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Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱

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Chicana PhD student studying California native plants, TEK, and restoration ecology. 🐦‍⬛🪻🐝 | UCSD ‘22 🔱

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Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Sep 2

This account is long overdue for some art updates, here is my Honeycomb Filefish I did recently.

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here again with a slew of more pollinator pics, this time an Acmon Blue Butterfly, commonly found near the coast on many of our native buckwheat plants!

An Acmon Blue butterfly resting on foliage, the butterfly is blue with a thin white edging and has pale pink and black dots on the edge of its hindwings.

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Jul 9

Doing edits on the prospectus in between logging butterfly sightings…this is a field crescent

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Jul 7

Logging in to drop some Gray Hairstreak photos before logging off again to focus on quals ✌️

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Jun 22

I saw El Segundo Blue Butterflies today! #Lepidoptera

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Jun 14

Life comes at you fast, a year ago I was walking with my advisor to get my Master’s Degree and now I’m in the wetlands harvesting cattails. 🥲

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Jun 1

Meadow Fritillary in Big Basin Redwoods! #Lepidoptera

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Jun 1

Seep Monkeyflower growing in a drainage ditch of runoff to the ocean. Our native plants are incredibly resilient. #CaliforniaNativePlants

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · May 29

AMLT is a land trust acquiring and managing land on behalf of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, who were not given any land by settlers as a result of the 1927 Dorrington Report which said, “These Indians have been well cared for by Catholic priests and no land is required.” amahmutsun.org/history

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · May 29

I went with AMLT to the San Benito grasslands yesterday and there were so many incredible plants! #CaliforniaNativePlants

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Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · May 29

I went with AMLT to the San Benito grasslands yesterday and there were so many incredible plants! #CaliforniaNativePlants

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Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · May 28

It’s the season for Seaside Wooly Sunflower Blooms! #CaliforniaNativePlants

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · May 27

Our queen is back!!!!! 🤪🤩

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · May 24

I swear I don’t just post about plants, I post about pollinators too! Behold the beautiful Gray Hairstreak (S.melinus)

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · May 19

First Globe Lilies of the year are showing up on campus! #CaliforniaNativePlants

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · May 15

Yesterday on our weekly AMLT excursion one of my department mates said to me: “Do you ever think about how we are winning at life, since we end up roaming the hills with a bunch of native plant nerds every week?” And I said yes, yes I think about it all the time. 🩷

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · May 9

Tricolor Gilia! #CaliforniaNativePlants

The tricolor gilia California wildflower, with soft white petals with lavender edges and a dark yellow center with dark purple around the center.

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Apr 29

This native long-horned bee was out in the campus community garden enjoying the purple sage.

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Apr 18

Just saw an incredibly special species today - the native Death Camas Mining Bee! These bees are the only bees to be able to tolerate the pollen of the highly poisonous death camas plant. #CaliforniaNativePlants

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Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Apr 17

It’s absolutely insane that we have golden violets all over the fields here on campus! They’re so pretty. #CaliforniaNativePlants

Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Apr 11

Welcome back, Woodland Madia #CaliforniaNativePlants

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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · Apr 5

USDA orders California national forests open for major logging www.desertsun.com/story/news/e...

USDA orders California national forests open for major logging

Mudslide risk could increase in Southern California burn areas if trees are cleared, public lands advocate says.

www.desertsun.com

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Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Mar 27

The only thing better than Ceanothus is Ceanothus with a native bumblebee on top of it. 🐝🪻#CaliforniaNativePlants

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Planthropologist 🇲🇽🌱 @thatsophiareyes.bsky.social · Mar 27

This is amazing

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Save California Salmon @californiarivers.bsky.social · Mar 24

Late last year, we celebrated Klamath dam removal. With salmon already returning to the upper basin, many saw Klamath as a model for removing harmful dams. Progress is at risk as Trump cuts federal funding for Klamath and similar efforts nationwide.

Read more here: tinyurl.com/NYT-KlamathSalmon

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