Rachel L. Walsh

Leveraging Climate and Genomic Data to Support At-Risk Butterfly Conservation; Monday, February 23rd, 1:55pm-2:45pm

I’m giving a seminar talk on my Ph.D. work for #UFSNRE tomorrow afternoon! Check it out: bit.ly/SNRE-Butterfly

This year at #EntSoc25, I was honored to win an award for a talk I gave on my birthday 🎂, along with three of my talented labmates at the McGuire Center! 🦋 🙌

Thanks to @entsocamerica.bsky.social & @floridamuseum.bsky.social for the support & recognition! 🙏

Thank you to all our speakers from @floridamuseum.bsky.social, @uconn.bsky.social, @dinalab.bsky.social, @xercessociety.bsky.social, @biologicaldiversity.org & Lewis-Burke Associates!

Make sure to follow them & @entsocamerica.bsky.social for more ways to get engaged with insect conservation! 🪲

Excited to wrap up a successful conservation policy symposium at #EntSoc25!

Takeaways:
✍️ Make public comments
📍 Get involved at state & local levels
🗣️ Practice sharing science with family & friends
🦋 Highlight wonder inspired by charismatic species
🤝 Focus on our common humanity

Keep persisting!

We're very excited to be joined by speakers representing @floridamuseum.bsky.social, @dinalab.bsky.social, @xercessociety.bsky.social, @biologicaldiversity.org, & Lewis-Burke Associates! Hope you'll join us in Portland on Nov 11th!

Advocating for Insect Conservation within a Changing Political Landscape; Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting; Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 251, OCC; Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | 2:00pm-5:15pm PST; SysEB Section Symposium; Introductory Remarks (15 min); 2:00-2:15pm; Vaughn Shirey, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida; Dave Wagner, University of Connecticut; From Droppings to Data: eDNA Metabarcoding for Use in Insect Monitoring (30 min); 2:15pm-2:45pm; Lillian Hendrick, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida; Mothbox: Open Source, Low Cost, Insect Monitoring at Scale (30 min); 2:45pm-3:15pm; Andy Quitmeyer, Digital Naturalism Laboratories; The Xerces Society's Evidence-Based Approach to Advancing Protection and Conservation of Endangered Invertebrates (30 min); 3:15pm-3:45pm; Rich Hatfield, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation; Break: 3:45-3:55pm (10 min); Panel: How Entomologists Can Engage with Science Policy Today; 3:55pm-5:10pm (5 min intro per panelist, 55 min discussion); Dominique Carter (moderator), Lewis-Burke Associates LLC; Kevin Burls, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation; Sarina Jepson, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation; Jess Tyler, Center for Biological Diversity; Closing Remarks (5 min); 5:10pm-5:15pm; Vaughn Shirey, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida; Dave Wagner, University of Connecticut

Make sure to check out our science & conservation policy symposium at the upcoming ESA meeting! We've got a great lineup of speakers focusing on new methods for insect biodiversity monitoring & how entomologists can engage w/ policymaking. Join us! @entsocamerica.bsky.social bit.ly/SysEBPolicyS...

Thank you @oacevedocharry.bsky.social! Also great talk on using state-space models to estimate extinction risk from community science data, with promising results from a case study on the endangered Everglade snail kite.

I recommend checking out their paper! doi-org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1111/1365...

Excited to be presenting my work on ESA listing and research effort for U.S butterflies tomorrow at the UF SNRE Symposium, along with several other talented graduate students & faculty! snre.ifas.ufl.edu/news-and-eve...

Tune in TOMORROW for the "Insect Rally" to support the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, w/ National Wildlife Federation Action Fund (@wildlifeaction.bsky.social), Xerces Society, and Entomological Society of America. ⬇️

Protecting rare butterflies of Florida’s pine flats and prairies The Loammi skipper (Atrytonopsis loammi) is a small, wedge-shaped butterfly with stubby antennas and bulbous black eyes in a fuzzy face. It once lived throughout a good deal of the Southeastern U.S. b...

Check out this blog post by @floridamuseum.bsky.social about my summer fieldwork studying the Loammi skipper. Thanks to the FLMNH outreach team, everyone who helped me in the field and lab & to my funders! #FloridaMuseum #DisneyConserves #UFSNRE 🦋🌾

Had so much fun pinning butterflies & moths with kids and playing with katydids at a recent @FloridaMuseum outreach event! #ScienceComm 🦋🐛

This is what hurricane prep looks like at the Butterfly Rainforest 🦋🌀@FloridaMuseum @swamphiker @UFEntNem @UFBiology

Happy #WomenInScienceDay! Had a great day w/ @JCDanielsLab doing science activities with young future scientists @FloridaMuseum!