Howard Dunleavy

a 100% classic salamander ...... Ensatina and I must say, I enjoy the idea of classic salamanders ..

Respect local fauna !!!! #WV

Wednesdays color in the impoundment is green. Just like every other day in the impoundment!

Last week and this morning handling American oystercatcher chicks and adults on Pea Island NWR to give them some lovely green jewelry! For all the people who ask if I am a game warden when I say I work with FWS

progress report after only 5 days of flooding this impoundment to create desirable habitat and hopefully invite black rail populations to a freshwater marsh rather than their usual salt marsh homes.

one of the coolest experiences of my life happened this morning: I got to watch a mother sea turtle finish laying eggs and return to sea, then i got to relocate that nest and another further away from the high tide line to prevent washout. incredible start to the day!

day 3 on the job: driving gators, and finding one right after clockin out

@donaldorth Thankyou Dr. Orth! Couldn’t be more excited !

Starting Monday I’m a field tech and wildlife biologist for Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in Manteo, NC, and I could not be more excited to spend the next months not only working there but living in the Outer Banks as well. Feels like a tailored opportunity!

This #EndangeredSpeciesDay, let's celebrate conservation success stories big & small – including six wild red wolf pups recently born at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. 🐾 These are the first pups born in the wild since 2018!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to three amazing undergraduate presentations in our climate change vulnerability session! #JASM22 @BenthosNews @sfs_src @jess_mtchell @ashley__cowell @anna_eichert Well done, all!!

Calling all mite people! I have this funky little specimen from my first subterranean pitfall trapping run that I desperately need help identifying. The front legs are very distinct so I was hoping one of you wonderful folks would recognize it!

How funny, males of this butterfly species and I both like to bask while perched in tall grasses on hillsides and mountaintops. Such a great pastime!This is Papilio demodocus, the citrus swallowtail, who migrates to nearby peaks to begin courtship.

A local legend, that to the untrained eye (mine included, full disclosure) looks almost identical to our VA state insect! Papilio appalachiensis, the Appalachian tiger swallowtail, a hybrid species that comes from P. glaucus and P. canadensis.

Another quite sizable Lepidoptera, possibly the largest and most well-preserved underwing moth I’ve come across, the marbled underwing, Catocala marmorata.

Protographium leucaspis, a swallowtail with a substantial wingspan and two observed subspecies; P.l. leucaspsis and P.l. lamidis. The subspecies are most often differentiated by the cell-spots on the forewings

Trilobite beetles. Rotting wood can look like such an alien world after the rain.

Quiet day out, except for the sighting of another of these tiny red nugget wasps. ❤️ (encyrtidae sp)

One of many many remarkable Papilionids in the VTEC, the South American Swallowtail, Eurytides Stenodesmus. This one was collected by Ellison Smyth in Mexico!