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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!
A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
The fight continues with the challengers evenly balanced. A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
The fight continues with the fly on the right seeming to gain an upper hand and pushing the fly on the left backwards. The fly on the right is putting all his might into the battle, back legs in the air. A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
The fly on the right emerges victorious with the fly on the left exiting toward the back of the scene. A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
We noticed these fruit flies are behaving like tiny big horn sheep of fly world so we went back today to see if I could get some photos of the action. Here you have it, a play in 4 acts! Make me wonder if they evolved the elongated eyes for this purpose.
Zygothrica sp.
Intag Refugio, Ecuador
Welcome back to #FossilFriday
Here is a well preserved Macrocrinus mundulus crinoid from the Lower Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) Edwardsville Formation from Crawfordsville, Indiana. The Edwardsville Formation. Crinoid fossils from this locality can be found in museums around the world.
Very pleased to find another Honeysuckle Sawfly in the garden. Impressive and burnished gold. We have lots of Honeysuckle and it's another great plant for wildlife.
Thylacoplethus novacambria sp. nov. Micro-CT images of externae arising from female Munidopsis arietina Alcock & Anderson, 1894 (MV J72896); host in grey, rhizocephalan externae in red. Dorsal (A), lateral (B), ventral (C), and en-face (D) views. Scale bars = 5 mm.
Extremely cool new paper by @paularodflo.bsky.social! 🦀🦑🧪
A barnacle parasitizing a squat lobster, as seen here (the parasite is the "red" blobby stuff). They made a molecular phylogeny of the barnacles, a step towards understanding how they choose hosts
academic.oup.com/jcb/article/...
jumping spider, Habronattus amicus, on a central CA beach, doing a very nice job of blending in ...
Check out this FLUFFY beauty! 🤩🦋
Introducing you to Sarota chrysus, one of the most stunning butterflies in the world! 🌈
Seeing this is one of the highlights of my year! 🥰
See how we found this incredible butterfly in our first episode of the Bug Review! ✨
This deep sea creature is as sharp & clear as broken class, & can grow as long as your hand. This giant amphipod, (Cystisoma) only has two colored body parts: the dense orange stomach/egg pouch, & two MASSIVE eyes, which are a glittering holographic orange layer completely covering its head.
📽️ MBARI
Who does not want an AMAZING 3D printed fly????
This Drosophila was printed for me today as a prop for a talk at the @rigb.org
It caused a minor commotion on the tube on my way home. And I LOVE IT
- @bittelmethis.bsky.social 🤓🪰🤘
How wonderful that Cambridge University is offering a botany course based on Henslow's original materials! #Darwin #Cambridge #botany
One of Ireland's less common butterflies, the green hairstreak, in a rewilding part of the farm yesterday.
Rewilding isn't just about getting more trees and forests back, but increasing diversity and abundance of *all* our natural species and ecosystems.
two festive tiger beetles on sand - flashy and colorful beetles with big eyes - their bodies metallic green to gold to red!
☀️went out looking for Cicindela scutellaris, and found Cicindela scutellaris🙇
🏖️here's a pair on sand, near a river🪲
female Tawny Mining Bee, Andrena fulva. A foxy-coloured bee with black head & legs.
Female Tawny Mining bee, Andrena fulva, in my garden this afternoon. The conical nest mounds are appearing in the soil all around my winter-flowering heathers.
iNat photo by Samuel Messner, depicting a large neotropical conoderine weevil who resembles nothing so much as a freshly baked dinner roll sprinkled with sea salt
may we offer you a perfectly toasted weevil this fine morning?
a beetle glued to a point. Its head points left, with sausage-like antennae attached to large shielding scapes. The body is punctate, dark brown, and the elytra have gigantic, ear-like rounded bulges, with a golden fringe of setae along their inner edge (handles, we believe, for the ants to grab).
It is a unique pleasure to have someone send you pictures of a species you described. It's like a report that one of your kids is doing all right. This beauty is Orectoscelis westwoodi, a myrmecophile (probably with Pheidole) described back in 2005 from Queensland, AU. (photo by Jan Pražák)
Tiger beetle from the Western Ghats of India. CREDIT: John J. Wiens
Scientists continue to discover new clades across the tree of life, with more than 700 new genera, more than 20 new families, and more than three new orders described each year. Many newly discovered clades are microscopic or marine. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/s2Eh50Ytt6k
Bugguide photo of a "Thief weevil" (Attelabidae: Pterocolus sp) by user Metrioptera. He is a jolly iridescent turquoise and sort of rectangular in shape, with an unusually wide stance.
let's all take a moment to consider the Thief Weevil and his outrageous pantaloons
Cediopsylla simplex 🙂
Macro photograph, in top view, of two insects standing on a cluster of small, 4-petalled white flowers. Both insects have a red head and thorax and black at their back ends. The beetle on the right is slightly broader, and has a narrow white line separating the red and black parts of its body, as to suggest a narrow ant waist.
Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.
It is now February 27th in Japan
On this day, 30 years ago, Pokémon Red & Green were released in Japan and the franchise began.
Happy Birthday Pokémon!
#PokemonDay #Pokemon30
happy 30th anniversary pokemon
#ポケモン30周年
How fun! I was invited to write a "Species Spotlight" for Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com and I chose my favorite species the Florida turtle ant Cephalotes varians! rdcu.be/e5EZK Including a stunning photo of ants I collected by @alexwild.bsky.social
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
Hurricane Helene damage in a forest showing trees fallen down across a trail
Research biologist position at Clemson for work on forest wildlife/habitat recovery post-Hurricane Helene in western NC. Full time, multi-year position. Will be working with David Jachowski & myself, includes field work, analysis, writing.
**Apply by March 9**
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Three postdoctoral fellowships in quantitative biology are available as part of a new Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland.
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My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15
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Head on shot of a brownish-red moth larva on a thin tree branch. It has little white spots on its body. Its silhouette looks not unlike that of a lobster. It's grasping the twig of a plant. The background is green.
Here’s one lobster that you might not want with a side of butter: the lobster moth! Named for its lobster-like larval form, this wide-ranging insect inhabits parts of Europe & Asia. While it resembles a crustacean, it can also mimic ants as a way to deter potential predators.
A tortoise beetle on a leaf. The clear elytra extend past the body of the critter. The body is blue and yellow and iridescent.
Sometimes there are jewels just sitting on leaves out here
This is a tortoise beetle, beautifully iridescent, about the size of my fingernail.
A fuzzy jumping spider with bright pink chelicerae
An adorable little fuzzy spood
#inkdrawing #inverts #invertebrates #spider #sciart
