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January 19, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
January 31, 2026 at 11:12 PM
A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
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Meet the gribble. These tiny pill-bug relatives live in the ocean and nosh on wood and plant debris. They were Enemy #1 during the days of wooden ships (along with shipworms), but have since faded into peaceful obscurity.
Like the gribbles of yore, may your future be filled with uneventful days.
Like the gribbles of yore, may your future be filled with uneventful days.
January 30, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Meet the gribble. These tiny pill-bug relatives live in the ocean and nosh on wood and plant debris. They were Enemy #1 during the days of wooden ships (along with shipworms), but have since faded into peaceful obscurity.
Like the gribbles of yore, may your future be filled with uneventful days.
Like the gribbles of yore, may your future be filled with uneventful days.
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I never got around to reposting my Weird Duck Time comic this year! Also, unrelatedly, today is a good day to help out at standwithminnesota.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:05 PM
I never got around to reposting my Weird Duck Time comic this year! Also, unrelatedly, today is a good day to help out at standwithminnesota.com
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Intertidal friend!
January 28, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Intertidal friend!
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This fungus infects plants, hijacks them, and makes its own fake flowers where the real ones should be www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
This Flower Is Really a Fungus in Disguise
In Guyanese savannas, a fungus infects grasslike plants, sterilizes them and produces bizarre all-fungal “flower” doppelgängers
www.scientificamerican.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:08 PM
This fungus infects plants, hijacks them, and makes its own fake flowers where the real ones should be www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
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It will melt, keep on fighting my US friends.
January 27, 2026 at 10:43 PM
It will melt, keep on fighting my US friends.
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Zoom in on this amber orb — see the fuzzy brown stick? That's a springtail's antenna. This tiny creature fell victim to Pandora batallata, a fungus from an order called the "Insect Destroyers."
📷 christian_neumann on iNaturalist
📍 Germany
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 christian_neumann on iNaturalist
📍 Germany
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
January 27, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Zoom in on this amber orb — see the fuzzy brown stick? That's a springtail's antenna. This tiny creature fell victim to Pandora batallata, a fungus from an order called the "Insect Destroyers."
📷 christian_neumann on iNaturalist
📍 Germany
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 christian_neumann on iNaturalist
📍 Germany
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
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Behold: the ever-spectacular Silver-lined Worm Lizard (Ophiodes intermedius). Not a worm, doesn't have legs, *is* a lizard.
📷 leoleiva on iNaturalist
📍 Argentina
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 leoleiva on iNaturalist
📍 Argentina
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
January 20, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Behold: the ever-spectacular Silver-lined Worm Lizard (Ophiodes intermedius). Not a worm, doesn't have legs, *is* a lizard.
📷 leoleiva on iNaturalist
📍 Argentina
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 leoleiva on iNaturalist
📍 Argentina
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
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Coyotes howling on Coyote Mountain yesterday. Note the echoes (Video: Sicco Rood). youtu.be/sPo8GyJvxt4
Coyotes howling and echoes on Coyote Mountain - Anza-Borrego Desert
YouTube video by Road
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January 5, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Coyotes howling on Coyote Mountain yesterday. Note the echoes (Video: Sicco Rood). youtu.be/sPo8GyJvxt4
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Renayrd -
Stained glass collab with my bf. Tapestries will be available at NFC <3
[ #furryart #digitalart #stainedglass #art #illustration ]
Stained glass collab with my bf. Tapestries will be available at NFC <3
[ #furryart #digitalart #stainedglass #art #illustration ]
January 2, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Renayrd -
Stained glass collab with my bf. Tapestries will be available at NFC <3
[ #furryart #digitalart #stainedglass #art #illustration ]
Stained glass collab with my bf. Tapestries will be available at NFC <3
[ #furryart #digitalart #stainedglass #art #illustration ]
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A highlight of my year was attending a Spider Biology Field Course at the Southwestern Research Station in Arizona. Here are four nighttime shots from that amazing week: an Arizona blond tarantula; a Couch's spadefoot toad; a stick insect on a creosote bush; a sleeping male longhorn bee at night.
January 1, 2026 at 12:17 AM
A highlight of my year was attending a Spider Biology Field Course at the Southwestern Research Station in Arizona. Here are four nighttime shots from that amazing week: an Arizona blond tarantula; a Couch's spadefoot toad; a stick insect on a creosote bush; a sleeping male longhorn bee at night.
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Please take some time to look through some of the discoveries photographed in 2025. It should interest some invertebrate enthusiasts. yes? yes?
bit.ly/nickybay2025
bit.ly/nickybay2025
Macro Highlights – The Best of 2025 - Macro Photography by Nicky Bay
After years of trudging through forests and peering into the hidden lives of tiny creatures, the number of lifers I get should rightfully decline but 2025 proved to be remarkably defiant. This year de...
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December 31, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Please take some time to look through some of the discoveries photographed in 2025. It should interest some invertebrate enthusiasts. yes? yes?
bit.ly/nickybay2025
bit.ly/nickybay2025
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Number 2 on my top 10 images of 2025. It just resonates deeply In that moment it was just me and the badger it saw me when it came out of its den but it lay there back turned to me showing trust and I’m not sure we humans always deserve the trust of wildlife anymore #badger ##wildlifephotography
December 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Number 2 on my top 10 images of 2025. It just resonates deeply In that moment it was just me and the badger it saw me when it came out of its den but it lay there back turned to me showing trust and I’m not sure we humans always deserve the trust of wildlife anymore #badger ##wildlifephotography
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artistic collaborations with insects and time
December 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
artistic collaborations with insects and time
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I want to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with this quick sketch of two Microraptorine dinosaurs in the snow ❄️. I hope everybody is having a great day and enjoying the presents! 🎁 🎄 🎅
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I want to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with this quick sketch of two Microraptorine dinosaurs in the snow ❄️. I hope everybody is having a great day and enjoying the presents! 🎁 🎄 🎅
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
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The 25 of December is when the "Twelve Days of Christmas" actually begin, known as Christmastide.
And there are theories that "the partridge in a pear tree" started as a magpie in a pear tree as it was a motiff in older popular songs. 🐦🎄
Happy Holidays!!
And there are theories that "the partridge in a pear tree" started as a magpie in a pear tree as it was a motiff in older popular songs. 🐦🎄
Happy Holidays!!
December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The 25 of December is when the "Twelve Days of Christmas" actually begin, known as Christmastide.
And there are theories that "the partridge in a pear tree" started as a magpie in a pear tree as it was a motiff in older popular songs. 🐦🎄
Happy Holidays!!
And there are theories that "the partridge in a pear tree" started as a magpie in a pear tree as it was a motiff in older popular songs. 🐦🎄
Happy Holidays!!
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Finally got some photos of Australia’s “blue ant”, Diamma bicolor, which is not an ant at all but a shockingly large metallic blue thynnid wasp, wingless and solitary, that hunts mole crickets. Been meaning to shoot this thing for years.
December 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Finally got some photos of Australia’s “blue ant”, Diamma bicolor, which is not an ant at all but a shockingly large metallic blue thynnid wasp, wingless and solitary, that hunts mole crickets. Been meaning to shoot this thing for years.
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my modest collection of flies with WIDE heads 🙇
a hammer-headed Richardia (Ecuador),
a stalk-eyed Chaetodiopsis (Mozambique),
a pointy-eyed Ophthalmoptera (Colombia),
and an antlered Richardia (Colombia)
why though? male-male competition? sexual selection? chime-in if you know!
a hammer-headed Richardia (Ecuador),
a stalk-eyed Chaetodiopsis (Mozambique),
a pointy-eyed Ophthalmoptera (Colombia),
and an antlered Richardia (Colombia)
why though? male-male competition? sexual selection? chime-in if you know!
December 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
my modest collection of flies with WIDE heads 🙇
a hammer-headed Richardia (Ecuador),
a stalk-eyed Chaetodiopsis (Mozambique),
a pointy-eyed Ophthalmoptera (Colombia),
and an antlered Richardia (Colombia)
why though? male-male competition? sexual selection? chime-in if you know!
a hammer-headed Richardia (Ecuador),
a stalk-eyed Chaetodiopsis (Mozambique),
a pointy-eyed Ophthalmoptera (Colombia),
and an antlered Richardia (Colombia)
why though? male-male competition? sexual selection? chime-in if you know!
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My newest sketchbook drawing. I absolutely LOVE winter fluff! ❄️💚
#traditionalart #animals #ballpointdrawing #art
#traditionalart #animals #ballpointdrawing #art
December 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My newest sketchbook drawing. I absolutely LOVE winter fluff! ❄️💚
#traditionalart #animals #ballpointdrawing #art
#traditionalart #animals #ballpointdrawing #art
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melody through the wind
(another series of utility box illustrations!)
(another series of utility box illustrations!)
December 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
melody through the wind
(another series of utility box illustrations!)
(another series of utility box illustrations!)
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December 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Benedikt Pleyer/Nomadic Nostoc filmed these tiny ostracods collected from the beach of a Japanese island.
Vargula hilgendorfii live in marine sand & emit a mix of luciferase & luciferin that lights up to deter predators.
The same chemicals produce firefly glow.
海蛍: umihotaru = "Sea fireflies"
Vargula hilgendorfii live in marine sand & emit a mix of luciferase & luciferin that lights up to deter predators.
The same chemicals produce firefly glow.
海蛍: umihotaru = "Sea fireflies"
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Benedikt Pleyer/Nomadic Nostoc filmed these tiny ostracods collected from the beach of a Japanese island.
Vargula hilgendorfii live in marine sand & emit a mix of luciferase & luciferin that lights up to deter predators.
The same chemicals produce firefly glow.
海蛍: umihotaru = "Sea fireflies"
Vargula hilgendorfii live in marine sand & emit a mix of luciferase & luciferin that lights up to deter predators.
The same chemicals produce firefly glow.
海蛍: umihotaru = "Sea fireflies"
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water study for day 28 / ripple #nodevember2025
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
water study for day 28 / ripple #nodevember2025