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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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David Notton @davidnotton.bsky.social · Jun 13
New publication! Review of Tetramopria (Diapriidae) of E Palaearctic - mating behaviour and interactions with host ants. with Ryoji Kawai and Seonwoo Yoon. Free download:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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ukceh.bsky.social
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 🐝
Mike Image presenting on insect trends Emma and Mike speak to attendees at the APPG Mike, Claire and Emma at the Houses of Parliament
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections - Nature Communications
Natural history collections hold over two billion specimens representing Earth’s biodiversity, but their scientific value depends on continued specimen collection and digitisation. This study demonstr...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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zookeys.pensoft.net
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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arnoldtortoise.bsky.social
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
A pair of wings (forewing and hindwing) of a tiny wasp. Each wing has a very long fringe, and the fringes of the forewing and the hindwing overlap.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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colinpurrington.bsky.social
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
Approximately 100 light-brown, rice-shaped, segmented puparia in the palm of my hand.
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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lawnmasternotts.bsky.social
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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arnoldtortoise.bsky.social
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
Side view of a tiny yellow wasp. Its head and antennae are to the left of picture. Its head has a large bright red eye. Clear, paddle-shaped fringed wings are held vertically above body.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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derekhennen.bsky.social
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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robyaxley.bsky.social
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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hmcclaff.bsky.social
An ichneumonini, parasitic wasp. Just 👀 at his antennae! I had to flick back to September for the photo. #insectthursday #thestrangeworldofinsects
A long orange and black insect with very long antennae clings to the dried stalk of a plant.
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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grays.art
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
The image shows a close-up view of an insect, specifically a wasp, interacting with a yellow flower. The wasp is positioned upside down, clinging to the flower with its legs. The wasp's body is predominantly black with noticeable yellow markings on its thorax and legs. Its wings are transparent with a dark tint, and its abdomen is distinctively red and bulbous, tapering to a point. The flower consists of numerous small, elongated petals, and the wasp is in direct contact with these petals. The background is dark, which highlights the details of the wasp and the flower.
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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fenraven.bsky.social
#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
Sony a6400, f/6.3, 1/500s, ISO-3200, 295mm. I had the Sony 70-350mm lens on the camera, and you use what you have to get what you want.
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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anjab.bsky.social
Love the blue/black colour of the wings of this wasp.
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #wasp
Large black wasp with blue/ black wings seen from the front, eating from a green small flower in a tree with bright green leaves.
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
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.
macro photograph of a large,slender light red ant standing alert on yellowish sand grains. The ant's antennae are lowered and its abdomen raised.
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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littlemandzy.bsky.social
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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arnoldtortoise.bsky.social
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
Side view of a tiny wasp; its head and antennae are at the top left of picture, its long-fringed narrow wings are to the right
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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spidermax3000.bsky.social
#insectthursday
Ichneumon #wasp - Family: Ichneumonidae
(Shot near Cincinnati 6-30-25) 🪳🪲🐝 #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #ivertebrate #insecf #bug #bugsky #ento
An ichneumon wasp (Family: Ichneumonidae) in profile on a leaf facing the left of frame. They have a dark body and thin orangish legs.
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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forloveofinsects.bsky.social
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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grays.art
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
A close-up image shows a wasp perched on a yellow flower. The wasp has a distinctive black and yellow striped abdomen, with fine hairs visible on its body. Its wings are extended upwards, displaying a translucent appearance with visible veins. The wasp’s antennae are long and positioned forward. The flower has a central cluster of small, dark-tipped stamens surrounded by bright yellow petals. The flower is supported by a green stem, which is slightly out of focus in the background.
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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maureenpickering.bsky.social
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,…
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November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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museumofbc.bsky.social
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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arc-tracker.bsky.social
“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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colinpurrington.bsky.social
Preview of the walnut husk residents to date. Details in the post above.
16 square images. A tray of walnuts, the inside of a rotting walnut, a walnut maggot, a group of fly puparia, a puparium on sand, a puparium partially buried in sand, a black beetle, a black wasp, a mottled fly, a red-eyed flied, a dark red mite, another reddish mite, and then four elongate beetles.
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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boldpolitics.bsky.social
Social justice and environmental justice are one and the same thing.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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diplopodracer.bsky.social
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
A black and yellow yellow jacket wasp is shown looking down from the top. She is sitting on concrete. She looks tired and her antennae are drooping. She is also listing to one side slightly while she gathers strength to fly off somewhere to spend her last few hours. A black and yellow yellow jacket wasp is shown looking down from the top. She is sitting on concrete. She looks tired and her antennae are drooping. She is also listing to one side slightly while she gathers strength to fly off somewhere to spend her last few hours. A black and yellow yellow jacket wasp is shown from the side. She is sitting on concrete. She looks tired and her antennae are drooping. She is also listing to one side slightly while she gathers strength to fly off somewhere to spend her last few hours.
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM