🪰🦋🏛️ Museum Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History for Diptera, Lepidoptera, minor Holometabolous orders, amber and other fossil insects. Immigrant, single mom.
Also: mountains, books, art, disability justice, long covid, science edu.
Agnieszka Anna Pierwola
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How small can moths get? 🔎
Very.
shield bearer #moth at UV light #Heliozelidae: #Coptodisca
Raleigh, NC, USA
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Dear friends
Please consider signing this in support of our unionized museum colleagues facing mass layoffs at the CalAcademy. Natural history museum workers are routinely underpaid and overworked at a time when collections matter more than ever www.calacademyworkersunited.org
My pet bot fly emerged yesterday from its pupa. Cute looks and morbidly fascinating life history what more could a girl ask for? I froze it already but now I see I might have missed an opportunity for rare case of myiasis. Oh well maybe next time…
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