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Amazing diversity of #bees and #wasps nesting in bison wallows Nachusa Grasslands!! Check out Josh Klostermann's fascinating talk: cdmcd.co/3vnrmL #EntSoc2020 TNC in Illinois

Blue-crowned hanging parrot (Loriculus galgulus)🐦🦜🕊️🎵❤️

#ParrotOTD 20 November: St Lucia amazon (Amazona versicolor), endemic to the Caribbean island nation of St Lucia where it is known as Jacquot. Population has recovered from a low of just 150 birds in the 1970s. Pic by Carla Bregman via Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab macaulaylibrary.org/asset/200753971

Spotted my first Rusty-patched of the year 🥳🥳

First day of exploration at Effigy Mounds NM, i spotted 6 Rusty-patched bumble bees. 4 workers and 2 males... yay 🥰

Super beautiful B. rufocinctus (Red-belted Bumblebee) Queen at Coldwater Springs. The common name is fitting for rufos of this morph 😅

Good opportunity to learn about Rusty-patched bumble bee, and other Midwestern bumble bee species in a beautiful restored prairie. If you are near Dixon IL, please join us!

I want the pandemic to be over soooo bad 😓😓

Bombus affinis aka Rusty-patched bumble bee is at 999 observations on iNaturalist!!! so close to 1,000 observations :o Whos gonna observe the big 1k?

Chan Dolan (Chan 🐝 ), new Master's student in the Cariveau Native Bee Lab , opening our bumble bee citizen science event Nachusa Grasslands !!

Rusty-patched bumble bee Nachusa Grasslands ! Pretty successful outreach/citizen science event when every participant gets to see this gorgeous bee. 😍😍

i just learned you have to get a job after grad school and cant just retire

Why is it SO HARD to find bumble bee nests?! Ive been searching for like 3 hours 😪

zoom in for a surprise 😳

I FOUND A BUMBLE BEE NEST!!! Bombus impatiens! Literally a minute into being in the field while I was preparing to look for nests 😅 total accident

#NewProfilePic Visited a North-Central Iowa remnant prairie yesterday 🥳 Remnants always help ground me, and remind me what it’s all for