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SPIOCY @spiocy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Flat Color Sketches are open on VGen for $40! vgen.co/spiocy

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Rudy Lerosey-Aubril @cambrianlife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

503 million-year-old leanchoiliid arthropod (Alalcomenaeus sp.) from the Wheeler Formation in the House Range of Utah. Specimen collected by Valentin Jamart.

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CambrianDude @cambriandude.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gigoutella mauretanica, a Ptychopariid Trilobite from the Cambrian Tatelt Formation in Morocco, and one of the best preserved trilobite species known, with fossils showing exceptional three-dimensional features of the appendages. #paleoart #art #sciart #blender

3D reconstruction of the Cambrian Trilobite Gigoutella mauretanica

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tettigonia cantans stridulation. you can see the autumn colours already.

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Cladonia sp. would be nice if someone told me the exact species...

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

giant hooded katydids r so funny because when they're freshly molted their abdomen is so small and pronotum is much bigger

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gynosomatic koinobiont @skullhornets.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

yesterday a friend reminded me of the setae on the femurs of large lucanid beetles that they use to clean their antennae and i thought of a mammal analog in "using your armpit hair as a cleaning swab for your eyes and nostrils"

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

black beauty stick insect (Peruphasma schultei). you can see its golden little hairs (setae) under a certain angle & light

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Clouded tortoise beetle (Cassida nebulosa)

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

update on raising Tettigonia cantans katydids: so after the latest moult, the ovipositor grew from 7,5 mm to 16 mm and now it just looks ridiculous 😭 second pic is probably sub-adult

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

does anyone want to be friends Please

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SPIOCY @spiocy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"was the nectar good" the moth of agreement:

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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Saw my first tiny Speckled Bush-cricket nymphs of the year on Wednesday. At this age they are very speckled indeed!

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Tettigonia cantans 1st instar !! it was one hell of a trouble to take a pic of this 6 mm guy on a phone

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Pterulina distinctissima eating leaf :)

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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Away trip to Eype beach near Bridport yesterday in glorious Spring weather. Lots of Cepero's Groundhoppers on the seepages, in a wide variety of colours and patterns. Great to see this scarce species which is almost completely limited in the UK to the south coasts of England and Wales.

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I love it when parasites/parasitoids get funky and convoluted with their life cycles - as is the case with the parasitoid wasp genus Orasema which are parasitoid of ants 🐜🧪 hymenoptera.ucr.edu/sites/defaul...

Life cycle diagram of the Orasema parasitoid wasp, by University of California, Riverside.
Caption text reads:
"Wasps in the genus Orasema (family Eucharitidae) mate outside the nest. Females deposit eggs into vegetation using a special expanded ovipositor. Eggs are laid into leaves, bracts of flowers or even the peel of a banana. Eggs are often laid near to an extrafloral nectary (EFN). Ants pick up the hatched larvae (planidia) by feeding at the nectary, direct phoresy or by feeding on thrips with attached planidia. Ants carry the wasp larvae back to the nest where they are transferred to the ant larva. Planidia first attack the ant larva as internal parasitoids but then develop as external parasitoids of the ant pupa. After killing the ant pupa and leaving a living carcass, the wasp pupate and emerge in the nest. Specialized chemicals allow them to live with the ants for a short time, but they must leave the nest to meet their mates and start the cycle again."

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