Teresa Rose Osborne
Mariana Islands invertebrate conservation biologist 🏝️🇲🇵 Postdoc on ant locomotion 🐜 PhD in Pacific Island land snails 🐌🐚 I go by Rose, she/her 🖖
- Oh Deer! Philippine deer (Chamorro: binadu, scientific name: Rusa marianna) were introduced to Guam in the 1770s & later the Northern Marianas. Deer hunting is important to CNMI culture. In the Philippines, deer are vulnerable to extinction. But here, deer are invasive & damage native habitat 🦌
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- 2025 was a year of progress & discoveries for akaleha' tree snail conservation here in the CNMI 🐌 Akaleha' are tree snails in Family Partulidae native to the Mariana Islands🇲🇵🇬🇺 To count down the new year, Here's our Top 10 Akaleha' Conservation Moments of 2025 #InverteFest #JoyOfMolluscs
- 10. We updated our survey methods to more accurately map areas occupied by akaleha' tree snails. We’re now finding snails further away than expected from the dense hearts of akaleha' populations 🐌📋🗺️ #InverteFest #JoyOfMolluscs
- I had the delight of meeting these (or a related species) and other very large snails while studying abroad in Ecuador back in 2013 Why are there giant land snails in the tropics (e.g. these Ecuadorian species, giant African snails), but giant slugs in temperate zones? #JoyOfMolluscs 🐌
- Gotta love Lisa Frank squid babies Also gotta love creative uses of mucus #JoyOfMolluscs
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- Lovely piece from @anngawel.bsky.social on akaleha' tree snails in Guam & the CNMI. Dr. Gawel visited Rota to hear from elders on how they collected & used akaleha'. And she helped me map living akaleha' & showed me an akaleha' site I didn't know! #JoyOfMolluscs www.guampdn.com/lifestyle/st...
- - obsessed with slugs as a kid - learned in 8th grade that paid to play with slugs = "biology" - research opportunities in undergrad & grad school for shelled snails, so I expanded my horizons to the shelly - postdoc was ending & saw a job posting for snail conservation on a tropical Pacific Island
- Slug fight!!!! #JoyOfMolluscs www.instagram.com/reel/DRPkgRx...
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- #HappyHalloween! Did you know - Hermit crabs use snail skeletons to cover their butts 😱 🐚 Hermit crabs don't build their shells 🐌 But snails do! A snail's shell is its skeleton and grows as the snail grows. Hermit crabs use dead snails' shells protect their soft backsides. Creepy! ☠️ #JoyOfMolluscs
- These 2 showed up on our doorstep just days after my birthday, when they were maybe 2 months old. Raising them is the unexpected birthday gift that keeps on giving 🖤🖤
- Happy #MolluscMonday! Snail shells in traditional Pacific arts: 🐚In the Marianas, Chamorro & Refaluwasch people used akaleha' tree snails to make beaded bags & jewelry 🌏Many Pacific cultures use seashells for islands in stick chart maps, combining art, science, & geography #JoyOfMolluscs
- Clara Peeters clearly had excellent taste in still-life subject #JoyOfMolluscs 🐚
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- Want an #SnailSunday challenge? 🤓 Try to find the snails in these photos! Partula lutaensis (Family Partulidae, Chamorro: akaleha' Luta) Answers in the alt text This snail was much harder to find in the field than in the photo #InverteFest #JoyOfMolluscs 🐌 1/5
- Sometimes, I confuse baby akaleha’ (Mariana Islands tree snails in Family Partulidae) with other, smaller species Here’s what a baby akaleha’ looks like 👶🐌 #InverteFest #SnailSaturday #JoyOfMolluscs 1/4
- Liardetia sp., Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 🇲🇵 #InverteFest #JoyOfMolluscs
- Elasmias cf. quadrasi, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands #InverteFest #JoyOfMolluscs
- Cocoon, Guam #InverteFest
- Speedy Omphalotropis land snail crawling along the inside of a plastic terrarium 🏎️ #InverteFest #JoyOfMolluscs 🐌
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