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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 1d

Time is money as they say

The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 1d

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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Results of a recent study indicate that the ‘nectar guides’ on #flowers actually reduce the time a #bumblebee takes to forage a flower - from flight approach through nectar location to final take-off - by up to 30%!
#bees
#nature
#science
#wild

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Inkgrid | Edel-Art @inkgrid.bsky.social · 5d

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★Jay ✩ Funkiest Bug @erujayy.bsky.social · 5d

The last of the giant flower beetle saga...

Mecynorrhina Ugandesis

The very first one I ever reared, although they were a black-orange variant. I think the blue-pink is so iconic on them though

#inverts #SciArt 💜🪲

A blue-pink giant flower beetle mecynorrhina ugandesis with cream stripes. It sits atop orange and red flowers.

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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

mapress.com

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 12d

Pigeon love!! ^.^

Max Waugh @maxwaughphoto.bsky.social · 13d

No, I'm not above photographing pigeons! Like our own Rock Doves, Brazil's Picazuro Pigeon has some subtle-but-cool plumage that makes it quite pretty. Definitely an underrated subject!

#birds

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 17d

She's here! The process video for the Empress and the Tailless Whip Scorpion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqb7...

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 17d

Haha yeah - i mean they're the words that stick in my head.
I'm sure everyone need to know there's a very cool beetle over there.

Who needs to know about lights, food, or trains?

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 17d

I stumbled upon it as im trying to learn Japanese and was like "maybe I can learn some bugs!" You know ... the real useful vocabulary.

And anyway - I stumbled upon this and was like "I must share!!"

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 17d

a young boy is eating corn on the cob and the words for me are on the bottom

ALT: a young boy is eating corn on the cob and the words for me are on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 17d

Feast your eyes on this beautiful bug book from the Edo Period in Japan!
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Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 - Picture Book of Selected Insects (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰 - Japan - Edo period (1615–1868) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 22d

@gbif.org is amazing. And so is Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), for photographing and putting online so many of their African wasps.

I can sit at home in Finland, and get a first impression of how well my Ugandan wasps fit a Madagascar species whose type specimen is in France. 🧪

Occurrence Detail 1019732979

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data.

www.gbif.org

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you so much =D

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 23d

I love this title

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 23d

Haha yeah probably. So much work left to be done

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 24d

Thank youuu!!!!

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 24d

You made my night - thank you so much again ^.^

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 24d

Aww thank you!!!

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks!!

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 24d

The Empress!! I was so worried when I started because like ... all the spindly eggs - but where we have a whip scorpion with her noodly babies.

a stylistic image of a tailless whip scorpion with bright green babies and their noodly legs on her back. The text reads "3. The empress"

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 25d

Octopus favor their front arms over their back ones for daily tasks at a ration of 61% to 39%

Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find | Marine life | The Guardian share.google/NFEYCGsj3bWR...

Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find

Creatures favour front arms for most tasks, study suggests, despite fact all eight arms are capable of all actions

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Camille Roux @crouxevo.bsky.social · 27d

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 26d

one of the new species epithets is "chullachaqui" which is Kichwa for "unique foot".

Another, "amasanga" - is named after a spirit in amazonian legends who taught the people how to hunt in their dreams.

"Canelazo" is named for a mulled cinnamon and sugar cane alcoholic drink that's AMAZING!

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 26d

typical news article about bugs.
"Hey we walked around the rainforest for like 10 minutes and here are 12 new species of this weird-ass flightless beetle"

Okay slight exaggeration ... but really. 12 new beetles were described from a cloud forest here in EC.

www.eluniverso.com/noticias/inf...

Escarabajos que no vuelan: así son las especies que fueron descritas en un volcán y bosque nuboso de Ecuador

Estas descripciones ocurrieron en la provincia de Napo.

www.eluniverso.com

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𝖘𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖍 𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖔𝖓 🔜 MCM London H-24 @sarahmason.art · 26d

I turned 31 today!

I've been an artist all of my life, and I'm so happy with how far I have progressed in my own career. It's been a long journey, but I look forward to another 10 years of creating.

I'd love a share if you're feeling generous to boost my reach for a day! ❤️

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 26d

Lol ... thats how it goes

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