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Nash Turley

@nashturley.bsky.social

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Biologist / ecologist / entomologist 🐝🌱 photographer 📸🦋🪲🌻 musician 🎸🤘 he/him www.nashturley.com

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · Jul 23

Our guide to bees of Pennsylvania is available for free now, you can order print copy (just have to pay shipping) and/or download PDF from Penn State Extension page: extension.psu.edu/bees-of-penn...

For every one of the 47 bee genera we have beautiful photo(s) and natural history facts

two pages from our been book, lots of of images and a bit of text for each bee genera

cover of our Bees of Pennsylvania book with photo of green sweat bee

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 5d

I did that as well

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 14d

I'm assuming they don't know the cover shows two male varied thrushes making out 🌈

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 21d

more pumpkin content

nash turley with a purple hat holding two pumpkins, dark orange ones with dark stripes and little yellow one with orange stripes

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 21d

Nice work!

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 21d

yeah, that variety is called "Turk's Turban"

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 21d

yeah, that's a good one!

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 21d

A few of my favorite pumpkin and gourd photos from the MASSIVE auction going on in Mifflinburg, PA

More photos from the event here: photos.app.goo.gl/eBDM8GGVTgYc...

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 21d

Yesterday I visited the "Largest Ornamentals
& Pumpkin Auctions in the World" in Mifflinburg PA.

150+ photos of the different variety here:
photos.app.goo.gl/eBDM8GGVTgYc...

a gallery of 12 images of pumpkins, wide variety of colors and shapes

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 22d

Male carpenter bee hug

A large fuzzyYellow and black bee with a white face on my thumb with golden rod flowers in the background

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 22d

blue jay feathers are blue thanks to a microscopic physical structure the refracts blue light, more about how colors in feathers work: academy.allaboutbirds.org/how-birds-ma...

close up of a blue jay feather, a dark glossy blue with black stripes and white tip

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 24d

gigantic imperial moth caterpillar I spotted on a hike in the woods last week 😍

giant green caterpillar on a stick with blue spots and long white hairs and yellow legs face and horns

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 24d

gigantic imperial moth caterpillar I spotted on a hike in the woods last week 😍

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 24d

Yeah pdf is free and can order print copies (for now, supplies very low) for just cost of shipping. Links here www.nashturley.com/research

Nash Turley - Research

I've published a wide variety of ecology and evolution research, more specifically in the fields of evolutionary ecology of plant-herbivore interactions, restoration and community ecology, and bee bio...

www.nashturley.com

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 25d

Cool lichen-covered rocks

Pile of boulders on a mountaintop with light greenish lichen all over them and dappled sunlight with some trees and blue sky in the background

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 26d

Start a natural history journal that only accepts papers handwritten in Phytolacca ink 😆

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 28d

thanks!

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Hannah Cave Stout @gdrp2009.bsky.social · 28d

this little book arrived today! would make a fantastic addition to a K-12 classroom library or a gift for bug-loving kiddos (and adults!)....

extension.psu.edu/bees-of-penn...

copy of the Penn State Extension's publication "Bees of Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Genera" . link to order in post!

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · Sep 8

big knobs on pedals are cool

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · Sep 6

The bumble bee is a male, don't know the species, im sure you'd get an answer if you post it on inaturalist

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · Sep 4

“This book introduces us to the importance, beauty and private lives of Pennsylvania’s mostly unnoticed pollinators."
-Muhlenberg College biology professor Marten Edwards

A nice story about the guide to bees of Pennsylvania we recently released:

www.lehighvalleynews.com/environment-...

'The diversity is astonishing': Penn State Extension publishes free guide to Pennsylvania bees

Penn State Extension this summer published "The Bees of Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Genera,” outlining the commonwealth’s more than 440 species of bees, organized by genus.

www.lehighvalleynews.com

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · Aug 30

so weird how syrphid abdomens often look a bit deflated :)

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · Aug 30

one of the first albums I ever got, and also I used to play along to it on drums all the time, so kinda how I taught myself to play drum set 🤘

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · Aug 28

I guess that's why it got so many likes 😆

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · Aug 28

Viceroy licking my shoes

Orange and black viceroy butterfly on a black pair of shoes

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · Aug 27

You got it! Taking photos of holes punches from leaves that i will use to count trichomes

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