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Kathleen
@sandalfaun.bsky.social
Artist,photographer with interest in geology, astronomy.
I enjoy walking through forests and beaches, very long hikes inner city, swimming, gardening, dancing, and good music!
Anyone else out there getting a little bit frightened with what’s going on?
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enjoying my Google pixel macro lens

#insects #macro #bugs
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I think those are a little fellows that are so pretty but they smell really bad. It's a nice photo.❤️🕊
#InsectThursday #YellowThu #Inverts Green Lacewing, whatever that is .
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Does anyone else climb on top of their washing machine wearing a headlamp to take blurry pictures of the false widow on their ceiling, or is it just me? #spidersky
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Flower of the Day - Queen Anne's Lace and a mud wasp for #InsectThursday #BloomScrolling
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Scarce Umber to light in North Hampshire, only the second garden record, amongst 53/16. Palpita vitrealis was the only scarcer migrant, the 10th this year. Turnip x 19 was the most numerous moth and in every trap since mid July. Both Blair's and Grey Shoulder-knot was notable. #TeamMoth
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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A damselfly from my photo archive of 2015.

#Nature #photography #naturephotography #EastCoastKin #insects
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Geelbandlangsprietmot | Yellow-barred long-horn
(Nemophora degeerella), man | male

#nationaalparkveluwezoom #posbank #vlinder #butterfly #lepidoptera #insectphotography #ElkeDagEenInsect
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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“Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can." 🦋
~ Naya Rivera

#ColorADay #YellowThu #swallowtail #butterfly #BugSky
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Beautiful butterfly ! ❤️🕊
A clearwing sighting — Rusted Clearwing‑Satyr (Cithaerias pireta): translucent wings like stained glass, ghosting through Costa Rica’s understory. 🦋🌿🇨🇷 #butterflies #nature #bugsky
Another species of clearwing #butterfly, the Rusted Clearwing-Satyr (Cithaerias pireta) at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#butterflies #nature #bugsky
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I got permission to #CrabPost

#SciArt #invertebrates
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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From the awards ceremony at the Entomological Society conference #insects #entomology @wwnorton.com #insectopolis
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I like the photo it’s nice. I’ve never seen one really up close before.. ❤️🕊
It's kinda fascinating how our privileged position at the top of the food chain is the one thing that lets us think of so many species as cute and cuddly.

To an aphid, this is the face of death.
#insects
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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#RoseWed
#EastCoastKin
#Flowers
#BloomScrolling
#insects

Searched for a pretty Autumnal rose
Found this beauty
Not quite pink, creamy white…
Admiring my find at the end of the day…
I look closely…
A black speck on my pink/white rose!
An insect in my rose shot!
Not a bee…no butterfly.
A stinkbug!
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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A rather chonky looking comatulid crinoid aka a feather star showing off the myriad of segments on each arm. THIS is why these are so difficult to ID..because its the pattern of these ossicles that are used to characterize them. ha ha. and sometimes they are fused! #echinoday
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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As the good lady is chucking all the leaves over the fence this weekend I thought I’d try some leaf mining. I think all 4 on beech are Stigmella tityrella. Confirmation or help appreciated #teammoth
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Finally (big sighs of relief all round) Obsidentify is 100% on this one, and it checks out with Leaf-mine keys; ovum on upper surface and slit in blotch on lower surface of the leaf.
So, it should be Broken-barred Oak Dot. (Ectoedemia subbimaculella)

#teammoth
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I naturally anticipated a Wogan when I looked in the trap this morning because it was lashing it down until about 1 am, and there were winds of about 22 mph. But no, I was able to capture my first Satellite of the year. #teammoth
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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#CoastLiveOak Two-horned #GallWasp
#Fossils of #insectgalls on leaves 100-million years ago.
Must have been stable LONG before that to be abundant enough for fossilization
#California #environment
#insects
#oak #oaks #oaktree #oaktrees
#Nikon #NikonPhotography
#macrophotography
#insectphotography
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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More leafmines. I think the first two are Ectoedemia subbimaculella on Turkey Oak and Oak. Bucculatrix sp on Oak for the third? Last one on Oak, no idea, a mine and the leaf fold present. Any help or confirmation appreciated #teammoth
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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It is finally #WormWednesday again! 🪱
The perfect time to post my photo of this 40 cm long beast! :D

Scientific name: Phyllodoce lineata

↓ thread with more info ↓

#marinelife #polychaetes #invertebrates
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Some leaf mine finds from today.
Ectoedemia argyropeza and Stigmella assimilella on Aspen.
Ectoedemia initimella on Sallow.
All new for SJ84 this autumn, and from several different sites now.
@vc39moths.bsky.social

#TeamMoth
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I love these cute tiny lacebugs (Acalypta) associated with ruderal mosses. about 1.7mm. Blue River, Oregon #bugsky #hemiptera
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I like your spider photo! ❤️🕊
An extremely small spider, 1 mm. at most, suspended over a fall-color-turning redbud leaf in my yard. Not sure, but I'd guess it's a recently-hatched brown widow spiderling (Latrodectus geometricus), based on the marking on the abdomen. 🐙🌿🍁🕷️ #Bugsky
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Acleris notana (Tawny Birch Tortrix) found as a larva in a spun birch leaf at Yarner Wood, Devon back in August. The adult emerged the following month and identification was confirmed by gen. det. #teammoth
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM