Heather Cray 🌱

@prof_smurph They had to get police to make them evacuate...silliness.

Always a great event! Go learn and explore 🌱🦋🦇🐦🐝🐞🦟🐍!

ERS 341 soil analysis in the @UWEcologyLab! From sample design to collection, analysis to interpretation, the students are gaining some serious skills! #fieldcourse #fieldwork #labskills ☀️

Great day at Sixteen Mile Creek with @ConservHalton learning & participating in stream and wetland restoration #fieldcourse @ers_uw @envwaterloo 🌊🌱☀️

Back from a successful field trip to Wiarton with ERS 341 @ers_uw #fieldcourse

Friday was bug day! We were fortunate to have Dr @JustinGaudon speak about Malaise traps and his conservation+restoration research with @raresites & the students learned their insect orders, ID, and monitoring techniques in the sunshine @ers_uw

@AntoniaGuidotti @Ecology_forlife You may want to net it - sounds silly but all 11 of mine were predated in their last instar!

Off to Cabot Head to teach a 9 day field course! #ecology #teaching 🐍🐝🐦🦇🐿️

No better feeling than when you and your leech bucket feature prominently in University event photos 😂

@Mussel_Michele Bring props! A bust out the amazing lure photos/photos of mussels grabbing the fish's face halfway through when their attention might be drifting.

I'm presenting a talk on #freshwatermussels to the Hamilton Junior Naturalists Club this Friday. I've never really presented to a younger audience before 😲. Any tips on how to keep everyone awake 😴 and engaged 🥳?

The weather held for our benthic invertebrate workshop! Great enthusiasm from our alumni #envwaterloo50 @UWEcologyLab

@GrowShareRepeat @MPRnews I vote for Bombus borealis

@GrowShareRepeat Something in Trichiotinus? I would post to BugGuide 🐞

My birthday gift finally came and not a word of a lie these were the first two goal cards I drew. How could I choose?! #ecology #tallgrassprairie #wingspangame

Pollinator plant sale alert!

Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝 My resident Mason bees have been busy this week - I've seen 5 at a time making themselves at home #Beetweet #pollinator

An entry in my ongoing quest to convince people wasps are awesome 🐝

If not now, when? Today is Endangered Species day AND the last day to submit comments on Ontario's proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act. Submit comments here: ero.ontario.ca/notice/013-5033

On #WorldBeeDay, @savewildbees & @RANalepa of @EnvironmentYork, write about the uncertainty and critical endangerment of wild pollinators, rusty-patched bumblebees, via @ConversationCA. For #HerInformedOps contact Colla @ bit.ly/2KqtO4U. theconversation.com/give-bees-a-ch…

Today was for the birds. Barn Swallow, Green Heron, Tree Swallow #spring2019 #maximumzoom