Up close with a Texas cave scorpion from UT Austin's Brackenridge Field Lab.

A great opportunity to study in some beautiful environments with a fantastic advisor

What's your favorite flavor of Staphylinidae? #entsoc25

Happy #EntSoc25 Today I had a poster on teaching Aquatic Entomology and tomorrow I'll be flashing back to the PhD with Appalachian Trechus

Ready for day 2 #ECN2025

It's the most wonderful time of the year! #ECN2025

Glassy-winged sharpshooter. Mississippi. #bugskye #entomology #insects #photography #nature #macro

Roll call! Who' going to ESA next week? @entsocamerica.bsky.social #entomology #insects #portland

How protecting wild diversity will safeguard the future of flavor, this week on the 'Value in nature' blog: #biodiversity #nature 🌐 mscaterino.pika.page/posts/variet...

These tiger moth (Arctiini) caterpillars were everywhere at Lep Course in Portal, Arizona. #entomology #bugskye #moth #photography #nature

Representing the Mississippi Entomological Museum at MEA. Thanks @benthicbugologist.bsky.social for the photo! #entomology

I found it!

"You're going the wrong way!" Milkweed bug nymphs. Portal, #Arizona #insects #entomology #photography #nature

Green lynx #spider (Peucetia viridans). I finally found time to edit some of my photos from this summer. More to come! #entomology #macro #photography #nature #insects

Anyone know what's going on with this dead fly? I think it was on grapevine. #insects #entomology #wtf

Spiders get around

Excited to receive medals for first and second place in the #Bugfest photo competition! #beetle #insects #photography #nature

Thanks @entsocamerica.bsky.social for the feature! This photo was featured in a 2024 issue of Through the Loupe. #beetle #insect #photogeaphy

I asked a student worker for an alphabetized list of families in a cabinet. Naturally he asked #AI to do it and then explained to me that Chat made some mistakes, but it was close enough. The kids might actually be doomed.

Way to go Mississippi. I now have to use a vpn to access social media

Outreachin' #entomology #insects #museum #science

Hey I started a new section of my website called Derek's Tech Corner, come check it out: www.derekhennen.com/derekstechco.... It's where I'll share various software and other tech tools for cool kids that will save you time--so that you can go look for more bugs.

Impossible not to anthropomorphize this jumping #spider #insects #entomology #nature #photography #macro #bugskye

The aedeagus (male genitalia) of a common eastern US Pselaphine beetle, Arthmius globicollis. The genitalia have never been illustrated, so species identification has always been dicey. The left one is from South Carolina, the right from Missouri. Pretty different, maybe cryptically so.

Witching hour at the lights last night. The black witch (Ascalapha odorata) can grow up to 7 inches and is the largest #moth by wingspan in the US. #insect #entomology #science

Blacklighting in the Chiricahaus #insects #entomology #moths

I know its a lep course, but Chrysina gloriosa and Pepsis mexicanus have stolen the show so far #beetle #wasp #entomology #insects #nature

Excited to be a part of Lep Course 2025!

Two specimens of Megetra punctata from southeastern Arizona. Surprisingly the smaller one was a female and the larger a male - I think size is totally related to how much blustery ooze they have left in them and not correlated to gender. These things reflex bleed as soon as they are touched!

Had a great time teaching the insect field course in #Denali National Park There are no cushy field stations in #Alaska. Students slept in wall tents and learned to pin and Id #bees in a yurt without electricity. #entomology #fieldwork #science

I dare you to find a better taxonomic name than this. www.gbif.org/species/1074...

#Butterflies are beautiful! ...but also they eat poop #entomology #insects

The most neutral color

Checkout this free webinar from my good friend @awenninger.bsky.social

Two delayed flights, one missed connection, and some lost luggage but I finally made it to Fairbanks and the University of Alaska Museum @uafairbanks.bsky.social

Behold the Falcon-pooter, the greatest advancement in aspirating technology since the in-line filter! For years I’ve wanted a screw top aspirator that fit the falcon tubes I use to collect. You have to be the change you want to see. Based on the design of spongymesophyll

Its common name better be the skull-faced jumping spider. Phiddipus putnami #bugs #spider #entomology #photography #macro #nature

F honey bees

A white-lipped globe snail (Mesodon thyroidus), probably, with a little hitchhiker on its shell. #snail #photography #nature #macro #invert

Gearing up to head home to #Alaska to teach an insect fieldcourse in #Denali

Excited to see so many people have found Affinity Designer. I think Designer and Photo are the best alternatives to Adobe’s greedy subscription scam.

Maybe on this Fourth of July what is needed is a Declaration of Interdependence, among all the world's peoples, and all of its species, recognizing inalienable rights of all to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This truth seems to me to be self-evident.

You can't change the world, But you can change the facts, And when you change the facts You change points of view, If you change points of view, You may change a vote, And when you change a vote, You may change the world. -Depeche Mode, 1986 Not a band I ever expected to quote

An amazing project started by my friends at Clemson and the MEM

A #millipede swiper! Social media wasn’t designed to handle such a looooong critter Karteroiulus alaskanus. Sitka, Alaska. #bug #insect #nature #entomology #macro #photography

Car alarms serve no purpose. They should be outlawed.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: June 25, 2025 Orange sulphur butterflies Colias eurytheme Lepidoptera: Pieridae By Dustin Huntington (www.dustinhuntington.com), New Mexico, USA #arthropodPOTW

By this book! A fascinating, at times sobering read on how collections were made and displayed over the past 300yrs. @jackdashby.bsky.social just gave a talk at NHM and encouraged us: ‘museums need to do better at displaying insects, and representing their ecology.’ ‘Museums act as nature’s memory’

Party vibes Hibiscus scentless plant bug (Niesthrea louisianica). #bug #entomology #photography #nature

Want to set up your own photo-stacking imaging system for under $3000? This post which outlines all the off-the-shelf items I used this year along with some recommendations for how to use it. Planning to talk about this at @entcollnet.bsky.social this November, too! www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...