Formica exsecta workers are infected by Pandora fungus
Pandora fungus reproductive cycle on Formica exsecta hosts for Csata, E., Erős, K., Szabó, Á. et al. Blade-running: an efficient yet simple behaviour to potentially combat summit disease in ants. BMC Ecol Evo (2026). doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#scientificillustration #parasite
Graphical abstract for Maziarz et al. (2026)
Bird nests support a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community on the forest floor. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 1–14.
Really enjoyed doing this one, and don’t forget to check out the paper!!
#sciart #entomology
sketched on a plane flight
¡La Asociación Ibérica de Mirmecología os desea una Feliz Navidad y un próspero 2026!
To see these beeflies, Australoechus sp, flying around in the Fynbos, SA, has to be 1 of my life’s highlights
Many were buzzing around Micrdon capitatus, the heady catstailbush - a rare endemic to this region. Rare because of habitat loss (land clearance) & invasive species.
Brilliant #beeflies
Pandion haliaetus for my grandma’s birthday
#osprey #aguilapescadora #raptors #graphite
Lasius neglectus worker
#myrmecology #digitalart
Alicia Sempere Marín y yo revisamos los documentos conocidos sobre la introducción de los cangrejos y añadimos pruebas de que los cangrejos enviados desde Toscana llegaron vivos a los estanques de los Sitios Reales en el entorno de Madrid
Ilustración de @theafenogaster.bsky.social
fun drawing with greyscale markers
🖼️ Image 1 – Hypothetical reconstruction of the queen. This is what she might have looked like had she founded a colony instead of fossilizing after drowning in a water pool. The queen and her first nurse are shown tending eggs and larvae of two generations.
no reference earwig
(hind legs need to be pushed back a bit and other anatomical inaccuracies)
#dermaptera
Sólo vengo a recordar que tuve el honor de escribir un capítulo en el libro "Artrópodos: Las fascinantes criaturas que cambiaron la historia"
Libro en el que contamos cosas muy curiosas sobre bichitos.
Y tiene ilustraciones muy bonicas de @theafenogaster.bsky.social
Feliz #DíadelLibro 🐝🦋🐞🐜🪰🪲😉
e. Hormigas polinizadoras:
e.1 Lasius grandis.
e.2 Lasius cinereus.
e.3 Camponotus cruentatus.
f. Hormiga dispersora: Pheidole pallidula.
g. Flor siendo polinizada por Lasius grandis.
Back to the pleistocene
Molero-Baltanás, R., Gaju-Ricart, M. & Robla, J. Diversity hidden in nests: worldwide account of nidicolous silverfish (Insecta: Zygentoma). Insect. Soc. (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s000...
Messor ibericus, Proatelurina, Neoasterolepisma and Microhodotermes for a study on Zygentoma diversity within nests of ants and termites. @biojairo.bsky.social
#silverfish #entomology #ants #termites
🐜 Crónicas de una colonia: incipientes reinos de Crematogaster.
💀 Lo que la marabunta se llevó: competencia entre invasoras.
👀 El pasado verano, durante el XVIII Taxomara celebrado en Málaga, algunos socios de la #AIM tuvimos la oportunidad de visitar la ciudad y, entre otras cosas, sus #hormigas.
I recently posted a picture of a large Dorylus molestus army ant worker from Mount Kenya. Here is the same ant again, but this time in comparison to its smaller sisters. These ants are incredibly polymorphic, and the different worker types take on different tasks in the colony.
ant couple for a logo
Herpestes ichneumon for my father’s birthday
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#herpestesichneumon #meloncillo
The big beaky boy
gracias!
I dug up this old picture from Twitter, so here you go:
Meet the Pterosaurs!
#paleoart #paleontology #pterosaurs
thank you!!
⁉️ ¿Sabías que…? La comunidad de criadores, aficionados e investigadores del mundo de las #hormigas cuenta con un #FORO que ofrece un espacio común y permite generar, conservar y gestionar un valioso conocimiento.
yes i approve of that thinking
A series of grey-shaded line drawings showing the changing shape of the sail-backed predatory dinosaur Spinosaurus over the last 100 years, moving through sometimes upright, sometimes spiny, sometimes T. rex-like depictions to longer-snouted, "newt-tailed" versions.
My chapter - authored with @tattersdill.bsky.social - in the new Palaeontology in Public book is "The ‘Spin’ in Spinosaurus: inventing a modern dinosaur superstar", discussing changing depictions and attitudes towards this now A-list dinosaur - read it here: uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon... #palaeoart
⁉️ ¿Sabías que…? El nombre del género Messor viene de un dios romano.
