Jai 🪲📷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (VC59)
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Entomology, Photography, Postcard Enthusiast ——————————————————— Collembola - Coccinellidae - Occlupanida —————————————— 📌 Greater Manchester
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Anyone know what causes this appearance of multiple pseudopupils in some butterflies?

#entomology #bugsky #lepidoptera #invertebrates
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Macro shot of a butterfly (Pieris brassicae) head, showing the compound eye. It is a green-grey, speckled in a repeating pattern of black spots emanating from a central pseudopupil, the pattern almost reminiscent of a honeycomb structure, one tat the compound eye is likely made up of.
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nicknc.bsky.social
I found a leviathan of a railroad worm (aka glowworm, aka larviform female Phengodes beetle) on a rock in New Hope Creek. Biggest I have ever seen

Fortuitously, an elementary school field trip passed by just as I was rescuing it from watery doom, so impromptu show and tell commenced. #invertebrates
An orange, black, and ivory beetle that looks more like a Millipede with only six legs.
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chibdm.bsky.social
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
jaiiiiiii1.bsky.social
yeah, they're one of the only things actually driving what comes up on your feed
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Just seen a red kite up close, hovering near to the ground, for the first time, holy SHIT!!

Wingspan is larger than myself laid horizontally by a fair margin. Hopefully I'll see more of them outside of Oxfordshire + N. Yorkshire next year, they definitely seem to be venturing out past the pennines.
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hopenothate.org.uk
Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether
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inaturalist.bsky.social
Globular springtails 4ever. (This one is possibly in the Genus Ptenothrix!)

📷 sparkn on iNaturalist
📍 China
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
A brown and white springtail crouches on the ground. A brown and white springtail crouches on the ground. A brown and white springtail crouches on the ground.
jaiiiiiii1.bsky.social
That would be Valenzuela flavidus I suppose, common and widespread in the UK
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dannyrobins.bsky.social
Just one more sleep until the first night of the all new Uncanny: Fear of the Dark tour! 😱😱😱

6 brand new cases live on stage for us to investigate, with the help of @ciaranokeeffe.bsky.social and Evelyn Hollow (not on BlueSky yet!)

I cannot wait to get started!! 👻
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samthielman.com
horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles
phillewis.bsky.social
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
jaiiiiiii1.bsky.social
Hopefully we stick with Jersey Ladybird, 'Little Arboreal' has always been a bit crap
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Discouraged seeing community groups, charities, etc using genAI images in their design + products. Co-op of willing artists offering workshops and aid with design for not-for-profits to experiment
with their own work, volunteer with them for sales/fundraising, and discourage GenAI in creative spaces
jaiiiiiii1.bsky.social
Nothing is ever really lost or deleted on the internet so I'm just gonna collate a thought I had here
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Spot on with that magnitude estimate yesterday, can't tell the difference between the two when I pause
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Hey @writerpaula.bsky.social! I gather you'll recognise this one? Trying to see if I can put a name to the artist behind the illustrations, and you seem to be the one name I can actually get a hold of looking online. Any tips or contact info to start off the paper trail? :)
Front cover of 'BUGS (AND OTHER TERRIFYING TINY CREATURES)" by Paula Hammond. The cover features illustrations by an unknown artist of a yellowjacket, stag beetle, lacewing larva, tropical frog, and a lizard.