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Andy Skinner

@andyinsandy.bsky.social
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Ecologist, beetles are my main passion. Bewitched, bothered (by its state!) and often bewildered by the natural world as a whole. All views my own

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Andy Skinner @andyinsandy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Extracted internal flagella from aedeagus of Oulema using same pin. The aedeagus is just over 0.2mm in diameter
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Andy Skinner @andyinsandy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My dissecting pin. Pin is 0.3mm dia with bent tip 0.1mm wide
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Andy Skinner @andyinsandy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Anyone able to suggest what this is? I've seen three Forget-me-not Shieldbugs struggling to walk in garden which on inspection have had one of these objects stuck to the underside. They are about 3mm long and fairly hard to touch. Not opened one up yet but wondering if parasitic egg case or seed?
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Andy Skinner @andyinsandy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
And so it begins for another year......a small effort but it all adds up 🙂 #toadpatrol
Bucket with five male Common Toads and one Smooth NewtMale Common ToadSmooth Newt
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Andy Skinner @andyinsandy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Anyone familiar with laboulbeniomycetes? Hazarding a guess at Helodiomyces elegans. From Dryops luridus on Anglesey, August 2024
Tiny fungus on beetle
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