Skye Bruce

I was interviewed in this article on monarchs in @PopSci and our paper is referenced! It feels really special to be quoted in a magazine I read as a little kid. TLDR: you should plant native milkweed and flowers to help monarchs 🌱🌼🦋

Picked up these native plants today from @DustinDemmer! Very excited to put all these species in the ground but I think I’m most enthralled with the hoary puccoon, one of which is already flowering. Couldn’t resist woodland phlox and New Jersey tea. Bonus: Indian paintbrush! ☺️🌱

Entomology hive mind: can anyone recommend a field guide to butterflies of Korea (preferably in English but not necessarily)? 🦋📚

🦋 First butterfly of the season today in Southern Wisconsin! An eastern comma. Bonus pink-spotted lady beetle from yesterday. Pretty dang early to be seeing these critters out and about!

Our paper on Delias evolution and biogeography is out! Island-hopping helped spur diversification in this genus of ~250 species. Thanks to 22 co-authors from 12 countries. Download freely here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iewp3m3nNE2… @CCNY_Science @CUNYEEB @GradCenterBio

@nataliealund @USNavy Thanks for your article, but I found an error. You stated that “In late August 2021, five sailors died after a MH-60R crashed in the same waters due to a mechanical failure” but this previous crash was in an MH-60S, a different helicopter model. Can you please correct?

I like a happy ending. @USNavy helicopter crashes in San Diego Bay, all 6 people on board miraculously survive: usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

New paper out on the systematics of the Dark Purple Azure butterflies 🥰 researchgate.net/publication/37…

@jdsicily1898 None!

@lepidopterlst Now how much in student loans do you have to pay back?

Graduated with my PhD in entomology! Ya girl is a doctor of butterfly science 🦋

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@freschly_snipes Kinda wish more people knew this was a thing 😔 it changed my world when I found out graduate students can get paid to go to grad school

@freschly_snipes Oh no, I was paid to go to graduate school! entomology.wisc.edu/graduate-study…

Of all things to spend your money on…you decide to spend on a PhD in butterfly science 🥴

@FOGettabout_it Thank you Hen 🤗

@lepidopterlst This is the cutest photo I have ever seen. CONGRATS 🎉

@miq2501 Thanks! It’s a cool mural. The monarch was the focal species for two of my dissertation chapters

@lepidopterlst Love the monarch wings painted on the wall.

@anh_bugs Thank you Anh!!

@lepidopterlst Congratulations!!! And what a perfect backdrop too!

@MMeyncke YES 👏🏼 love this. Keep up the good work! 🦋

@lepidopterlst How cool! I'm working on putting Butterfly Gardens INSIDE City Parks. Here in southern California, the water issue is huge. Water districts are offering rebates for turf removal projects! It's perfect timing. Go butterflies!

Hi twitter community, heads up, I’m now on Threads! Follow for more 🦋BUTTERFLY SCIENCE🦋 on there. Not leaving this bird app entirely quite yet, but excited for the potential that Threads holds. @lepidopterist" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.net/@lepidopterist

@dendromecon27 Your ID is correct! Pandora moth. And the wings aren’t deformed, they are just in the process of inflating. bugguide.net/node/view/4506…

@jtvannatta So cool! Not collecting any data on this per say, but someone should

@lepidopterlst Hi Skye, I am located West of Minneapolis and caught this one the other day. The kids and I like to catch, ID, and release! Not sure if you are collected data on this but let me know if you want more info!

A very interesting (transitional?) dark morph tiger swallowtail found in our vegetable tunnels today. I’ve seen dark morph tigers before but never one quite like this!

@Hanliconius It’s been a somewhat “normal” spring for SW Wisconsin. We had some warm temps in April followed by cold-ish, and it started heating up a couple of weeks ago.

@lepidopterlst Was it cold where you are a couple of weeks ago? I think you can see this sometimes with cold shock!