Colin Purrington
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Nature pics and science. Swarthmore, PA, USA.
https://colinpurrington.com
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Millipede Lab
about 10 hours ago
Myriapod Meet Up 2026 will be on 1 April, 8AM - 5PM (EDT). This online event will include short talks, and a chance to share and discuss research about myriapods (and other multipedes, e.g. Onychophora). Anyone may participate in this free event (no need to give a talk).
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iNaturalist
about 12 hours ago
Phrynops hilarii is a side-necked turtle, which means exactly what it sounds like: instead of compressing its neck backward into the shell, it folds it to the side. Magnificent.
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John P. Friel, Ph.D.
about 20 hours ago
While the French were establishing a settlement in New Orleans and Blackbeard was killed off the Outer Banks of NC in 1718, a printer and bookseller in Amsterdam was producing a wondrous book on Indonesian fishes of which only 16 known copies survive today. 🐠
#SciArt
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Fantastical fishes from the 1700s, Leslie Overstreet, Curator of Natural History Rare Books
YouTube video by Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqtIhVyaJVE
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Andy Marshall
about 23 hours ago
I do love a ghost gable like this found near Ancoats in Manchester - but it's rarer still to find the intangible signs of the puff of smoke from the chimney...
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin
1 day ago
Moon-snail drillholes in shells are such beautiful & gruesome traces, which is why I love them. Devoted a chapter to these and other drilling traces in my book 'Life Sculpted' (2023,
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
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#MolluscMonday
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Matthew Herron
2 days ago
Purple gallinule, Orlando Wetlands Park, Florida. Most of their range is in South America, and Florida is the only place in the US they're regularly found year-round.
#birds
#wildlifephotography
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Field Guide to the Insects of Tasmania
2 days ago
Psyllids are quite underrated
#insects
. They are tiny leaf dwellers and some make elaborate sugary shelters (lerps). These are Cardiaspina sp. nymphs with their intricate fan-shaped covers.
#Tasmania
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦
2 days ago
Looking for a fun spring project? Join me for a 4-session online course drawing a raccoon in coloured pencil starting April 1. I will walk you through all the steps from drawing the initial image to bringing it to life in colour. You can register at:
www.mcnallyrobinson.com/classes
#SciArt
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Tom Astle
3 days ago
Western Pygmy Blue butterfly (Brephidium exilis) on one of its host plants, desert holly (Atriplex hymenelytra, a type of saltbush) in the Mojave Desert yesterday. They're the smallest butterflies in North America, with a wingspan just over half an inch.
#BugSky
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Bugz n Slugz
4 days ago
So this was the result from this mornings dive in the Abu Dhabi Marina. Very poor visibility and masses of silt did not mar good conditions - but was much better than what was going on up in the sky at the time.
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Jeff, Stopping by Woods
4 days ago
Another brainy Orange Rock Posy
#lichen
. NWT, Canada. Pic covers about 5cm, left to right.
#fungi
#fungifriends
. Typically this species doesn’t have these brainy growths, but over the years, I’ve found several dozen specimens that do.
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Alison Fisk
4 days ago
Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️ Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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z9nc
4 days ago
elite travel strategy: search "bedbug" on inaturalist to find hotels to avoid
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Jitte
4 days ago
#ElkeDagEenInsect
Meestal staan ze het me niet toe, maar deze roofvlieg wilde wel even voor me pauzeren.
#Entomologie
#Entomology🪰
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rwhooster
5 days ago
A recent Common Quaker for
#MothFaceFriday
. This moth played dead so convincingly that I thought it was dead.
#teammoth
#dramaqueenmoth
#moths
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Bugz n Slugz
4 days ago
Went for a nice calm dive in an Abu Dhabi marina this morning to collect some undescribed sea slugs under a permit for study. When we surfaced we discovered that war had started and missiles were flying over our heads. It’s been an interesting day so far
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9 days ago
Cochylis hybridella in gel pens on brown paper.
#mothsMatter
#mothartwork
#pendrawing
#welshartist
#wildlifeartwork
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Tom Astle
5 days ago
From a few years ago: katydid eggs mostly parasitized by tiny wasps. When a katydid hatches, the egg opens like a clam shell; but as you can see (pic 2), if there's a parasitoid wasp inside, they chew their way out. Btw, the baby katydid on my fingertip hatched from the same egg clutch.
#BugSky
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Got an interim FOIA response yesterday from the EPA regarding its (weak) enforcement actions against Spartan Mosquito. What surprised me most was that they monitored my Twitter activity, especially when my posts mentioned a regional office. I really miss the ability to directly engage gov accounts.
5 days ago
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franz
5 days ago
Anyone got pointers on taking pics of little things that are under 1mm, underwater, and still moving? I have the magnification for it (SLR lens and microscope setting on my phone), it's just the water surface reflection that gives me trouble every time
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Jeff, Stopping by Woods
5 days ago
Orange Rock Posy Lichen. NWT, Canada. lichen is about 3cm in longest dimension.
#lichen
#fungi
#fungifriends
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Ainsley S
5 days ago
this seems like information that could save a life someday
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iNaturalist
6 days ago
Never miss a chance to get face-to-face with a harvestman. This is the stunning subspecies Algidia viridata ssp. bicolor, endemic to New Zealand!
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Alex Wild
5 days ago
The emergence of spring bees here in Austin also means the emergence of somewhat rarer bee parasites. I caught this Sapyga nevadica wasp yesterday; it lays eggs in solitary bee nests.
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Alex Wild
6 days ago
X's legal team is telling me I need to fill in their copyright form if I wish them to process a DMCA removal request, which requires me to open an X account. That is not legal, and from my perspective is X is now assuming liability for the infringement.
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Gil Wizen
6 days ago
An amazing new species of Cordyceps-mimicking spider has just been described from the Ecuadorian Amazon - Taczanowskia waska
www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
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“The Cordyceps spider”: Taczanowskia waska sp. nov. (Araneae: Araneidae), a new spider species and a novel case of mimicry of an araneopathogenic fungus (Cordycipitaceae: Gibellula ) | ...
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5760.5.4
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Ainsley S
7 days ago
yet another beetle genus whose SEO has been utterly destroyed by the whims of capitalism
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Ed Phillips
7 days ago
A lovely fresh-looking queen Bombus pratorum (Early Bumblebee) in our
#Staffs
garden this morning. I think that what it is anyway!
#bees
#SocialBees
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Jeff, Stopping by Woods
7 days ago
Green Rock Posy Lichen. NWT, Canada.
#lichen
#fungi
#fungifriends
Lichen is about 4cm in longest dimension.
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Aussie Moths
7 days ago
This rather adorable Pebblebug (tribe Lipocalliini) visited our Perth Hills moth light this week. These guys are a type of planthopper (Fulgoromorpha) and can be found around Australia
#ausinverts
#wildoz
#Hemiptera
#inaturalist
#nature
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Now is the time to order supplies for mosquito-killing buckets. In early spring, fill them with H2O, leaves, and part of a Mosquito Dunk (dried Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis = "Bti"), then attach netting to exclude birds. Mosquitoes in yard will lay eggs in bucket; Bti will kill all the larvae.
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Jeff, Stopping by Woods
7 days ago
Cladonia sp
#lichen
#Newfoundland
Canada. Lichens are about 3cm high
#fungi
#fungifriends
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iNaturalist
8 days ago
This magnificent little snail is likely in the genus Calliostoma — click through the photos for a sense of scale! 👀 📷 kychinmay on iNaturalist 📍 India 🔗:
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
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Cory S. Sheffield 🇨🇦🐝🌺📸🎸🎨
8 days ago
🧪 It is going to be a busy year for
#cavity-nesting
#bee
#research
. 8000 potential homes for solitary bees just arrived!
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🦟 Has anyone tried the Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech? The company has emerged from the class-action lawsuit with new management and a new Facebook page. If you're familiar with this scam product, please consider leaving a review via link.
#mosquitoes
#mississippi
www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
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Robby Deans
11 months ago
Paracantha culta, a stunning fruit fly that eats thistle flowers as larvae. Travis County, Texas
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Robby Deans
10 months ago
Black-banded Wasp Moth (Syntomeida melanthus), Brewster County, Texas.
#inverts
#insects
#moths
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I'm slowly filling my brain with useless facts about old Philadelphia.
#philadelphia
#archaeology
#history
#books
8 days ago
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Schmidt Ocean Institute
8 days ago
A larval Macrourid sighting at 917 m! ROV pilots filmed future-fish during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition, supported
@schmidtsciences.bsky.social.
#OBVI
#LivingBioreactors
cientists are studying midwater organisms and how they sequester carbon.
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Thor Benson
9 days ago
What a perfect day for John Oliver to do a Twitter takedown
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Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI
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🦟 Has anyone tried the Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech? The company has emerged from the class-action lawsuit with new management and a new Facebook page. If you're familiar with this scam product, please consider leaving a review via link.
#mosquitoes
#mississippi
www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
8 days ago
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Chris DeLeon ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev collabs
9 days ago
reminder another reason to do alt text is that the same good alt text also helps people who don't know the same cultural references as you look stuff up. what show is that? who is that actor? what's happening in that scene? people are here from different generations, countries, interest circles etc!
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Joaquín Baldwin
9 days ago
A sphinx moth came to slurp at a desert lily as we were watching the sunset over the Anza Borrego badlands.
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Karolina Heyduk
10 days ago
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10 days ago
During our Valentine’s Day weekend trip, I spotted an acorn on blue oak with a gall wasp (presumably Andricus albobalani) chewing her way out. So I kept the acorn and she emerged from it in our hotel room. Most people probably don’t consider this as a romantic gift but I think it is 😂
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CarsonDrewIt
10 days ago
#WorldPangolinDay
#2026sketches
Day 8
#art
#illustration
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Vanna Bartlett
10 days ago
Snow Fleas (Boreus hyemalis) active in the sunshine at Felbrigg yesterday. Great to share these lovely little insects with members of Norfolk Fungus Study Group on their foray.
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Tara Severns
10 days ago
A polypore fungus, likely the pan-tropical Earliella scabrosa. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawai’i.
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Profile of
@ceiseman.bsky.social
's leafminer work.
#inaturalist
#leafminers
#insects
#moths
#flies
#sawflies
#beetles
#entomology
www.inaturalist.org/blog/124811
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Identifier Profile: @ceiseman
This is the twenty-ninth entry in an ongoing series profiling the amazing identifiers of iNaturalist. An iNaturalist observation records an encounter between an observer and an organism or recent evid...
https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/124811
10 days ago
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Daniel Kronauer
11 days ago
One notable thing about Borneo is that there are sooo many leeches. They wait around on leaves and, when the unsuspecting myrmecologist lies down on the floor to watch ants, they jump off and crawl towards him. By the dozens. Ant hunting in Borneo is a bloody business. The leeches are pretty though.
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