Super useful tips & tricks for insect specimen imaging from @andrewjohnston.bsky.social! He shares how to build an affordable focus stacking system on your own. Handy guide available here: www.insectid.org/post/focus-s... #ECN2025 📸 🪲

It's almost the weekend! 🥳 If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨 Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!! drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...

New #OpenAccess research in #RESSystematicEnt Alone no more — Integrative #taxonomy of New Zealand odd-clawed #spiders challenges the monotypy of #Pianoa and #Gradungula (#Araneae: #Gradungulidae) doi.org/10.1111/syen.70006 #IntegrativeTaxonomy @gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social

Where the red fern grows

We found oyster spiders today during my oyster lab field trip for my Invertebrate Zoology class! These are marine spiders! They have special setae (hairs) that trap air and let them live underwater. #invertebrates #spider

Ever wanted to get the lowdown on natural history museums? Interested in how they're shaped from behind the scenes? Or how they in turn shape scientific understanding? Then join Jack Ashby's talk exploring both the scientific and social relevance of these fascinating institutions 🎟️ from £9.38

Habronattus borealis male, from Pomquet Beach, NS

A bunch of undescribed spider species enjoying the moisture at Burdell!

Book recs for Native American Heritage month. If you aren’t already, please subscribe to my Bindery and help support my publishing goals! The easiest way to support is to become a free follower. The best way to support is to subscribe for $5 or $12. boozhoo.binderybooks.com

western pygmy blue butterfly from a recent visit to the desert, with a long straw .... sipping on sweetbush (Bebbia)

Hey EntFriends #EntSoc25: This high school entomology club in California is looking for funds to support their pinning and collections. Can we make that happen? Any donations large and small will help! www.donorschoose.org/project/inse...

“Content” is created for others to consume. To fill a bottomless void created by corporations. Art is something we create for ourselves. To fill our own soul. We need more artists in this world.

After almost 30 years, the Tree of Life Web Project has been retired as an actively growing site. It will be unavailable until we can build a static site that contains its final content. More details at subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

For more information about the Vaquita and more ways to help and get involved please visit: porpoise.org/save-the-vaq...

beautiful foggy morning for spider webs, here from my backyard in San Diego. f 2.8, Eriogonum in bg ..

What on Earth is wrong with people 😔😔😔

a particularly furry/fuzzy bee fly reminds me of a little mammal. cool how you can see the actual dark thorax beneath the layer of thoracic hairs

North American Hoverflies! 🪰

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

Check out the recent publication in Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics where the authors explore genomic species delimitation in depth. You'll see a number of #sciart figures I created to help explain some of the concepts! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I call this "one leg left ..." the wasp leg is the only item that remains from the wasp meal of this "camel spider" (solifugid, not a spider) this past weekend in our local Anza Borrego Desert

Day 1 of our Okefenokee NWF trip completed. We canoed to Billy's Island (~2mi.), collected spiders all day via litter sift and vacuum, and canoed back to camp. Very productive and hopefully we collected some lost species.

My SDSU Mammalogy students came up with a cool twist on a dichotomous key for CA vesper bats Forks include the questions, then YN take you down alternative paths. With illustrations! 👏

hmmmm .... not a good evening to be a tiphiid wasp

her highness sleeps Ammophila wasp on brittlebush (Encelia) distal twigs at night take a close look ... she is SPECTACULAR!

Queen butterfly on Rush milkweed at first light, Anza Borrego Desert State Park

Fun camel spider (solifugid) encounter in the desert tonight

Fun visit to the San Diego Natural History Museum yesterday where Scott Tremor hosted my SDSU Mammalogy students 🙏👍

Just published a new paper in Zootaxa with my co-authors! We describe the female of Charinus santanensis for the first time and explore its hydrophobic crystal coating. Also: conservation concerns for these fragile ecosystems. gustavomiranda.weebly.com/news/cave-se...

🦂 Scorpions? Not quite. Take a closer look into #NHMLA's Entomology collection and learn more about false scorpions with resident Assistant Curator of Entomology, Rodrigo Ruedas!

royal tern on the beach in San Diego

I found a mature Membracis dorsata today with the immature ones! Such a cool leafhopper! At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #insects #invertebrates #nature

Xylethrus superbus is a fabulous species of orb weaving spider from the Amazon rainforest. While she looks a bit like a strawberry, eating her is not recommended. #Arachtober Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022

aspen leaves after a passing storm, se UT

oak trees, dancing in the fog

the final push ... male land-locked Kokanee moving upstream, Strawberry Res, UT

How fortunate am I, that not 100ft from my back door this wonder of evolution decided to post up. She—a bolas spider, Mastophora stowei—spent her nights luring in moths from the low branches of a sassafras tree in our yard. Luckily she picked ideal spot to capture her with a bolas at the ready

artistic take on a spawning male Kokanee salmon from Strawberry Reservoir UT nonanadromous (land-locked), closely related to anadromous sockeye salmon

Ancient juniper, near Dark Canyon Wilderness, se Utah

an amazing Habronattus jumping spider known only from a single spring in the bottom of an impossibly isolated and lonely desert valley

#HabitatGardening includes stumps & logs. As trees die, they become habitat for many species of insects, fungi, lichens, and mosses. These, in turn, serve as food for animals further up the food chain, which creates habitat. For details, read: greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2024/08/snag...

Thrilled our paper is finally out! A great collaboration between @mcaterino.bsky.social, Ernesto Recuero, and myself. We looked at endemism in spiders in southern Appalachia (largely NC). This is also likely the most species-rich phylogeny (although just COI-based) of linyphiids yet published!

This is my friend Krystle Hickman’s gorgeous new book, which arrived today. Krystle is one the best, most dedicated photographers I know and a real inspiration to me. She is self taught and passionate, and has documented several previously undocumented behaviors. Buy this book! 🐝🐙🌿📷#invertebrates

Crikey! The Alabama Museum of Natural History has unveiled a new exhibit! Allow us to introduce our newest Cretaceous crocodilian, 𝘋𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴. These "terrible crocodiles" would have preyed upon both aquatic and terrestrial vertebrates, including larger dinosaurs! #FossilFriday #UniversityOfAlabama

My department is searching for TT faculty in Arthropod Systematics evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... The museum community is vibrant with excellent training opportunities for graduate students and postdocs. And we have 500+ smart and ambitious biology majors at OSU looking for research opportunities.

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ?? here she is at her burrow entrance.

male harvester (Leuronychus) with a heavy mite load, San Bernardino Mtns, soCAL

i suppose that there are many rare spiders in North America ... here's one of the rarest, known only from a couple stream drainages in the San Bernardino Mtns of far southern California Hypochilus bernardino ... a classic spider