Sean McCann

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I am an #entomologist living in #Newfoundland, I am interested in just about all #organisms, and am a big #NaturalHistory advocate. I Have studied everything from mosquitoes to spiders to birds, and now I work in #agriculture.
photography at flickr.com/photos/deadmike
iNat handle same as here. Birdsite handle same as here.
pronounshe/him
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6030-6456
enthusiasmnatural history
occupationentomologist
Hello April!
Stop Stacking Rocks in the Mountains β€” ASH ROUTEN

Small rock stacks now litter many of our mountain sides and wilderness areas globally. Here’s why hill goers should stop building them.

ASH ROUTEN

Spotted this little cutie while sitting on the deck enjoying the gentle rain yesterday.

#PotatoQualityPhoto #Hummingbird

Other products by the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter people:

- You Thought This Was Yogurt
- Fuck Off It's Mayonnaise
- It's Probably Corn
- Surprise Motherfucker That Wasn't Hummus
- No One Said This Was Ham
- I Hope These Aren't Hornets

Barrow's goldeneyes fly across the Brothers of the Olympic Range

#birdphotography #birdwatching #ducks

Extremely delighted to see that our discovery of Ginger snails is officially published! πŸŽ‰ 🐌 🎈

We found a new shell colour polymorphism in a well studied snail species Lymnaea stagnalis. These Ginger snails have red shells (usually beige), and this colour trait is genetic, likely single locus Mendelian inheritance.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10678#:~:text=In%20sum%2C%20we%20found%20a,or%20disadvantage%20of%20being%20Ginger.

Do you work in education in Canada? Have you seen or experienced violence or harassment in the workplace?
These researchers want to hear from you.
https://www.educatorviolence.ca/
EducatorViolence.ca

In 2018, Chris Bruckert (Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa) and Darcy Santor (School of Psychology, University of Ottawa) initiated the Harassment and Violence Against Educators Project. The goal of this project is to investigate and shed light on the workplace harassment and violence

Fantastic to see that BUGZ, the bibliography of NZ creepy-crawlies 1775–1993, is now hosted by the NZ Entomological Society. This is an invaluable resource for Wikipedians and all others without institutional access to journals. https://bugz.ento.org.nz
Home - BUGZ

If you live in Oregon or Washington and love bees:
A) We should hang out and talk bees.
B) You should download this new key from OSU to help identify all of our native and resident bees to genus.

https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/technical_reports/xg94hz59f

#Oregon #Washington #PNW #bees

Bees of the Pacific Northwest : key to genera (Hymenoptera : Anthophila)

This key to the bee genera of the Pacific Northwest provides dichotomous couplets which aid the user in identifying 60 genera of bees which occur or may occur in the region. The key architecture is...

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Sometimes it helps to remember that you're basically a very old baby. Are you cranky? Have a snack. Are you sad? Take a nap. Do you feel frustrated for no reason, like the whole world is against you, but you don't know why? Maybe you need to go play outside!