A macro photo of an elongate, metallic green beetle on a pale purple flower with green fuzzy stem/leaves. Partially visible underneath the green beetle, there is a red and black bug which is poking the underside of the beetle with its needle-like mouthparts.

A cool behavior I've seen with at least two different mirid plant bugs and several blister beetle sp. - the mirid (Aoplonema sp.) is not preying on the beetle (Lytta sp.), but trying to "steal" some of the beetle's toxic bug blood, possibly to sequester the defensive chemical for itself. #Bugsky 🌿🐙

An orange sawfly crouches over a pile of larvae. The larvae are oblong and have translucent yellow bodies and shiny black ends.

An orange sawfly crouches over a pile of larvae. The larvae are oblong and have translucent yellow bodies and shiny black ends.

An orange sawfly crouches over a pile of larvae. The larvae are oblong and have translucent yellow bodies and shiny black ends.

An orange sawfly crouches over a pile of larvae. The larvae are oblong and have translucent yellow bodies and shiny black ends.

A sawfly — species Pseudoperga lewisii — and its many, many larvae. There are only about 50 iNaturalist observations of this species so far!

Macro photo in portrait arrangement — a jaunty little click beetle faces the camera while perched, dare I say in an optimistic posture on some stucco. His antennae look like a series of triangles. He looks curious. Happy. Hopeful. One supposes this is because he does not have a cell phone and does not read the news. All he knows is being a cool bug and also clicking his entire body like a weird awesome dude any time someone tries to Kafka his ass upside-down. I wish I could do that. Getting out of bed in the morning would fucking rule. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

Good morning instead of enjoying clickbait let’s enjoy this click beetle

I told you we’d be back

🧪 🦟 🎨Based on a recent post by @nmoiroux.bsky.social‬
I decided to post something I did a couple of years ago on the bird site. Enjoy! Keep reading for amazing mosquito paintings!
bsky.app/profile/nmoi...

SEM of holotype of Camarotus dilatatus from Ruben Dario Collantes Gonzalez's unpublished (?) revision of the genus

Joao Burini's iNat phenomenal photo of a SOMEHOW UNIDENTIFIED species of Camarotus found in Brazil. It is covered with waxy filamentous secretions that are deep fuchsia pink and fluorescent yellow, and has flattened itself to a leaf like the tortoise beetle this genus clearly wants to be. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111690886

a productive morning of weevil IDs fully derailed by the existence of Camarotus, the curculionine weevil who couldn't decide whether to be an attelabid or a cassidine chrysomelid

a person is holding a green grasshopper in their hand with the word cube visible in the background Alt: a person is holding a green katydid in their hand, the katydid is waving its front legs around

Hey you! I am still on the market for jobs this fall! I am an entomologist who specializes in inclusive biology teaching (15+ semesters of collegiate instruction) and a broad array of research skills spanning collection & ID, molecular work (RNAi, Genomics), and phenotyping (behavior, physiology)🧪

Pretty light grey lumpy mite with thick 1st leg pair lined with spines on the inner edge like a metal rake

Rake-legged mite! Rake-legged mite! Rake-legged mite! New Mexico flavor 😍

I think I like it here (as a treat)

A half free morel mushroom grows in the spring forest

Good morning and happy #MushroomMonday

Dark grey floofy lynx spider, legs perfectly bunched around her as she peers at you from a fence wire

Side view of the creature on the wire, a perfect lump of floof. She's grey, but with a wide nearly black band which goes across her head and extends to the 3 leg pairs folded beside her

A most handsome Floof Lump from yesterday, if needed 🖤

(Hamataliwa grisea)
#EmotionalSupportSpood

I needed to read this today.

That sculpture sounds scary!

Our dog Zora hates those things with a passion.

A view out into a harbour, showing a peninsula of steep land with colourful houses nestled into it. The water has a low layer of dense fog partially obscuring boats and houses.

Do you ever look out at a beautiful day with the sun shining and the ocean releasing an ominous fog and think to yourself ah, there's definitely going to be a kaiju emerging from there any minute now

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Lovely black widow lass with 2 red spots visible on the tip of her abdomen, chilling in a crevice of rotting wood

Needs No Introduction 🖤

Very close side view of the head and neck of a white herring gull with yellow eye and yellow beak with a spot of red and black toward the tip. The gull is facing to the right.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots and the Alt theme is #Gulls. Here's a head shot of a ... well, I'm sure you've figured it out.

#birds #photography

An elongated insect with a blue metallic head and pronotum, shiny pink elytra, and a black abdomen. It is standing among fronds of moss.

When you're rockin' metallic blue with a shiny pink backpack.

We found a few of these beautiful rove beetles in a mossy area on the trail today. Most rove beetles are predators of insects and other invertebrates living on the forest floor.
(Phanolinus sp.?) #invert
Intag Refugio, Ecuador

Amazing and very tasty weevil birthday cake made by my talented colleague Emily. 🙏🎉

A picture of a weevil facing forward . A shimmery pale orange head and a creamy seafood colored body

Magic opal glitter weevil.
Im always excited to find these!

look at this weird ass bug

A close-up, vertical shot of a rufous-tailed jacamar perched on a moss-covered branch against a soft, blurred green background. The bird has iridescent green plumage on its head and back, a distinct orange-brown (rufous) belly, and a very long, thin, pointed black beak angled upward.

The Rufous-tailed Jacamars have been getting frisky over the last week, chasing each other around the forest near the house. Are baby jacamars in my future? I can't wait!

@casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature

Bees That Come Out of the Ground?! YouTube video by Ant Lab

New today: Bees That Come Out of the Ground?!
youtu.be/jje1LPrsHbc

I would wear a sweater with this pattern.

An ominous white Amanita mushroom with a darling little skirt overlooks on a summer morning. The light softly showing through on its gills

Rise and shine! It’s time for crimes!

A female Red Mason Bee is seen standing in front of a hole in a red brick wall. This medium size bee is very furry, with a wide black head, black thorax with brown hairs, and a thickly furred abdomen with orange-red hairs. Her translucent wings are held somewhat apart from her body and she has long black antennae.

Now that spring has set in the invertebrates in our back garden are coming out - I've just spent some time watching this female Red Mason Bee coming in and out of a hole in our brick wall. She goes in and out briefly - seems to be scouting the location so she can remember it for later.

An absolutely *adorable* little bee 😍 for your morning

スベスベマンジュウダニ Conoppia palmicincta YouTube video by ぺんどら

hey you check out this cool bug

(alt: a mite with a broad circular hat made of iridescent overlapping scales on its back)

female Afrarchaea cornuta looking into camera, she has a tall, elongated cephalothorax that provides leverage to her extra-long chelicerae (jaws). this spider family is also called "assassin spiders" because they're shaped this way as specialist spider predators; they can land a bite and other spiders can't bite them.

male Afrarchaea cornuta in profile, showing his pelican-shaped head.

tell your friends about the pelican spiders of Madagascar, South Africa, and Australia

i vetted this to make sure it wasn’t ai so you could enjoy it fully