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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋
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Alie Kratzer | Engineer + Scientist + Entrepreneur + Author | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ she/her
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I've been told that it's #InsectWeek and that I should plug my work.

I'm so bad at marketing... Uhhhhh... Buy my books...!

www.owlflyllc.com/publishing
The true meaning of lesbianism is being late to work because you spent the whole morning laying in bed making each other laugh with silly voices
February 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
It happened again. I swear I'm not even trying to study them right now
February 2, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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#InvertebrateParenthood
One of my favorite encounters ever, this lovely Hamataliwa helia mum, and some of her newly-hatched miniatures at her feet 🥹
February 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Does otherkin have a symbol like therian does
February 1, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Pillowtalk
February 1, 2026 at 4:38 AM
If you are an older male taxonomist who laments that your field is dying: maybe don't jump at any opportunity to humiliate a younger researcher just because she disagrees with your hypotheses.
February 1, 2026 at 3:05 AM
My subconscious is not immune to attractive bisexual Canadian women. 😔
January 31, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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It has now been four years
January 29, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Five jobs I've had:

Mechanical Engineer
Entomologist / Arachnologist
Author / Illustrator
Entrepreneur
Summer Camp Counselor
Five jobs I’ve had:

Babysitter
Art teacher
High school art teacher
Portrait artist
Insect artist
Five jobs I've had:

Librarian
Busboy
English as a Foreign Language teacher
Bookseller
Custodian at a TJ Maxx (my first real job and the only one I've been fired from)
January 29, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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🌟"PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE I DON'T WANT TO BE A MAGICAL GIRL" EPISODE 2 🌟
"I Want to be a Normal Girl"

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31ST @ 11AM PST!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 28, 2026 at 8:30 AM
What real-life animal (living or prehistoric) do you think best embodies the Autism Creature meme?
January 27, 2026 at 1:15 AM
I've spent so long studying wasps that I keep saying "Polistes" when I mean "Papilio". "Polistes multicaudata" would be, uh... a little intimidating.
January 26, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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so don't get too comfortable.

#art
January 24, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Stand up, fight back.
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Travel does broaden your mind! I didn’t know honey wasps existed until I found a wasp nest in Kabah, Yucatán Peninsula & had the species identified by @humanbyweight.bsky.social on @inaturalist.bsky.social . (Btw Alie’s book has a lot of cool info on these wasps.)
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Mexican Honey Wasp (Brachygastra mellifica)
Mexican Honey Wasp from Zona Arqueológica Kabáh, Santa Elena, Yuc., MX on January 19, 2026 at 01:49 PM by Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe. Kabah, Yucatán, Mexico. Active spherical wasp nest in tree o...
www.inaturalist.org
January 24, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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i left the church and have nothing to do with it anymore but something happens when i see priests and pastors and rabbis and imams and sikhs at protests going so hard in mega harsh conditions i get choked up. this is how all of that is supposed to be. that's what all of that is supposed to be for.
January 23, 2026 at 6:01 PM
UPDATE for WIDOW SPIDERS OF THE WORLD:

The book is essentially done but I'm waiting to launch preorders until the huge Latrodectus revision is published. That part is out of my hands, so I don't have a specific date for book launch just yet. Thank you all for your patience!

tl;dr book soon. 🕷️
January 23, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I opened my copy of The Cicadas of North America on a whim today and was pleasantly surprised by how good it is.

I should go back and read my own work more often. 😂
January 23, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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January 22, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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🦕 Prehistoric buddies! 🦖

A new drop just in time for my bday today, shares would be deeply appreciated 🙏

wallpapers + more 🔗👇
January 20, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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How to get into nature.
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Ahhh, time to relax in bed after another difficult day being trans in 2020s America.

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January 20, 2026 at 2:23 AM
I T B E G I N S
January 18, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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“You don’t seem autistic.”

And you don’t seem like someone I can unmask around.
January 18, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Can YOU guess what my next field guide will (likely) be? 🤔
January 16, 2026 at 11:38 PM