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Kevin Floate

@FloateKevin

Insect ecologist and author of "Cow patty critters" (Google the title to download your free copy). Tweets are mine; not those of my employer.

 Lethbridge, Alberta
Joined November 2012
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Another reason to be seriously pissed off at the UCP, particularly for people in Lethbridge.
Duane Bratt🇨🇦 (@DuaneBratt) profile pictureDuane Bratt🇨🇦@DuaneBrattApr 16
There is a reason that we do not have MLAs decide on electoral boundaries. Tossing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replacing it with a UCP-dominated committee is not just a bad idea. It is really bad for democracy. Ask the US, ask Hungary. This is not normal!
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Australian Mining Billionaire Sues Canada for $2 Billion | The Tyee

Australian Mining Billionaire Sues Canada for $2 Billion | The Tyee

Gina Rinehart’s Northback demands feds pay for finding the Grassy Mountain project too toxic to proceed.

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Tropical Atlas moth spotted loose in U.S. for what's believed to be 1st time flip.it/pkt5-Y

Tropical Atlas moth spotted loose in U.S. for what's believed to be 1st time

One of the world's largest moths has been sighted in the northern U.S. for the first time — and the gentle flame-winged giant is creating a flap.The striking 25-centimetre wide atlas moth was spotted...

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The strange Wild West tale of the first cow-buffalo hybrid flip.it/a1_JzB
The strange Wild West tale of the first cow-buffalo hybrid

The strange Wild West tale of the first cow-buffalo hybrid

Inside cowboy Charles Jesse “Buffalo” Jones's get-rich-quick scheme to restore the plains 100 years ago.The “cattalo” was a homely creature—stocky and shaggy, with a slight buffalo’s hump and a cow’s...

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Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners flip.it/lld-LS
Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners

Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners

Two firms that invested far less are getting $238 million. Taxpayers face more such hits.Mark another milestone in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s ongoing cave-in to coal interests. The United …

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How a pathogenic #nematode infects a flying insect host. Fatal attraction: Electric charge connects jumping worm to aerial prey flip.it/oDg_P_
Fatal attraction: Electric charge connects jumping worm to aerial prey

Fatal attraction: Electric charge connects jumping worm to aerial prey

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, scientists have found.The journal PNAS …

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Theft, lies and butterflies: the Englishman who stole thousands of specimens from our museums flip.it/e2x7g1
Theft, lies and butterflies: the Englishman who stole thousands of specimens from our museums

Theft, lies and butterflies: the Englishman who stole thousands of specimens from our museums

In August 2025, there was a plague of Monarch butterflies near Nannup in Western Australia. Thousands of winged creatures arrived – attracted to two invasive weeds, cotton bush and milkweed. In a …

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Jessenia literally wrote the book on bumble bees lethbridgeherald.com/news/le… via @leth_herald
Jessenia literally wrote the book on bumble bees

Jessenia literally wrote the book on bumble bees

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Bees are widely considered the most effective and important pollinators; and as far as

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For folks in Lethbridge and surrounding areas... Jessenia literally wrote the book on bumble bees lethbridgeherald.com/news/le… via @leth_herald
Jessenia literally wrote the book on bumble bees

Jessenia literally wrote the book on bumble bees

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Bees are widely considered the most effective and important pollinators; and as far as

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Fun fig facts! Do figs really have dead wasps in them? flip.it/l9bQME
Do figs really have dead wasps in them?

Do figs really have dead wasps in them?

Does every fig you eat really have a dead wasp inside?If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and...

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New paper for crop pests on the Canadian Prairies... doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2025-00…. Key finding... "flea beetles, grasshoppers, cutworms, and lygus bugs were the dominant pests and along with other pests they cost Prairie farmers around 204 million dollars in an average year."
Prairie crop insect pests: how can we improve our economic impact estimate?

Prairie crop insect pests: how can we improve our economic impact estimate?

There is no agreement on which insects are the most important Prairie pests or an estimate of their approximate total economic cost to Canadian agriculture. There are multiple reasons for this: (1)...

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Thousands of mosquitoes are being dropped by drone over islands in Hawaii. Here’s why flip.it/.K8qut
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This is beautiful beetle, but we really don't want to see it in Alberta... Invasive Japanese beetles found outside downtown core in Kamloops, B.C. flip.it/pXYaKR
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What Ever Happened to the Murder Hornets? flip.it/is-pJs
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It’s miller moth season in Colorado – an entomologist explains why they’re important and where they’re headed flip.it/RKWxQk
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A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why? flip.it/VVp1vY
A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why?

A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why?

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".This phrase, which sounds technical but is actually nonsense, has become a …

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Opinion: Coal mine pollution could put southern Alberta's water, animals and food industry at risk flip.it/bipIjK
Opinion: Coal mine pollution could put southern Alberta's water, animals and food industry at risk

Opinion: Coal mine pollution could put southern Alberta's water, animals and food industry at risk

Article contentHave you heard? Coal mines are coming back to the Eastern Slopes.Article contentHere are some basic facts the coal companies and our government are keeping from you, using the Grassy …

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I'm leaving soon for BlueSky and hope to see a few of my Twitter friends there. I'm looking at you @AAFC_Canada
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An open letter to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith: Who protects Albertans from bad political decisions? flip.it/d9MfN5
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Just when I think I couldn't be more disgusted by the UCP, I read this... globalnews.ca/news/10978373/…
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