@maria-duynisveld.bsky.social
Farmer, research student, bug person 🐞 Canada -> Australia PhD student at UTas, co-funded by Landcare Tasmania 🐞 Dalhousie Alum More active on iNat
Creatures of the weekend. We saw thousands of soldier crabs!
07.12.2025 22:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our friend is finishing up his PhD and jetting off to Germany soon. An attempt at German birds for a goodbye card. Germany's a lucky place to be getting him!
06.12.2025 03:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
28.11.2025 09:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Western conifer seed bug, sorry I'm late
25.11.2025 07:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gonna put this on my CV
18.11.2025 22:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Getting used to the new garden. This is today's bounty. Also starting some seeds, planted some raspberries, and dug up a huge Mexican sage :)
The gooseberry will become chutney, beans and chard into a stew, rosemary hung to dry, rhubarb for pie!
Getting to know my new neighbours. And hit 6000 observations on iNat!
23.10.2025 03:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just had a read, really fun concept! I'd love to see islands next time I visit campus :)
17.10.2025 09:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Really pleased with this new paper! We asked campus stakeholders to rate photorealistic images of no-mow landscapes. We found:
At least 70% preferred no-mow over turfgrass.
Support for now-mow was highest in less-familiar areas.
Designs with mown paths always win!
Highlight of my 3-day airport floor sleeping tour is this (sadly invasive) slug on the sidewalk outside IHOP in Hawaii. They're pretty gorgeous.
I've yet to see a native Hawaiian animal on my two 12-hour layovers in the state, but granted I'm mostly at the IHOP while there.
Had a blast with Dad, the Canadian Cattle Association folks, and our lovely MP Alana Hirtle this week. Bit of a blur meeting ministers and also some really cool fellow farmers.
Now on my way back to Tassie!
I stole these photos from the ag minister's account
Fall on the farm - just two weeks until I go chase another summer
01.10.2025 19:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
