Isa Betancourt

Tomorrow we are hiking to a waterfall in the cloud forest. It is a half hour hike to the waterfall but they are giving us four hours for the hike because… well, bugs! Iykyk
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Camera flipped and it’s me, @beetlequeen.bsky.social and @arthropodabbey.bsky.social on the other side!
#CricketCourse

Thanks! We are at a station by the Children’s Eternal Rainforest

The classroom! With Dr. Hojun Song getting us oriented. 🇨🇷🦗
We will be learning Ensifera (katydid and cricket) phylogeny, behavior, morphology, and acoustics this week.
#CricketCourse

Isa smiling at the camera and pointing to a “welcome to Costa Rica” tourism sign that is in the background.

Greetings from Costa Rica!
I made it through immigration and customs. I am now on the group bus and headed to the field station with the 13 other students and our lead instructor for this cricket and katydid course.

I’m headed to Costa Rica for a cricket course!
No not the sport but the insect!
Can’t wait. I’ll bring you along - posting tidbits, encounters, and updates here in BlueSky :)
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Nice job!

I was happily surprised by this one though at first I wasn’t sure if it might mean computer code buggy!

Play Strands, our newest word-search game with a twist. Find hidden words and uncover the day’s theme.

My friends, you must do the @nytimes.com’s Strands game today (Thursday May 29)
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www.nytimes.com/games/strands

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ML633750074 - Spotted Towhee - Macaulay Library Macaulay Library ML633750074; © Laura Macky; Contra Costa, California, United States

Hey look, @isabetabug.bsky.social - it's a picture of me and you! 🤗👯

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#buggirl #birdgirl #naturesky

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Check it out @isabetabug.bsky.social

Thanks! I just noticed you are with ASU too. Are you here in Tempe?

Thanks Leocadio! What ethanol percentage and do you care if it is denatured or undenatured?

📢 JOB KLAXON!

The Yale Peabody Museum is hiring a permanent, full-time Museum Assistant in #Entomology 🦋

Full details & how to apply: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

#EntoJobs #InsectCollections

@blancobercial.bsky.social hi! Are you familiar with freshwater zooplankton archival collection practices?

@elizabethbeston.bsky.social hi! Are you familiar with zooplankton archival preservation practices?

What a wonderfully diverse chorus

Three fuzzy caterpillars - blue with a brown stripe down the back - rest on a their silky tent in the branches on a young tree. A lake with large rocky banks is in the background of the picture.

Southwestern tent caterpillar sighting in Prescott, AZ! Happy spring :)

Tent caterpillars have a special place in my heart. As kids, @ileanabeta.bsky.social & I ran around our suburban backyard in the spring, collecting the caterpillars as if we were on an Easter egg hunt.

PSA: They are native!

Or know someone who knows someone who does?

Or know someone who does?

Anyone here know about archival zooplankton storage? #help

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The #scicomm group COMPASS is offering a free communication workshop on April 2 for current or former government workers - federal, state, and local levels www.compassscicomm.org/event/sharin...

Parental care -
A watchful mama keeps an eye on little one as they both rest and feed on an oak tree branch. She will ward off predators who seek to snatch up her children for lunch.
Bonus: You can see slits in the bark of the branch where the tree hopper mama (Platycotis vittata) laid eggs!

We started an account for the natural history collections at Arizona State University ☺️☀️🔱

I had so much fun taking photos of my colleagues at the @asubiocollections.bsky.social last week.

Here is Sangmi Lee, ASU Hasbrouck Insect Collection Manager. She poses with her study species -Gelechiidae - the twirler moths.🦋✨

I made it to my first NatGeo Live event the other day. Dr Heather Lynch shared her work & experiences with studying penguins in Antarctica. It was great!
It got me brainstorming how I might craft an insect show to join the NatGeo Live circuit.
My mission is to get more insects on the big screen!✨🙌🪲

Aww feel better, Sarah!!

Woman standing on a stool in an entomology archival space. She is pointing a camera towards a young lady who is holding container with pinned insects and who stands between open metal cabinets of insect drawers.

Behind the scenes shot of me taking pictures of my colleagues and the students at the ASU Biocollections. We are building our digital assets for our website and social media!

📷 picture cred: Evan Waite🪲

I feel this 🥴

So many for the bird to choose from!