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: https://t.co/MRRBynkidH @CCNY_Science @CUNYEEB @GradCenterBio

New paper out on the systematics of the Dark Purple Azure butterflies 🥰 https://t.co/xq1ZEy3bs2

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

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.

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!

After ~7 yr of work, it's finally out! We present a molecular phylogeny of butterflies sampling >90% of genera & >2000 spp. Butterflies emerged ~100 million yr ago in North America and first fed on legumes. Thanks to all 87 co-authors from 28 countries! https://t.co/fY5igGzuji

Checking the pasque flower and other natives we’ve planted for early season pollinators… it’s the best when I need a break from prepping my defense slide deck. Love these little ones out at the farm.

I am defending my PhD next Friday, May 5 at 12PM CT! Tune in to hear about butterfly conservation on working and protected grasslands 🦋 DM me for the link.

Pasque flower blooming in my garden of native wildflowers today ✨ got these from @DustinDemmer a couple years back, thanks Dustin!

Are you Indigenous and an entomologist or interested in entomology? Our working group is starting up meetings again! Send me a DM or email and I’ll give you all the info! ☺️🪲✨🌈🐝

Visiting beautiful Kenya for our honeymoon and stumbled upon this Painted Ringlet (Aphysoneura pigmentaria) playing peekaboo in the bamboo forest under Mt. Kenya. Its caterpillars feed on bamboo.

I grew my own wedding flowers ☺️

Field work for my PhD is FINISHED! 🦋🐮🎉 Read a little blog post I wrote about my summers surveying butterflies and pastures here:

Twitter fam, thank you for helping me to find the family of the 9 year old girl from NJ who had the police called on her by her neighbor for collecting lantern flies. I connected with them & invited them to @yale for a Black girl led Science Tour! Yesterday—HISTORY was MADE (1/)

Come and work with us at the @GrattonLab!🦋🐝🐮

New paper is out! By @anapscarvalho and others - new phylogeny of butterfly family Pieridae (whites and sulphurs) showing diversification is correlated with global temperature @FloridaMuseum https://t.co/N01ywQs2rp