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💙Matthew U.💙 @match74.bsky.social · 9h

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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 9h

thank you bloom county for necessary humor in these dark times

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Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social · 1d

A couple of weeks ago, I thought we’d seen the last Toadflax Brocade caterpillar of the year, but no. Today I found another one.
#caterpillars #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #ento #UKwildlife

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Catherine Gulsvig @crgulsvig.bsky.social · 2d

I nearly forgot a #MothMonday post!

Here's one of my favourites from the weekend -- I love the striped underwings contrasting with the intricate pattern on his upper wings

Nature sometimes makes pretty bold design choices

#Moths
#MothsMatter
#Lepidoptera
#Naturephotography

Close-up of a drab-coloured moth getting nectar from a white and pink flower. His striped underwings are a stunning visual contrast with the lace-like pattern of his upper wings.

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 2d

Herald moth on blackberries this evening - I then checked lots more Bramble but didn’t find any more moths! #teammoth

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Matt Evers @mattevers.bsky.social · 3d

Feralia februalis Last night here in Sebastopol CA #moth #moths

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 2d

Poster for course on Lepidoptera in Colombian Amazon with a traditional house surrounded by butterflies.

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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 6d

See this for a different opinion (and actual live prey) - www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Tasty Generalists and Nasty Specialists? Antipredator Mechanisms in Tropical Lepidopteran Larvae

PDF | To examine the effectiveness of larval antipredator mechanisms and to test the assumption that diet breadth and chemistry are important predictors... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 6d

This is a cool paper! Global selection on insect antipredator coloration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Global selection on insect antipredator coloration

Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand...

www.science.org

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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 19d

tropical leps

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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 19d

"...to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him [OR ABOUT] any one else [!!]"

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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 19d

Teddy Roosevelt: “The President .. should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted … To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable .”

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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 19d

I am getting old and forgetful, so to remember Stephen Miller's name, I just searched (on google): evil white guy behind trump, and this was the TOP entry.

Picture of Stephen Miller. The Goebbels of the Trump Regime.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · Aug 21

Here, fixed it.

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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · Aug 20

Caterpillars are awesome.

A Spodoptera caterpillar completing nanocarbon synthesis.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · Aug 20

They’ve tried to erase us for centuries. Didn’t work then, won’t work now. Black history IS American history.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · Aug 19

@paulnoth.bsky.social nails it again

Paul Noth New Yorker cartoon

Car near DC monument is stopped in front of a National Guard convoy- guardsman says to driver

"Do you know why the National Guard pulled you over?"

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Aug 19

"Only Nancy Pelosi had the power to call up the National Guard in DC."

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 17

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Wake the fuck up to what's going on in this country... We're going to put everything on the damn line... People haven't given up yet. We're going to do this. We can win this November. We can win next November, and then we can get this country back on track."

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Aug 16

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless.

Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

Editorial: That meeting was sickening. Putin loved it

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold. On our screens, a blood-soaked dictator and war criminal received a roy...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 15

ICE, America's first interior police, are not being built up, at the cost of billions, just to monitor immigration

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

Border Patrol Agents Show Up in Force at Newsom Rally

www.nytimes.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Aug 15

🔴 Famine on the Gaza Strip: ‘We See Children So Weak and Hungry They Cannot Even Cry’

Oxfam spokesperson details heartbreaking reality of life on the ground in Gaza amid on-going aid distribution scandal

Famine on the Gaza Strip: ‘We See Children So Weak and Hungry They Cannot Even Cry’

Oxfam spokesperson details heartbreaking reality of life on the ground in Gaza amid on-going aid distribution scandal

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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · Aug 15

How could you not love math?? www.scientificamerican.com/article/stud...

Students Find Hidden Fibonacci Sequence in Classic Probability Puzzle

Though the Fibonacci sequence shows up everywhere in nature, these young mathematicians were surprised to find it in the answer to a variation of the pick-up sticks problem⁠—a nearly two-century-old f...

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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · Aug 15

One of my favorite families, and great authors. academic.oup.com/isd/article/...

Erebidae systematics: past, present, and future—progress in understanding a diverse lepidopteran lineage

Abstract. Erebidae, the largest family of Lepidoptera with approximately 25,000 known species globally, forms the major clade of the superfamily Noctuoidea

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