Leaf-mimicking katydids like this Cycloptera speculata are among my favorite to encounter when I visit the Ecuadorian Amazon. They really look and behave like a leaf, and if that's not enough they also show a high degree of color pattern variation to depict leaf damage like holes and sunburn marks.
When you see this fly, be kind.
It just wants to hug you and never ever let go 🤗
ever
I was just about to write the same thing!
A funky Pholcid from Mexico. I had no idea that there were Cellar spiders with weird heads. Weird heads are one of my favourite features a spider can have. Modisimus sp.
#Pholcidae #CellarSpider #iNaturalist
Macro photograph of a colourful Rub-tailed Wasp in a Staffordshire garden.
Always a treat to see; a lovely Ruby-tailed Wasp in our #Staffs garden yesterday. #wasp #CuckooWasp #SolitaryWasp
Uropygi
#SciArt
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)
You need these bebes in your life
An amazing artist's rendering of Heterophrynus
What an amazing Lamprosoma! I'm a big fan of this genus
Photograph of an intricately busy tropical forest in a color pallet of various greens. Several large tree trunks rise diagonally through the frame, each trunk covered in many species of plants, some dangling roots.
A change of mood: cloud forest in Boquete, Panama.
A dorsal (top-view) photography of a tiny golden moth on white background. It has long filiform antennae, ginger setae on the head, a dark collar of setae on the thorax, and the rest of the body and wings is covered in golden scales. The wings hag long golden fringes. The copyright mentions © Stéphane De Greef 2026.
Let me tell you the magical story of the #TrilobiteMoth, a mystery that followed me since 2002 and has finally been (partially and almost) resolved thanks to the dedication of fantastic entomologists from all over the world collaborating on the fantastic platform @inaturalist.bsky.social ! 1/xx
I love stories like this!
😬
We want to know how the story ended
This is probably the only time I will say... I think AI could produce a better image to communicate whatever idea this is supposed to be
but of course a qualified human would be even better
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.
You know how they quickly go into their burrows when you approach? So, apparently if you find them in the water, you can actually pet them. They are super chill in the water.
What... their message is clear?..
Are they high? I can't understand a single thing about this
I've always admired Skink's sculptures of insects. I even wrote about it a few years ago: gilwizen.com/skink-chen/
Play at 2x speed and you get the Aussie laugh I hear in my nightmares
bright orange cartoon spider with ziggy stardust makeup
David Bowie Spider (Heteropoda davidbowie) #febugary2026
Cats! For the cat peopl
w...wait
Yeah 🤔 I wasn't wrong
Cats! for the cat people!
IYKYK 😉
Stunning moss mimicry on this harvestman
I'm using Copytrack for some other infringements (not endorsing them, just experimenting with the service), but this one is an infringement of my WPY winner pic with a history of direct communication with the infringer, so I'm considering hiring a law firm/attorney
I have a similar situation with FB right now. The infringer is a business account so a commercial infringement. Can't decide if I should go after them directly, or just FB for enabling.
I did a DMCA takedown btw. It was removed but the infringer appealed, and now FB ignores communication from me.
Probably to be left alone by ants, birds, and parasitoids
Probably to be left alone by ants, birds, and parasitoids
