Calliptamus sp.

Praying mantis / Mantis religiosa

Scaurus sp. (Tenebrionidae)

Red-veined Darter / Alguacil común (Sympetrum fonscolombii)

Perfect camouflage (Sphingonotus azurescens)

Acrotylus patruelis Ginés Rodríguez det.

Centinela Esbelta / Epaulet Skimmer (Orthetrum chrysostigma)

Villa sp. (Bombyliidae)

Western Dappled White / Blanquiverdosa común (Euchloe crameri)

Sawfly (Megalodontes sp. - Symphyta)

♀️ Langosta egipcia / Egyptian locust (Anacridium aegyptium) ovipositando

Sátiro moreno / Tree Grayling (Hipparchia statilinus)

♀️♂️ Oak Leaf Orb-Weaver / Araña de hoja de roble o Araña Orbitela (Aculepeira armida)

Cópula de Agapanthia (Cerambycidae)

Gynecaptera bimaculata (Bradynobaenidae)

Black arion or Black slug / Babosa común (Arion ater) ID: @biojairo.bsky.social

➡️ Do we really know what we have? In two recent studies, we reported over 50 new faunistic records for Badajoz province (SW Spain). 🕷️ 33 spider species and 🦟 28 dipteran species. ⁉️So how could they go undetected until now⁉️ It’s not because they’re rare. It’s because no one had looked🔎

♀️ Lesser Stag Beetle / Escarabajo ciervo volante menor (Dorcus parallelipipedus)

🔍 Can you see them? In both photos, there's a crab spider (Thomisus onustus) perfectly camouflaged on the flowers. A deadly strategy for unsuspecting pollinators.

➡️New paper out! We show that an immune challenge during early life alters growth dynamics and oxidative balance in spotless starling chicks…but the smallest ones pay the highest cost. 📖 doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... @behavecol-lab.bsky.social @irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social @mncn-csic.bsky.social @csic.es

Hormiga león / Antlion (Myrmeleontidae: Creoleon lugdunensis)

Velvet ants (Mutillidae) 1. Ronisia ghilianii 2. Nemka viduata andalusiana 3. Ronisia barbarula 4. Sigilla dorsata

Moscas ladronas o asesinas / Robber or Assassin flies (Asilidae) 1. Kurzenkoiellus dasypygus 2. Holopogon claripennis

Lagartija de Bocage / Bocage’s Wall Lizard (Podarcis bocagei) An endemic species of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula.

Lizard fight. Nothing to envy from those in #JurassicPark Salamanquesa común / Moorish gecko or Common wall gecko (Tarentola mauritanica)

Leaving the nest is hard, even for birds. Paloma torcaz / Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)

Gorrión común / House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)

Caballito del diablo azul / Beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo)

Escarabajo tigre / Tiger beetle

Did you know some animals catch a ride on others to get around? That's called phoresy, and here, I report an interesting case of Paralimosina fucata (a tiny sphaerocerid fly) riding a scarab beetle (Scarabaeus laticollis)! See more 👉 doi.org/10.3989/grae...

Algerian Psammodromus / Lagartija Colilarga (Psammodromus algirus)

Escarabajo pelotero / Dung beetle (Scarabaeus laticollis)

Earwig / Tijereta, cortauñas, cortapichas, tijerilla... (Forficula sp.)

Oxyopes cf. heterophthalmus ♀️

Malacosoma neustria (Oruga de librea o falsa lagarta / Lackey Moth)

Begging for food

Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) breeding pair / pareja de golondrinas

Mariposa Arlequín / Spanish Festoon (Zerynthia rumina)

We still need to figure out whether this pollen reaches any flower stigma and fertilization takes place. But this is as much as we could get from citizen science data for now 😉 Read more about all this reseach here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Velvet ants (Mutillidae and Myrmosidae) are pretty cool creatures! Despite their name, they are actually wasps, and not ants. (Most) males are winged, and females do not have wings.

Salamanquesa rosada (Hemidactylus turcicus)