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One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps @diplopodracer.bsky.social · 9h

Oh damn, fingers crossed work doesn't make it an issue 🖤

One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps @diplopodracer.bsky.social · 9h

Ugggh, yep, avoiding a 1.5h commute was also why I decided to buy the hotspot. IG I could have driven in, but lumen made me wait a week and a half for a tech

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One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps @diplopodracer.bsky.social · 9h

Im not iNTeReSteD in iNsUltS oR moCKeRy

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One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps @diplopodracer.bsky.social · 9h

Sure, keep lying buddy.

One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps @diplopodracer.bsky.social · 9h

Ugh last time this happened to me I had to buy a hotspot so I didn't miss a week of work, which I'm still grumpy about 3y later lmao

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Cynipid @cynipid.bsky.social · 17h

I have a new addition to my collection of earrings based on the forms of insect antennae. I started with serrate; then I did pectinate. The latter were my favorite and recently broke so I am recarving them and also did this lamellate set (bottom pair). Loving them!

Three sets of wooden earrings carved from oak. The top set are hoop-shaped with the bottom outer edge with projecting teeth like a serrated knife. The middle set has extensions hanging downwards that give it a comb-like appearance. The bottom has overlapping rounded plates hanging downwards.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

This happens every time someone says they have criticisms of something but don't say what

Commentary on the Israel/Gaza conflict literally makes me want to tear my fucking brain out. It is uniquely neurocognitively *painful.* Example: I have so many criticisms of the current Gov't of Israel. Yet everyone who goes on who is
"critical of Israel" just lies!
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scrunko @scrunkoel...•13h
What are some of those criticisms?
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Magdi Jacobs & @ma... •12h
Why would I spend my time going down your rabbit hole?
Why do you engage in this sophomoric BS?
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scrunko @scrunkoelbunko
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It's not a rabbit hole. It's a single question. If you have all these criticisms you're dying to

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Marko Draisma @markodraisma.bsky.social · 18h

Een paar zweefvliegen in de duinen. Gewone rode bladloper (Xylota segnis), Gewoon krieltje (Paragus haemorrhous), Bosdidea in actie (Didea fasciata) en de Gele veenzweefvlieg (Sericomyia silentis).

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 19h

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 18h

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 188

Research indicates that the more plant species there are in a meadow, the more bee species are needed for pollination.
‘Rare species’ #bees often forage on and pollinate plants that the more common species of bees don’t.
#bumblebees
#nature
🐝🌍

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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · 3d

Got word last week that my legal battle with Spartan Mosquito will be included in a book chapter on the legal risks of science communication. And by the way, if anyone gets SLAPPed and wants to chat, DM me. 🧪🌿⚖️ #legal #mosquitoes #scicomm #science #slapp #defamation #lawsuit

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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · 18h

And here's the female. #wasps #chalcidoidea #inaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Genus Eurytoma

Eurytoma from Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA on October 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM by Colin Purrington. Emerged from redbud pods.

www.inaturalist.org

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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · 18h

If you have thoughts on identification I'm always grateful for help. Here's the male. #wasps #chalcidoidea #inaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Genus Eurytoma

Eurytoma from Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA on October 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM by Colin Purrington. Emerged from redbud pods.

www.inaturalist.org

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Kathy Keatley Garvey @bugsrule.bsky.social · 18h

A little high-five from a flameskimmer dragonfly, Libellula saturata.

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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · 19h

Male and female chalcids that emerged from redbud seedpods. Both are in the genus Eurytoma and are possibly the same species but further identification is beyond my skill set. I can't find any mention of them being recorded as parasitoids of redbud bruchids. 🌿 #wasps #hymenoptera #insects #bruchidae

Two photographs of black wasps that look roughly the same except that top one has hairy antennae with large gaps in between the segments, while the bottom one has more beadlike antennae. The lower one also has an ovipositor. Their legs are partly orange and their head and thorax have pits and short white hairs.

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Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 1d

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.

mapress.com/zt/article/v...

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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One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps @diplopodracer.bsky.social · 1d

New wasps dropped!

Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 1d

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.

mapress.com/zt/article/v...

One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps @diplopodracer.bsky.social · 1d

A blue death-feigning beetle (Asbolus verrucosus) climbs down some stone. These beetles are ridiculous and move like fake bugs, just unfathomably cute.

#insects #coleoptera #beetles #invertebrates #m43 #invertefest #invertober

A waxy, sky blue beetle is in frame with segmented antennae, reddish hairs on its feet, and rows of bumps along its elytra. It is hanging precipitously from a small cliff of stone to reach a lower level of stone.

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becca | they/them @beccaisoutside.bsky.social · 1d

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

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Rory @norwichgiant.bsky.social · 1d

Camouflage

@britishspiders.bsky.social #Bugsky #invertebrates #spiders

Araneus diadematus hiding in some bramble near her vast web

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One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps @diplopodracer.bsky.social · 1d

Great shot!

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A Hundred George Michaels You Can Teach To Drive @milpool.bsky.social · 1d

This happened to me in 2014. And there’s no bad time to realize it, the important thing is that everyone does

Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

At some point in the last 2.5 years I went to bed thinking of Israel as a flawed but recoverable democracy that could work out its issues eventually post-Netanyahu and woke up holding it in the same disdain as Milošević’s Yugoslavia and the Confederate States

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Apropos absolutely nothing else there is still a rather rude awakening which is yet to come for those in the Democratic Party and in the camp of liberalism writ large if they think Israel's public image is at all recoverable among young and nonwhite voters and apparatchiks.