Christine O. she/her

It's bat week!

PS. Luftansa wins worst food, not ever, but that was iron curtain Aeroflot (USSR) in 1985 with pink chicken... so the EVER bar is gutter low.

Coffee, air conditioning and... ZOMBIES with your cocktails?????
Stay weird #Prague....

Always boop the snoot!
#Prague hedgehogs 💕

No itty bitty kitty...you can't come too!

Giggleworthy spineless name list... I Am In!
#invertefest

I hope your family groupchat is as awesome as mine ;)

Excited anticipation!

I would like credit for not buying myself o whole colony of Danish stick insect stuffies please...

Dutch kitty knows how to spend a hot afternoon....

Should I worry that this is down the hall in my hotel?

Currently on the tour de train detour of the Netherlands to get to Belgium as there was a train tunnel collapse on our easy route.
NOW IT IS AN ADVENTURE!

Cone Europe they said, it'll be fun they said, so cultured they said....
NO ONE SAID THERE WAS PLAGUE IN THE STREETS IN OLD LEIDEN 🤪

The things you find when you go random exploring....

Dutch markets on a Saturday morning... sigh.... breathe in ...

So..... guess where I am, exploring #engineering and #architecture ?
(wrong answers only) 😉

This is totally my kind of human <grin>
It might be me, when it is insects, maybe more than it should?
....nah ;)

Male stick insect hatches from all-female colony at Science World in 'extremely rare' event Experts wonder if glitch in cloning process led to production of a male insect.

So....some days at work are stranger than others?
vancouversun.com/news/rare-ma... Male stick insect hatched from all-female colony in Science World | Vancouver Sun

On the mic from Centre Stage during a show at work today...

"So how did I do that?
What? You think I have magic powers?
Nah, I have the next best thing, I'M A SCIENTIST!"

I need to find out how to say "I came, I shed, I conquered" in latin and make tiny T-shirts for my cats.

Some things make me UNREASONABLY HAPPY!

So where did your brain go last night?
In my dream I started by losing my phone and ended up at a fundraiser for bat conservation in the Roman Coliseum ... all from asking a stranger for directions.
Dreams are HIGHLY entertaining...

a shiny metallic green sweat bee on white yarrow flowers

a chonky, pollen hauling in flight digger bee hovering in front of a pink red flowering currant flower

a fuzzy bee covered in pollen on top of the cone part of a cone flower

a hovering mason bee with a pollen hat and booties in front of a yellow flower

I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives.

So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!

#Invertebrates

Yes, yes I did just escort a clutch of Canada Geese goslings and their parents across the road saying "Yes, yes I know it's a crosswalk but speed it up, go faster!"
Sigh.... baby feathered dinosaur season is exhausting in Vancouver!

I have learned today that A LOT of game developers are #entomology nerds too... is it cuz of the computer bugs?
🤷🏼‍♀️💕

Not that he has told us.... so I won't speak for him but if so his wardrobe choice is <insert chef's kiss>

My bestie uses niblings for all of them 🤣

Update on "Larry the Leaf insect". Our local Uni which shares a similar species colony has never seen a spontaneous male from a parthenogenic colony in a least a decade of rearing.
Larry is an icon! 🤣

Soooo.... our parthenogenic female phasmid colony just produced a male by cloning. An #Extasoma tiaratum.
Like dude, you are supposed to be IMPOSSIBLE!
Deletion of a sex chromosome maybe 🤷🏼‍♀️
Any ideas #entomology folks?

When your day started rathe spikey.... and your boss just knew your desk nudibranch needed a lilac flower hat 🥰