Jeff.Bradshaw

Has been a long time since I’ve had one of these land on me in the middle of a corn field. Pic of Ostrinia nubilalis on my shirt that is covered in Puccinia polysora spores.

22.08.2025 00:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ooh. Their fear is very validating!

11.08.2025 19:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some of you might know Megan as a talented ecologist and some of you may know her from interacting with her through NIFA. She’s running for Congress!! Consider supporting her effort. I did and I live a LONG way from her district… I’m taking a longer view…

07.08.2025 17:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One Thanksgiving when I was a youngster and living with my parents, I walked downstairs from my room for dinner and Billy Corgan was sitting at and playing my piano in the living room.

17.07.2025 20:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! I was so fortunate to get to study them. I did observe kleptoparasitism. However, I would often find them on abandoned spider webbing. Would also occasionally find the first instars taking small midges trapped in the dew on the hairy stems of alumroot.

24.06.2025 11:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Used to find these tiny Reduviidae doing the same thing.

23.06.2025 22:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looking forward to getting into my new book by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social that @ktbcollage.bsky.social bought for me! Also, John, sorry you hurt your wrist with all of those signatures.

21.03.2025 23:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

13.03.2025 09:50 — 👍 11703    🔁 6521    💬 490    📌 1079

Probably not a singular reason. But in regard to editor pools, indirectly…maybe.

10.03.2025 13:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

…or it could be related to departmental consolidations?

10.03.2025 12:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“Know Thyself”

20.02.2025 13:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

…also wish @bsky.app could one-up the old Twitter and give us a post edit function. I have big, clumsy thumbs. Lol

20.02.2025 01:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s coukd get down to -20 F tonight in this area. So here a photo of Papilio polyxenes, black swallowtail, in remembrance of warmer times.

19.02.2025 23:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Had the opportunity to visit @montereyaq.bsky.social a couple weeks back and I’m still in awe of their exhibits. Highly recommend!

18.02.2025 16:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Frosty mugshot. Also evidence that I shouldn’t do sculpture. lol

16.02.2025 16:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Had a great uncle whom everyone called “Duffy” and who’s real first name I think was Charles. I also once knew someone with the first name of ZB and those were not initials.

07.01.2025 17:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sure!

02.01.2025 20:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I spied several warbler nests while trekking around Spring Creek Wildlife Refuge in Lincoln, NE. Maybe American yellow warbler nests? Either that or American redstarts. Or I suppose it could be both…

02.01.2025 15:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Invasive Plant Management The College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment at Auburn University/Alabama Cooperative Extension System invites applications for an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist position in invasiv...

New #bioinvasions faculty job just dropped: Assistant Professor/Extension Specialist with Auburn University in Invasive Plant Management! Come work in the southeastern U.S. - we've got PLENTY of invasive plants for you to choose from...

www.auemployment.com/postings/50457

18.12.2024 12:34 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Oye! Not! Do not handle them without due safety measures!! They be little, but their bite hurts. Not bullet-ant hurt, but definitely not pleasant. At least based on my experience.

02.12.2024 01:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

PSA—And if you dare to pick them up by their ‘wheel’, note that their stylets extend well beyond the length of their beak. Probably best to handle them without due safety measures!

02.12.2024 00:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Jeff, Dave, and Jody enjoying some local brews.

Dave and Andy Little.

Dave standing under the University of Nebraska logo. That N stands for knowledge!

It's a new hat!

Massive thanks to @truebug.bsky.social for having me out last week at @unlincoln.bsky.social. I got to visit with Doctor of Plant Health (dph.unl.edu) students and catch up with old friends. Jody Green and I have been in Extension circles for YEARS, and Andy Little and I were at UGA together.

23.11.2024 13:07 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Testing the efficacy of Trichogramma ostriniae (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) as a inundative biological control agent in Western Nebraska Abstract. The western bean cutworm (Striacosta albicosta) is a primary pest of corn and dry edible bean, for which control measures are often warranted. In

Finally published a project with several other wonderful people. In summary: maintaining a miniature wasp colony for deployment toward the biological control of western bean cutworm in western Nebraska was difficult. academic.oup.com/ee/advance-a...

17.11.2024 23:18 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Not so much of a journey as a project to convert a non-productive lawn into something more useful. The beds were filled with compost from a local supplier. The beds are about 18 inches tall to accommodate the slope and to improve overwintering of future perennials.

02.06.2024 13:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Slowly building out my yard into a garden.

02.06.2024 11:47 — 👍 46    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0