro #macrophotography #NaturePhotography #caterpillar
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My latest essay in The Boston Globe: ‘Silent Spring’ at 60 bostonglobe.com/2022/06/09/o… via @BostonGlobe
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A Dryocampa rubicunda (Rosy Maple Moth) "napping" last night (on a brick) at my moth light.
#lepidoptera #moths #nature #insects #mothsmatter #Vermont #NaturePhotography
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This dazzling 2 mm wasp emerged from a gall of Ctenodactylomyia watsoni (Cecidomyiidae) on a leaf of seagrape (Coccoloba uvifera) collected in Florida. Anyone recognize it?
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Bryan Pfeiffer retweeted
New butterfly evolutionary study is out as preprint! 2244 spp sequenced for 391 genes. Butterflies likely originated in what is now Americas, ~100 million years ago. Research led @FloridaMuseum #McGuireCenter. Global study w/87 scientists from 28 countries tinyurl.com/7ra5uaba
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The hot pink filaments of Amelanchier (serviceberry, juneberry, shad or shadbush) now flowering here in Vermont and in lots of other places.
#botany #macro #macrophotography #phenology
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My homemade lamp (from a Witness Tree brand maple syrup bottle here in #Vermont) next to my prized set of Walker’s volumes on the #Odonata of North America — two things that make me very happy in my office. #dragonflies @OdonataAmericas
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Bryan Pfeiffer retweeted
Upcoming Eagle Hill Summer Seminar!
Introduction to #Tardigrade Study and Identification
Instructors: Emma Perry and William Miller
Dates: June 12–18, 2022
bit.ly/392KWyQ
#naturalhistory #tardigrades #moss #mosses #ecology
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#Plants and #insects — they go together. Hear it straight from a botanist (@indfnsofplnts) and an entomologist (@cbnatphoto) — each a conservationist.
indefenseofplants.com/podcas…
ALT Tricolored Bumblebee (Bombus ternarius) nectaring on Carolina Spring Beauty (Claytonia caroliniana)
Ovenbirds now among the warbler vanguard arriving in northern New England (and lots of other places).
#birding #birdwatching #spring #migration #birdphotography #Vermont #newengland
ALT Ovenbird © Bryan Pfeiffer
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