Diseñadores, filósofos, economistas, periodistas, politólogos, políticos, artistas y un largo etcétera de profesiones que no tienen nada que ver, diciéndole a los que se formaron específicamente sobre animales cómo es que hay que manejar las especies... Ah bueno...
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Research using Australian herbarium specimens shows orchid pollination has fallen 60% since the 1970s.
The “declines in pollination are most pronounced in orchids that rely on specialised pollinator interactions”
#orchids #nativeplants #pollinator #conservation
theconversation.com/preserved-or...
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
🌿🌴🌿 We're wrapping up the semester!! That means it's time to recap my lecture class, Botanical Bodies: Plants, Medicine + Colonialism in the History of Science. Happy to share my syllabus, which I no longer make publicly available after some plagiarism issues. Get ready for a plant 🧵:
Love to read your paper about Schultes
A brown insect with an enlarged, helmet-like pronotum edged in bright red and clear wings with the bottom edge bright red and a blue patch near the head. The insect is standing on a leaf.
Super snazzy treehopper found in a shrubby patch along a roadside near a small stream. Check out the red racing stripes!
(Metcalfiella erecta)
Intag Refugio, Ecuador
This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.
The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.
The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.
What’s the most harmful introduced species on earth? Many would say that’s it’s the domestic cat! And one simple thing we can do to help protect our birds is to keep cats inside.
#cats #cat #bird #birds #nature #ecology #ecosystem #wildlife
🎨 🦟 Beautiful illustration by Amedeo J. E. Terzi (buff.ly/rJpBWjq ) in Edwards' "Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region, Part III" (1942)
#entomology #mosquitoes #taxonomy 🧪 🌍️ 🌐
¿Tydal la revisaste? A mi me ha parecido buena opción.
Colombia to cull hippo population founded by drug lord
Colombia to cull hippo population founded by drug lord https://aje.news/z1nv09
A aqua green and brown striped insect standing on a leaf.
A snazzy little black wall with orange and yellow markings. It is standing on a leaf.
A beetle with a bright red head, pronotum, and elytra, with black color on the back half of the elytra. It is standing on a leaf.
A weevil with a pink head and legs and pale aqua green body. It is standing on a rock.
Some fun bugs we found around the lodge yesterday.
Leafhopper, Long-waisted Honey Wasp, Leaf Beetle, and everyone's favorite, the Magic Sparkle Weevil.
On the cover of our current issue: the 'cool' snow fly❄️❄️❄️
whose genome reveals several fascinating cold adaptations.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, two people are standing in the forest, wearing backpacks. The red-haired person says "I've never hiked with a naturalist before! I'm excited. I hope I brought enough water." The brown-haired person says "I'm sure you did. Let's go!" In panel 2, the brown-haired person points at various nature features. "Look, a red eft! It's the teenaged form of the Eastern Newt. Ooh, wintergreen! Wanna smell it? I hear a Chestnut-sided Warbler. Glacial till. Rubble of the last ice age!" In panel 3, the naturalist points to more nature items. "This forest seems early successional. Aw, a leafcutter bee with a piece of leaf! Wow, deer poor! Wow, fungi growing out of the deer poop!!" The red-haired person says "Okay, but..." In panel 4, the red-haired person continues, "It's been an hour and we've walked three feet." The brown-haired person exclaims, looking excited, "Three amazing feet!"
Sometimes you make a new comic, and sometimes you redraw an old one because you lost the original high res file 😅
Want to switch countries for a postdoc? Specifically, are you European, or are you non-European wanting to come to Europe? Now's the time to reach out to potential host labs!
(It's very normal to cold-email a PI about potentially hosting -- don't be shy!)
What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art
Botanical illustration of the orchid species Masdevallia coccinea. The plant features several slender, reddish-brown stems with three prominent deep red, three-petaled flowers that have elongated, curved tips. The base shows a cluster of thickened green leaves and fibrous roots. To the lower left, detailed black-and-white anatomical sketches highlight various flower parts. The illustration is labeled with the scientific name and artist's credit, reflecting an 1896 publication.
🌸 The genus M̲a̲s̲d̲e̲v̲a̲l̲l̲i̲a̲
London: R.H. Porter, 1896.
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Kärpänen lähikuvassa. Isot vihreät silmät ja hurjat jalat femur järeä ungula pitkä kiilukärpänen Dolichopodidae Kuva: Andreas Stark Campsicnemus magius A male of the long legged fly Campsicnemus magius
good morning
Yo organizo todo via Calibre. Solo uso el kindle para leer.
Claro, lo ideal, pero yo tengo mucha cosa en epub y un lector no-pantalla (e-ink) es ideal.
Species descriptions should not be confined to "summary" PDFs only providing access to a fraction of the data underlying the conclusions. We here argue for "digitally native species" built around structured, specimen-linked, machine-actionable evidence from day one. rdcu.be/fcbwh
Póster anunciando que las inscripciones para el VIII Simposio Colombiano de Biología Evolutiva están abiertas. Inscripción temprana hasta el 24 de abril.
VIII Simposio Colombiano de Biología Evolutiva
Bogotá, 23-25 de julio
Inscripciones abiertas 📣
Diversidad de invitados, cursos precongreso y simposios temáticos: Biogeografía, filogenética, EvoDevo, morfometría, enseñanza de la evolución y mucho más...
Más info: lasalle.edu.co/es/viii-simp...
We have a new exiting PhD position in our program on the skin microbiome of amphibians, supervised by @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social! Follow the link to read more and apply: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/.... Deadline the 8th of May.
¿Que opciones son buenas para reemplazo?
A fly with very long legs and a thin body. The posterior legs literally look like feathers. The eyes are bright red. The fly is black
A very badass fly with feathery legs. Genus Porphyrochroa
shiny black fly with a yellow head and multi-colored redish eye, sitting on green leaf
Soldier fly (Genus Cyphomyia) from Ecuador
Female Microchrysa polita
Female Microchrysa polita
Slowly going through deceased and collected critters from our garden greenhouse. Microchrysa polita is the most often observed - both alive and dead - Stratiomyid so far.
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2026/03/micr...
#Invertebrate 🐙🪰
#Diptera #Insects #Stratiomyidae #Biodiversity
