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A dark maroon chrysalis with a loop rests in a hand
This beautiful (and wriggling!) chrysalis was found in my school garden in Albuquerque this week. So far no ID on #Inaturalist. Suggestions? Found near ash and desert willow trees.
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Looks like a bug (Hemiptera) of some description. #InvertID
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There's the #invertebrates feed and #InvertID tag (not sure if it works in reply, so maybe quote post with the tag)
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Slightly blurry mining bee on globe thistle.
Mining bee and a honeybee on globe thistle.
Mining bee on globe thistle.
Mining bee on globe thistle.
...a mystery mining #bee - much denuded, perhaps. Any ideas? #invert #invertID π...
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a small green crab spider - making itself very tall and all its leg stretched - you can see a stump? cap? on top.
another angle for the underside of the cap being visible
the crab spider showing its back and looking away from the photographer
the crab spider is looking towards the photographer.
For #MacroMonday.
The first Crab Spider that I got to photograph (from the time I learnt of their existence)
It even showed us under its cap area (it was too tiny for me to get more details)
Not sure of the species though #InvertID
#Photography #Nature #Invert #Spider
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A four picture collage showing different views of a small dark bee, with pollen collected on her rear legs. She has some light brown "eyeshadow", and the occaisional light coloured hair on her body. In all the photos she is resting on Queen Anne's Lace, which is made up of multiple tiny white flowers clustered together into a platform.
I could do with some #bee #invertID please. This little one has been foraging on the Queen Anne's Lace, but I'm struggling to work out what it is. #solitarybee #inverts #invertebrates
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#macromonday
#invertid what kind of #snail is this?
(Shot near Cincinnati 6-12-25)π #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #animal #mollusk #invertebrate
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Just found A BUNCH of these in my Giant Millipede (Spiropoeus fischeri) enclosure! π₯°
No idea what type of isopod it is. This seems to be full size (there are loads of babies too)
Food/substrate in milli enclosure is the isopod mix from Joshβs Frogs. π€·ββοΈ
#inverts #bugsky #isopods #invertID #bugID
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A bee in flight, a bit blurry, at the mouth of a small screwhole in a wooden post.
The bee has landed on the post and has its head in the hole - wings, abdomen and back legs sticking out. Orange hair upright on its thorax just inside the hole.
Bee bum and one leg sticking out of the hole. The abdomen has the characteristic all-round orange fringe of a leafcutter bee.
Bee's head and thorax now looking out of the hole. Orange hair on thorax and face. Ocelli clearly visible on top of its head - these are light sensors, used to orient themselves, detect the horizon and the sun, and spot looming predators!
Watching a little bee (patchwork leafcutter maybe?) making its nest in the veranda of the summerhouse πππ± #invert #InvertID #TinyJoys
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#invertID any clue on what the snail and insect are? Spotted in Southeast Missouri near the Mississippi River
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LIVING chestnut turban snails
Honeymoon Island, FL
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#nature #Photography
#thismyart #addme
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Anybody know what this marine invert is? It's from an epipelagic plankton net tow in the middle of the Atlantic #invertID
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An up close shot of the face of an unidentified beetle. They have long legs and antennae attached to an equally long and slender body. Their face has big black eyes on a tiny head armed with what looks like little jaws somewhat out of focus.
#insectthursday
My phone says this #beetle is a Stenocorus sp. but this genus doesnβt appear in my field guides. Any input from the #invertID experts?
(Shot in Cincinnati 5-26-25) πͺ²πͺ³ #photography #macrophotography #insect #invertebrate #bug #bugsky #ento #wildlifephotography #wildlife #animals
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Sending this to the #Invertebrates feed! #InvertID #Invert πππ¦πͺ²π¦π·οΈπ
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Ayo #invertebrate Bluesky. This feller showed up on my doorbell cam and I ainβt never seen a red transparent tail before.
Got any #invertID ideas? Kansas City, MO
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An orange and yellow βwaspβ glides along the leaf littered ground.
#invertID please. iNat tagged this as Southern Yellowjacket but that looks very different from what I know as Yellowjackets.
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Caterpillar-like creature on a long strappy leaf. One end is tapered to a point and the other is broad and flattish. Shades of white/cream and brown, abstractly patterned, though there's a thick generally whitish stripe down the middle and a thinner one each side.
Snapped a quick pic of this unusual (to me) larva on a bluebell leaf today. Wish I'd looked closer as, back home, I can't figure out what it is, and none of my apps are sure either! Anyone help...? ππ¦ #teammoth perhaps? #invertebrate #invertID I'm not even sure which end is which... π€π
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Try #invertID very cute bug π
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more from point loma, california. mr krabs!!
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#InvertID #photography
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a specimen that seems to have a thin jelly like layer above a cluster of white tubes. latched to a rock. found during low tide.
TIL there are marine fungi species, while trying to ID a specimen on iNat (and getting that as a suggestion)
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although not very sure what we have here. any #InvertID help appreciated.
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A small dark blue wasp with a hair orange abdomen resting on a flower
Iβm guessing this is some kind of spider #wasp (Family: Pompilidae)?
(Shot near Cincinnati 8-30-24) π #invert #ento #invertid #photography #macrophotography #insect #bug
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A smooth black plastic pot has a quarter-sized patch of densely woven webbing with a pale orange mass inside, between the webbing and the pot. Two beige pieces of dried red cedar foliage have become lodged in the top of the webbing, giving the orange mass two little goat-like horns. I am curious whose egg mass/hibernaculum this is; if you know, please comment!
Whose home is it?
I'm guessing spider nest (or caterpillar eggs)? It is about the size of a quarter, and the complexity of the attachment points on smooth plastic has me all agog! Also the accidental cedar horns are amusing.
#invertebrates #invertID #salishsea #pnw #spiders #caterpillar #nest
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waiting and waiting and waiting on an enormous North FL hermit crab, which someone will have to ID for me if they can
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A picture of a crayfish perched on a piece of submerged wood in a fish tank. The crayfish is bright red, with black banding along his abdomen and prominent white speckling on his carapace and cephalothorax. He is facing slightly away from the camera so many of his limbs are out of view.
A variation on the first image, the crayfish is in a slightly different position with slightly more outstretched pincers.
The same crayfish, this time facing the camera and balanced between an aquarium decoration and the front glass of the tank. From this angle his legs and the underside of his body are visible, and his pincers are obscuring his head. The same white speckling coloration present on his carapace is also present on his pincers.
A close up of the previous image which shows details of the crayfish's legs. A portion of his head ans feeding appendages are also visible.
hey actually bsky community does anyone have experience ID'ing crayfish species? I still don't have an ID for my guy, best guess is p. clarkii cause we were vaguely warned about "invasive crayfish" in the feeder shipment he came out of, but idk. He's red but not That red. #invertID #invertebrate
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going to need help IDing this very hungry north Florida caterpillar
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still have no idea who this belonged to. from North Florida, by an impoundment.
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A rocky grey Vancouver Island tidepool hosts a ochre-red tough leathery blob, suctioned to the rock, with a bumpy texture that looks velvety but feels rubbery. It looks like a giant retracted anemone but doesn't have that anemone softness when stroked. It has a recessed puckered divot in the middle that makes it look different from the somewhat featureless dorsal area of gumboot chitons I'm familiar with, also no hint of pink colour, definitely an reddish-orange. The texture feels a bit like a batstar but not exactly, also no evident arms. Mid intertidal zone, lots of splash exposure in this location. If you know what it is I'd love to learn!
I'm not sure what this is. Bigger than my hand, I initially thought it was the biggest anemone I've ever met but it was leathery like a batstar, not soft. It seems too red for a gumboot chiton & has a peculiar recessed bit in the middle, no legs. Mid intertidal #InvertID #salishsea #tidepool #invert
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