Armando Rosario-Lebrón
Entomologist 🇵🇷
Film Bug guy: imdb.com/name/nm13959020/
East Coast VP: aginspectors.org
Editorial admin at SW Entomologist: sswento.org
Outreach Director: circulodepr.org
Views are personal, and do not reflect official agency or union positions
- The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4) 🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳
- The Secretary of Agriculture said no one from APHIS was offered deferred resignation in the second round. But I’m on admin leave in that same round right now. I’m confused. Clip here: www.youtube.com/live/f10geMY...
- One of the many Leucauge spiders you tend to find everywhere here. This one was hanging right above me when I woke up in my hammock. #macrophotography #Tetragnathidae #Invert 🪲🪳🌿
- A #Noctuidae moth, likely Homorthodes sp. Look at those layered scales, color, pattern, texture, so much beauty in what most ignore flapping at a light. But slow down, look closer. You’ll be amazed at what’s out there. 🪲🪳 #Invert #macrophotography #entomology
- Likely Emblyna sublata. The male was carefully approaching a female, moving through an almost invisible maze of silk. I watched him dance, slow and deliberate. I couldn’t get both in focus at once. The male is the red one. #macrophotography 🌿🪲🪳 #Invert
- Reposted by Armando Rosario-Lebrón*hands you one, and you immediately stiffen as if in a trance, and begin to chant "Rake-legged mite! Rake-legged mite! Rake-legged mite!"* (Caeculidae)
- Reposted by Armando Rosario-LebrónHello new followers, in addition to birds I spend the warmer months chasing bugs. Here is a fun one for #FlyWeek, a stalk-eyed fly found in the Ecuadorian cloud forest. (Richardia stylops), El Septimo Paraiso Lodge, Ecuador
- Walking through a remote part of the woods and spotted this striking soldier fly hopping leaf to leaf. I believe it’s Actina viridis. I’d never seen anything like it before, so distinct and unmistakable. #Diptera #Stratiomyidae 🪲🪳 #Invert #entomology 🌿
- I've spent a lot of time in India. With everything happening right now, I really hope things don't escalate further. So many people on all sides will suffer if this grows into something larger. There are good people caught in the middle.
