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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Nov 9

Welcome to Bluesky, newbies. If you're following me I hope you love Bugs.

Enjoy a Baby Mantis March 🖤

A parade of newly-hatched mantis babies summoning the courage to go out on their own, all in a row on a stem

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1h

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 28d

I'm still shook by this, it's like 5 mice taking down a lion, but the lion can fly 😳

Yellow jacket next to a crevice in a wooden post, out of which a pseudoscorpion is grabbing the antennae of the wasp to hold it down

Wider view, with another pseudoscorpion poking out of the crevice to grab at the yellow jacket's stinger basically??

Closer shot of the the previous pseudoscorpion whose latched onto the yellow jacket's posterior, and a pale small baby pseudoscorpion is getting in on the action

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 29d

Theoretically there's a certain amount of pseudoscorpions which could take down a mammal, that's what I've learned here

Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 29d

A few days ago I posted a dead yellow jacket which had become a community meal for Paratemnoides social pseudoscorpions, but I hadn't really considered that they are apparently capable of teaming up and catching a live one?? Checked on them later and the unfortunate wasp was deceased. Damn. 🧪

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 28d

I'm still shook by this, it's like 5 mice taking down a lion, but the lion can fly 😳

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1h

Have you seen my encounter with Paratemnoides taking down a live yellow jacket

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 12h

There's still silly mopey wasps roaming the leaf litter and grass, in October. 🖤
Ms Eupelmus here with her booty feather is looking for some quarry or another in dry pine needles.

Slender dark bluish shiny wasp with her booty in the air terminated with a black feathery ovipositor thingie, running the length of a dry pine needle

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 13h

Grumpy boi (why is my stick moving, I didn't ask the stick to move)
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

(Phidippus regius lad)

Large fuzzy black and white jumping spider with bright green chelicerae, on grumpy salticid posture (legs tight around him like cat loaf), on the tip of a stick peering at you

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 12h

thank you sour cream pound cake

strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 16h

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 19h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 12h

There's still silly mopey wasps roaming the leaf litter and grass, in October. 🖤
Ms Eupelmus here with her booty feather is looking for some quarry or another in dry pine needles.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 13h

Grumpy boi (why is my stick moving, I didn't ask the stick to move)
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

(Phidippus regius lad)

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 13h

Habronattus don't want any part of the camera in my experience, as a rule, but yeah most other salticids are often quite curious about the lens

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1d

Is it me?

Three panel Donny Darko meme between his mother and Donny:

Donny: I made a new friend.
Mother: Real or bug?
Donny: BUG!

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

Cabbage boiled in vinegar. It's not that weird, but still.

Boiled cabbage used to be one of the only veggies we'd have fresh as a kid, and I loved it.

Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

As a Jaguars fan I don't know if this should be injected into my veins but YOLOOOOOOOO

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Crab Season
#Arachtober 🩷

Magnificent white-banded crab spider lass, perched on a white flower smaller than she is. She's light pink and white

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Oct 6

Crab, and crab peets 🥹
One of our most stunning crab spider species (Misumenoides formosipes) is very large and pretty chill, and that makes getting shots of their little feet a bit easier.
#Invertebrates #Arachtober

Magnificent pale white and pink crab spider on a cluster of purple chaffhead flowers, her large front leg pairs spread wide like bird wings

Close shot of two of her little feet, with 2 tiny claws on each

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 2d

Crab Season
#Arachtober 🩷

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3d

Habronattus alachua lass with the Head Tilt ❤️
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Light grey fuzzy jumping spider with reddish-brown stripes down her face across her big eyes, on a blade of dry grass tilting her head to peer at you

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3d

Habronattus alachua lass with the Head Tilt ❤️
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3d

I'm always so happy to hear when my friends become enamored with their local spider population ❤️

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 3d

ordinary night on the Internet in 2025 gotta take a pause in between kvelling about my horse and discussing selective breeding of jumping spiders to repost information about identifying types of chemical munitions used to disperse peaceful protesters

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3d

"Unintentionally planted a spider garden" is a delight

I suspect the nature of jumping spider vision & brain power has something to do with that. And perhaps when you have a significant salticid population your regular presence selects for a more bold/curious personality, while the rest move away.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3d

She's not BREAKING [NEWS], she's BREAKING [WIND]

Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3d

Damn, gutting story by Van on the episode. Thank you both for making space for that, in a podcast about football. It'll stick with me.

Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3d

Awww ❤️