Jillian Suh Kurovski-Legris

the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵

Low quality video BUT the first mating trials of the season have begun! These are two Dolomedes tenebrosus in courtship. When he eventually inserts one of his pedipalps (🍆 equivalent organs) into her, he will begin to die while still inside the female. Then, she will cannibalize him.

There are Powder Blue Isopods (Porcellionides pruinosus) of various sizes on a pastel pink background. All of them are hanging with large and small ribbons. Happy and lovely atmosphere.

Blue isopods with ribbons🎀

three versions of the same design, all of which say "Biology is bigger than binaries", with a central image of a bee, a clownfish, and a lily. The one on. the left is pink, the middle is orange, the right is light blue.

🚨 Your Opinion Needed 🚨

We've had a number of people asking for a Bigger than Binaries shirt, so @franzanth.bsky.social & I discussed...

... and we will DO IT!

But we need your opinion! Which color should we print?! We can only do one.

Vote here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/5ZYWPHS

Thank you, Derek!!! 🕷️💕

Me staring at a Dolomedes tenebrosus that sits on my hand.

My favorite season is field season! #spider

Me (right) and my mentee (left) collecting Dolomedes spiders at night on a fallen tree.

I am pleased to share that I have been selected for the 2025-26 Fulbright Presidential STEM initiative award. This initrive was created by presidents Joe Biden and Suk Yeol Yoon to celebrate the 70 year alliance between our countries. I am excited to study the Dolomedes spiders of South Korea! 🇰🇷🕷️

My black cat Rhea curled into a ball like a shrimp.

A perfect 🍤

Early Bird Registration for the 2025 AAS Conference in Golden, Colorado ends April 30th! Additional events include an exclusive Linyphiid ID workshop and and a group excursion to Rocky Mountain National Park. Have questions? Send a DM!

Register here: www.americanarachnology.org/aas-meetings...

We don’t know where fruit flies go in the winter and one species of fruit fly has 6cm, yes cm, long sperm.

YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium 2 Hours of Nudibranchs to Relax/Study To | Lofi Hip Hop | Monterey Bay Aquarium Krill Waves Radio

@montereybayaquarium.org is amazing. I found my new study playlist and I am OBSESSED.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeQ...

Pinocchio Erudite Money Spider (Walckenaeria pinocchio) Walckenaeria pinocchio is a species of arachnids with 1 observation

I just came here to say Linyphiids are so cool and I miss looking at them and whenever I read papers about them I get sad I am not studying them. Like, why does he look like squidward hello?

www.inaturalist.org/taxa/233633-...

I just want a jumping spider to drum me a little serenade and do a little dance.

I have been looking for ways to fund an artist 👀

Born to write a spider dating sim, forced to write grants about mating spiders. Or maybe they’re the same thing. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Headline, from THEM magazine that says "Chappell Roan Reveals Her Type "Weird Art Girls", "Women Who are Not Scared of Bugs or Snakes", with a picture of a blonde lady standing next to chappell roan

Big day for weird art girls who are not afraid of bugs and snakes.

Gor is in Canada this entire month and I spent last week with him there. I feel your pain. 🥺

Our friend trying to put the yellow crochet crown on our cat Rhea who looks rather suspicious of her gift

Rhea ducking away from the crown

My friend crocheted our cat a crown and-

When to invest in love?
We re-analyzed the sex pheromone of a black widow using multidimensional chromatographic mass spectrometry, then measured the newly identified sexual signals in the field for a year. Open Access @ Journal of Chemical Ecology.
doi.org/10.1007/s10886-025-01590-6

Hello! My name is Alie. I write (and illustrate) books about bugs! ☺️🐝

My most recent book is "The Social Wasps of North America", which is about wasp species that form complex societies. I'll also have a fantastic field guide to cicadas out later this year!

www.owlflyllc.com/the-social-w...

I also got a stress sperm.

Ostracod having a crappy day 💩✨

Standing up for Science in Iowa City

I definitely agree!

Fingers crossed my research can somewhat address that since I study sperm dynamics and female mediated behaviors that influence sperm use🤞

I mention this in another comment but this species, D. tenebrosus, is an outlier of the genus in terms of mating system and seemingly, reproductive morphology. They’re SO cool.

It is not! Dolomedes tenebrosus tend to be an outlier for the entire group when it comes to mating which is why I love them. They also have wildly different genitalia. In this system, females mate multiply and males only once (bc dead). It’s the opposite in most other Dolomedes as far as we know.

A male and female fishing spider in copula. The larger spider is a female and the smaller male hangs from her reproductive opening beneath her.

I’m not ready for field season, but I miss my study species dearly. Enjoy these fishing spiders in copula. Males always expire shortly after insemination while still inside the female. Females cannibalize shortly after. Here, a male hangs from a female’s reproductive opening as she sits on my arm.

I was having a bad day, so my friend offered to take me to the field for an hour and collect pond water. I feel better now.

(Btw I don’t know anything about freshwater ecology so somebody tell me what I’m seeing bc it looks amazing)

Powerful moment at the public hearing for the anti-trans legislation being fast tracked through Iowa. Faith leaders gathered above the rotunda to pray and just started singing until people listened. I believe they are singing "we are trans and queer together, we are singing singing for our lives. "