Graham Montgomery

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We detail the MAMMOTH @stateofindiasbirds.in effort, hoping that our analytical framework (and #OpenSource codebase), serves as a blueprint for similar #StateofBirds assessments in other #GlobalSouth regions. (1/n)

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Scientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here's What's Being Done to Save Them Both In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive

Great article on the rippling effects of ongoing insect declines.

"People may not be motivated to save the insects for their own sake, but a world without insects is a world without birds. It’s a world where nature offers no song to the rising sun."

🪲🪳🐦 🌎

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

The cover of the book "The Social Wasps of North America". Many wasps of all shapes, sizes, and colors are arranged radially out from the center.

The cover of the book "The Cicadas of North America". Many cicadas of all shapes, sizes, and colors are arranged radially out from the center.

I've been told that it's #InsectWeek and that I should plug my work.

I'm so bad at marketing... Uhhhhh... Buy my books...!

www.owlflyllc.com/publishing

YES! Big thanks to Morgan for that -- the junco & bugs made it taste even better!

I absolutely love it. Thank you so much!

Digital illustration of a Dark-eyed Junco, a dark brown sparrow with a pink beak, looking down from the background at a patch of red clover. The clover is covered in a variety of insects from Graham's work, including Harmonia axyridis (Asian ladybeetle), Scaptomyza terminalis (a small fly), Altica sp. flea beetles (tiny iridescent green beetles), Forcipata loca (pale yellow small leafhopper), Evacanthus interruptus (yellow and black leafhopper), and Anaspis rufa (small golden-brown false flower beetles).

Congrats to @sierrawormlion.bsky.social for his fantastic Ph.D. work on insect declines and the impact on birds! I'm so pleased to have done this commemorative illustration of a Dark-eyed Junco pondering a tiny world full of bugs and red clover. Species in alt! 🎨 #SciArt #BirdArt #invertebrates 🪶

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. 🧵

A dystopian surveillance fear has become reality in Texas | Arwa Mahdawi Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion

ALPRs are “particularly ripe for abuse in an increasingly authoritarian US, full of lawmakers who want to control women’s bodies.”

1. Did you know that the Corn Belt in the Midwest USA is so vast you can see it from space? 🌽 How would this affect billions of migrating songbirds passing through each year? 🐦 Check out our new study in @conbiology.bsky.social
to find out! 🧵1/8 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🐝🦋🌎🧪 Read more about it here: bit.ly/4jg74V2

I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
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David Wagner's Moths of the World is a marvelously illustrated guide to the world’s moths.

Out now! Learn more and explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Introduce you Mayer's Coelogyne ( Coelogyne mayeriana ) only native to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Malay peninsula. This species has a bright lime green color with black marking on the lip with a soft citrusy smell.
#coelogynepandurata #orchidlover #plantlover #plantdaddy #plantexplorer

A case for assemblage-level conservation to address the biodiversity crisis - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Conservation efforts can be directed at multiple ecological scales, from species to ecosystems. This Perspective calls for conservation at the scale of ecological communities or assemblages and discus...

Had a fun time writing this perspective with colleagues making a case for assemblage-level conservation to address the biodiversity crisis! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A pale larva with two red eye spots and 10 appendages.

This nearly decade-old observation was finally identified as fly larva of the genus Rhyncomya thanks to the publication of a new scientific paper and it's our Observation of the Day! Seen in South Africa by peterwebb.

Read the discussion at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

In Research, Ignoring Female Birds Harms Scientific Understanding A new study shows that ecological research often ignores or excludes data on female birds and behavior, resulting in erroneous assumptions on conservation.

The first paper of your PhD is always so exciting! 🤩 An all-#Galbatross effort, "A focus on females can improve science and conservation!" See press release (www.audubon.org/news/researc...) and the study here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! #FemaleBirds #FemaleBirdDay

sea slug names for expecting parents:

Elysia
Doris
Calmella
Melibe
Verconia
Pauleo
Jorunna
Clione
Bermudella
Cyerce
Jason

There is only one answer to the threat we face as a nation. The answer is solidarity. Fight For a Better Life

Here’s that excellent new ad from the United Auto Workers again, from the official UAW channel this time.