Parasitoids FTW!!! Illustration in homage to Eric Carle by Sloan Tomlinson

A very fluffy pink moth with long feathery antennae

A very pink moth from a few years ago near Melbourne, AU. Pararguda sp., I think. #lepidoptera #moths #invertebrates #macro #photography #nature 📷🦋🐝🐙🌲🌳🔬

Finally! After a few years of trying to find the right spot & time things right. I've photographed adult California tiger salamanders (Ambystoma californiense) underwater as they return to vernal ponds to breed. I believe mine are the 1st UW images of wild CA tiger sals. 🦎🌎🐸

A green and black weevil on a reddish leaf, against a green background

Leaf Weevil

Schönbuch, DE, 2024. Phyllobius sp, I think

#weevil #coleoptera #entomology #invertebrates #nature 🔬🐞🪲📷🍃🐙🌳🌲🇩🇪🌿

A black and brown iris weevil on a green iris leaf

Iris Weevil

One of my favorite common inverts around here (well, common in spring at least) Schönbuch, 🇩🇪, 2024
#weevils #beetle #macro #nature #entomology #photography 🌲🦉🐛🕷️🪲📷🧪🔬

Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires - Nature Data collected from more than 2,000 taxa provide an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how extreme wildfires affect biodiversity, revealing that the largest effects on plants and animals were in are...

Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires.

In this massive collaboration, >100 Australian ecologists put a novel spin on meta-analysis to discover how fire frequency, interval, unburnt area, pre-fire drought and protected areas modify fire impacts.🌏

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A photograph of the head end of a velvet worm, a soft-bodied invertebrate covered in beautiful orange and blue patterns.

Last weekend I got to see NZ velvet worms in their native forest habitat. These animals are so bizarre, taxonomists gave them their very own Phylum, next to tardigrades - that's insane!

This Ooperipatellus sp. is an egg-laying genus, but there's another here that gives live birth!

Mind. Blown. 🧪

A pied oystercatcher sits on a submerged rock, as small waves break around.

Pied Oystercatcher

Eden, NSW 🇦🇺 , 2020
#birds #wildlife #nature #photography 🐦🌳🦉🌊🪶

Hey new followers! 🌞

Here's a sparkly blue eustyline weevil from the Colombian Andes near Pueblo Rico, Risaralda 💙💚

more pics on iNat: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Four Drosera Ordensis plants in a pot. They have white fuzz on their leaves and orange pads at the ends of the leaves.

This is one of my all time favorite Wooly Sundews! Drosera Ordensis is an exceptionally beautiful carnivorous plant from Northern Australia. 🌱

Robberfly eating a wasp

Bad Urach, 🇩🇪

🐛🐞🪲🕷️🕸️📷🦟🐜🐝🔬 #macro #photgraphy #nature #invertebrates #entomology

A bank vole (very cute mouse) emerging from a gap between rocks in a stone wall

A bank vole, emerging from its bank home

#mammals #vole #nature #photography 🌳🇩🇪📷🌲🔬🍃🐭🐁🐇

A Fire salamander between the stones of a rock wall.

Feuersalamander (Salamandra salamandra)

Schönbuch, DE, 2024

#salamander #amphibians #herpetofauna #herpetology #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #photography #herps #nature #naturfotografie 🌳🇩🇪📷🌲🐸🦎🔬🐍🍃

Phenomenal Fireflies - Alex Wild Fireflies are a family (Lampyridae) of about 2,000 beetle species known for their ability to produce light through chemical reactions.

Memories of warmer days. A gallery of fireflies. 🧪🦗

A close-up portrait of the head of a longhorn beetle

Longhorn beetle

Liguria, IT, 2024

#nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #beetles #coleoptera 🕷️🪲🌲🔬🐛📷🐞 🌳

Pale brown leggy ogre spider clutching a perfect little square net with fuzzy silk which almost looks like it's made of lightning

Extremely leggy slender male Ogre, like a caricature of Ogres but in a good way

The male in stick mode on a palmetto frond, next to my finger. He's nearly as long as my finger

A handsome lass with her net, waiting patiently over the plains of a palmetto frond for snacks

A couple of tonight's lovely Ogres, including a comically leggy stick boy and two magnificent lasses with stunning nets. 🤎

Side view photograph of an oddly proportioned reddish brown insect with yellow stripes standing alert on the end of a stick against a blurred natural background.

The wasp mantisfly, Climaciella brunnea, is not a wasp, a mantis, or a fly. It is instead a type of spider-eating lacewing that keeps itself safe by looking like it has a painful sting, which is does not.

Evolution continues to be marvelous. 🧪 #Entomology

A eurasian wren sitting on a dead branch, against a dark green and brown background

Eurasian Wren/Zaunkönig

Schönbuch, DE, 2024

#birds #vogel #birdphotography #vogelfotografie #nature #naturephotography #birdsky #ornithology 🦉🐦🇩🇪📷🌲🌳🪶

The extraordinary life and death of the world’s oldest known spider This is the story of a 43-year-old spider and the people who knew her.

I know many people are mad at WaPo today, but this is the most amazing, heartwarming, and heartbreaking story I’ve ever read about a spider. #arachtober gift link

wapo.st/4fn64wN

Barbara York Main - Australia's spider woman - ABC listen The reserve at North Bungulla is quiet all day until the winds of the evening make the trees creak in the falling light. The winds bring the news that Barbara York Main has died.

There's a great episode of the sadly-defunct Off Track podcast from the ABC on the life of Barbara York Main, if you're interested: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

A red and blue peacock spider sitting on a small eucalypt branch

Maratus harrisii

Wonthaggi, VIC, AU, 2021. For #arachtober

#makro #macro #spiders #arachnids #peacockspider #jumpsingspider #australia #nature #naturephotography #invertebrates #salticid #salticidsaturday 🕷️🕸️📷🪲🐛🪲🧪 Photo mine.

Strawberry Weevil!

for #weevilwednesday, which better bet a thing on bluesky.

#weevils #weevil #invertebrates #coleoptera #nature #macro #photography 🪲📷🐛🧪 🔬 🇩🇪

An acorn weevil on a leaf.

Acorn weevil (Curculio sp.)

#tübingen 🇩🇪 #invertebrates #entomology #nature #macro #photography #weevil #coleoptera #beetle #insects #bugsky #bugs #ento 🪲 🕷️🐝🦋🐙📸📷🌿

Hemidactylus turcicus (House Gecko)

Liguria, IT, 2024

#herpetology #photography #gecko #naturephotography #macrophotography #lizard
My 📷.

Tessellated Weevil (Liophloeus tessulatus)

#wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography
#photography #macro #coleoptera #beetles #weevils #insects #invertebrates
Tübingen 🇩🇪, 2024