I’m summoning mites to your home

my last giant(ish) centipede had a clutch of babies a few months ago, here she is cuddling them right after they hatched

I didn't notice that I'd photographed this weird ant-mimicking bug running with a column of Anonychomyrma ants until I was processing the photos. I can't find any research on this, either. (Photo from Wilson's Prom, Victoria, the southernmost point of continental Australia).

more flagellocoxites

oh no, book illustrations are such a good way to force people to look at all my favorite types of small goo goo animal. putting in a caprellid right now

this little worm is Bimastos palustris, endemic to wetland habitats in the northeastern USA. it’s the type species of the genus, and has numerous unique features for a lumbricid, including an annular clitellum and weird extra-long spermatophores

a porous butt, a handsome smile (?)

worm.

eyes are optional

Hier gibt es eindeutig VIEL zu wenig Zikaden. Mit dieser Collage von Gernot Kunz erlaube ich mir, etwas zu schummeln. Paar von diesen Arten habe ich ihm damals angeschleppt. WENN sie nicht so klein wären (die meisten sind nur 3-5 mm), wären sie genauso beliebt wie die Schmetterlinge. #HexapoDezember

myriaposd

hard to imagine a more perfect organism

kisses

its millipede time

millipede

(buckets filled with worms and worm products) I NEED MORE WORMS ‼️

my tobacco hornworm pupa eclosed! perhaps as someone with tomato plants I shouldn’t be this happy, but what a lovely moth

speaking of early birds… DUMMY is back!!! this little gray catbird decided it was my friend one autumn after I helped it win a fight against a mantis and for 4 years now it has come to yell at me for food

good morning

at 175 x 8mm this Amynthas agrestis exceeds the size range reported for this species in Chang 2016 (160 x 8) and can only be described as a “whopper”

they call me Early Bird cause

I had forgotten just how much poop there is in the rainforest. they just don’t poop like that back home

little miss tephritid doing her “I found a poop and I won’t share it” dance

I've been told that it's #InsectWeek and that I should plug my work. I'm so bad at marketing... Uhhhhh... Buy my books...! www.owlflyllc.com/publishing

I got home in time for the very last prickly pear flower 💛💛💛

I may see a strange worm

I seem to have found another strange worm.

I love you, Scolopendra subspinipes!!

hello can I help you fellows

infinite thanks to our fearless archivist Hanna, who found this angry letter about a stinky beetle and knew I would want to see it

the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵

today I shared freshly picked durian with Treron curvirostra, the Thick-billed Green-Pigeon

oh yeah

👀

Eating these delicious white mushrooms because iNaturalist’s new generative AI comments told me they were p

In other news I’ve been finding a lot of weird worms and other critters in SE Asia! My bug-finding eye has improved so much since I was here last that I take literally all day to finish walking a trail, so much to see. Many good and bad photos to come!

this sucks, but seeing as how my 30k earthworm IDs are essentially all copy pasted “this worm can’t be identified because the photos aren’t useful” uhhhhhh I guess the robot will have no trouble doing the same thing I will not be doing

If you are a user of iNat, this project may well improve your user experience. If you are a taxonomist, it may decrease your incentive to participate.

These are not concerns. They are justified and correct criticisms of a Very Bad Idea.

Dunno what you guys are complaining about, I think this new iNaturalist feature is great

Can anyone help me identify the fly larvae inside this Mosquito TNT? Video sent by somebody in Tampa, Florida. 🌿 #diptera #insects

I just published a blog post on the Mosquito TNT, a trap marketed by Tougher Than Tom of Austin, Texas. Exhibit A is their misleading use of photoshopped images to convey effectiveness. I also detail the $80,800 fine the company just paid to the EPA. #mosquitoes colinpurrington.com/2025/06/toug...

the most dramatic video I’ve ever taken

eated it

my favorite weather

beautiful day to find all the worms

there are something like 100 extra bumblebee species in this study (all are synonyms, and... of course, lacking in modern records) - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Periodic reminder that you should not just pull in data from GBIF and similar aggregators without critically assessing it 🧪

worm weather

literal dream home