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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 3d

One for #Archtober (before I miss it altogether!)

This South Pacific Orb-weaver #spider is in the genus Acroaspis, possibly A. olorina given it was seen in Western Australia.
#ausinverts #wildoz #bugsky #inaturalist #nature

Picture of a spider on a wire railing. The spider has an extended and quite pointy abdomen

Picture of a spider on a wire railing, top view. The spider has an extended and quite pointy abdomen

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 5d

BRAND NEW SENTENCE LEVEL RESEARCH

Dinidorid stinkbug females are armed with leg holsters containing cordyceps species that they use to inoculate their egg clusters & grow a fuzzy fungal blankie that excludes parasitic wasps.

There is a LOT going on down there! #虫🌎

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A couple lil pink baby stinkbugs emerging from their eggs onto a plant stem that looks covered in cotton candy.

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rwhooster @rwhooster.bsky.social · 8d

One more picture from the other day of the Red-green Carpet. Compared to the other picture, I think I like this one better.

#teammoth #mothsmatter #moths

Red-green Carpet (Chloroclysta siterata).

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 9d

Lepthyphantes minutus.

#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #Arachtober

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 9d

Today’s #1000postcard is the song thrush who sits singing his heart out to anyone who will listen. His liquid song like upward rain dripping over the wet woods in fluting refrain

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Charley Eiseman @ceiseman.bsky.social · 10d

In my pursuit of an unknown species of leaf-mining fly on false hellebore, I accidentally discovered a new species of stem-boring fly, which had a zillion other insects living in the stems along with it.

False Hellebore Fauna

For the past decade, I have been trying to rear an unknown species of Liriomyza (Agromyzidae) that mines leaves of false hellebore (Melanthiaceae: Veratrum viride). The mines are very scarce consid…

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 11d

I found this spectacular Moss Katydid (Championica montana) in my garden here at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

#bugsky #insects #invertebrates #nature

Close-up of a spiny green katydid clinging to glossy leaves, its camouflaged body and long antennae in sharp focus against a soft green background.

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ISAAC THE DOG @wetdogclaws.bsky.social · 13d

What a gentle face.

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Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social · Jul 17

Cimbex luteus (Willow Clubhorn) on Salix in the Howardian Hills today...there can't be many better looking sawfly larvae in the UK! #yorkshiresawflies #sawflies #symphyta #ukwildlife

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ISAAC THE DOG @wetdogclaws.bsky.social · 13d

What beautiful, sweet creatures. Like plump yellow cherubs. The versatility of flies is truly amazing. This picture has made me remember again why it is valuable to be alive. You have given this world a truly amazing capture. I hope you feel the warmth of your great achievement. Worth framing.

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Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social · 13d

Thaumatomyia notata, the Yellow Swarming Fly doing exactly that at Allerthorpe Common in East Yorkshire....10,000s of them on pine trunks, and particularly interested in this Hairy Shieldbug. @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 15d

still pulling together specimens for the spooky museum event, devastated to find we are fresh out of Bone Skippers www.livescience.com/37965-mythic...

Buzzworthy Find: 'Mythical' Corpse-Eating Flies

So-called 'bone-skippers' are only active during the early winter and feed on large carcasses. They were thought to be extinct for a century but were recently rediscovered.

www.livescience.com

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 15d

Xylethrus superbus is a fabulous species of orb weaving spider from the Amazon rainforest. While she looks a bit like a strawberry, eating her is not recommended. #Arachtober
Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022

A spider with a large shield shaped abdomen that is edged in blue with red splotches across the top. He legs are red and she is standing on a leaf.

A spider with a red cephalothorax, legs, and a large abdomen edged in blue with red blotches. She is standing on a leaf facing the camera.

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 16d

This little worm is literally a sex machine! This is a male epitoke of a polychaete worm (Myrianida I believe). Let me tell you how it goes down…
#marineplankton 🦑

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George Scherer @gscherer2.bsky.social · 17d

Blue Dasher dragonfly resting on a blade of grass. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. June, 2024. #descansogardens #bluedasher #dragonfly #insect #insectphotography #nature #naturephotography #amateurphotography #photography #omsystem #mzuiko40150pro

A blue dasher dragonfly, with huge bright blue eyes, a blue body, and transparent wings, perched on a broad blade of grass. The dragonfly is viewed from the front and slightly above.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 16d

I found an alien in my garden this morning here at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

I think this is Membracis dorsata, a species of leafhopper.

#invertebrates #insects #nature

Close-up macro of a small white, waxy, spiny insect nymph clinging to a smooth green stem against a soft olive background.

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · 16d

A garden find from Shaftesbury this week, I occasionally see these in the house (usually the kitchen) but this is the first outdoor one I've seen. This is a Wine Cellar Spider, Psilochorus simoni carrying her eggs. (I do have a small cellar but rarely any wine for very long)

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 20d

Field crickets (Gryllinae) aren't just plain brown chirping things in backyards - the group is actually pretty diverse, with >3,000 species. Maybe the weirdest are in the genus Sciobia, which all have these delightful Pikmin-like "hats" 🥺

📸: Sciobia barbara, Pierre-Henri Fabre

#EverydayEnsifera

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · 22d

Chthonius ischnocheles with an Orbatid mite meal, in the garden in Shaftesbury. They seem to like these!

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 21d

Temnothorax isabellae, from the rainforests of Puerto Rico, is one of the more colorful ant species I have photographed.

Macro photograph in side view of a small ant carrying a bit of tree bark in her mandibles, her gaster tucked tightly under her body pointed forward. The ant's head, antennae, gaster, coxae, and femora are black, the thorax and petiole are red, and the tibiae are bright yellow.

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⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️ @deathbyhibachi.bsky.social · 24d

Pile of Skulls

#Art by José Segrelles, 1920

Pile of skulls with bat skullies flying about

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Nick in NC @nicknc.bsky.social · 25d

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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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Oct 1

Hello, I am Myrmoteras and I will be your disembowler this evening.

macro photo in face view of the head of a ruddy red ant with massive black compound eyes and two wide open, rake-like jaws with sharp teeth

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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · Sep 30

Junebug larvae use their back hair to move. #tmi #beetles #coleoptera #entomology #melolonthinae #scarabaeidae

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Danae Wolfe | Chasing Bugs @chasingbugs.com · Sep 21

Oak treehoppers are out! Known for their endearing maternal care, mamas remain with their babies until they emerge as adults and eventually leave the oak branch where they were born.

Oak treehopper nymphs lined up on an oak branch.

A mother oak treehopper (right) stands face-to-face with her nymph on a branch.

A mother oak treehopper (left) stands next to her newly emerged adult children and a nymph on a branch.

Two newly emerged oak treehopper adults stand face-to-face on a branch.

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