Snakefly Season has arrived! Arguably the best season! This Ms. is Genus Agulla If you're asking, "What the WHAT?" You probably live east of the Rockies. Snakeflies are their own thing, Order Rhaphidioptera found west of the Rockies in NA. Beautiful and beneficial! #inverts #becurious 1/2

So, Godox has released a new macro twin flash, the MF-T76. It is relatively inexpensive, compared to the outrageous prices commanded by the brand name manufacturers. www.godox.com/product-e/MF...

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I'm participating in Soapbox Science Montreal and will be talking and chatting about .... (You probably guessed it) Insects! If you're around Montreal, come on by don't be shy and say hi!

Fun to play a small part in this new work led by Tsevi Beatus and team: when the lights go off, honeybees simply stop flying and fall! (unlike flies and mosquitoes, which pull off smart maneuvers) Thanks to Richard Terrile in our lab for turning the lights off on bees, in the name of science 🐝🪰🦟

some bee diversity for #wordbeeday ! #savethebees

Carunculated Caracaras (Daptrius carunculatus) in páramo #Grassland, Reserva Antisana, Pichincha, Ecuador, October 2025. 🌿🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #raptors #ecuador #BirdOfTheDay

For #WorldBeeDay a reminder to check out the free quide we created about bee natural history and the bee genera of Pennsylvania, free PDF download here: scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/7f...

Here's a new cartoon, enjoy! 🐝 #invertebrates #WorldBeeDay

Reminder: If generative AI platforms & data centres were erased from the Earth…we’d be fine. They prop up nothing of essential value we can’t do ourselves.

Everybody should have some back yard Zygoballus, that's the real American dream Extremely silly lad. Most expressive. Very wavy. Little box of spood. #EmotionalSupportSpood #HappyWavyLegs

Mauve-lous Band-tailed knows how to find their light! #birds #becurious

Adult Nursery Web spiders, in their various patterns and colours, can be seen throughout the UK at present. They live in a variety of habitats but perhaps the best place to find them is amongst banks of bramble, nettles and other tall plants. Later, watch out for females carrying their egg sacs.

Going for the #BirdOfTheDay twofer - themes are #FeathersInFoliage and #CormorantOrHeron Green Heron blending in - so a bonus #StickHappens #birds #becurious 🪶

Ferry landing goblin. #BirdOfTheDay #CormorantOrHeron 📷🌿🪶

#BlockParty 8K likes for a photo that "isn't mine at all" no credit - nothing. S-s-s-craper!

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

The much-requested return of the spider bandanas is HAPPENING, so IT'S TIME FOR PREORDERS! Estimated to ship mid-July!! shop.mothmonar.ch 🕷🕸 Moon Meditations is restocking & available for preorder, too!! Come get bugs (and adjacent crawlies)! #sciart #spiderart

Two years ago, this Red-headed Spider Ant dragged a small spider across the sand and someone captured a photo. The resulting iNaturalist observation was categorized under "Order Araneae" for a long time — until identifier djringer recognized it as Paraplectanoides crassipes, a rare orbweaver!

Tiny wasp borrowing a few eggs from a Uloborus campestratus lass's clutch while she's not looking 👀 I meant to post this encounter for Mother's Day but forgot

Last chance to book! 🕷️ Join arachnologist @tylanberry.bsky.social on 27 May for this entoLEARN webinar exploring the identification, ecology, and behaviour of UK orbweb spiders 🌎 🧪 ⏰ Book your ticket now! 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976588654... @britishspiders.bsky.social

🕷️ A comprehensive review of pseudoscorpion dispersal via hitchhiking on flies has been conducted, incorporating records spanning over 260 years. ➡️ Check out our guest blog post, written by Jana Christophoryová of Comenius University Bratislava: blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/13/t...

first bee photo of the year :)

This is a long shot, but is anyone willing and able to review a micropublication (i.e., short and sweet) about how senescent-associated β-galactosidase accumulation influences the lifespan of a particular species (a fish, if it matters)? We can't find a reviewer and we've tried so hard. 🧪

My field assistant is always thrilled with the opportunity to go change the Malaise trap. She has proven to be remarkably useful, despite the lack of opposable thumbs). #NaturalHistoryCollections #Fieldwork #Pupdate 🐶 👀 ❤️

I love this so much! Not sure how the mantis got there, but clearly part of the team now 😀

wish I had one of these on hand for the rental car with all the raptors here in Texas! shop will be back open on Thursday and you can grab one for yourself 🦅

And now for a Bristletail Close-up - because: RAINBOW SPARKLES!! Your eyes aren't deceiving you! Bristles have scales like butterfly wings! 😍 Creating that refraction action! Fun fact: Beautiful and beneficial! They dine on algae, lichen, moss and decaying vegetation. They *need* to live outdoors.

New yard friend just woke up and helped me plant lilac and clover today. Gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer) #HERper #herps #becurious

Thank you Japan, for making gashapon toys of these ectoparasitic insects #Invertebrate

Loooooong spider

Hmmm, what do we think about the Spider bandanas coming back...? 🕷🕸

Salticid anatomy design I've been whittling away at too long - started as an idea for a t-shirt but may be too feature-bloated now... Tear it apart! I need criticism/corrections! What don't you like? What doesn't read well? Anything misleading/mislabeled? Fonts/labels/pointers can all be changed...

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

With her new book Arachnomania, Maria Tatar offers up an anthem to the humble creatures that haunt our imaginations, reminding us of just how much we are the kindred spirits of the arachnids we should think of as “some spiders.” 🕷️ Out May 19 (14 July UK pub): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Today's garden encounter: The World's Tiniest Beetle.

I read about this non-invasive method of blood sample collection for birds a while back and it's genius, the bugs are in a little egg with tiny holes and bite the bird, then you collect the egg and extract the blood from them

In the desert for the day - can recommend 🌿

Perceiving a weird leggy lad perceiving me (jolly green jello monster, aka Lyssomanes viridis, aka magnolia green jumper)

What a power couple!!! 👀 🪰 These soldier #flies show how sexually dimorphic some flies can be (I guess they show how sexually active too!). Many flies have ♂️♂️ with eyes large & touching ("holoptic") while ♀️♀️ have well-separated eyes ("dichoptic"). #Stratiomyidae: #Allognosta NC, USA #FlyWeek

"I was really lucky to come across a dead hedgehog in the sand dune slacks and when I took a look underneath I found the little beetle," Mel McQuitty told BBC News NI. First sighting of a carrion clown beetle in Ireland since 1934 #Coleoptera #insects #SpeirGorm bbc.com/news/article...

This morning I saw a kid (maybe 10?) who was scootering ahead of me stop to carefully coax a caterpillar off the pathway and onto a twig, then over to a patch of vegetation out of harms way. 🐛🌱

We are a small team of biologist who have a passion for indie games and pixel art. Right now we are working on a game where you manage an ant colony! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #pixelart #ant #entomology #RTS

Just a day left to win a signed pre-publication copy of The World According To Sharks. www.patreon.com/posts/raffle...

I have invented a diffuser made of taped-together weigh boats that lets you actually see the horrible pronotal indentation characters of Cryobius and other carabids

McCormick Introduces New Transdermal Gravy Patch https://theonion.com/mccormick-introduces-new-transdermal-gravy-patch/