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Michael Palmer
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Retired botanist but doing #entomology on a wildfire impacted landscape in Oregon. INaturalist Ambassador. INaturalist handle @cosmopterix
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 1h
The other half is coming out of the wall in the adjoining room
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 1h
Thanks! We are always trying to find a use for ours, beyond quince syrup. This year we are lightly candying and dehydrating some in hopes they can be a citron substitute for fruit cake
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 1h
Do you wait until the quince turns fully yellow?
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 1d
I have been really finding Discord useful for niche science stuff.
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 2d
6-7 days is peak, to my taste
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 3d
Or, “we hire ecologists so that they can teach intro courses”
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 5d
I won't be attending the Entomological Society Meeting in Portland, but I might drive up for a day to bring bugs to several people (if the cost of driving is < postage). If any of you can use insects in EtOH from Oregon, and which I might have (see www.inaturalist.org/projects/mck...) let me know!
McKenzie Valley Bug Lab
McKenzie Valley Bug Lab organisms. Please contact me to join the lab&#39;s Discord Server! Let me know whether you would like to visit, collect, stay, or search for particular taxa.
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 5d
Blackflies are more colorful than the vernacular name implies. www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#bugsky #diptera #insects
Common Blackflies (Genus Simulium)
Common Blackflies from Lane County, OR, USA on October 28, 2025 at 05:04 PM by Mike Palmer. visiting parsley flwoers. 8776
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 6d
I have quite a few semi double fuchsias. They don’t look like the single fuchsias though.
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 6d
Diptera: hold my beer
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 9d
With no complaints from the rest of us
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 13d
Ok, thanks! We just picked the last of our jalapeños and am eager to get started.
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 14d
torymids excel in structural colors. #wasps #bugsky
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Subfamily Toryminae
Toryminae from Lane County, OR, USA on October 19, 2025 at 04:40 PM by Mike Palmer. Caught in red wine trap near intermittent stream. 8759
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 14d
The annual home invasion begins!
#coleoptera I particularly like the vernacular name “halloween beetle”
Because that’s when they start appearing by the thousands
Multicolor lady beetles congregate in corner
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 14d
How long do you ferment prior to making salsa?
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 15d
#fermentation
One of my favorite and well used kitchen gadgets is this inherited antique cabbage mandolin for sauerkraut
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 15d
The parallel parking was so full that by the end, there was parking for ten ants only
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 17d
“Many have deemed”
can be shortened to “is”
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 18d
Thank you!
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 18d
Thanks! Although I am in the land of dense leaf litter, our land was so highly burnt that we have very little above our mineral soil now.
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 18d
A picture of some dirt. Litter Critter Getters, does anyone have any experience with flotation extraction of soil arthropods that doesn’t use centrifuges or chemicals harsher than epsom salts and soap? I am interested in expanding my limited repertoire of techniques.
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 19d
My spider senses are tingling
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 19d
Ok, thanks! It looks like you have early successes, and good luck with further development!
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 19d
I have seen the footage of the brutality by which she was taking down and thrown on to the mud. The cruelty seems to be the point.
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Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social · 19d
Where can I learn more about these traps?
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