Dr Will Kuhn 🏳️‍🌈🐞🐌🐝🌱🪲🦋

A bearded man wearing a navy blue pullover that has teal leafhoppers knitted in a fair-isle pattern on the yoke and sleeves. He is posing with two leashed dogs (one large and yellowish, one smaller and cream with reddish spots) in front of a harbour with fishing boats and colourful buildings in the background.

Close up of a bearded man wearing a navy blue pullover that has teal leafhoppers knitted in a fair-isle pattern on the yoke and sleeves.

Recently completed leafhopper sweater (designed by @leafhopper.bsky.social) modeled by @ibycter.bsky.social with help from Diego and Zora in scenic Quidi Vidi Village!

#EntoFashion #Knitting

05.05.2025 11:26 — 👍 110    🔁 7    💬 5    📌 1

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

09.04.2025 10:06 — 👍 1513    🔁 702    💬 33    📌 120

Expert identification blitz: A rapid high value approach for assessing and improving iNaturalist identification accuracy and data precision and confidence Citizen science data are increasingly used in research and conservation, so assessing and improving data accuracy is important. We recruited 50 experts to review a dataset of Western Australian plant....

New paper open access in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Cit sci data quality is a hot topic, and assumptions about ID accuracy are often made without evidence. We decided to test identification accuracy for a WA plants @inaturalist.bsky.social dataset

17.03.2025 04:42 — 👍 60    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 2

Pacific Northwest's ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people Finding suggests humans have added value to forests in lasting ways

For Poison Ivy fans who remember that bit from year 1 about interplanting--that's real; I wasn't making it up! Excellent write-up about indigenous permaculture: www.science.org/content/arti...

31.03.2025 18:26 — 👍 342    🔁 87    💬 9    📌 2

**New paper: Promoting Equity Between the Global North & South in Entomological Research 🌍🦋

Global biodiversity challenges demand equitable collaborations. Strengthening partnerships in the Global South enhances research, conservation, and local capacities.

#Entomology #Conservation #GlobalEquity

27.03.2025 21:11 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Four tiles showing a tomato with chlorosis in upper left, a squash with powdery mildew in the upper right, broccoli with necrotic leaves on the lower left, and a pepper leaf with spots and mild chlorosis on the bottom right.

We're hiring a plant pathologist! Looking for someone w/passion for diagnosing vegetable diseases & communicating results to clients. There's lots of other duties & opportunities. I also think it's a great lab 🤔☺️

jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/215...

@quesadalabncsu.bsky.social @plantdisease.bsky.social

24.03.2025 21:30 — 👍 39    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 1

Six people are standing staring at the camera and smiling.

It was so great to get a chance to search for Tachopteryx this past week and see @willkuhn.bsky.social , @ethantolman.bsky.social, Chris, Patrick, Anton, Aaron and Larry! 🐉🪰 #dragonfly #entomology

23.11.2024 11:13 — 👍 25    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Just back from #entsoc24 buzzing with ideas and glowing with gratitude for this fantastic community of people 😍

14.11.2024 16:11 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0