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Arturo Santos
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Ecologist/Naturalist/Taxonomist, insects (Pterygota, Diptera). Also an iNaturalist Curator and BugGuide editor

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Fine. I'll post. Blattella roach as a floral visitor. Caught it...seems to like flying.......
October 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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This little crane fly, Erioptera parva, is common at lights here.

#insects #entomology #science #photography #nature #conservation #florida #biology #research #zoology #animals #diptera #flies
June 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Satellite fly (Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae).

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #photography #animals #wildlife #conservation #diptera #inaturalist
May 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Pictonemobius (bar-faced cricket).

#insects #entomology #photography #biology #science #research #animals #eukaryotes #orthoptera #crickets
May 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Stagmomantis floridensis ootheca found in January in a mesic flatwoods.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Frog
March 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The Florida deepdigger scarab, Peltotrupes profundus. From fall to early spring, these guys emerge from and build meters-long tunnels to rear their young in...god this character limit is tiny.
#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Was not expecting that...

#coralsnake #snakes #herps #herping #biology #wildlife #conservation #photography #research #science
March 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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This leafhopper was caught from Florida rosemary in a sand pine scrub habitat. It was identified to Typhlocybinae by the metatarsal features and to Dikraneurini by the absence of an appendix and the...

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Florida rosemary - a remarkable celebrity from Florida

#plants #botany #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Almost forgot this one...a mantidfly.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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This plant hopper.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I think Hapithus (probably subgenus Orocharis). Not sure what it's nibbling around for.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Turned over a log and these spiders started doing some strange behaviors.

#spiders #entomology #science #wildlife #biology #nature
March 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Cicindela scutellaris unicolor. They like to dig short burrows and rest in them.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
March 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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This is a roach in the genus Ischnoptera. It's been hypothesized as an aberrant I. deropeltiformis, but these may need to be studied and reviewed.
March 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Found one of the culprits of these mounds. Some sort of cellophane bee?

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
February 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Chalepus sanguinicollis. I actually haven't seen these things in years and I barely remember them...why do I have so many observations of them, lol. Apparently their larvae feed on grasses.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
February 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Spragueia onagrus (Black-dotted Spragueia Moth). A cool-looking moth.

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
February 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Wow, some sort of palmetto feeding skipper maybe. Not sure though. I have seen the Euphyes arpa caterpillar before but this looked different.

#insects #entomology #wildlife #nature #biology #science #conservation
February 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Sri Lanka Weevil (Myllocerus undecimpustulatus). Unfortunately it is invasive...and everywhere.

#insects #beetles #entomology #science #biology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #photography
February 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Eastern shieldback katydid nymph (Atlanticus sp.). Not sure who knows but the males and females have a really bizarre mating ritual with I think the male hanging upside down and slowly stroking the...

#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography
February 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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February 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Live Oak Metria moth caterpillar.

#insects #entomology #moth #caterpillar #science #biology
February 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Spotted Oleander moth caterpillar (Empyreuma pugione).
February 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM