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Arturo Santos
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Ecologist/Naturalist/Taxonomist, insects (Pterygota, Diptera). Also an iNaturalist Curator and BugGuide editor

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This incredible fly (Hermya anhamberu) is a newly described species! 🧵⤵️

📷 aranda87 on iNaturalist
📍 Brazil
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
October 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
aispinsects.bsky.social
Fine. I'll post. Blattella roach as a floral visitor. Caught it...seems to like flying.......
October 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
aispinsects.bsky.social
This little crane fly, Erioptera parva, is common at lights here.

#insects #entomology #science #photography #nature #conservation #florida #biology #research #zoology #animals #diptera #flies
June 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Satellite fly (Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae).

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #photography #animals #wildlife #conservation #diptera #inaturalist
May 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Pictonemobius (bar-faced cricket).

#insects #entomology #photography #biology #science #research #animals #eukaryotes #orthoptera #crickets
May 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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April 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Stagmomantis floridensis ootheca found in January in a mesic flatwoods.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Frog
March 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The Florida deepdigger scarab, Peltotrupes profundus. From fall to early spring, these guys emerge from and build meters-long tunnels to rear their young in...god this character limit is tiny.
#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Was not expecting that...

#coralsnake #snakes #herps #herping #biology #wildlife #conservation #photography #research #science
March 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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This leafhopper was caught from Florida rosemary in a sand pine scrub habitat. It was identified to Typhlocybinae by the metatarsal features and to Dikraneurini by the absence of an appendix and the...

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The story of entomologist Charles Henry Turner who, without access to a lab, without university support, revolutionized our understanding of how intelligence and emotion evolved in his exquisitely designed experiments with bees and ants
The Ants, the Bees, and the Blind Spots of the Human Mind: How Entomologist Charles Henry Turner Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Evolution of Intelligence and Emotion
“The handicaps under which Dr. Turner’s work was accomplished were many, and were modestly and bravely met.”
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March 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Florida rosemary - a remarkable celebrity from Florida

#plants #botany #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Almost forgot this one...a mantidfly.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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New book: A checklist to identify all known species of flies in Canada! doi.org/10.3897/ab.e...

"This checklist is a fundamental piece of work that will guide the assessment of the conservation status of those species."

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Cover of "Checklist of the Flies (Diptera) in Canada" featuring two fly images, with contributors and publisher details below.
March 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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This plant hopper.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Alright the Science Library is live 🫡
March 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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The season has returned! My favorite wasp is out on the oaks again.

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Chrysonotomyia susbelli
Chrysonotomyia susbelli from University Place, Houston, TX, USA on March 4, 2025 at 01:27 PM by Brendan O'Loughlin
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March 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
aispinsects.bsky.social
I think Hapithus (probably subgenus Orocharis). Not sure what it's nibbling around for.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Turned over a log and these spiders started doing some strange behaviors.

#spiders #entomology #science #wildlife #biology #nature
March 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Cicindela scutellaris unicolor. They like to dig short burrows and rest in them.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Roll out the red carpet.....
March 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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This is a roach in the genus Ischnoptera. It's been hypothesized as an aberrant I. deropeltiformis, but these may need to be studied and reviewed.
March 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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State of Illinois is hiring. Check it out & share.
winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) blooming in late February.
March 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM