Dragonflies have some unique hunting strategies and life cycles! What are your favorite species of insects, or unique insect behaviours?
First community agriculture box of the season...I'm so excited to eat all of this 🤤
#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—
oh Tom this is very cool! it looks like it's an 'oblique' gynandromorph, as per this paper! I've never quite seen one with such defined patterning.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Can't thank him enough for sharing his expertise and insights into these issues.
Love you so much David! Thank you for being by my side all these years. When so many couldn't see who I truly was you did, and stood with me. Happy 8 years (today!) I couldn't ask for a better husband 🥰
Happy pride my doggies
One of my favorite species of ant, creating gardens in your backyards! Whats your favorite species of ant?
Happy Pride everyone!
In honour of Pride, my husband wrote about "how the health law framework that allows trans minors to validly consent to their own gender-affirming care is affected when the child's parents are in a family law dispute."
Read more here: lnkd.in/eMjXBQPi
"Although Canadian courts have tended to respect minors’ rights to consent to gender-affirming care within family law disputes, it is important to understand these issues at the outset of parental disagreement so the child can access appropriate treatment without unnecessary delay."
