day 2 Common buckeye- Junonia coenia abundant one here. I love the way their caterpillars look and the markings they have as butterflies ! left picture taken in Davis, Ca by a friend and the right was taken by me at Andrew Molera SP in Big Sur, Ca

day 3 << weevil time >> Weevil- Magdalis alutacea realizing I should have posted this one yesterday for obvious reasons, but I love this cute lil fella. feels like I found a shiny pokémon and I like to imagine it can make trumpet noises with its snout. Thunder Mountain, Ca.

day 4 Robber fly- Laphria ____ (don't know the exact ID) pretty cool to see these two linked at Andrew Molera SP! side note, applied for a job yesterday and I look forward to posting these everyday just to have a catalog of my bugs. cheers

day 5- forgot to post yesterday so I'll post 2x today oopsie Checkerspot butterfly- Euphydryas editha this fella let me get close! also this was on the way to my first time backpacking where we got rained and hailed on like you've never seen before

day 7 <<one week 😎>> Monarch butterfly- Danaus plexippus somehow the first time I had ever seen this was when I was doing some fieldwork a couple weeks ago. I couldn't believe how big they were! when it got dark was also the first time I got to see a white-lined sphinx

day 8 Longhorn flower beetle- Stenostrophia tribalteata (sierrae) my girlfriend actually spotted this one, gotta show love to the cerambicids. found at stebbins cold canyon, ca

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This is quite possibly the best satellite image I’ve ever seen of California. Full green up west of the Sierra, solid white along the Sierra, Tulare Lake, Owens Lake & Lake Manly full and visible. Just incredible!

So happy and proud of the research we did this summer and fall in the Chicagoland area! dm me ur bugs Sage DeLong

🚨 New Paper accepted @NeurIPS2024 Red-Teaming GenAI Despite work on interp and rep-e, we still don’t know exactly how jailbreaks fool LLMs. Here, we show that they CANNOT be understood in terms of universal or linear prompt features alone. arxiv.org/abs/2411.03343

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