ISAAC THE DOG
@wetdogclaws.bsky.social
HE / HIM / HIS / HIMSELF
My name is Isaac. I am fond of organisms that can be colloquially referred to as a "bug" (such as many invertebrates). I have a neurotic disposition and I was born at exactly 2:27 AM on a Saturday morning.
My name is Isaac. I am fond of organisms that can be colloquially referred to as a "bug" (such as many invertebrates). I have a neurotic disposition and I was born at exactly 2:27 AM on a Saturday morning.
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Day 23 of #InsectAdvent
As the angels spread their wings, so do the flies. Rhamphomyia marginata (Empididae) are found across Europe & unusually for animals, it is the females that form the flirty swarms. Maybe not such angelic behaviour 😉
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
As the angels spread their wings, so do the flies. Rhamphomyia marginata (Empididae) are found across Europe & unusually for animals, it is the females that form the flirty swarms. Maybe not such angelic behaviour 😉
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Day 23 of #InsectAdvent
As the angels spread their wings, so do the flies. Rhamphomyia marginata (Empididae) are found across Europe & unusually for animals, it is the females that form the flirty swarms. Maybe not such angelic behaviour 😉
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
As the angels spread their wings, so do the flies. Rhamphomyia marginata (Empididae) are found across Europe & unusually for animals, it is the females that form the flirty swarms. Maybe not such angelic behaviour 😉
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
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Bah, Humbug!
Chilly December memories of a warm day in May.
Hypsosinga pygmaea.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
Chilly December memories of a warm day in May.
Hypsosinga pygmaea.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
December 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Bah, Humbug!
Chilly December memories of a warm day in May.
Hypsosinga pygmaea.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
Chilly December memories of a warm day in May.
Hypsosinga pygmaea.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
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We have a real problem at @casabentbill.bsky.social with perverts looking in our window when we're getting ready for bed.
#tapiroftheday #tapirs #wildlife
#tapiroftheday #tapirs #wildlife
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
We have a real problem at @casabentbill.bsky.social with perverts looking in our window when we're getting ready for bed.
#tapiroftheday #tapirs #wildlife
#tapiroftheday #tapirs #wildlife
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Seeing eye to eye
Staging a moment like this is one thing, but witnessing it naturally is a rare and beautiful experience that stays with you
Taken with OM1 mkii and 90mm macro + 1.4x tele
SS1/2500 F8 ISO1000 single shot, natural light
Staging a moment like this is one thing, but witnessing it naturally is a rare and beautiful experience that stays with you
Taken with OM1 mkii and 90mm macro + 1.4x tele
SS1/2500 F8 ISO1000 single shot, natural light
December 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Seeing eye to eye
Staging a moment like this is one thing, but witnessing it naturally is a rare and beautiful experience that stays with you
Taken with OM1 mkii and 90mm macro + 1.4x tele
SS1/2500 F8 ISO1000 single shot, natural light
Staging a moment like this is one thing, but witnessing it naturally is a rare and beautiful experience that stays with you
Taken with OM1 mkii and 90mm macro + 1.4x tele
SS1/2500 F8 ISO1000 single shot, natural light
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Some of today’s records of #insects from Morningside Cemetery, #Edinburgh, part 1: Orange & Harlequin Ladybirds, Phloiophilus edwardsii … #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.
December 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Some of today’s records of #insects from Morningside Cemetery, #Edinburgh, part 1: Orange & Harlequin Ladybirds, Phloiophilus edwardsii … #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.
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It's not a mantid, it's not a fly, it's a mantidfly!
#entomology #bugskye #insect #photography #macro #nature
#entomology #bugskye #insect #photography #macro #nature
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
It's not a mantid, it's not a fly, it's a mantidfly!
#entomology #bugskye #insect #photography #macro #nature
#entomology #bugskye #insect #photography #macro #nature
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I've seen this species 3 times now, so I fall in the Obsessed category obviously. Love the little niche creatures who decide to do their own thing - most of our Aphaenogaster species and all others I've personally encountered are ground-dwelling. Also they just look cool. ❤️
Day 18 of my 2025 Favorites: Aphaenogaster mariae!
These little leggy sandpaper creatures are very rarely seen, as they prefer to live in canopies of older forests, so we earthbound creatures must be lucky and/or obsessed enough to see them at the right time; for instance, trailing up a tree trunk
These little leggy sandpaper creatures are very rarely seen, as they prefer to live in canopies of older forests, so we earthbound creatures must be lucky and/or obsessed enough to see them at the right time; for instance, trailing up a tree trunk
December 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I've seen this species 3 times now, so I fall in the Obsessed category obviously. Love the little niche creatures who decide to do their own thing - most of our Aphaenogaster species and all others I've personally encountered are ground-dwelling. Also they just look cool. ❤️
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A contender to be crowned the best of #BestOfNature2025
Six-spot Burnet 🖤 ♥️ 🖤
(July, Essex UK)
#NatureWithin #TeamMoth
Six-spot Burnet 🖤 ♥️ 🖤
(July, Essex UK)
#NatureWithin #TeamMoth
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A contender to be crowned the best of #BestOfNature2025
Six-spot Burnet 🖤 ♥️ 🖤
(July, Essex UK)
#NatureWithin #TeamMoth
Six-spot Burnet 🖤 ♥️ 🖤
(July, Essex UK)
#NatureWithin #TeamMoth
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A rather fine 0.6mm long female Anaphes crassicornis wasp of the Mymaridae found 19.11.2025 at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour
#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A rather fine 0.6mm long female Anaphes crassicornis wasp of the Mymaridae found 19.11.2025 at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour
#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour
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Dendroblatta sobrina, a beautiful cockroach found in rainforests across northern Latin America. At night these stunning roaches can be found foraging on bark of mature trees, usually in small groups containing adults and nymphs. They are hypervigilant and sprint up the trunk upon any sign of danger.
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Dendroblatta sobrina, a beautiful cockroach found in rainforests across northern Latin America. At night these stunning roaches can be found foraging on bark of mature trees, usually in small groups containing adults and nymphs. They are hypervigilant and sprint up the trunk upon any sign of danger.
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10 years ago today I looked in the moth trap and saw the critter in the first photo. I actually potted it, threw it back in the trap, then re-potted it after having second thoughts! Three days later I had another! (2nd photo). Mecidea lindbergi, 1st UK record, ID'd by @britishbugs.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
10 years ago today I looked in the moth trap and saw the critter in the first photo. I actually potted it, threw it back in the trap, then re-potted it after having second thoughts! Three days later I had another! (2nd photo). Mecidea lindbergi, 1st UK record, ID'd by @britishbugs.bsky.social
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the important thing is this
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
the important thing is this
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One Pine & three Larch Ladybirds, tapped from a fallen fir tree branch in Colstey Wood, Shrops, last Wednesday. Didn't find a single one in the actual trees!
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
One Pine & three Larch Ladybirds, tapped from a fallen fir tree branch in Colstey Wood, Shrops, last Wednesday. Didn't find a single one in the actual trees!
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A cubed flat top for this southern Alabama boy.
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A cubed flat top for this southern Alabama boy.
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Lovely morning to ponder an orb
December 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lovely morning to ponder an orb
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Day 14 #InsectAdvent & Christmas cards are being sent/ received
Can you imagine having to write a card to this soldierfly - Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides. It has the longest name in the Animal Kingdom. Luckily the address is short..
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
Can you imagine having to write a card to this soldierfly - Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides. It has the longest name in the Animal Kingdom. Luckily the address is short..
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Day 14 #InsectAdvent & Christmas cards are being sent/ received
Can you imagine having to write a card to this soldierfly - Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides. It has the longest name in the Animal Kingdom. Luckily the address is short..
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
Can you imagine having to write a card to this soldierfly - Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides. It has the longest name in the Animal Kingdom. Luckily the address is short..
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
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December 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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railroad worms on a date
December 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
railroad worms on a date
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Oh, you're tired after taking care of your one kid for the entire day?
December 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Oh, you're tired after taking care of your one kid for the entire day?
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The bulky Brontostoma basalis from Ecuador - incredibly strong and its venom packs a punch! When I took it out of the vial it immediately grabbed my finger and bit it. Was it painful? Yes, for a hot minute. But as always with assassin bugs it is more the speed of action that surprises me the most.
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The bulky Brontostoma basalis from Ecuador - incredibly strong and its venom packs a punch! When I took it out of the vial it immediately grabbed my finger and bit it. Was it painful? Yes, for a hot minute. But as always with assassin bugs it is more the speed of action that surprises me the most.
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more absolute filth in the pollination literature
![Gottsberger's florid report (1991) on the pollination of Cyclanthaceae: "beetles arrived at the inflorescences, crawled around, copulated, gnawed on the staminodes, and frequently entered into the interior [...] there they "licked" on the stigmatic exudates"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywua4qjetzwsq5hzyty3exua/bafkreiac36nylqswha6xbr2ta47pzcwcxilfyx5tldl2rq6fcuwcffq7bu@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
more absolute filth in the pollination literature
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Munchipede update: she's getting big, one oak leaf at a time 💚
I spend so much time at my home away from home that I get to watch my children grow. She's just munching her way through the leaf in a neater fashion than I can do cutting a pizza
(Isla textula, the crowned slug moth)
I spend so much time at my home away from home that I get to watch my children grow. She's just munching her way through the leaf in a neater fashion than I can do cutting a pizza
(Isla textula, the crowned slug moth)
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Munchipede update: she's getting big, one oak leaf at a time 💚
I spend so much time at my home away from home that I get to watch my children grow. She's just munching her way through the leaf in a neater fashion than I can do cutting a pizza
(Isla textula, the crowned slug moth)
I spend so much time at my home away from home that I get to watch my children grow. She's just munching her way through the leaf in a neater fashion than I can do cutting a pizza
(Isla textula, the crowned slug moth)
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Another little alien…or Ochrolechia sp lichen growing on (and killing) lowbush blueberry shrubs. Newfoundland, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
December 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Another little alien…or Ochrolechia sp lichen growing on (and killing) lowbush blueberry shrubs. Newfoundland, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends