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David Notton
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Mad about diapriid wasps/bees 🐝taxonomy, zoological nomenclature, museums, entomology curation & IPM! Former NHMUK, now freelance. Recording Lauriston Agroecology Farm🌾🥕 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Notton #Edinburgh
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New publication! Review of Tetramopria (Diapriidae) of E Palaearctic - mating behaviour and interactions with host ants. with Ryoji Kawai and Seonwoo Yoon. Free download:
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Great to attend the Bees, Pollinators and Invertebrates APPG event at the House of Lords yesterday.

Mike Image & Emma Gardner shared our work with JNCC on the pollinator indicator and @pomscheme.bsky.social, plus DRUID results on predicting effects of land-use policies on wild bees 🐝
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Fourteen species of Aprostocetus Westwood from China are reviewed, including one new species, and new country records for four species: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#parasitoids #taxonomy #newspecies
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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The remarkable wings of a 0.3mm long Alaptus minimus wasp of the Mymaridae. If you look closely toward the left end of the pair you can see the hamuli (hooks) that link the hindwing to the forewing.

#wasps #entomology
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Some of the walnut husk maggot fly pupae I've collected in my back yard. Hoping that some will have resident Coptera, sleek black wasps in the Diapriidae that have a fondness for Tephritidae. #flies #wasps #diapriidae #walnuts #insects
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Apologies for showing a bum on here 🤭
BUT how bonkers is this? Bumble bee on our winter flowering honeysuckle just now, there are 2 around as well! 😲🤗🐝 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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A 0.8mm long female Paracentrobia pulchella wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 15.5.2025 on the saltmarsh at Rye Harbour. This is a very common species around the Nature Reserve, with large populations throughout the summer.

#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #RyeHarbour
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Found a very handsome Cynipid wasp while searching for leaf litter myriapods! Usually I have to rear out galls, so this was a nice surprise: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Gall Wasps (Family Cynipidae)
Gall Wasps from Halifax County, VA, USA on November 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM by Derek Hennen. Leaf litter in Southern Piedmont Basic Oak - Hickory Forest
www.inaturalist.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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I wasn’t necessarily expecting any new species on a visit to urban Leeds, but it was nice to find this Grey Silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudata) on my son’s kitchen worktop. Nice for me, at least.
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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An ichneumonini, parasitic wasp. Just 👀 at his antennae! I had to flick back to September for the photo. #insectthursday #thestrangeworldofinsects
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Slosson's Mason Wasp
(Zethus slossonae)

on goldenrod 11-2-25
at Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park

#ColorADay #RedWed #eastcoastkin #bugSky #florida #red #native #insects #wasps #pollinators #goldenrod #wildflowers #nature #art
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #small
This is a thread-waisted wasp digger. I tend to chase insects until I get a good shot, and I love this one. I took the picture in Florida. 😊 #insects #photography #naturephotography #wasp
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Love the blue/black colour of the wings of this wasp.
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #wasp
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The genus name for American harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex, means "bearded ant", and it refers to a basket of hairs on the underside of the head that helps these desert ants carry dry sand.

Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas.
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Ichneumon wasp confirmed as Eurylabus tristis on white Lychnis in my Devon garden, August. Its unfortunate Lychnis moth host is just about visible.
#ichneumonidae
#ichneumonwasp
#macroinsect
#insects
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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A beautiful 0.22mm long female Megaphragma noyesi parasitoid wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 29.7.2025 in the old meadow at Great Dixter.
Very pleased with the detail in this picture, probably the best one of this species thus far.

#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #HighWeald
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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#insectthursday
Ichneumon #wasp - Family: Ichneumonidae
(Shot near Cincinnati 6-30-25) 🪳🪲🐝 #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #ivertebrate #insecf #bug #bugsky #ento
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Franse veldwesp | European paper wasp
(Polistes dominula), vrouw | female

#nationaalparkveluwezoom #posbank #wesp #wasp #hymenoptera #insectphotography #ElkeDagEenInsect
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Caribbean Scoliid Wasp
(Dielis dorsata)

on Trailing Daisy
(Sphagneticola trilobata)

CREW Flint Pen Strand Trails
Bonita Springs, FL 11-10-25

#ColorADay #YellowThu #eastcoastkin #bugsky #insectthursday #yellow #wasps #flowers #wildflowers #pollinators #macro #photography #macroPhotography #art
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Only with independence Scotland would go from the most expensive electricity in Europe to the cheapest talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/20/o...
Only with independence Scotland would go from the most expensive electricity in Europe to the cheapest
Professor John Robertson OBA The above video excerpt is already out these across social media. I’m just giving another wee push and, importantly reminding folk that location pricing is never,…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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In the second instalment of her blog series concerning the botany and the British Empire, Esme Barrell reflects on the colonial roots of the Royal Botanical Gardens and the appropriation of Indigenous botanical knowledge by British scientists.

museumofbritishcolonialism.org/red-bark-and...
Red Bark and Empire: Unearthing the Colonial Roots of Kew Gardens | MBC
Part One – Kew Gardens This project began with a single plant. While researching in the archives of the Royal […]
museumofbritishcolonialism.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”

Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Preview of the walnut husk residents to date. Details in the post above.
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Social justice and environmental justice are one and the same thing.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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A very late-season yellow jacket was resting in her last hours on my porch this morning. Gave her a little bit of hummingbird nectar so she doesn't starve to death and spend her last hours in her nest.

#hymenoptera #invertebrates #bugsky #m43
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM