Rebecca Wang 王思寧

@rebeccawang

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🗽

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Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

Unfortunately, I'm not able to vote in my home state of TX anymore starting this year (NYC-bound for a PhD in Science Edu before Nov). But you best believe I'm getting as many ppl I know to register!💪 Texas is not a deep-red state, it's a voter suppressed one. Time to start flippin' tables.😉

A younger me in overalls (c. late 90s, early 2000s) staring out in utter awe at an endless expanse of Texas bluebonnet wildflowers (the state flower).

They are a common sight along Texas highways in the spring, and were planted as part of the 1965 "Highway Beautification Act", also known as the "Lady Bird's Bill" after First Lady Ladybird Johnson (wife of President LBJ, who were both Texan).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Beautification_Act

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

** ⚠️ 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞! ** There are TONS on news articles about how TX laws led to mass invalid mail-in ballots last midterms (e.g. over 40% rejects in Houston's Harris County & 20% in San Antonio's Bexar County). See images alt text for e.g. - note voter info campaigns needed to counter SB1 bs.

From the Houston Chronicle:
How Texas counties are helping voters after new law led to 25,000 rejected mail ballots.

Travis County (so for Austin, my hometown) began including an educational insert to bring attention to what was needed. The inserts appeared to have the desired effect, and the county saw its rate drop from about between 7 and 12 percent in the March primary to under 5 percent by the May primary runoff.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/How-Texas-counties-are-helping-voters-after-new-17362344.php

Texas Tribune: Texas’ mail-in voting rules pushed voters to cast ballots in person — or not vote at all, study finds

Then-interim Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins shows what a mail-in ballot envelope looks like at election headquarters inside NRG Arena on Oct. 5, 2020. Pu Ying Huang for The Texas Tribune

About 85% of voters whose applications or ballots were rejected had voted in general elections in 2016, 2018, and 2020, said co-author Kevin Morris, a senior research fellow and voting policy scholar with the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/28/texas-mail-voting-decline-senate-bill-1-election-law-id-requirement/

NPR: How Texas officials and voting groups are trying to limit mail ballot rejections

Grace Chimene, president of the League of Women Voters of Texas, says voters missed important instructions located right under the flap of the mail ballot return envelope. That is where voters have to provide either a partial Social Security number or their driver's license number.

The League of Women Voters of Texas worked with the Center for Civic Design to create a pamphlet for Texas voters to correctly send in their mail ballots.
Ashley Lopez/NPR

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1100796467/texas-primary-texas-runoff-mail-ballot-rejections

Brennan Center for Justice:
Records Show Massive Disenfranchisement and Racial Disparities in 2022 Texas Primary

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/records-show-massive-disenfranchisement-and-racial-disparities-2022-texas

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

^ If mailing your ballot, you MUST attach enough INTERNATIONAL postage (only free if sent in the US). <- do NOT recommend, processing = A LOT slower📬️ 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥 9𝘽) 𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝘿𝙊 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 (𝙢𝙞𝙣 30 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚)‼️ Fill out the FWAB or Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (link in alt text)

Screenshot for the FWAB.

This is backup in case of emergency situation. Use the official ballot whenever possible as your FWAB requires additional steps to be counted.

https://www.fvap.gov/uploads/FVAP/Forms/FWABwithOMBFinal.pdf

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

For TX, you'll get a voter registration card in the physical mail (looks like below) - if you don't just check online to see that you are registered. Take a photo of the info & keep the card safe (remember the VUID, many come in handy later). You DO NOT send this back or need it with you to vote.

Sample image of the Texas voter registration card via Powered by the People. Double check the information and contact the email ASAP if any of it is incorrect.

https://poweredxpeople.org/texas-voter-faq/

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥 7) 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙠 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙔𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 & 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙁𝙋𝘾𝘼. ✅️ I used to physically mail my reg. in, but switched to emailing a scan to the county clerk (much faster & easier). Note: You will need a digital cover sheet with this method! CANNOT email in final ballot, just FPCA reg. form.

A screenshot of what the Transmission cover sheet looks like. Make sure to sign date and include the number of pages being transmitted.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥 6) 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩, 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 & 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙁𝙋𝘾𝘼. 🖋️ Make a note of EXACTLY how you sign your name (TAKE A PHOTO even - seriously)! It will have to exactly match all other election stuff months later, save yourself the hassle/heartbreak. Know ppl who've had their vote not count cus of this 💔

Email instructions to return your FPCA.

Not all states allow this method!!

Mailing instructions to return your FPCA voter registration/ballot request.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥 4) 𝘾𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. 👥 State dependent. For TX: - Intend to Return* = receive a ballot for federal, state & local elections (e.g. Governor, State Leg., School Board, etc). - Return is uncertain = receive ballot for federal elections ONLY *Don't need set date/plan, just intent.

Screen shot of the Absentee Ballot Classification. Click the option that best fits your situation.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥 2) 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 (𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙥 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙥 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙪). 📍 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥 3) 𝙎𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 "𝙟𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣" 𝙖𝙠𝙖 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙮 /𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙝 (𝙇𝘼) /𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 (𝘼𝙆).🏛️ You can use your state website for reference (but will often need a VPN as many screen out foreign IP - Opera browser has a free one!).

The FVAP.gov FPCA online assistant.

Select your state by clicking it on the map or using the dropdown menu.

Select your jurisdiction (usually your county) using the drop down menu).

Double check this, as it may be unintuitive. e.g. Austin, Tx is famously not in Austin county but Travis.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

Note: Terrifying moment this time last year (Spring/Summer 2025) when many links like above became 404 errors or disappeared due to Trump executive orders - noticed when helping a friend😬 Good time to bring up Wayback Machine/Internet Archive as useful tools to pull up old info (see alt text)

Screenshot from Spring 2025, where the FVAP.gov page showed the following warning: " Content was removed to align with the President's executive orders and DoD priorities in accordance with DoD instructions 5400.17, "Official Use of Social Media for Public Affairs Purposes"/

To check captures, use this link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260710023529/https://www.fvap.gov/

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥 1) 𝙂𝙤 𝙩𝙤 FVAP.gov 🌐 Click the big 🟥 "Request your ballot now" button. The form you will be filling out is called the Federal Post Card Application (FPCA). Its the same form to register & request your ballot. 📄

Screenshot of the big red button to request a ballot on the FVAP.gov website.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

[Again, get this done as EARLY as possible - like months before voting day (mid August @ latest), TODAY is better! Speaking from experience, back-and-forth snail mail takes ages there are almost always little hiccups that slow things down. Again, YMMV depending on which state you vote in. 🙃]

Screenshot of the FPCA ballot tracker, highlighting just how long it takes between when my absentee ballot request goes through and when my vote is counted.

Nearly 3 months turn around (with no little issues since I've voted this way before) and almost missed the general election cutoff date!

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

Context: Texan born 'n raised, been voting from abroad since 2016. Cus despite challenges, it's just that freaking important. Otherwise, why would so many ppl inc. Paxton & my neighboring Rep. Chip Roy be pushing SAVE Act type BS to try & stop me? 🫠 (can kinda feel personal ngl... anyhoo)

Screenshot of H.R.22 the "SAVE act" which would require all to appear in person at an election office with an extremely restrictive set of qualifying documents (note: a drivers license or other REAL ID would not be enough. Only a a valid U.S. passport or passport card, a certified birth certificate paired with a photo ID, a naturalization certificate, or a Consular Report of Birth Abroad would count). This would virtually make all voting from abroad and mail in ballots impossible.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22

https://www.vote.org/save-act/

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· 29d

Debated how much I should post about 🇺🇸 politics (esp as early career), but F- it! * 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 & 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅🗳️ * (Yes 2026 Midterms in Nov but it takes MONTHS & need to RE-REGISTER after Jan 1st EVERY year you vote outside the US. ) START TODAY!👇️ [🧵 - 1/23]

Image of the carrier envelope for my 2024 election ballot (with key information redacted) along with my USA passport, taken on my way to the US Consulate in Hong Kong.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· Jul 10

Imma be honest, first reaction was to burst out laughing cus what do you MEAN even a RACIST AD has proper Chinese clerical script scrolls in the back, something Hollywood STILL CANNOT DO?! 🤣 Good post on it www.mcislanguages.com/mcis-blog/fo... COME ON million $$ movies, it's not that hard!

A family sword prop from Disney's 2020 live action remake of Mulan - in a font which Cheryl Lu describes as "equivalent to an English speaker watching a period film, where one of the characters opens up a leather-bound parchment book, and discovers that all the text inside is printed in size 12 Arial" which I wholeheartedly agree with!

Gibberish BS scribbles from the 2010 The Last Airbender movie https://youtu.be/ZwCD__CtjqA?si=LlCR2ll9EYUPfdE_ . In contrast, the original Nickelodeon show intro uses the a real Chinese caligrapher's writing with really cool stylistic text https://youtu.be/d1EnW4kn1kg?si=b5H4-ZkzzZwTNEOZ

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· Jun 24

Context: Me summer 2018 vs Today-ish (same smile 😆)! Lil’ lady on the left is still trying to pick a uni major & has NO IDEA one elective course is about to change everything 😎 Like I always loved this stuff, but whaddya mean I can career-ify it?! 😮 (Tag me next time you say “hi” to the fly! 😜)

Me circa summer 2018, wearing a light purple t-shirt with rectangle glasses and a too loose metal watch.

The HKBM was still 3 years away from opening its doors to the general public (would only do so in May 2021) and I still hadn’t settled on a university major yet!

Recent 2026 photo of myself at the museum in a light blue blouse (circle glasses and white Casio watch), gesturing to a display case full of Hymenopteran nests and galls in the HKBM. Just passed the HKBM’s 5 year animation!

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· Jun 24

Fun Easter Egg for your next HKBM trip!🐣 See that big insect case when you enter? Look toward the bottom left, near glass sticker, between the stick insect legs for a green fly 🪰 Notice the Col. R. Wang from 3-X-2018 label? Yeah, that’s one I caught & pinned for my 1st ever insect collection. 🥹

A large (think A2 size) wood and glass case sitting on a metal storage cabinet at waist level. Inside the case is a whole range of insects (different size, shape, color, order etc) from tiny Beatles to massive butterflies to showcase HK biodiversity!

The insect I’m describing. A metallic green fly (order Diptera), expertly pinned to showcase clear features such as its single pair of wings (where the order name comes from, as its hind wings have evolved into halteres), large compound eyes and short bristles/setae.

The pin also contains 3 tiny paper labels with information on its collection (location, GPS coordinates, altitude, date and collector name - me!), ID information on the specimen (order, family, IDer) and finally a tag with a museum collection number used to database it.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· Jun 1

-𝘌. 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘴/Mexican Bean Beetle (❌ lady bug spots) -𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘢 (just listing 🟠 bugs now...) Dif answer each time, none close! 😬 ~~~ 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! 😎

Screenshot of a very simple Classification guide, showcasing 8 common insect orders, sketches of their stereotypical body plan and annotated with descriptions of key features.

The bottom left order "Hemiptera" has it's insect (stocky, shield like bug with wing cases forming an X or Y shape) circled and a red arrow pointing to it.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· Jun 1

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?! 🫠) (cont.)

Google Lens with no additional words guessing tortoise beetle due to:
- "shield-like shells" (not actually a beetle order/Coleoptera identifier, but rather for the correct true bugs order/Hemiptera
-Found on foliage (true of many beetle)
-Orange or brown (notoriously bad feature for insect ID due to evolutionary pressures)
-Orchid leaves (not accurate).

Sources reddit and facebook, which often have misidentified insect photos.

Google Lens + the prompt "insect" guessing a soft scale insect due to:
- stationary (of course, it's a photo?)
- oval (describes many insects)
-waxy "scales" (not accurate. blurry photo not shiny or scales, more matte in texture.)
-midribs of leave and stems (insect in this case resting on leaf surface, not underside)

Size also very off, scale insects are mm big, not cm big.

Google lens + zoomed focus on insect + "insect ID" prompt guessing Surinam cockroach nymph due to:
- Oval body (see previous photos descriptions)
- Flattened shape (useful, but describes many types of insects.)
- Color (though even admits they are normally black headed with brown wings, none of which describe the pictured insect.

Google Lens guesses based off of image + plural "insects" prompt to try and get more guesses at once. As before, many of the descriptions are not characteristics used to identify insects.

The last two bullet points of pill cockroach and mexican bean beetle are particular egregious, in that they have VERY characteristic features not seen in the image.
- Clear body segments and ability to roll into a ball shape for the former (similar to roly-poly isopod bugs)
- Dotted black spots (its a lady bug) and North American distribution of the latter (not Hong Kong where the image was taken).

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· May 31

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

A Blurry photo of a light brown, stocky insect sitting on a bright green leaf. Can you guess what it is?

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· May 31

Screenshot-ed the original post (had a feeling Springer might take it down after they started locking comments). Here it is in case people missed it. Books in question is still up at bit.ly/49ojUyg

Screenshot of the Springer Nature Post, including a yellow AI generated book cover. Originally captioned:

'What's in My Blood Test? A Complete Guide to Blood Test Results - One Drop at a Time' - This book is designed to help readers better understand the vital role of blood in maintaining health, with a particular focus on interpeting common blood tests. bit.ly/49ojUj #EduSky

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· May 24

Huh, not really in 🇹🇼! For my mom's gen, a bob even = default "school hair" & my GMa's gen all have "阿嬤" haircuts now (google it😅). Many TW 🚺 have short hair that would be "boy-ish" in the West. From Olympians like Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷) to Vice Pres Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) to Singer Amber Kuo (郭采潔) etc.

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷), who won gold in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Image source: Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Yu-ting#/media/File:Lin_Yu-ting_2024.jpg

Vice President of Taiwan Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴).

Image source: Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsiao_Bi-khim#/media/File:%E8%95%AD%E7%BE%8E%E7%90%B4%E5%89%AF%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1_1.jpg

Taiwanese singer/actress Kuo Tsai-chieh (郭采潔).

Image source: Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Kuo#/media/File:Amber_Kuo_(%E9%83%AD%E9%87%87%E6%BD%94,_cropped).jpg

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· May 13

My hastily doodled, pen-sketch attempt at “Mind Horse”. ✍️ No idea why horses 🐎 are so dang tricky but my brain just “gets” hedgehogs 🦔 ?? Like I’ve ridden horses many times before but never seen IRL nor lived anywhere hedgehogs are native. 🤣 Yet Brain like “Yup. Hedgehog. No prob. I gotchu. 👍”

Two cartoon drawings of animals made using brown and orange ballpoint pen and copy paper.
On top is a poorly drawn horse with the caption “Mind Horse” Thing I draw from memory surprisingly poorly. On the bottom is a cute cartoon hedgehog with the caption Anti-“Mind Horse” IDK why I know how to draw hedgehogs, I just do.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· May 3

Great ✍️ tutorial @ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social ! Will try my hand at the butterfly and slug ones later! 👍 #Invertefest

A quick sketch of a praying mantis, drawn with ballpoint pen and highlighters

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· May 3

More photos from other field days, part of the same project! Focused on riparian and aquatic invertebrate (e.g. caddisfly larvae, worms, crustaceans etc) collection. 🪱 (#InverteFest Day 5 <- yes I know I'm late but still 😜 )

Working together Olivia (right), using a D-net (aka "kick net") to sample macroinvertebrates from the river stream bed.

The net (canvas in a metal frame) is placed downstream to catch invertebrates that are jostled loose upstream.

Photo of one Tung Chung River site (near the headwaters), a babbling brook with crystal clear water flowing between rocks and under green foliage

Lush green plants and trees with a mountain in the background on a slightly foggy day (perfect collection weather, not too hot)!

One of the small "desired paths" used to reach the field site - very different from the paved concrete pathway of the other site!

Me with a pipette in hand, used to "suck up" any invertebrates I find from shallow plastic tray where leaf litter water collected from the nets is placed.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· Apr 28

For #InverteFest (Day 4-ish?): Some entomology field work photos from last year that I just never got around to posting ! 🪲🪳 🦋🦗🐝 (📍 Tung Chung River project with @hkbm.bsky.social )

Me standing on some rocks in the river, net in hand, ready to catch flying insects!

View of Tung Chung river from a bridge. Blue cloudy sky above, lush green mountains in the middle and finally the river down below.

Happy faces after a great day of field work!

Walking along a path between field sites.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· Feb 23

So the default language is a card setting- you need to go to the info desk & ask them to switch it to English . Why they didn't do that when you first bought the card? Idk. 🤷‍♀️ But yeah, you need to try out the newer machines- So much nicer with all the functions you are pointed out!

A new MTR ticket/Octopus purchase map inside Mongkok Station. On the left is a large bright touch screen with the HKU MTR map on the lower panel (for buying single journey tickets) while the top screen shows dual language instructions for adding value to your octopus card. On the right is the machine itself with a coin and bill acceptor as well as a card reader and ticket dispenser.

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Octopus_card_machines#/media/File:MTR_Mongkok_Station_Ticket_&_Octopus_machine.jpg

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· Feb 17

Happy Year of the Horse everyone! 🐎🧧 新年快樂，心想事成！祝大家今年步步高陞,龍馬精神，萬馬奔騰，萬事如意！ Tricky time finding a suitably "horse-y" invertebrate for y'all, but the Saddleback Catterpillar (𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘢 - photo by Mathew Orwat) is pretty close imo! 🏇 #LunarNewYear #YearoftheHorse #ChineseNewYear #春節 #Bugsky

Saddleback Caterpillar, Acharia stimulea. A reddish brown colored caterpillar covered in lighter colored short spines that look almost like fur. The middle of the insect is bright green and white, almost like the insect is wearing a saddle.

Image Credit: Matthew Orwat (https://agrilifepeople.tamu.edu/people/view/36271) via UF IFAS extension (https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/hort/2014/09/30/watch-out-for-the-saddleback-caterpillar/)

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· Feb 17

Nah we can do a lot better for a “rooster” invertebrate imo! I was thinking more like a Fulgorid Planthopper (aka Rooster-tailed cicada) or maybe a Crinoid sp. (aka feather stars) for more of the right look. 🐓🐔

A fulgorid planthopper with the slightly misleading name Rooster Tail Cicada

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fulgorid_planthopper_(33408985531).jpg

A Passion Flower feather star (Ptilometra australis), a modern crinoid; Halifax Point, Port Stephens, Australia by Richard Ling

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ptilometra_australis_Passion_Flower_feather_star.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· Dec 7

Post a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real. Easy. Scorpionflies (Panorpidae family). (Pictured is a P. helena from Carderock, Maryland - taken by Judy Gallagher www.flickr.com/photos/52450... )

A macro image of a bright orange insect with striped wings, perched on a green leaf. The insect has a long "snout", spindly long legs, and a raised, scorpion-like tail.

Scorpion Fly - Panorpa helena, Carderock Park, Carderock, Maryland. Taken by Judy Gallagher.

Original image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/52450054@N04/14134879744/

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Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang· Dec 5

Continuing #Hymathon2025 w keynote 2 by Andrew Forbes @ Uni of Iowa! "For specialist insects, there is far more evidence supporting strong, ecological forms of reproductive isolation than post zygotic isolation" aka. Ecological factors (eg. where they live) > Offspring repo issues for speciation!