Miniscule perky black jumping spider with orange legs and bright white palps, peering up at you with the tiniest big eyes

Look at him, the smallest possible salticid 🥹
(Neonella camillae)
#EmotionalSupportSpood

Super excited to announce our newest #wildlife discovery!

We report the Jujube Lappet #Moth (𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘢), as a new zoo-geographic record from #Raigad district, in #Maharashtra, Western #India.

🔗 www.elafoundation.org/ela/wp-conte... (pp. 1831-1835).

Fresh specimen of Johnius javaensis, paratype.

#NewSpecies
New croaker from #indonesia just swam in:

Johnius javaensis

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/48F92633-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #JohniusJavaensis

#FAIRdata
#taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fish #fishfriday #ichthyology #croaker

Metahelotella alatonotata, holotype, ♂, dorsal view.

#NewSpecies!
New beetle from #china just snuck in:

Metahelotella alatonotata

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/13FBBC52-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #MetahelotellaAlatonotata

#FAIRdata
#nature #wildlife #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs

Three new wasp species are described and illustrated in the genus Pteromalus. Learn more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#newspecies #parasitoids #taxonomy @unibe.ch

A review of the Chinese species in the grasshopper genera Genimen and Genimenoides: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#grasshoppers #taxonomy #Orthoptera

The identities of two species of Korean Isometopinae are clarified based on examination of their type material: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#biodiversity #plantbugs #taxonomy

A brewer’s blackbird is perched on a stick pile and glaring at you.

Start your day with a judgmental blackbird. 🪶

Using the OnePlus 15: What I Liked, What I Didn't Like... YouTube video by JuanBagnell

Absolutely loved @somegadgetguy.com's #OnePlus15 review.

Detailed and nuanced is how we like our Tech journalism.

#Tech #Android #OnePlus

youtu.be/9SpffgyrOxw?...

Poplar Hawk-moth resting on a branch against a black background

Moths need darkness to thrive 🖤

But globally, light pollution is increasing by 10% a year, and these vital nocturnal pollinators need our help.

Find out how you can provide a haven for moths where you live by creating Moon Meadows 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/moon-meadows...

📷: Marian Coburn

"To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought."
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Launch Day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! Welcome back, and hallo, new readers! This is it! The US launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is February 4th. I’m amazed and relieved to get to this...

Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far.
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

“Resistance is futile.” Why Star Trek: TNG’s Borg Collective Is the Perfect Monster for Our Time - Reactor 35 years on, what can we learn from the Borg and "The Best of Both Worlds"?

What makes a perfect monster? I wrote about #StarTrek #TNG's The Borg Collective for @reactorsff.bsky.social
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Damn I keep thinking of more crabs that fit the holiday. Because there's also CANDY crabs, Hoplophrys oatesi:

🍬🦀

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These look so much like our own Buff-Striped Keelbacks!

A close up photos of a juvenile Western terrestrial garter snake laying on a busy forest floor

Up close with a juvenile western terrestrial garter snake
#herps #reptiles #snakes

A large round marbled orange rump faces the camera. Radiating out from it are 8 striped legs.

An orange marbled orbweaver spider sits on a white background facing the viewer. It has small eyes and spiky striped legs.

An orange marbled orbweaver spider sits on a white background facing to the left. It has small eyes and spiky striped legs.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! 🎃👻
Is that a pumpkin or a spider butt? The marbled #orbweaver is all decked out for fall and the spooky season (though, really, this lovely lady was very shy and harmless)!

#Araneidae: #Araneus marmoreus
#Arachtober

📸 30 OCT 2025 (22:48 hrs.) in my bathroom, at #Govandi East, Eastern Mumbai.

#GalaxyS24FE #CityForest

The Common Evening Brown is #Mumbai 's quintessential urban butterfly. Found everywhere, and in all habitats, it flies after dusk, frequently entering 🏡 attracted to artificial 💡

This particular individual with torn wings likely escaped the jaws of a prowling 🦎

#butterfly #urbanwildlife

#SGGQA 418: OnePlus 15, Meta Layoffs, Apple Flops, and Scary Movies! – PJ POD Last Monday of the month, RIGHT BEFORE HALLOWEEN! Some news to cover as we wrap the month off, and I was hoping we could spend some time chatting about scary movies for the season. Let’s get …

Replay crew! LONG show this week, but fun chatter about the OnePlus 15 and some of our fave SPOOKY movies! somegadgetguy.com/2025/10/27/s...

#SGGQA 418: OnePlus 15, Meta Layoffs, Apple Flops, and Scary Movies!

A spider with an orangish-gold cephalothorax and a pale colored abdomen with two large spines sticks out in opposite directions from the abdomen. The spider is sitting on a leaf.

How about some spiky spiders tonight? This one is Micrathena acuta, a spiny orbweaver found in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. It is believed that the spines serve as a defense from birds and even predatory wasps.
Cuyabeno Reserve, 2024

It’s very hot & humid. The sheep lay in the shade, alongside the cool troughs

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A butterfly with its wings folded up showing the ventral side with alternating patterns of orange and white perched on a willow leaf in a riparian area From Wikipedia: The Lorquin's admiral has brown-black wings, each with a row of white spots across it. Its forewings have orange tips. Wingspan: 47 to 71 mm; females are generally larger than males.

Yesterday’s benefit from my Vitamin D infusion.

Lorquin's admiral
(Limenitis lorquini)
🌿

StarCraft (1998)

A red-shouldered hawk fledgling and their parent sharing a meal of intestines, both birds have the long thin red meat in their bills

A fledgling red-shouldered hawk and their parent caught in a bit of a Lady and the Tramp situation 🍝
#birds #raptors

Among the more ubiquitous of the world's feathered folk, the humble house sparrow (Passer domesticus indicus) adds a dash of life to the mundanity of the life urbane, with it's cacophony of chirps and cheeps, no matter which part of the world one may find it in.

#birds #urbanwildlife #nature

A bee gathering pollen from a yellow cosmos flower surrounded by green leaves and a small white cosmos bud.

#InsectThursday #Bee #Insects 🐝💛🌿 #CosmosChallenge2025 #EastCoastKin #Garden #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #NaturePhotography

I've never had such luck with dragonflies!
#insects #nature #photography

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SGGQA 401: Xbox and AMD, Apple iCloud Lawsuit, Fairphone 6 Leaks, Google Trains AI on Youtube Content

Let's get our tech week started right!

#tech #technology #technews #podcast

#SGGQA 401: Xbox and AMD, Apple iCloud Lawsuit, Fairphone 6 Leaks, Google Trains AI on Youtube Content A bill before the Senate could block states from regulating AI for ten years. Google is getting sued by a solar company for AI search hallucinations. Apple will be facing another consumer lawsuit o…

REPLAY CREW! We went deep on all the AI news this week, but still had some fun chatting about Xbox, AMD, and Quest gaming partnerships! somegadgetguy.com/2025/06/23/s...

SGGQA 401: Xbox and AMD, Apple iCloud Lawsuit, Fairphone 6 Leaks, Google Trains AI on Youtube Content