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  1. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering 🧵

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/142

    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt

  2. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering 🧵

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/142

    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt

  3. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering 🧵

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/142

    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt

  4. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering 🧵

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/142

    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt

  5. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering 🧵

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/142

    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt

  6. Why are some people #mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging
    It's not a misconception -- mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others," Frederic Simard of France's Institute of Research for Development told AFP. "But we are not all magnets all the time," the medical #entomologist added.
    A range of sensory cues can cause #mosquitoes to pick one human over another—mainly the smell and heat our bodies give off, and the carbon dioxide we exhale.
    phys.org/news/2026-05-people-m

  7. Why are some people #mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging
    It's not a misconception -- mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others," Frederic Simard of France's Institute of Research for Development told AFP. "But we are not all magnets all the time," the medical #entomologist added.
    A range of sensory cues can cause #mosquitoes to pick one human over another—mainly the smell and heat our bodies give off, and the carbon dioxide we exhale.
    phys.org/news/2026-05-people-m

  8. Why are some people magnets? Clues are emerging
    It's not a misconception -- mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others," Frederic Simard of France's Institute of Research for Development told AFP. "But we are not all magnets all the time," the medical added.
    A range of sensory cues can cause to pick one human over another—mainly the smell and heat our bodies give off, and the carbon dioxide we exhale.
    phys.org/news/2026-05-people-m

  9. Why are some people #mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging
    It's not a misconception -- mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others," Frederic Simard of France's Institute of Research for Development told AFP. "But we are not all magnets all the time," the medical #entomologist added.
    A range of sensory cues can cause #mosquitoes to pick one human over another—mainly the smell and heat our bodies give off, and the carbon dioxide we exhale.
    phys.org/news/2026-05-people-m

  10. Why are some people #mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging
    It's not a misconception -- mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others," Frederic Simard of France's Institute of Research for Development told AFP. "But we are not all magnets all the time," the medical #entomologist added.
    A range of sensory cues can cause #mosquitoes to pick one human over another—mainly the smell and heat our bodies give off, and the carbon dioxide we exhale.
    phys.org/news/2026-05-people-m

  11. Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed”.⁠
    ⁠🧵1/
    #printmaking #sciart #histsci

  12. Seven #Ticks Hitched Very Long Rides to #Connecticut
    Nonnative species from #Europe, #LatinAmerica and Eastern #Africa reached the #US by latching on to travelers, offering clues about how ticks spread in a warming world.
    "Main finding is that we are facing an increasing risk of invasive ticks in the United States,” said Goudarz Molaei, author and #entomologist. He added rate of unintentional introductions of nonnative species appears to be rising
    nytimes.com/2025/08/08/science
    archive.ph/mu97W

  13. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimens 🧵

    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt

  14. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimens 🧵

    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt

  15. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimens 🧵

    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt

  16. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimens 🧵

    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt

  17. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimens 🧵

    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt

  18. Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed”.⁠ 🧵

    #printmaking #linocut #sciart #MastoArt

  19. In "The Raid on the Termites" (Paul Ernst, 1932), an #entomologist daydreams about being shrunk to ant-size and exploring a #termite mound. His friend finds the notion of being “suddenly confronted by a thing as big as a horse, with fifteen-foot jaws of steely horn that could slice [him] in two” exciting. Jim imagines writing a book:

      “What a book of travel it would make! ‘The Raid on the Termites. Exploring an Insect Hell. Death in an Ant-hill…’”
      “Termitary! Termitary!” corrected Denny irritably.

    Doing a long press on the word, what sayeth Wiktionary in #koReader?

    _Termitary: an anthill built and occupied by termites._

    #words #vocabulary #termites #insects

  20. Hey #Entomologist types, I just got to my place in the Sonoran Desert and am kind of surprised that there are virtually no insects around the porch light. I expected it to be swarming this time of year. The monsoon has been hit or miss around here so there are patches of greenery but overall the desert is fairly brown. I'm guessing this might be why?

    #Entomology #Insects #Bugs #SonoranDesert

  21. My 1.5 y/o daughter has this ritual when she finds a piece of debris. First she picks it up, then carefully tastes it, and if deemed inedible gives it to me. This weekend she did this and when I looked at it with her, I told her it was a scarab beetle. Immediately she leaned in, gave it a kiss, and went back to playing. Future #entomologist maybe?

  22. My fondest memory from this weekend was seeing how fascinated and careful my 1.5 year old daughter was with a Forest Tent Caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria). She kissed it on the head 3 times and pet it so gently (most times petting my arm 2 cm away from the larva). #entomologist #lepidoptera

  23. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵
    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histstm

  24. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵
    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histstm

  25. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵
    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histstm

  26. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵
    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histstm

  27. Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

    Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵
    #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histstm

  28. Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, "I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed".⁠

    🧵1/n
    #printmaking #sciArt #MastoArt #histsci

  29. What kind of #moth is this? Need some #entomology tips here, please share, need to find #entomologist fedi.

    Location - midwest USA.

  30. Do we have any #Danish speaking natural #science enthusiasts in the hus? I'm looking for help identifying which term in this sentence (from #entomologist J.C. Schiodte) could have been translated by "accommodated," as well as what a more direct translation of said Danish term would be.

    (Bonus factoid for your troubles: Darwin cites this sentence from Schiodte in the Origin.)

    Please boost if you have Danish contacts. Tak allesammen! 🙂

    @biology

  31. @rodbotic

    Great photography! I don't have the patience to do 15 macro shots to get one beautiful picture like this, so my macro output tends to look like the paper-thin-focus-plane smeared out to infinity in both directions.

    The #bug looks like a #spider #mite to me, but I'm no #expert.

    #entomology #entomologist

  32. Man is defined not by what he creates , but what he chooses not to destroy. Edward O. Wilson #entomologist #montreal #botanicalgardens

  33. Yesterday, I was stung multiple times on the face by wasps after accidentally disturbing a nest in a wooded area. It's not the first time I've been stung by anything - I grew up in Australia. But now the area feels bruised and got me wondering how the toxin causes bruising. Any #entomologist here with an answer? #science #insecta #insects #InsectsOfTheFediverse #toxins

  34. Been creating and expanding the #Wikidata item for the #entomologist and #ScientificIllustrator Bertha Sarah Kimball Dickens. She's regarded as being one of Kansas State's foremost scientific illustrators and yet isn't in many databases. She was employed by #KansasStateUniversity. wikidata.org/wiki/Q122222581 #LOD

  35. Been creating and expanding the #Wikidata item for the #entomologist and #ScientificIllustrator Bertha Sarah Kimball Dickens. She's regarded as being one of Kansas State's foremost scientific illustrators and yet isn't in many databases. She was employed by #KansasStateUniversity. wikidata.org/wiki/Q122222581 #LOD

  36. Been creating and expanding the #Wikidata item for the #entomologist and #ScientificIllustrator Bertha Sarah Kimball Dickens. She's regarded as being one of Kansas State's foremost scientific illustrators and yet isn't in many databases. She was employed by #KansasStateUniversity. wikidata.org/wiki/Q122222581 #LOD

  37. Been creating and expanding the #Wikidata item for the #entomologist and #ScientificIllustrator Bertha Sarah Kimball Dickens. She's regarded as being one of Kansas State's foremost scientific illustrators and yet isn't in many databases. She was employed by #KansasStateUniversity. wikidata.org/wiki/Q122222581 #LOD

  38. Been creating and expanding the #Wikidata item for the #entomologist and #ScientificIllustrator Bertha Sarah Kimball Dickens. She's regarded as being one of Kansas State's foremost scientific illustrators and yet isn't in many databases. She was employed by #KansasStateUniversity. wikidata.org/wiki/Q122222581 #LOD