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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 9h

walked into that

‪acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻‬
‪@acabylonbee.bsky.social‬
fact check: most people who don't know their beautiful, arent

‪Just A Boo Owl ☭ 👻‬
‪@justabarnowl.bsky.social‬
they're

acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻
‪@acabylonbee.bsky.social‬
they'rent actually

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 10h

he was on the first ICP album in like '91. he used the n-word.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 17h

And if you're thinking "Wow look at these guys vote against their own interests," no they didn't.

Most US farmers' interests are just NOT what people think they are.

The loudest voices in ag are millionaires who're worried about taxes more than anything else.

They're just rich. It's not that deep

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 20h

butterflies make up a monophyletic group, moths are just the leps that aren't butterflies. fairer to say *moths* don't exist (unless you include butterflies).

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · 22h

#NewSpecies!
New planthopper from #vietnam just hopped in:

Hemisphaerius thaydoius

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03F6C023-...
Publication: doi.org/10.5852/ejt....
#ejtaxonomy #HemisphaeriusThaydoius

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #animals #entomology #insects #bugs #planthopper

Hemisphaerius thaydoius, live specimen in Bach Ma National Park.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 1d

I FUCKEN FINISHED!!! As always, it took me 2 months, but I got there in the end.

The final illustration of a pink silkmoth with beige and brown upper wings and vibrant pink lower wings. Oh, and an incredibly fluffy body.

A close up showing the detail of the furry wings.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

Two surgeons are performing and autopsy. They are extracting various organs from a corpse. Another surgeon has shown up in a large Spongebob mascot outfit.

Caption "Aw Jeez, I'm the only one who wore a costume."

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 1d

an unfortunate caterpillar that became host to lots of braconid wasps which have emerged to pupate #bugsky #insects

a brown caterpillar with multiple projections and a light green couple of segments near its head. under the caterpillar is a neat stack of fluffy white cocoons, affixed to thorny vegetation

another angle of the caterpillar and wasp-stack. the caterpillar appears spotted due to the numerous holes from which wasp larvae emerged.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 1d

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

youtu.be

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 1d

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 2d

#invertober 8, bee killer robber fly. GO my diptera 👐

#invertober2025

thick lineart drawing of a bee-killer robber fly from the side, head angled to look towards the viewer. there is a pattern of simple bees and honeycomb on the yellow background

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 1d

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 2d

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]

A brown pseudoscopion hanging on to the antenna of a wasp. The wasp is yellow with black stripes and transparent wings.

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 3d

hey Phidippus, it's Arachtober - you're only supposed to eat insects! #arachtober #spiders #phidippus

a crab spider getting a taste of its own medicine - its face being eaten by a jumping spider.

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 3d

murphy brown is that you

marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 6d

bacon, as in jeff bacon

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 7d

#invertober day 3, giant green anemone 👐

#invertober2025

rough color block art showing a close up of the tentacles and mouth of a giant green anemone

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 7d

oh it's cool caterpillar friday? i guess so
#bugsky #insects #lepidoptera

an odd, wedge-shaped caterpillar with no visible legs or head. it's a slug caterpillar, Prolimacodes badia, or skiff moth (a reference to the boat-shaped caterpillars)

two red-headed caterpillars chowing down on some leaves. they are black with white and yellow stripes, lots of thick projections, and a large red spot - they're called red-humped caterpillars. Oedemasia concinna

Acronicta longa. a dark brown/black caterpillar with rows of tufts with large spines, most of which emerge from white spots. the caterpillar is arched and the row at the top of the arch is red-tinted instead of white.

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Bug Pix @bugpix.bsky.social · 7d

Gorgeous lil Wolf Spider (Lycosinae, species uncertain) I found stuck in a stairwell and- with some effort -coaxed onto my hand and released outside.

I hope I find some more, Wolf Spiders are so beautiful and their faces are just precious. 🥰

#entomology #arachnology #spider #wolfspider #araneae

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 7d

Millipede fans rejoice: we published our revision of Apheloria! This is the most common cherry millipede genus, but its taxonomy has been riddled with nebulous subspecies names. No longer! We clarify species limits and provide a distribution map. mapress.com/zt/article/v... @apheloria.bsky.social

Revision of the millipede genus Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921 (Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae, Apheloriini) | Zootaxa

mapress.com

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 8d

Araneus for #arachtober #bugsky #spider

a small white spider on the underside of a green leaf. it has dark setae on its legs and palps, and black spots across the abdomen. male Araneus miniatus (?)

same spider. manassas national battlefield park, virginia

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 8d

she's beautiful!

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 8d

Once a spider is above a certain size threshold, I refer to them respectfully as Big Spood

(Dolomedes sp, fishing spider)
#Arachtober

Large mottled grey and brown leggy spider with a white head and face, laying flat against mossy tree bark

Face of the large creature, double row of small black eyes peering

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