(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

WE DID IT, FOLKS A song for the entomologists of the USDA m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSI...

Land snail fauna in French Guiana is very poorly known, with each collecting trip revealing new records or species new to science. This paper describes five new species and four newly recorded families: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

specifying “EARTHworms” in any of my posts now so people stop making jokes about That Guy, he’s not funny at all and actually scares me to death and the only news I want to hear about him is that he was mauled and eaten by a pack of ferrets

if you don’t care about earthworms, give me one good reason why

after getting photos, please return worm to the earth

the log flipper’s prize

Antarctic wormy molluscs! SOLENOGASTER! #molluscmonday youtu.be/AOYrIUdwyjw?...

I may see a strange worm

森を這って、水に浸かって。 最近はリュウジンまみれ。 今日からはしばらく奄美でハブの撮影してきます。出会えたら良いなぁ。 沖縄島北部 リュウジンオオムカデ Scolopendra alcyona

Coleothorpa dominicana, pleasantly fuzzy little leaf beetle

Eisenia fetida my darlings 🥰 stripy makes a worm extra lovely

some interesting small worms for you: Bimastos are North American native earthworms that feed mainly on rotten wood. B. rubidus, below, is now found worldwide thanks to humans, but B. tumidus, above, seems to have stayed put in its US range. How to tell them apart?

Aistopods were (as far as we know) the first animals to evolve legllessness and they did so almost immediately after their ancestors took their first steps onto land. They slithered over 100 million years before snakes did!

New paper! If trees are closely related, does it matter where they are from to plant-eating insects? We raised >950 Promethea moth caterpillars on 14 Prunus species to answer that question. Turns out, it matters a lot! Non-native trees = Lower performance OA paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

really great scientist we know studying clams is getting fired by DOGE and the republicans. our place is going to try to accept his material as best we can. we literally need clams to have clean water, but I guess that's woke lib propaganda now.