Anne Boyd
@bughaven.bsky.social
Nature, native plants, pollinators, urban biodiversity. Southwest Center City Philadelphia.
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Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
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I've been seeing a lot of monarchs and a lot of caterpillars this month. Keep planting milkweed, they will come! Both this caterpillar and this newly emerged adult were in new plantings around the just-completed Welcome Center at FDR Park in Philadelphia.
August 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I've been seeing a lot of monarchs and a lot of caterpillars this month. Keep planting milkweed, they will come! Both this caterpillar and this newly emerged adult were in new plantings around the just-completed Welcome Center at FDR Park in Philadelphia.
Funny thing about this photo - not only did I have the audacity to post it as an observation on #iNaturalist, but *multiple* people were then willing to confirm the ID as a Luna Moth. It was in shade on an overcast day way ahead of me on a wooded path, and even with my zoom lens this is all I got...
August 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Funny thing about this photo - not only did I have the audacity to post it as an observation on #iNaturalist, but *multiple* people were then willing to confirm the ID as a Luna Moth. It was in shade on an overcast day way ahead of me on a wooded path, and even with my zoom lens this is all I got...
Darwin and so many other people have had a hypnotic fascination with beetles. Look, I get it, I totally get it. Common green June beetle, Washington Avenue Green, Philadelphia. #beetles #nativeinsects
July 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Darwin and so many other people have had a hypnotic fascination with beetles. Look, I get it, I totally get it. Common green June beetle, Washington Avenue Green, Philadelphia. #beetles #nativeinsects
Red Admiral butterfly on Cutleaf Coneflower. Senate Street, Philadelphia. #nativeplants #butterflies #pollinators
July 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Red Admiral butterfly on Cutleaf Coneflower. Senate Street, Philadelphia. #nativeplants #butterflies #pollinators
Leafcutter bee on Butterfly Milkweed. Sister Cities Park, Philadelphia. #nativebees #urbanbees
July 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Leafcutter bee on Butterfly Milkweed. Sister Cities Park, Philadelphia. #nativebees #urbanbees
Munchkin barn swallow gives the camera a withering side-eye. John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, June 20, 2025.
July 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Munchkin barn swallow gives the camera a withering side-eye. John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, June 20, 2025.
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Very happy that our new paper in TREE is out today! We call for a paradigm shift in how we build our cities toward evidence-based urban greening. Cities are key battlegrounds in the fight against biodiversity loss but current planning often falls short. We outline the scientific case & a way forward
Online now: Evidence-based urban greening: a missing piece in biodiversity conservation
Evidence-based urban greening: a missing piece in biodiversity conservation
With calls for increased greenery in cities to safeguard biodiversity and its associated benefits to humans, urban vegetation must be managed carefully and efficiently. It is time to change paths from current spurious attempts to manufacture resilience and instead usher in evidence-based urban greening to secure ecosystems for the future.
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May 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Very happy that our new paper in TREE is out today! We call for a paradigm shift in how we build our cities toward evidence-based urban greening. Cities are key battlegrounds in the fight against biodiversity loss but current planning often falls short. We outline the scientific case & a way forward
Spring! I've been out-of-my-mind busy, with unexpected family crises popping up amid the usual gardening frenzy. Nevertheless I'm hoping to get out for the #iNaturalist City Nature Challenge this weekend. So many nesting robins, so little time... (seen here in the streetery at Grace Tavern)
April 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Spring! I've been out-of-my-mind busy, with unexpected family crises popping up amid the usual gardening frenzy. Nevertheless I'm hoping to get out for the #iNaturalist City Nature Challenge this weekend. So many nesting robins, so little time... (seen here in the streetery at Grace Tavern)
I'm more of a bee and butterfly watcher than a birder, but I do try to identify interesting migrants that I see in Philly. Saturday was the first time I saw a Virginia Rail in the city - and I saw two of them! One in a park, and one on a curb near my home. Neither at all an aquatic environment.
April 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I'm more of a bee and butterfly watcher than a birder, but I do try to identify interesting migrants that I see in Philly. Saturday was the first time I saw a Virginia Rail in the city - and I saw two of them! One in a park, and one on a curb near my home. Neither at all an aquatic environment.
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That’s the root, right there: a “deep fear of disability…as a fate somehow worse than contagious disease.”
Central to my research has been that the pervasive ableism behind vaccination refusal and hesitance has roots as far back as the eighteenth century. The deep fear of disability (especially cognitive or intellectual) as a fate somehow worse than contagious disease is absolutely not new.
April 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
That’s the root, right there: a “deep fear of disability…as a fate somehow worse than contagious disease.”
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February 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Happy Year of the Snake! Here's one of the wee snakes that live in the alley behind my Philadelphia row house - Storeria dekayi, or Dekay's brown snake. These absolutely-no-danger noodles are happy in urban environments, eat worms and slugs, and like to hide in rock crevices or maybe flowerpots.
January 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Happy Year of the Snake! Here's one of the wee snakes that live in the alley behind my Philadelphia row house - Storeria dekayi, or Dekay's brown snake. These absolutely-no-danger noodles are happy in urban environments, eat worms and slugs, and like to hide in rock crevices or maybe flowerpots.
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Maybe this dude should read the parts of Project 2025 that detail the Republican’s ideas for NIH. The plan is absolutely to damage our world-leading scientific enterprise. They wrote it down.
My boss has been in DC a lot longer than I have - and deep inside. He has taught me a lot about how DC works. (I hope I've taught him some things about academia.). Here's what he posted on LinkedIn with our News story.
January 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Maybe this dude should read the parts of Project 2025 that detail the Republican’s ideas for NIH. The plan is absolutely to damage our world-leading scientific enterprise. They wrote it down.
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I don’t care. Fuck these McCarthyite bastards.
January 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I don’t care. Fuck these McCarthyite bastards.
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The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
MADISON, WI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Wisconsin in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured six others, citizens living in the only country where this kind o...
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December 16, 2024 at 9:48 PM
The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.
Hello, police? I'd like to report a robbery. What was taken? Well, some percentage of the red wigglers in my worm bin...
December 11, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Hello, police? I'd like to report a robbery. What was taken? Well, some percentage of the red wigglers in my worm bin...
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Fish and Wildlife Service seeks to list monarchs as threatened under the endangered species act:
www.fws.gov/press-releas...
www.fws.gov/press-releas...
Endangered Species Act protection for monarch butterfly | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing protection for one of the nation’s most beloved species - the monarch butterfly - and is encouraging the public to be part of its recovery. The Service ...
www.fws.gov
December 10, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Fish and Wildlife Service seeks to list monarchs as threatened under the endangered species act:
www.fws.gov/press-releas...
www.fws.gov/press-releas...
Such an angelic face...but behind it mayhem, always mayhem.
December 6, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Such an angelic face...but behind it mayhem, always mayhem.
I get a lot of feline help in everything I do.
December 5, 2024 at 1:58 AM
I get a lot of feline help in everything I do.
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US Fish & Wildlife has proposed to designate 1,635,746 acres of land as critical habitat for the rusty patched bumble bee! This prohibits any habitat damage or destruction from any federally funded or permitted activities, and is a great step towards recovery! 🐝
November 26, 2024 at 8:54 PM
US Fish & Wildlife has proposed to designate 1,635,746 acres of land as critical habitat for the rusty patched bumble bee! This prohibits any habitat damage or destruction from any federally funded or permitted activities, and is a great step towards recovery! 🐝
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November 20, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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