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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Nov 9

Welcome to Bluesky, newbies. If you're following me I hope you love Bugs.

Enjoy a Baby Mantis March 🖤

A parade of newly-hatched mantis babies summoning the courage to go out on their own, all in a row on a stem

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Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 5h

More wasps from Sichuan! This time we describe a new rose gall found on a protected endemic rose from China. We named the gall wasp Diplolepis nezha and its ichneumonid parasitoid Orthopelma aobing, after characters from the Chinese legend/popular animated film.

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Movie poster of Nezha II featuring Ne Zha, with its head replaced by Diplolepis nezha

Movie poster of Nezha II featuring Ao Bing, with its head replaced by Orthopelma aobing

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

Also we have Mr Colonus sylvanus, a common but very pretty sight, being very perky on a handrail this afternoon ❤️
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Shiny dark red jumping spider with a white mustache, raised on his legs a bit, peering curiously slightly to left of frame

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

Miniscule Ms Neonella vinnula (~1.5mm long), with an even more miniscule snack 🧡
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Tiny amber jumping spider, with a tiny grey smack of some kind, peering at you as she eats deep in leaf litter

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 23h

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 23h

@echinoblog.bsky.social 👀👀

Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 23h

Hadn't had a proper depression episode in a long time, did not miss them 🫠

Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

Also we have Mr Colonus sylvanus, a common but very pretty sight, being very perky on a handrail this afternoon ❤️
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

Miniscule Ms Neonella vinnula (~1.5mm long), with an even more miniscule snack 🧡
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely #Arachtober content here

Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm still shook by this, it's like 5 mice taking down a lion, but the lion can fly 😳

Yellow jacket next to a crevice in a wooden post, out of which a pseudoscorpion is grabbing the antennae of the wasp to hold it down

Wider view, with another pseudoscorpion poking out of the crevice to grab at the yellow jacket's stinger basically??

Closer shot of the the previous pseudoscorpion whose latched onto the yellow jacket's posterior, and a pale small baby pseudoscorpion is getting in on the action

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Theoretically there's a certain amount of pseudoscorpions which could take down a mammal, that's what I've learned here

Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Sep 9

A few days ago I posted a dead yellow jacket which had become a community meal for Paratemnoides social pseudoscorpions, but I hadn't really considered that they are apparently capable of teaming up and catching a live one?? Checked on them later and the unfortunate wasp was deceased. Damn. 🧪

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm still shook by this, it's like 5 mice taking down a lion, but the lion can fly 😳

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

Have you seen my encounter with Paratemnoides taking down a live yellow jacket

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

There's still silly mopey wasps roaming the leaf litter and grass, in October. 🖤
Ms Eupelmus here with her booty feather is looking for some quarry or another in dry pine needles.

Slender dark bluish shiny wasp with her booty in the air terminated with a black feathery ovipositor thingie, running the length of a dry pine needle

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

Grumpy boi (why is my stick moving, I didn't ask the stick to move)
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

(Phidippus regius lad)

Large fuzzy black and white jumping spider with bright green chelicerae, on grumpy salticid posture (legs tight around him like cat loaf), on the tip of a stick peering at you

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

thank you sour cream pound cake

strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 2d

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 2d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

There's still silly mopey wasps roaming the leaf litter and grass, in October. 🖤
Ms Eupelmus here with her booty feather is looking for some quarry or another in dry pine needles.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

Grumpy boi (why is my stick moving, I didn't ask the stick to move)
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

(Phidippus regius lad)

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

Habronattus don't want any part of the camera in my experience, as a rule, but yeah most other salticids are often quite curious about the lens

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 2d

Is it me?

Three panel Donny Darko meme between his mother and Donny:

Donny: I made a new friend.
Mother: Real or bug?
Donny: BUG!

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 2d

Cabbage boiled in vinegar. It's not that weird, but still.

Boiled cabbage used to be one of the only veggies we'd have fresh as a kid, and I loved it.

Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 2d

As a Jaguars fan I don't know if this should be injected into my veins but YOLOOOOOOOO

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3d

Crab Season
#Arachtober 🩷

Magnificent white-banded crab spider lass, perched on a white flower smaller than she is. She's light pink and white

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Oct 6

Crab, and crab peets 🥹
One of our most stunning crab spider species (Misumenoides formosipes) is very large and pretty chill, and that makes getting shots of their little feet a bit easier.
#Invertebrates #Arachtober

Magnificent pale white and pink crab spider on a cluster of purple chaffhead flowers, her large front leg pairs spread wide like bird wings

Close shot of two of her little feet, with 2 tiny claws on each

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