@polygoniac

Entomology is my passion 🦋 PhD student at @LancsUniLEC, in @LancasterUni. Studying armyworm behaviour and its control 🐛. She/her.

 Lancaster, England
Joined June 2019
  • Tweets298
  • Following79
  • Followers111
43Media
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
Emma Geikie@emmageikie2 Nov 2024
to whomever wants to listen ❤️‍🩹 WAYS TO HELP ‼️ ●Share this post with family and friends. ●Donate if you can to Cáritas and The Red Cross. ●Check out @ValenciansUK
21
2,175
60
3,484
162,369
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
Ruth Carter@Ruthentomology29 Jun 2023
Replying to @Rothamsted
@Rothamsted @LancsUniLEC Please help us (@spodoptera007 @belrice @AAwawing @polygoniac) in our hunt for the African armyworm (Spodoptera exempta). Please contact me with any recent sightings of S.exempta 🐛📷#fallarmyworm #entomology @RoyEntSoc
1
11
2
13
4,541
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
NASA Earth
@NASAEarth23 May 2023
In Spain, a drought turns the world’s largest olive oil producing region brown. NASA’s Terra satellite shows where green vegetation in May 2022 (left) turned brown by May 2023 (right). The drought dried up reservoirs, parched olive groves, and led to water restrictions.
Satellite image of Spain from May 2022. The landscape has many patches of dark and light green vegetation on top of a sandy brown base. The ocean to the left and bottom of the region is dark blue.

ALT Satellite image of Spain from May 2022. The landscape has many patches of dark and light green vegetation on top of a sandy brown base. The ocean to the left and bottom of the region is dark blue.

Satellite image of Spain from May 2023, during a drought. The area is now mostly brown with patches of dark brown and grey where there was green vegetation a year ago. The ocean to the left and bottom of the region is dark blue, with some cloud coverage in the bottom right.

ALT Satellite image of Spain from May 2023, during a drought. The area is now mostly brown with patches of dark brown and grey where there was green vegetation a year ago. The ocean to the left and bottom of the region is dark blue, with some cloud coverage in the bottom right.

149
3,352
428
9,934
1,661,652
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
Mary WildBehav@wildbehav24 May 2023
Puede que os hayáis topado con un post de Reddit en el que una persona explica su profundo odio hacia los peces luna. Pues yo hoy vengo a contaros sobre el pez óseo más grande del mundo y sus particularidades. Vuestras son las conclusiones 🧵
5
124
9
431
51,104
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
Ruth Carter@Ruthentomology16 Dec 2021
Replying to @Rothamsted
@Rothamsted @LancsUniLEC Please join the hunt for the African armyworm (Spodoptera exempta). Please contact me with any recent sightings of S.exempta 🐛🌱#fallarmyworm #entomology
1
17
3
18
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
EntomoDaily@EntomoDaily8 May 2023
Si la ves en tu casa...¡No la elimines! 🕷️🕸️🚫 Se trata de un fólcido, una araña totalmente inofensiva para el ser humano que disfruta mucho de los rincones más oscuros y húmedos de tu hogar. Además, es una gran aliada en la lucha contra otros insectos, como los mosquitos 🦟.
44
294
177
898
237,815
Should I get these???? ▫️ YES ▫️ HECK YES!! ▫️ ABSOLUTELY YES #entomology
1
1
14
451
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
Nicky Bay@singaporemacro1 May 2023
Sexy time for a pair of colourful psyllids. What's the white swollen bit? Sperm transfer?
3
64
3
625
24,228
Garlic: "We will use sulphur compounds to defend ourselves from being eaten" Humans: "The more garlic cloves we add to our food the better" Garlic: 😩
4
121
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
Irene Gómez, PhD@polygoniac24 Apr 2023
I’m interested, do you listen to music while you work? @AcademicChatter
30%Yes, all the time
10%Yes, depending on the day
60%Yes, depending on task
0%No
10 votes • Final results
1
104
I’m interested, do you listen to music while you work? @AcademicChatter
30%Yes, all the time
10%Yes, depending on the day
60%Yes, depending on task
0%No
10 votes • Final results
1
104
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
Nicky Bay@singaporemacro23 Apr 2023
Close up on the saw-tooth. Second attempt to search for this lantern bug and we found 6 of them on the same tree, slightly off the trail.
5
125
1
900
32,051
This is so beautiful ❤️
Thorben Danke
@sagaOptics20 Apr 2023
Diversity of butterfly wingscales. Diversity of nature. Diversity of life. 1. Daphnis nerii 2. Colias hyale 3. Macroglossum stellatarum 4. Vanessa cardui 5. Aglais io 6. Gonepteryx rhamni 7. Trachea atriplicis 8. Deilephila elpenor 9. Lycaena hippothoe 10. Phlogophora meticulosa
1
7
231
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
John M. Mola@_JohnMola18 Apr 2023
Extra credit memes for my class are rolling in, and this one, is perfecto. by J. Rodriguez
11
141
1
981
46,775
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
Dr Joe Roberts@Dr_Joe_Roberts17 Apr 2023
An exciting opportunity to investigate a push-pull system to sustainably manage aphid virus vectors in potato crops with @ipm_tom, @DrMattBack and myself at @HarperAdamsUni Apply at: findaphd.com/phds/project/to… Closing date is 1st May 2023.
1
15
7
3,198
New bug just dropped ! Say hello to the pseudophylline katydid E. viridicorpus 🦗🦗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1gx9L…
2
11
2
34
2,663
Irene Gómez, PhD retweeted
Jéssica Gil Serna@jessigserna15 Apr 2023
Acabo de leer que han descubierto unos nuevos antifúngicos llamados keanumicinas en honor a Keanu Reaves y me ha parecido tal fantasía que os voy a contar rápidamente algo sobre ellos ⬇️🫢⬇️
16
454
41
1,756
262,645
Babysitting my lil babies 🐛🐛🐛 #Spodoptera
1
5
197
What a beautiful day!! Pollinators are thriving today. Love the little pollen baskets 🥰 #bee #pollinator
4
205
Some years ago I came across the art of Hubert Duprat, a French artist that, in the 1980’s experimented with #EntoArt ! He raised #caddisfly larvae in aquariums full of gold, turquoise, opal, etc.,which the caddisfly used to build their cases. Thread time! 1/6
4
120
15
475
58,106
more replies
Duprat was very interested in this so he used pieces of gold in the aquarium and observed their art! He soon realised that when trying to remove the cases, they rebuilt them. If the cases got damaged, they would mend them too, so he started incorporating other materials. 5/6
1
1
34
2,024
The cases were stunning, and so he removed them without hurting them before they rebuilt them. If you liked this THREAD, I invite you to read this interview about his work and inspirations! He wasn’t the first one to play with caddis cases! leonardo.info/isast/articles… 6/6
2
2
47
1,949
Load more