across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one

We are our best when we collaborate. 🧪🦠🔬🧬🌍🍄 This mural about the invisible #soil #biodiversity in Moers(🇩🇪) resulted from the collaboration between my friend Dr. Arne Schwelm, the people from sci:moers and the Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung under the artistic direction of #cokyone.

Just in time for #Halloween 👻, a #NewSpecies of trapdoor spider discovered!!! 🕷️ www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa

Anyone who has offered to help me financially, please instead help out PRI / Paleontological Research Institution. They run a wonderful small museum in Ithaca at risk of foreclosure. They offer special sensory-friendly days, fully-masked days, fossil IDs, and an online gift shop. www.priweb.org

Isopods!! 🧡

North American Hoverflies! 🪰

Hoof fungus #fungi

3 and a half years of isopod rolling down big hills! Isopod is finally coming out tomorrow! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...

The wood cricket Triaenogryllacris triaena is found in Western South America. To blend in with its surroundings, the species has three colour morphs: yellow, green, and (hot) pink. The pink one is definitely my favourite. #EverydayEnsifera #bugsky 📸: Juan José Caicedo

Biomechanics remains the queen of sciences losing it at the researcher clapping to induce locomotory behavior, which in slo-mo looks like a standing ovation for 3-legged chariots of fire over here

woke katydid... call that wokedid thank u soggy for help, even tho ur barely there @thesoggiest.bsky.social

Museum artefact discovered at work

Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.

God Emperor of Dune (1981)

Schizodactylus monstrosus uses its strong, spiky legs to create sand dune burrows in the deserts of southern Asia. Although those curled wings look fancy, they're not functional and these guys can't fly. Maybe for the best since they're predatory! #EverydayEnsifera #bugsky 📸: mruga (iNaturalist)

today I learned there are THREE officially non-binary characters in the wiggles... excellent news

Little Phidippus cardinalis man paused in his busy day to peer at Bugfriend for awhile 🥹 #EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

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Like other members of the Hyperbaeninae, Dialarnaca zhoui spins silk to create shelters from rolled leaves. What ISN'T common is the species' striking pink and gold colouration! This gorgeous leaf-roller is known only from the Yunnan province in China. #EverydayEnsifera 📸: Zhou Yu

Field crickets (Gryllinae) aren't just plain brown chirping things in backyards - the group is actually pretty diverse, with >3,000 species. Maybe the weirdest are in the genus Sciobia, which all have these delightful Pikmin-like "hats" 🥺 📸: Sciobia barbara, Pierre-Henri Fabre #EverydayEnsifera

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

The Mexican Jerusalem cricket (Stenopelmatus talpa) calls to mates by beating its chunky abdomen against the ground, producing a drumming sound. Each species of Stenopelmatus has a different drumming song. #EverydayEnsifera 📸: Jalil Rodríguez M

Just came across Ray Troll's artwork (trollart.com). So beautiful!

The koringkriek (Acanthoplus discoidalis) is a katydid found in southern Africa. Not only does the species have a powerful bite, it's also known to squirt toxic blood or throw up its stomach contents as a defense mechanism! #EverydayEnsifera 📸: Rudi Bosbouer

Happy #SquidAndCuttlefishDay! We love checking in on McCoy’s “Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria” for images like these of the Australian giant cuttlefish. These images don’t, however, capture the cuttlefish’s ability to change colour & patterns quickly. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5220064

So late to this, but this @bloomberg.com piece on the impact of sudden surges in power demand from new data centres on local electricity prices is really, really good - lots of original analysis. So many still shrug this off as a non-issue. Tell it to these ppl www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The Cook Strait giant wētā (Deinacrida rugosa) is an anostostomatid from New Zealand. It's one of the largest insects in the world! Major threats to this cutie include land clearing and predation by rats. It's listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. #EverydayEnsifera 📸: d_kluza (iNaturalist)

Calling #ICZN people: we had a #taxonomy paper come out w/ literally dozens of publisher errors. Told it can’t be fixed online as that’s against the Code & needs a lengthy correction notice. 😤 imo that would make it even less accessible - is it really our only option?

Bug time!! Got this one done just in time for #Invertefest ~

happy international lesbian day!

Cooloola monsters are weird, chunky insects endemic to South East Queensland, Australia. They're probably related to king crickets (Anostostomatidae), but not much is known about their evolution. The wingless females live permanently underground. #EverydayEnsifera 📸: Visit Gympie Region

Nesoecia nigrispina are quite a chunky yet formidable species. #cricket #grasshopper #katydid #insect #bug #macro #wildlife

everyone to their own leaf 🍃

The Wonderful World of Insects (1999) #oldinternet #bugsky

There are ~18,000 species of katydids, crickets, & allies worldwide - over 32,000 if you include questionable names. I thought it'd be fun to showcase some weird, beautiful, or unusual species daily. First up is Orophus tessellatus, a katydid from Central America! #EverydayEnsifera 📸: Karl Kroeker

Insects aren’t ‘little robots’—so scientists are rethinking their welfare | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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A bunch of new Halloween-themed Fish and Beetle Guys will be coming to my shop on Tuesday (October 7) at 12 pm PST! www.hannahcomstock.com/store

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

Millipede fans rejoice: we published our revision of Apheloria! This is the most common cherry millipede genus, but its taxonomy has been riddled with nebulous subspecies names. No longer! We clarify species limits and provide a distribution map. mapress.com/zt/article/v... @apheloria.bsky.social

All orthopteran species are equal... but some are more equal than others. 🦗 Cool recent paper finds that biodiversity knowledge of Orthoptera from the tropics and the Global South remains limited: doi.org/10.1038/s441... #entomology

IDing cave crickets from photos is hard because key traits are at the back of the body and require a 🔬. People don't usually take macro shots of an insect's bum... so when they do, it's exciting! This is a new species of Speleotettix from near Melbourne. #entomology 📸: Jono Dashper (iNaturalist)

There's only one correct answer here...

50 years since decriminalisation, there's still plenty left to do, incl protecting LGBTQ+ students & teachers at religious schools against discrimination, & prohibiting involuntary medical interventions on children born with variations of sex characteristics. #saparli www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

An undescribed species of cave cricket hidden in peri-urban forest of the Dandenong Ranges National Park, Victoria. This species is known from wombat burrows, tree hollows, and granite boulder caves. Individuals venture outside nightly to forage. #entomology 📸: Justin Chan via iNaturalist

Anyone know how the macro photography feature on the iPhone 17 Pro compares to the regular 17? Came across this stink bug pic taken on a Pro and it looks insanely good. Could be useful for ento people 👀 reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1ntygnz/macro_photo_with_17_pro/ngxamb1

Why is everyone more concerned with the scientific inaccuracy of Trump's comments vs. the way people have collectively agreed that this is something we want to prevent and autistic people shouldn't exist?

New paper out! By curating a reference library of DNA barcodes for underground fauna, we offer an accessible roadmap to make #eDNA a more reliable tool for biodiversity monitoring. 🕳️ + 🧬💻 = 🔍🐟🪱🐌🦐 Read #OpenAccess here: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...