Science Edu👩🏻🔬~ Entomology🪲~ Nat.History🌱
Sci Tutor + FHEA @ HKU. HKBM volunteer. Fmr MPhil Cantab Zoology.
Texan, Taiwanese & HK-er (She/Her/她).
📍Hong Kong now, moving to NYC for PhD🗽
Rebecca Wang 王思寧
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The biodiversity found in 🇭🇰 never fails to amaze me! 😍
Clockwise from top Left:
- Spiny leaf insect (family Phasmatidae): idk specific 中文名，but a type of 竹節蟲
- Cicada (family Cicadidae): 蟬
- Moth larva (order Lepidoptera)：蛾幼蟲
- Centipede (class Chilopoda)：蜈蚣 or 百足蟲
Very whimsy indeed! 👍
Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈
Ending my April 2026 #InverteFest with a 7th post (so technically one-a-day😉)+ non-insect inverts...
Watch HKBM's "Biodiversity Explorers" series! Hour-long convos on 🇭🇰 critters!
This 蚯蚓/Earthworms🪱eps with Michelle is in Canto, but there are Eng ones too- all with proper Eng & 中文 subtitles!
Lot of feeling today, but don't want to just propagate negativity.
So here's a video about the bats of Ann Richards Congress Ave Bridge in my hometown🦇 One of the natural wonders that got me into zoology!
youtu.be/etuusqpP368?...
Anyways, got 5 months before election day- time to give 'em hell!
-𝘌. 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘴/Mexican Bean Beetle (❌ lady bug spots)
-𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘢 (just listing 🟠 bugs now...)
Dif answer each time, none close! 😬
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Look, if you think blurry bug looks like the lower left group:
Congrats- You already beat AI at ID-ing by getting the correct insect order! 😎
Great ✍️ tutorial @ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social !
Will try my hand at the butterfly and slug ones later! 👍 #Invertefest
BTW Google Lens "thinks"/wants to convince you it's a...
- Tortoise beetle (❌ shape)
- 𝘊. 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 / scale insect (❌ size & leaf place)
- 𝘗. 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴/Surinam cockroach nymph ( ❌ hairy legs)
- Genus 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘴 / Pill Cockroach (❌... everything? How did it get roly-poly roach?! 🫠)
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Rebecca Wang 王思寧
Kieran (but fruitier)
Rebecca Wang 王思寧
Rebecca Wang 王思寧
Rebecca Wang 王思寧
AI generated cover, probably all 56 figures inside as well, with absolutely no genAI use disclosure on the main page. Not to mention if AI was used for the cover, who is to guarantee that the text wasn't AI generated as well? Did a human check the text or references for hallucination? Very sloppy...
Rebecca Wang 王思寧
Rebecca Wang 王思寧
People here gleeful the crazier guy won TX's GOP🟥 primary cus he's "easier to beat" in midterms scare me...
Like did y'all learn NOTHING from the last few USA elections?!😬
Flip side, people who are now writing off my entire state of 31 MILLION ( > pop. than 🇦🇺 ), that's pretty messed up too ngl. 🫠
THIS!!📣
Don't trust AI for bug ID-ing, your brain is so, SO much more powerful than you give it credit for! 🧠
Quick eg: Friend sent me this SUPER blurry photo that AI tools can't make heads or tail out of.
But I bet most bug ppl can ID its insect order in a min & HK bug ppl know what it! 😜 #Bugsky
