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Kathleen
@sandalfaun.bsky.social
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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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jasminerdy.bsky.social
enjoying my Google pixel macro lens

#insects #macro #bugs
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
sandalfaun.bsky.social
I think those are a little fellows that are so pretty but they smell really bad. It's a nice photo.❤️🕊
rockinbones.bsky.social Rob 🇨🇦 @rockinbones.bsky.social · 20h
#InsectThursday #YellowThu #Inverts Green Lacewing, whatever that is .
Green lacewing
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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spidersathome.bsky.social
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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smocarski.bsky.social
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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photography-aj.bsky.social
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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cgliacouras.bsky.social
A damselfly from my photo archive of 2015.

#Nature #photography #naturephotography #EastCoastKin #insects
A damselfly with its head to the right and tail to the left, perched on a green plant. The damselfly has black, white, and light blue coloring.
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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forloveofinsects.bsky.social
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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govegan68.bsky.social
“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
sandalfaun.bsky.social
Beautiful butterfly ! ❤️🕊
solarspacekase.bsky.social Space Kase @solarspacekase.bsky.social · 18h
A clearwing sighting — Rusted Clearwing‑Satyr (Cithaerias pireta): translucent wings like stained glass, ghosting through Costa Rica’s understory. 🦋🌿🇨🇷 #butterflies #nature #bugsky
mikemelton.bsky.social Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 1d
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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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
I got permission to #CrabPost

#SciArt #invertebrates
a grid of 3x2 square drawings of crabs (and one shrimp) on a black background, red crab, leopard crab, fluffy crab, orange and purple halloween crab, pipe cleaner red and white shrimp, yellow grey crab with googly eyes
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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pkuper.bsky.social
From the awards ceremony at the Entomological Society conference #insects #entomology @wwnorton.com #insectopolis
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
sandalfaun.bsky.social
I like the photo it’s nice. I’ve never seen one really up close before.. ❤️🕊
callmethorn.bsky.social Thorn @callmethorn.bsky.social · 1d
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
A macro photograph of a ladybird.
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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thoeni.bsky.social
#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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echinoblog.bsky.social
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
Closeup side view of highly segmented arms on a feather star.
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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wheatersdave.bsky.social
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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birdingprof.bsky.social
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
Hopefully Broken-barred Oak Dot. (Ectoedemia subbimaculella) Broken-barred Oak Dot. (Ectoedemia subbimaculella) Broken-barred Oak Dot. (Ectoedemia subbimaculella) Broken-barred Oak Dot. (Ectoedemia subbimaculella)
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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rwhooster.bsky.social
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
The Satellite (Eupsilia transversa). NFY.
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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patricknearyart.bsky.social
#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
Close-up view of the underside of a leaf of a Coast Live Oak. Various galls of the Two-horn Gall Wasp are prominent, attached along the major veins of the leaf. Edge of the leaf shows several of the protective spines that are characteristic of the Coast Live Oak.
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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vigiscar.bsky.social
Illustration of a Japanese tiger beetle (Cicindela chinensis) 🐞
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#scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #bug #beetle #japanese #tigerbeetle
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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wheatersdave.bsky.social
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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federgeistchen.bsky.social
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
Phyllodoce lineata against a black background. The head (top middle-left) has a bright yellow main colour, turning more muddy towards the tip. There are 4 short antennae located at the front as well as 4 pairs of long "tentacles" (tentacular cirri), 3 of which point backwards, and 1 forwards. In the front half, the back of the body, which is segmented as in all annelids, is also yellow with 3 brown spots per segment (one in the center, 2 on either side at the base of the parapodia). This gives the worm a stripy look. In the back half, the worm is entirely brown. The bottom side of the worm is a light turquoise colour and slightly iridescent. On each segment, the worm carries to leaf-shaped appendages, sometimes referred to as paddles.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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sj84turner.bsky.social
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
Ectoedemia argyropeza mines on Aspen. Stigmella assimilella mine on Aspen. Stigmella assimilella mine on Aspen Ectoedemia intimella on Sallow
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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cosmopterix.bsky.social
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
sandalfaun.bsky.social
I like your spider photo! ❤️🕊
tjalamont.bsky.social Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 2d
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
A macro photo of a small brown spider suspended in an invisible web, in the upper left of the frame, against an out of focus background of swirled yellow-green-orange from a leaf turning fall colors.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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richardfoxbc.bsky.social
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