Nathaniel Green

I'm sure someone can ID the bumblebee, It's just not going to be me. I'm terrible at IDing them. @nashturley.bsky.social might know?

You could pretty safely call #2 Bembix americana. There's some overlap in appearance with a similar species, but it's usually not this yellow and is less common.

05.09.2025 23:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Isodontia mexicana, not neomexicana.

05.09.2025 23:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

1 - Bombus sp.
2 - Bembix sp. (Probably Bembix americana)
3 - Isodontia neomexicana
4 - Sphex ichneumoneus

But I second Alie's suggestion, put them in iNat to get a few opinions. Great photos!

05.09.2025 23:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I got a call from HR that my position has ended and I should go to work and collect my things. No explanation, just "please arrange with your boss to get your stuff, thanks bye". Okay! I guess I will be taking my shrimp collection and going.

21.08.2025 15:01 — 👍 624    🔁 77    💬 65    📌 4

propaganda we're not falling for:
- there's no nature in cities/urban areas
- we already know everything about plants & animals
- nature photography requires expensive camera equipment
- you need a degree to contribute to science
- you need to travel far to see interesting species

21.05.2025 22:48 — 👍 253    🔁 63    💬 3    📌 2

Closeup portrait of a fuzzy yellow and pink rosy maple moth against a black background.

Closeup dorsal view of a fuzzy yellow and pink rosy maple moth on a stick against a black background.

Side portrait showing the fuzzy yellow and pink body of rosy maple moth on a stick against a black background.

Side view of a fuzzy yellow and pink rosy maple moth against a black background.

To exist on the same planet as this creature is a privilege.

28.04.2025 17:28 — 👍 322    🔁 72    💬 10    📌 7

A bar graph titled "Refusing to use a new name" with y axis labelled "coolness" and x axis items labelled "For a person" (negative coolness), "For a skyscraper or stadium" (very cool), and "For the Gulf of Mexico" (even cooler).

07.04.2025 14:10 — 👍 287    🔁 70    💬 9    📌 3

There is a lot of functionality on IoNA (ichsofna.org) that most people aren´t aware of. Here are a couple of videos explaining what can be done with the filterable galleries.

#Ichneumonidae #Ichneumoninae #biodiversity #JavaScript
#insect #wasp #parasitoid

26.03.2025 03:28 — 👍 22    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

20.03.2025 19:29 — 👍 921    🔁 314    💬 15    📌 13

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

19.02.2025 12:47 — 👍 13160    🔁 2085    💬 588    📌 82

Here are a few of the tens of undescribed Ophion species from the western US. More can be seen on my draft guide page for North American Ophioninae: ichsofna.org/Ophioninae/g...

18.02.2025 15:42 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Plumarius malaris Plumarius malaris from La Rioja, La Rioja Province, Argentina on September 2, 1988 at 04:21 PM by Nathaniel Green. Locality label in images NMDG_HYM_2308 Collected by L. Pena GPS coordinates are...

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

06.02.2025 21:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A lateral image of a pinned wasp in the family Plumariidae.

I've been on Bluesky for a while now, but this is my first post! Here's an image of an uncommon family of wasps from South America, Plumariidae. This is a Plumaris malaris male. Science knows NOTHING about the biology of this group and only a few females have ever been found!

06.02.2025 21:37 — 👍 67    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0