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Rajashree Khalap
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Naturalist. Here to follow spiders, insects, dogs, cats #naturalhistory #arachnology
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This is a great photo of a cat sitting in a bowl. "No way she could top that", you're thinking. WELL GUESS WHAT...
Photo of a shorthaired black cat sitting in a metal bowl on top of a wooden table indoors.
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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chatsvoid.bsky.social
🦋🐊

#comic #animalart
I CHOOSE TO SEE THE BEAUTY IN LITTLE THINGS. MAYBE NOT CHOOSE BUT... I WANT TO. I'M TRYING TO... SO I PRACTICE. I LOOK FOR IT WHERE EVER I CAN. IT'S WORK. BUT MORE AND MORE OFTEN.. EVERY NOW AND THEN. it gets easier.
February 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many butterflies from her collection. 👩🏼‍🔬🐡🦋🧪 #histsci Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous Victorian lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s 🧵
My linocut portrait of Margaret Fountaine, a Victorian woman in elaborate hat with wings, blouse with lace collar, skirt and fur stole, printed in burgundy ink. Behind her are diagonal rows of butterflies with little labels, printed in various combinations of orange, black, yellow and brown white white.
May 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Met this walking blade of grass today #insects
April 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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A beautiful calm lycosid female I met last week on the path near our property. She's so soft!
#spider #teamspider
Near Umate, Konkan, India
Face of a large brown Wolf Spider female, with six of her eyes facing the camera, reflecting my diffuser in each Front view of a large brown Wolf Spider female, her colour matching the ground. Six of her eyes are facing the camera. Some of her leg spines are in focus. Dorsal/top view of the same brown Wolf Spider female, showing her eye pattern and shape of her prosoma, and the tibia of some of her legs
April 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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cataranea.bsky.social
Exciting #Arachnology news! It's been clear for some time that spiders have 'noses' on their legs but we didn't really understand how they smell airborne sex pheromones.

Now we do! Gabriele Uhl & colleagues have identified the sensilla responsible: 🕷️🧪

www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
“Olfaction with legs – spiders use wall-pore sensilla for pheromone detection"
Spiders can smell: they use pore-covered sensilla that are similar to hairs to detect volatile substances. This is the key finding of a study that has been published in the January 2025 issue of the s...
www.uni-greifswald.de
January 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Happy birthday to #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788)! 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci My #linocut celebrates her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, solving the 🧵
My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.
January 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
Infinite Microcosmos

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sil6...
infinite microcosmos 🔬 lofi microbes to relax/study to
YouTube video by Journey to the Microcosmos
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December 26, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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Stenaelurillus sp. female, on stony ground near Umate, Konkan. I love this genus and I'm so happy to have these cuties on our property. December, 2024. #spider #jumpingspider #invertefest
A compact brown and white jumping spider with a pattern of lines and two large white spots, viewed from the side. Sitting on stony ground A compact brown and white jumping spider with a pattern of lines and two large white spots, viewed from the right. Sitting on stony ground. A compact brown and white furry jumping spider with a pattern of lines and two large white spots, viewed from above. Sitting on stony ground. A compact brown and white jumping spider with a pattern of lines and two large white spots, sitting on stony ground.
December 26, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Happy birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). 🧮👩🏼‍🔬🔭🎢🐡🧪 #histsci As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as 🧵
My linocut portrait of Mary Somerville in a dress with lace collar and fur trim, surrounded by math, physics and astronomy diagrams from her publications, in a gradient of turquoise at the bottom to violet at the top.
December 26, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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nickybay.bsky.social
I found this beautiful pair of Pyrops intricatus on this tree and waited for several hours in hope that they would... you know you know.

But it didn't happen.
December 17, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
IT'S FINISHED!
The Art of #InverteFest December 2024 Edition
A digital art book showcasing the work of 76 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna.

Thank you to the human artists who contributed to our art book!

Download here drive.google.com/file/d/1p-EC...
a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like a jellyfish, anemone, beetle, and so on.
December 25, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
Take a look at our #InverteFest art book! There is so much incredible art this time. Thanks to everyone who contributed (especially the nudibranchs)!

#SciArt
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Dec 25
IT'S FINISHED!
The Art of #InverteFest December 2024 Edition
A digital art book showcasing the work of 76 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna.

Thank you to the human artists who contributed to our art book!

Download here drive.google.com/file/d/1p-EC...
a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like a jellyfish, anemone, beetle, and so on.
December 25, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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tshahan.bsky.social
Lepidocyrtus fimicolus found beneath/in damp rotting wood in my garden 🤩🌈
November 24, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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tshahan.bsky.social
🌈waiting for the traffic to thin out a bit after the eclipse, I spotted this BEAUTIFUL rainbow scarab (Phanaeus vindex) dung beetle crawling about the clovers.

First time photographing a male of this species - note the large horn! 🤩
April 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Long-legged Sac Spider, Cheiracanthium sp. I love their soft, silky appearance. Clicked last week on our property near Umate, Konkan.
A long-legged sac spider of the genus Cheiracanthium, resting on a large leaf. The spider is pale and translucent, with white flecks on its abdomen. Its first pair of legs are exceptionally long.
December 22, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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My first sighting of the beautiful genus Stenaelurillus, on some stony ground in our property last week. I think she's S. gabrieli but happy to be corrected! In the fourth photo she's feeding on a tiny arthropod, perhaps a springtail?
Near Umate, Konkan. #spider #jumpingspider #wildlife
A strikingly patterned, furry and compact jumping spider of the genus Stenaelurillus, standing on a dry leaf, facing the camera. Her four main eyes and banded legs are prominently seen in this view. A strikingly patterned, brown, black and white, furry and compact jumping spider of the genus Stenaelurillus, standing on a dry leaf. She has been photographed from above. Her cephalothorax has prominent pale long stripes. Her abdomen is blackish with a broad pale band across and pale border, and a long central stripe with paired white spots on either side. Her legs have light and dark bands. A strikingly patterned, brown, black and white, furry and compact jumping spider of the genus Stenaelurillus, standing on a dry leaf, seen from the side. Her cephalothorax has prominent pale long stripes. Her legs have light and dark bands. A strikingly patterned, brown, black and white, furry and compact jumping spider of the genus Stenaelurillus, standing on a dry leaf and feeding on a small arthropod with long antennae. She has been photographed from above. Her cephalothorax has prominent pale long stripes. Her abdomen is blackish with a broad pale band across and a pale border, and a long central stripe with paired white spots on either side. Her legs have dark bands.
December 21, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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A compact little jumping spider female (Langelurillus sp.) from my garden on the Konkan Coast. From April 2024.
#spiders
An attractive, compact and furry brown jumping spider of the genus Langelurillus, sitting on a blade of grass against the green background of my lawn. The spider has light stripes and spots, and dark banded legs. This view shows the four large main eyes. An attractive, compact and furry brown jumping spider of the genus Langelurillus, sitting on a blade of grass against the green background of my lawn. The spider has light stripes, and spots on its abdomen, and dark and light banded legs. This view shows the spider's body from above. An attractive, compact and furry brown jumping spider of the genus Langelurillus, sitting on a small leaf against the green background of my lawn. The spider has light stripes and spots, and dark banded legs. This view shows the eye area from above. An attractive, compact and furry brown jumping spider of the genus Langelurillus, sitting on a small leaf of wild Indian sorrel, with taller blades of grass around it. The spider has light stripes and spots, and dark and light banded legs. This view shows it in its habitat.
December 21, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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bugsorbust.bsky.social
My first time being part of a published article! Everything about Dolomedes in one place. I wrote the section on parental care. 🕷️

I am very grateful to all of the collaborators on this paper especially Dr. Chrissie Painting and my advisor Eileen.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/ara...
Frontiers | Dolomedes fishing spider biology: gaps and opportunities for future research
www.frontiersin.org
November 26, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Three individuals of Indoxysticus, possibly Indoxysticus minutus, in my garden near Alibaug, Konkan Coast, India. Photos 1, 2 are the same spider. Photo 4 (of the spider carrying its large ant prey) is from 2022. #Arachtober #spider
A distinctively patterned brownish crab spider of the genus Indoxysticus, sitting on a leaf A distinctively patterned brownish crab spider of the genus Indoxysticus, sitting on a leaf A second distinctively patterned brownish crab spider, sitting on a leaf A distinctively patterned brownish crab spider, of the genus Indoxysticus, carrying ant prey larger than itself, up the stem of a plant
October 31, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Long-jawed orbweaver Tetragnatha sp. female. She was with her brood (two babies visible in Photo 4). Unfortunately I didn't get detailed views of her chelicerae. Near Umate, Konkan, India. August 2024. #arachnid #spider
September 29, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Neoscona punctigera female in our garden. She snared and wrapped prey while I was clicking. 4th photo - crop showing her scape. Near Umate, Konkan, India. August 2024. #arachnid #orbweavingspider #spider
September 29, 2024 at 12:02 PM