Hawthorn flower (May)
Hawthorn just starting to flower at the Dorset patch today, also my first Grass Snake, a large female slithered into cover & Speckled Wood NFY. 🌿🐍🦋 #Dorset #herps #inverts
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A tiny black spider which legs have a soft orange hue. Its whole body shimmers as it reflects the sunlight.
Same spider. Dorsal view (like previous image).
The original picture. Shows spider in 'distance'.
The world is a lot right now.
But, to my delight, I managed to encounter someone new the other day!
Excuse the low quality, the spider was very tiny and wouldn't hold still. The pictures are zoomed in too.
It appeared to be an ant mimicking spider (but unsure).
#SpiderSky #inverts #spiders 🌿🪲🕷️
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A caterpillar of unknown species found on the pavement and brought home to feed and hopefully pupate in soil. Dark brown head and lighter brown body. It's slightly curled, head to left, tail at the right. OM1ii 60mm stacked image.
The glorious bright yellow Dandelion much reviled as a weed by many but adored by those who appreiate its beauty and that it provides essential food for early nectaring insects OM1ii 90mm +x2 extender stacked image
Bombilious Major, Dark Bordered Beefly. Fluffy brown body, big brown eyes close together, long straight proboscis, wings open with dark pattern to upper border - hence the name. This is the first and so far only, Beefly in my jungle this year. It's resting on a stone sun bathing. OM1ii
AN AWFUL shot. TG5 was only camera with a built in flash and working batteries. Not really the best for this job, FZ1K now has a battery! Centre left half a large plant pot which is the Hedgehog feeding station. One HH is inside and to the right is a second HH moving away. The plant is self seeded Gallium, food plant for Hummingbird Hawk Moth.
300326 @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @dandelionappre1.bsky.social #inverts #macrophotography #moths #naturelovers #bugsky #aurelians #entomology A caterpillar, a Dandelion, a Beefly and 2 Hedgehogs - awful photo TG5 not the best but only camera with working flash & battery
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Three fat lilac buds are dusted with a number of tiny black cylindrical insects that have abdominal stripes and three dorsal spots.
I noticed a bunch of what I think are thrips on these swelling lilac buds when I walked by the other day. I'd love to know if anybody has any information because I don't know how to feel about them. I'm prejudiced against thrips because of the indoor plant pest species. #Inverts 🌱🌿
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art of pericapritermes nitobei, a termite with a weird looking head
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SOMETHING IS FINALLY USING THE NATIVE WILLOWS I PLANTED FOR POLLINATORS!
*squints eyes*
Oh, it's a honeybee. Well, at least the pollen isn't being wasted.
#nativeplants #Inverts 🌱🌿
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A wasp or yellowjacket insect drawing in colour on a white BG
I saw a yellowjacket hanging out on the path today. Got a couple good closeup photos, so I drew it.
Fine line pen and alcohol markers
#insects #invertebrates #inverts #wasp #sciart
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Tri-coloured Bee on dandelion
Buckeye on dandelion
#Bees #Inverts #Butterflies Not just Bees but many creatures rely on Dandelions
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I don't love that livestock forage in my yard & compete with the native bees I'm trying to support.
HOWEVER since we depend on honeybees for many crops but live in pollination deserts, this is a big time breakthrough. They engineered YEAST to replicate missing nutrients from pollen.
#Inverts 🧪🌎🌱
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Light coloured stony ground scattered with small bits of sun-bleached dead sticks. Somewhere in the photo is a butterfly...
The Great Banded Grayling (Brintesia circe) butterfly, Master of Disguise! They have an amazing ability to simply disappear after they've landed by blending in with their #background.
#BlueSkyArtShow #inverts #ECK
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Just a little shrimp wishing you a good nights sleep and lots of community tomorrow. #inverts
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photo of a somewhat fresh spider egg sac attached to a decorative holly bush. the egg sac is cream silk with a light brown/orange line bisecting it inside the sac. there are small unidentified hunks of white debris incorporated into the sac and the few stands of silk attaching it to the leaves.
photo of the egg sac in my hand to show the bottom, which has an accumulation of orangish mystery stuff as well as a darkening inside that I'm assuming is developing eggs.
photo of about 20 tiny spiderlings dispersing on silk strands that converge on a broken branch of a holly bush. the spiderlings are light orange with a large cream-colored abdomen that has a large black spot. they are very blurry as they are small and moving.
second photo of about 8 tiny spiderlings dispersing on silk strands that converge on a (different) broken branch of a holly bush. the spiderlings are light orange with a large cream-colored abdomen that has a large black spot. they are very blurry as they are small and moving.
i found this egg sac last November and wondered what it was all winter. two days ago, i noticed it getting dark with the warmer weather. then today: babies! ~200 or so orbweaver spiderlings dispersing across my yard 🥰
#inverts #spiders #patienceIsAVirtue
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Green background with spider web and a spider waiting in the middle
Collage of three photographs with different views of an orchard orbweaver spider in its web
Orchard orbweaver (Lecauge venusta) in the web, which is built higher and at a slightly different horizontal angle each day + various views of the same spider #Inverts 🌿
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Predatory diving beetle larvae are the worst. “Water tigers” indeed. #inverts
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Vernal pool tadpole shrimp swimming in the measuring container before being released.
Most of the pools are dry in and around Davis, but we are going to look for ditch shrimp anyway. #inverts
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On the right a man in neutral coloured clothing is holding a large white "sweep net" with a short silver handle. He's surrounded by knee-high vegetation.
Headington Action kindly funded a survey of spiders and other invertebrates in the Valley. 506 invertebrate species in total, 83 species of spiders, one Nationally rare beetle, and seven Nationally Scarce other invertebrates. Link to report below.
#inverts @tverc1.bsky.social @judywebb.bsky.social
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Three photos in one of a sock on a mannequin leg in different angles. It is blue with a yellow heel and toes. There are three trilobites on the sides of the sock.
Have you seen the sock samples in the recent update of the Ancient Arthropods project? 👀
The trilobites are now done! A much simpler design for those who don't like clutter
#inverts
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a drawing of a cicada surrounded by flower decorations
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A photograph of a tiny, grey-and-orange striped scorpion (Centruroides hentzi) sitting in the bottom of a small plastic drink cup.
Last week, I acquired a new specimen (aka a very special little baby creechure) for the menagerie. #scorpion #inverts
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A small pale blue butterfly with white edging to the wings. It has black and white striped antennae with black ends. it's perched on a damaged Ivy leaf which is a shiny dark green.
My first Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) of the year just now in the garden. Just in time for #InsectThursday!
#inverts #UKWildlife #iRecorded @upperthames.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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A swath of purple crocuses emerging from some messy grass.
C'mon, pollinators. I grew these for you, come eat the blessed cheetoh dust.
(I know crocuses aren't native but I ALSO have trillium and violets and glacier lilies and various species of Ribes coming on as well as fruit trees and woods rose and I just want to see some bugs mmkay). 🌱 #Inverts
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A brown and gray butterfly with lots of brown and white spots.
A yard first Juvenal's Duskywing! #inverts
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