This is a photo of a hoverfly perched on the central structure of a flower. The insect’s large, dark compound eyes dominate its head, and its delicate, translucent wings are slightly raised as if ready to take off. Its body has subtle yellow and black markings, giving it a bee-like appearance. The fly is standing on a lightgreen/yellow star-shaped stigma. Surrounding it are numerous dark-tipped stamens, some leaning inward, creating a dense, textured ring. The petals of the flower are blurred into a rich pink background, forming a soft, circular frame that draws attention to the sharply focused insect and the flower’s centre.

#hoverfly

Volume up for the tragedy of one minute away from dinner
#cuddleUnit6

Excellent alt text 😂

Insect trap made of cloth in open agricultural land. There are some trees visible, but mainly grassy and shrubby pasture.

Insect trap made of cloth in semi-open agricultural land. It's next to a banana plant, with a brick building behind it.

Insect trap made of cloth in tropical forest. Tall trees all around, the trap is in an overgrown clearing left behind by a tree which has fallen.

Insect trap made of cloth in tropical forest. Red clay soil underneath the trap, a huge tree stangled in fig vines next to the trap.

Just been struck once again by a really noticeable difference between the wasps from Ugandan forest traps and non-forest traps.

Farmland: braconids instead of ichneumonids
Forest: ichneumonids instead of braconids

An exceedingly fluffy moth sitting on a grey cardboard egg tray from my moth trap. It's got a shape like a triangle with rounded mothy corners, and its wings are dark grey with tiny black spots. Its body is super fluffy like a plush toy. Its Legs are also super fluffy like it's wearing fur trousers, ending in little black feet. It also has long black comb-like antennas. It's a male muslin moth. Perfect fluffy moth pal, no notes.

Side view of another delightfully fluffy grey male muslin moth sitting on my hand. This moth has warm grey wings with little black spots, and a very fluffy grey body on top. Underneath, it's fluff is white and orange. It has orange fluffy legs that look a bit like its wearing fuzzy trousers, with little black feets, long black comb-like antennas, and big round black eyes. Perfect moth pal, A+, would recommend.

Important news update: it's fluffy-pants season.

Male muslin moths. They have excellent fluffy trews.

That is all, thank u for your time.

It appears that #doritos has replaced sugar in it's sweeter chips with stevia leaf extract and now I have even less inhibition at making whole bags disappear. 😂

I saw one of these the other night but my photos did not turn out and I failed to get more as I got distracted by mothnanigans 😜

And yes, I love them tooo

They're so fucking cute, LOOK AT THEEEEEEEM! They have a duckbill face. And listen to their distress squeaks. They're like a cicada but in beetle form! #InverteFest2026

Treehopper facing the camera. The face is an inverted triangle with eyes at the upper vertices. Above the face is the pronotum, a big square with two little horns protruding on each side. The treehopper is mottled brown and green.

Treehopper with a parasitic mite on top. 🌱

#macrophotography #insect

Yet another stunning example of the joy of moth portraiture!

A moth with an orange face and black eyes. It is hanging from a twig looking directly at the camera. It is very fluffy, like a teddy bear

Moth faces are so cute. Here’s a moth in the genus Trosia

Aight brown beetle in Bill’s hand. It had a horn on top of its head, pointing up. Then another on its nose, pointing to the front. The second horn moves up and down. Not sure what it would pinch in that direction, but whatever.

Caliper beetle, Golofa porteri. That’s Bill’s hand. It would look bigger in mine. The super long front legs are for giving extra big hugs

👤: How detailed is your art?

🗣️ Me: Yes. 🌱

Embraced in the lupine shroud.

Older piece for @lark-wren.bsky.social of their babies… but also a little new.

#art #illustration #werewolf #wolvesofdanu #wolf

😁

They are just delightful little friends 🥰

Zombie Spider Fungus Mimics - Taczanowskia waska YouTube video by EntoExplorer w/ Dr. P

The Night Weaver's children are clever indeed.

#Spiders
#Awe and #Wonder

youtu.be/G-i8B1kKkJ8?...

That gator is like, "S'up cousins!"😁

A photo of a wetland scene featuring various labeled wildlife species standing near water, including an American Alligator, Great Blue Heron, Wood Stork, Roseate Spoonbills, Black Vultures, Great Egret, and a Limpkin against a green, forested background.

I hiked out to a sinkhole that hosts hundreds of alligators and stumbled across a rather surreal surprise: a grand gathering of #Birds.

A macro photo of an orange and white moth from the side as it rests on an orange and black metallic surface. The moth has an orange crest on its head almost like a lepidopteran pompadour. it's slender antennae are white, it's eyes black. The moth's front pair of legs are ringed with many slender black and white stripes. it's back 2 pairs of legs are ringed white and orange. The moth's wings are mostly bright orange ith 2 white bands one at the front, one halfway down. 2 small white dots are towards the rear of the wings, one on the dorsal surface the other on the ventral surface. The trailing of the wings are covered in a fine orange fringe.

Happy #MothMonday. I'm a bit late today thanks to it being a Monday in all the Monday ways...😐

Today I share the tiny (5mm) little beauty that is the Suzuki's Promalactis Moth, Promalactis suzukiella.

#MacroPhotography
#MacroMonday
#Moths
#ECK
#invertebrates.

Transformers! More than meets the eye!

This VERY ANGRY ROCK is actually a brown box crab (Echidnocerus foraminatus), a king crab found off the Pacific coast of North America.

The impressively compact shape is a defense posture, but there's an even neater feature not shown here.

(📷:zedasd)

A screen shot of the author's Bluesky profile showing 25K followers. It reads: Dr. Heather Hinam Naturalist, writer, artist, and educator with Ph.D. in Ecology. I make interpretive signs, illustrations, murals, and books. Sometimes I chase polar bears and belugas.

Celebrating a milestone today. I constantly mystified that so many of you find my corner of the world worth your time, but I am honoured and humbled by your interest. I will continue to try and bring light and learning to you all. Thank you :)

That's right!

😻😻😻

macro photo of the head, most of the antennae and front legs of a male ceanothus silk moth. he is facing the camera and surrounded by the warm purple petals of a few Cineraria flowers.

BOOP!

Mr. Ceanothus Moth (Hyalophora euryalus euryalus) feeling chill this morning...due to the chill (almost freezing last nite) & maybe rethinking his life choices and hatch schedule.

Can't decide which is more *ded* the antennae or that snoot tho!

#inverts #becurious

America's national identity USED TO BE (ostensibly) DIVERSITY.

The whole POINT was to escape the structure of European nations, you stupid Tolkien misreading fucks.

Sunset near Swansboro, NC, September 26, 2006.

That gives a whole new meaning to Space Marine Librarians.

#OOOOOK

Skyline scrub: post something w/o explanation

That is exactly what my new niece-in-law first thought 😉