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dolomedes.bsky.social
marshy
@dolomedes.bsky.social
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i like spiders, i like lacewings, i like cats, i like coffee, i like funky bass, and i guess i like some other stuff too.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h
The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.
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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 23h
My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]
A brown pseudoscopion hanging on to the antenna of a wasp. The wasp is yellow with black stripes and transparent wings.
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 1d
hey Phidippus, it's Arachtober - you're only supposed to eat insects! #arachtober #spiders #phidippus
a crab spider getting a taste of its own medicine - its face being eaten by a jumping spider.
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 1d
murphy brown is that you
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 5d
bacon, as in jeff bacon
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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 5d
#invertober day 3, giant green anemone 👐

#invertober2025
rough color block art showing a close up of the tentacles and mouth of a giant green anemone
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 5d
oh it's cool caterpillar friday? i guess so
#bugsky #insects #lepidoptera
an odd, wedge-shaped caterpillar with no visible legs or head. it's a slug caterpillar, Prolimacodes badia, or skiff moth (a reference to the boat-shaped caterpillars) two red-headed caterpillars chowing down on some leaves. they are black with white and yellow stripes, lots of thick projections, and a large red spot - they're called red-humped caterpillars. Oedemasia concinna Acronicta longa. a dark brown/black caterpillar with rows of tufts with large spines, most of which emerge from white spots. the caterpillar is arched and the row at the top of the arch is red-tinted instead of white.
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Bug Pix @bugpix.bsky.social · 5d
Gorgeous lil Wolf Spider (Lycosinae, species uncertain) I found stuck in a stairwell and- with some effort -coaxed onto my hand and released outside.

I hope I find some more, Wolf Spiders are so beautiful and their faces are just precious. 🥰

#entomology #arachnology #spider #wolfspider #araneae
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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 5d
Millipede fans rejoice: we published our revision of Apheloria! This is the most common cherry millipede genus, but its taxonomy has been riddled with nebulous subspecies names. No longer! We clarify species limits and provide a distribution map. mapress.com/zt/article/v... @apheloria.bsky.social
Revision of the millipede genus Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921 (Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae, Apheloriini) | Zootaxa
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 6d
Araneus for #arachtober #bugsky #spider
a small white spider on the underside of a green leaf. it has dark setae on its legs and palps, and black spots across the abdomen. male Araneus miniatus (?) same spider. manassas national battlefield park, virginia
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 6d
she's beautiful!
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 6d
Once a spider is above a certain size threshold, I refer to them respectfully as Big Spood

(Dolomedes sp, fishing spider)
#Arachtober
Large mottled grey and brown leggy spider with a white head and face, laying flat against mossy tree bark Face of the large creature, double row of small black eyes peering
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 6d
no i am your conure
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 6d
me going down to meet an antlion
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Scott Murderhouse @voxparlour.bsky.social · 6d
Stay away from the grain
Image of a man sinking in a grain silo. Text: it takes only two to three seconds to become helpless in flowing grain. Illustration of grain engulfment hazard.
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 7d
"atheism" discourse*
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Nathan Harness @nathanharness.bsky.social · 8d
I found this rove beetle friend on the rainforest floor. They are so so fast, you can imaging me chasing it around with my camera just rolling around in the leaf litter. Just unbelievable colors. In person the rainbow iridescence is stunning. It’s hard to say much here beyond just wow.
Red green and yellow beetle on a leaf Red green and yellow beetle on a leaf
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 8d
is fragipan like marzipan
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scare-ron "actual ghost" shanxnywy @thxnywy.art · 9d
orbital vibe maintenance
#art
a marker sketch of a skeleton in a spacesuit giving two thumbs up, floating next to text that reads 'hell yeah dude'
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 11d
yeah his surname is Berger
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11d
The idiom "like a moth to the flame" dates to at least the 12th century, to Persian love poem "Layla and Majnun". Shakespeare references it in "Merchant of Venice."

But here's the thing. Moths DON'T fly to flames. And we're just now understanding that.

Let's talk about dorsal light response.
a picture of a mosquito killer hanging from the ceiling with the caption i can 't help it it 's so beautiful
Alt: a picture of a mosquito killer hanging from the ceiling with the caption i can 't help it it 's so beautiful
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 12d
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 13d
secret friend in the goldenrod
#lacewing #bugsky #insects
the head and a couple legs of a larval insect, the rest of the body is obscured by goldenrod flowers. it's a green lacewing, Chrysoperla rufilabris. if you're an american and you use iNaturalist to ID a lacewing larva it will probably suggest this species... every day i correct multiple observations mis-IDed to this - many of which aren't even in the same family.
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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · 15d
Marker, ink pen, colored pencil, and gel pen
9 x 12in
Marker drawing of a orange and red tiger who's body is shaped into a rectangle. The tiger has black, red, orange, and yellow stripes.
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scare-ron "actual ghost" shanxnywy @thxnywy.art · 18d
it's a mirepoix party
#art
a stalk of celery, an onion, and a carrot dance across a kitchen counter holding hands and carrying a spoon and ladle
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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 18d
p l u m p
#spiders #bugsky #bees
a large yellow crab spider (probably Misumenoides formosipes) eating a bee
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