Dr. Solomon David

Fish on that shirt is a Blue Sucker! Truly awesome freshwater fish, the “shark version” of a sucker (family Catostomidae); streamlined and fast for living in faster-moving sections of rivers!

Newspaper story on bowfin, an underappreciated freshwater fish species.

Here’s the bowfin article in print!
Thanks Roy Heilman of the Mankato Free Press for the story on these underappreciated native fish!

Heilman: Bowfin fishing, research leads to new discoveries Well, the native fish folks are at it again, stirring the pot and doing weird stuff in public. They’re relentless like that—but in a good way.

"Part of what we're doing here today is working with citizen scientist anglers who know how to catch these fish, and get samples that will contribute to our data to better understand these populations, their ecology, life history.”
www.mankatofreepress.com/sports/local... @garlab.bsky.social

Stylized/cartoony drawing of a sea fish with a slightly dismayed expression; text says “Life is but a bream.”

For #SundayFishSketch
🐡

a pixel art of a spotted gar, a freshwater fish with a long snout, green background

spotted gar
🏷️ #fish #fishart #digitalart #pixelart #art #animalart #gar #cuteart

We had another luna moth visitor today. 🩵

A closeup photo, ground level, looking into the face of a spider atop a dark brown, decaying leaf. The spider is overall mottled brown, with a wide white band on one segment of each of the first two pairs of legs. It also has a white side border to the cephalothorax, and although the abdomen is out of focus, it's obviously more of an orange color than the rest of the body.

Here is your Sunday Spider, Sporting Socks. I think it's Ancylometes sp. (per iNat, A. bogotensis). As of 2025 it's in a brand new spider family, Ancylometidae. It was big (1.5"+ body length). I saw it by a stream; these spiders are semi-aquatic and can stay underwater for an hour. (Costa Rica) 🐙🌿🕷️

Boat-Free Bowfishing: Simple Strategies to Help You Skewer More Rough Fish A few weeks ago, I drove out to a local reservoir for an afternoon of fossil hunting. My route took me across the reservoir’s outlet, where a few fishermen were posted up with catfish rigs. For curios...

DO BETTER MeatEater.

They historically promote responsible hunting, angling, and natural resource stewardship, but this bowfishing article is a step backwards.

Why encourage excess harvest? Also invasive carp and native gar shouldn’t be in same category! www.themeateater.com/fish/general...

Photograph of a reddish brown wasp with dark wings and scant yellow trim face-down in a spire of goldenrod, against a blue sky with some blurry trees in the background. At lower left sits a small, well-camouflaged green bug with stout raptorial forelegs, nearly straddling the hind tarsus of the wasp.

A favorite bug photo from last summer. Yes, it's a Polistes fuscatus wasp on goldenrod, but if you look long enough, you'll see another insect. (Indiana Dunes National Park)

A fish scientist holds a large predatory fish (Alligator Gar) with the text “a gargantuan thank you!” next to them.

GARgantuan thank you for your native fish SciComm!

@solomonrdavid.bsky.social The other day one of my friends was talking about how scary and terrible gar are and even though I only know you over this here website, I could hear you screaming. I set her straight, don't worry.

Honestly, there need to be limits for bowfishing just like every other method that results in a "take". It's responsible conservatiom and we as outdoorsmen/outdoorswomen are conservationists FIRST.

Boat-Free Bowfishing: Simple Strategies to Help You Skewer More Rough Fish A few weeks ago, I drove out to a local reservoir for an afternoon of fossil hunting. My route took me across the reservoir’s outlet, where a few fishermen were posted up with catfish rigs. For curios...

DO BETTER MeatEater.

They historically promote responsible hunting, angling, and natural resource stewardship, but this bowfishing article is a step backwards.

Why encourage excess harvest? Also invasive carp and native gar shouldn’t be in same category! www.themeateater.com/fish/general...

A picture of an aquarium sign featuring scientist Solomon David holding up a fish and smiling to camera, with a quote from him about whitefish beneath the picture

And there's Solomon lol

Gar! Looking super pretty in a tank of green plants, great rocks, and white pebbles

Ayyyyyy there are the gar : )

Me, smiling to camera in front of a reef tank

The entrance to Shedd Aquarium: a tan stone building with a fountain out front made from a person holding a fish

Yay yay it's an aquarium day!! I fed a stingray this morning and I've never fed a stingray before and I am so so happy

@solomonrdavid.bsky.social thinking of you real hard today. Yay fish!

Bow of a canoe and a marsh

It might be hot and sunny but at least I'm in a canoe!

A digital drawing of an alligator gar

A fish for drawafish.com
Just a little alligator gar. I think they're cute.
#digitalart #doodle #drawafish #alligatorgar #sketch #scribble

What to do when wasps crash your picnic – a scientist’s guide to dining safely with these insects Did you know wasps switch from ham to jam foraging during the late summer?

It's a bumper-wasp year: here are my top tips on how to dine alongside wasps, without getting stung.

GET INVOLVED! Tell us what wasps want at YOUR picnic: www.sumnerlab.co.uk/wasp-picnic-...

theconversation.com/what-to-do-w...

@uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com

Great little video.
Slowly, death sneaks up, lol.

<Music from Jaws intensifies>

"I heral—" [CHOMP]

I herald FINtastic Four’s Silver Cyprinid & Garlactus…

An illustration of an Oarfish swimming through deep water. The fish is dramatically lit from the top right side, its back and fins almost glowing in contrast to the dark blue background. Debris floats through the water.

An older illustration of an Oarfish for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

A mummichog, a small killifish that lives off the east coast of Canada in the Atlantic Ocean.

#SundayFishSketch

Colored pencil drawing of a blue tang fish (more commonly known as Dori)

Day 27 of drawing a fish a day and coming up with a new fish off of the top of my head is getting more challenging 😅 #SundayFishSketch

BUT THE GARS!!!! cc @solomonrdavid.bsky.social

Girl Meets Turtle

@solomonrdavid.bsky.social
Could this thing have been inspired on gars???
Fishy @pareidolia.bsky.social

[bow]FINtastic #GARtwork!!!