Juliet Turner
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DPhil Biologist at @OxfordBiology 👩🏼🎓 Social evolution. Mostly enthusiastic about insects and plants. From North Wales 🏔️
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Very excited to announce that we just published our research in Nature Ecology & Evolution!
We collected data on 794 species of ant to examine which characteristics influence the evolution of social complexity 🐜
I’m happy to answer any questions!
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New study finds that fish can recognise themselves in the mirror and in photos, passing a test for self-awareness
Source: M. Khoda et al. Cleaner fish recognize self in a mirror via self-recognition like humans. PNAS. Feb 2023. Comic by justcomics/ Joan Chan
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I took my cat hiking with me in the Welsh mountains this weekend
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Edinburgh to Oxford by train, pre-booked but no seats free
£120 (return, with railcard) to sit on the floor for half a day, squashed among the luggage, no access to food, water, toilet
& I was travelling with my cat, but fortunately he was the most relaxed passenger on board
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Hello from my local park! It’s brimming with Common Spotted Orchids/ Dactylorhiza fuchsii
Why ever have a neat and tidy lawn when you could have this?
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I found a Fly Orchid in a woodland today!
I’ve only ever seen these at home in North Wales in very boggy nature reserves, so this was pretty unexpected
📍Old Winchester Hill, South Downs National Park
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The size of the mosses and ferns here is humbling!
The ferns are as tall as trees and I just found the largest species of moss in the world
I think I might have have fallen into the forests of the Carboniferous
📍somewhere near Mount Hagen, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
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A small selection of some of the most surreal moths we found while blacklighting last night
📍 Madang, Papua New Guinea
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When in Switzerland for a conference, how could I *not* go hiking afterwards? 🥾
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The amazing garden of “Orchid Man” Max
Without any formal education, Max taught himself to recognise every flower in the forest and has created one of the most amazing gardens I have ever seen, with over 100 species of native orchid
📍 Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
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Despite the chaos of travelling all the way here by train, I’m happily now in a very rainy Swiss valley finding countless wonderful species
Here’s the first orchid I saw in flower: The Red Helleborine Orchid / Cephalanthera rubra
📍 somewhere in South-West Switzerland
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Hello from a cloud forest!
I’m almost 3000m above sea level and the climate here is what I can only describe as North Wales in Autumn
📍 somewhere near Mount Hagen, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
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I just saw my first Brown Hairstreak butterfly, in my own garden, and as I watched, she laid her eggs on the blackthorn 😍
I will be a devoted guardian and ensure these eggs survive to hatch into healthy caterpillars next year
📍 Oxford
@savebutterflies
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If you want to see more of Casper, he’s on Instagram as
adventuresofcasperthecat 🐾
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My face says it all!
Amazing Nephila spider in the rainforest today
📍 Papua New Guinea
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I recently set myself the challenge of trying to regrow every vegetable I eat
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This week I’m in the Swiss Alps for an evolutionary biology workshop and during my lunch break I wandered around this idyllic landscape finding wild orchids and photographing butterflies
📍 Guarda, Switzerland 🇨🇭
#wildflowers
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I went home to North Wales for the weekend and it was good to see natural regeneration of upland trees in the areas of Cwm Idwal where grazing animals have been fenced out
#rewilding
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Burnt-tip Orchid / Neotinea ustulata
My first time finding this species!
📍 Serfaus, Austria
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Happy
#MothMonday
!
This amazing insect is a day-flying moth called Eucocytia meeki and is endemic to the island of New Guinea
I saw this one a few days ago while birdwatching in the Western Highlands
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Yesterday there was finally a clear enough evening for me to photograph the Snake’s Head Fritillaries during the golden hour
📍Magdalen College water meadow, Oxford
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First frogspawn I’ve seen this year!
📍Oxford 08/03/2024
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Pretty thrilled to find my first Snake’s Head Fritillary of the year flowering in central Oxford, just across the road from
@OxfordBiology
!
This is Oxfordshire’s official county flower
#wildflowers
@BSBIbotany
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How much water keeps golf course green in the middle of a desert? How much herbicide & insecticide is used to maintain this monoculture? How much land was taken from wildlife and given to golf?
What should be a beautiful javelina habitat is being destroyed by herds of golfers
Come along with me on my carnage (I mean course) check this morning. What should be one of the most beautiful golf courses in the country is being destroyed by herds of javelina. If anyone has a contact in AZ state govt that can help us find a solution please pass it along.
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Feeling very happy with all the wild food I foraged today!
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The photographer & the photographs (part one):
A meadow of Fragrant Orchids / Gymnadenia conopsea
📍 Tösens, Austria
#wildflowers
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People of the Yokonda salt pond tribe in their traditional dress
My photos, 13.08.2023
📍 Enga Province, the highlands of Papua New Guinea
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If you ever see someone behaving strangely, lying face-down on the floor around Oxford, it’s probably just me photographing plants!
Check out these amazing arums and their leafless spikes of poison berries
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One day of hiking and eleven species of wild orchid found! This is my new personal record
📍 Tösens, Austria
@EuropeanOrchids
#wildflowers
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Not just one but FIVE Cream-spot Tigers on Night
#2
of our field course. One of the most beautiful and charismatic British moths for sure. What a great day to have eyes!
📍 Devon, U.K.
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My freshly-hired research assistant is inspecting my work. I hope it meets her standards!
📍 Papua New Guinea
@AntsProject
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Another video of the starling murmuration I saw after sunset yesterday, illuminated by the full moon
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A same-sex interspecies mating pair! 🏳️🌈
Unless I’m wrong, this is a Blue-tailed Damselfly male (top) and a Beautiful Demoiselle male (bottom)
📍Slapton Ley, Devon
@BDSdragonflies
@FSCSlaptonLey
@OxfordBiology
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Another wild orchid I found last week: The Red Helleborine
📍 near Tösens, Austria
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Nighttime jungle exploration
(searching for ants, recording moths, hoping for snakes, being distracted by spiders)
📍 Madang, Papua New Guinea
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I photographed these Snake’s-head Fritillaries in the water meadows of Magdalen College
Oxford is one of the best places to see these amazing plants, and now is the season to find them
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A snapshot of the life of a PhD student, although not a very representative one!
I’m here in Slapton Ley for the first time, choosing fieldwork sites and setting up insect traps in preparation for undergraduates arriving soon for their field course with
@OxfordBiology
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A couple of phone snaps with some of the many beautiful Orchis provincialis flowers we’ve seen today
📍 Rhodes, Greece
@Mariposa_Nature
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Day 5 of
#NationalMothWeek
(July 20th - July 28th) and I’m using the opportunity to showcase some of the UK’s wonderful moths
Here’s a photo from April 2022 when I was lucky enough to encounter a pair of Emperors 👑
📍Snowdonia/ Eryri, North Wales
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I recorded 47 species of moth this week, including 9 species I’m pretty sure I’ve never trapped before (second pic)
Always great to find new places to look at moths!
📍 Slapton Ley National Nature Reserve, Devon
#ukmoths
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It’s been perfect weather for some casual wildlife photography. I’ve been trying to have lunch outside whenever possible so that I can have an excuse to sit outside with my camera in the hope of catching the kingfishers or otters (no luck yet)
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I’m on my way to Scotland for New Year and I’m taking my cat Casper with me
As you can see, he is unfazed by the six hour train journey! 🏴
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The amazing flowers of a giant parasitic orchid: The Violet Limodore
📍 Rhodes, Greece
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It took me five months but I have just finished sorting through the photos I took in Papua New Guinea! 🇵🇬
Here are orchids I photographed in a cloud forest (IDs in comments)
Credit to Max Mal for helping me to see and identify so many species
📍Mount Hagen, Western Highlands
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Look what I just saw! The incredible giant Dragon Arum Lily / Dracunculus vulgaris 🪰
📍 Rhodes, Greece
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I have almost infinite photos of moths so I’ll be posting one a week for
#MothMonday
- please do join in!
This is Comostola laesaria; a moth in the family Geometridae, found from India to Australia. Its caterpillars feed on the flowers of trees including mangoes 🥭
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of chatting with fellow evolutionary biologist and icon
@RichardDawkins
when we were seated together at a
@NewCollegeOx
dinner 🍽️
📍New College, Oxford
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Happy
#MothMonday
!
This moth has TWO HEADS
…in reality, one of the heads is fake. Can you tell which?
This species is Pycnarmon jaguaralis, found from India to Australia
One of the weirdest moths I’ve ever seen. Does anyone know more about it?
📍Madang, Papua New Guinea
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Today marks the end of my amazing
#OrchidsOfRhodes
adventure 💔
I saw 50+ orchid species this week! & many other wonders thanks to the excellent guides
@dunnjons
&
@thenewgalaxy
(check out
@Mariposa_Nature
for other wildlife adventures they offer🦋)
📍Rhodes, Greece
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@ascentawd
We get trains pretty often and he seems to enjoy them, although he is happiest with a window seat
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I’ve been making friends with some very interesting people today!
📍 Enga Cultural Show,
Papua New Guinea
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Happy birthday to Oxford Botanic Garden: 402 years old today!
It was founded in 1621 🤯
I went to visit in my lunch break and saw these amazingly huge waterlily pads
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A European Comma / Polygonia c-album
This butterfly was a very good model, and sat still for a long time drinking blackberry juice while we played with camera settings. I never realised before that they have all those green markings
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Trilled to have just seen potentially the world’s roundest robin. What a time to be alive
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I took a train from Oxford and ended up in a strange and unfamiliar place called “Cambridge”
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Today I took a break from my PhD work to celebrate, along with thousands of others, the festival of May; the life and rebirth of the natural world.
Oxford May Day 2024
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A glimpse into my camera roll on day 4 of my orchid adventure across Rhodes
I haven’t managed to identify all of these Ophrys species yet, but I know there are some really cool hybrids among them!
📍 Rhodes, Greece
@Mariposa_Nature
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This beautiful plant is one of the first orchid species I saw when I arrived on the island: this is Ophrys ferrum-equinum
📍 Rhodes, Greece
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Today I visited a remote community of people who live around highland salt ponds
Each section of the water is allocated for trade with particular neighbouring provinces and they harvest the salt as ash by soaking wood and then burning it
📍 Yokonda, Papua New Guinea
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I’m mostly here looking at the ground in search of orchids and insects, but I do occasionally look up to admire the views!
📍 Rhodes, Greece
portrait by
@paulupward1
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Sitting among a sea of brilliant purple orchids - Anacamptis laxiflora
📍 Rhodes, Greece
@Mariposa_Nature
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We just had a beautiful golden hour in Oxford so we went out for a walk to see if we could find any dragonflies before they settle down to sleep
We only found one but it was this very cooperative a Four-Spotted Chaser/ Libellula quadrimaculata 🧚♂️
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I found a Madagascan cockroach on my ceiling and decided to keep her as a pet
My housemates weren’t thrilled initially but I think it’s safe to say they’re warming to her now (and trying to feed her brioche)
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I found a Worm Snake! Xerotyphlops vermicularis
Easily mistaken for an earthworm, this blind snake feeds on small invertebrates and can be found living under rocks in Europe
📍 Rhodes, Greece
#herpetology
@Mariposa_Nature
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Easy winner of best thing found today on the biology field course at Slapton Ley: a bright pink nudibranch 😍
📍 Devon, U.K.
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I’m teaching some insect sampling and identification on the
@OxfordBiology
undergraduate field course and so far it’s been near constant rain.
Not many insects around but a great day if you love slugs and snails! 🌧️
📍
@FSCSlaptonLey
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Hello friends!
I’m travelling (by train 🚂) to a conference in Lausanne this July and planning to extend my stay a few days to see some alpine wildlife.
Does anyone have suggestions for wildlife- rich places in West Switzerland?
Suggestions/ shares appreciated 🙏
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Day 1 of rainforest fieldwork: I’m supposed to be looking for ants but it’s hard to stay focused when there’s such amazing biodiversity around!
📍Madang, Papua New Guinea
@AntsProject
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This week was my first time seeing this species! Salamandra atra
The rain brought countless out of the undergrowth and marching across the roads so I had the challenge of moving them to safety (in the direction they were heading, of course)
📍 Zweisimmen, Switzerland
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My photo featured in “11 of the best nature photos in the world” 😱
11 of the best nature photos in the world 2024
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I found
#ParasiticPlants
in Devon this week!
Orobanche minor/ Common Broomrape, apparently also known by the lovely name Hellroot- a very weird flowering plant that steals nutrients from other plants instead of photosynthesising
@FSCSlaptonLey
#wildflowerhour
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It’s the final day of the
@OxfordBiology
field course and we’ve seen some amazing things!
Here’s a small selection of some of the invertebrate wildlife we found today
📍
@FSCSlaptonLey
Devon
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Happy
#MothMonday
!
This is the Vampire Moth Calyptra minuticornis
It has a piercing mouth to drink juice from fruit. Occasionally, however, it gets a taste for something more…
This moth has been found to pierce the skin of mammals to drink their blood🩸
📍Papua New Guinea
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I’ve been travelling for days and now I’m further from home than I’ve ever been before, in Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬
I’m here to learn about the ecology and evolution of arguably the dominant organism on this planet: ants! 🐜
📍 Binatang Research Centre, Papua New Guinea
@AntsProject
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Yesterday was day 1 of a wonderful botanical tour across the Greek island Rhodes, and already I’ve lost count of how many orchids I’ve seen
This photo is of a little roadside jewel called Ophrys reinholdii
Thank you
@thenewgalaxy
@dunnjons
for helping me to find/ identify!
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Unexpected Christmas visitor, now safely relocated into the garden shed to finish hibernation
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Enga, a province over 2,500 metres up in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, was only discovered by the outside world in the 1930s.
Now people from the remotest tribes gather together to showcase their traditions at Enga Cultural Show.
This year, I was lucky enough to attend. 1/
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We’re seeing a lot more beautiful wildlife as the weather improves on the
@OxfordBiology
field course in Devon
📍
@FSCSlaptonLey
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Small personal milestone: I gave my first tutorial today to some of Oxford’s biology undergraduates 🎉
I’ve demonstrated in practicals and field courses and taught in summer schools but not yet given a tutorial
It went well and I really enjoyed it!
(photos from earlier today)
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I just saw my first ever wild beavers! Only minutes away from the
#IUSSI2024
venue
Sadly I didn’t have my camera with me so here is a low quality phone clip instead
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