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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 8h

'dragon panic' inktober day seven #joncarling #inktober #panic

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 14h

Sleepy snuggly bees on one of our rayless sunflowers out back 🥹

Pair of bees covered in soft sparse golden floof, chilling under a spiky purple flower with no petals

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 20h

Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

so many of the "perks" of genAI seem to be "replacing having any sort of real friend interactions with real humans" "I ask ChatGPT for advice!" that's so sad bro, do you not have any friends?

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This, too, cannot be undone. It is just wanton death and destruction.

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The forest of silver leaves

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's hard not to fall in love with microsnails.

Me holding a small vial of even smaller helical snails between my thumb and forefinger. There are about 8 snail shells inside the vial, all less than 5 millimeters wide.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Florida harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex badius, carrying a seed back to their nest. Archbold Biological Station, Florida.

Macro photograph in side view of two slender red ants facing each other and holding a large cream-colored oval seed in their mouths. The ants are on a dirty white sand substrate.

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Terry & Judy Wood @tandjwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We usually have a good population of Hornets with daily sightings in suitable weather but this year there have only been a few around so pleased to find this queen warming up early yesterday. Placed in a sunnier spot she was soon away. @waspwoman.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Deadwood is not dead

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Hibernian Workshop @hibernianws.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Grass tiles for Fallen Fates, because your adventurer boots deserve nothing but the finest pixel art grass. 🌿 #pixelart #FallenFates

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here are some nice mushrooms

Two colonies of young and healthy splitgill mushrooms grow from the underside of an upturned stick in a sunlit forest. All photos by me

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How may I help you?

Macro photo of a very plump apple green caterpillar facing us head on, reared-up, its six forelegs clasped expectantly.

It is a late instar larva of Antheraea polyphemus.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 04/10/2026

Double downward dog 💚🖤 Agapostemon and Exallonyx (I think), native bee and wasp, practicing their flow yoga on a late-season aster in the back yard

A brilliant green metallic bee with a black and white striped abdomen, face down in a flower, and right next to it, very tiny black wasp perched on a petal of that flower.

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Sue @cameratrapsue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Raccoonosaurus at the water bowl. ❤️🦝❤️ #mammals

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here are some nice mushrooms

A small branch is covered in teeny tiny white mushrooms. To give some sense of scale, the branch is about. Tick as a dime. All photos by me

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Grevillea buxifolia (grey spider flower) flowering in the garden near Corunna, NSW. Another attractive sandstone species which is unfortunately not common in cultivation down my way (may be easier to find closer to Sydney or in Victorian native plant nurseries). #grevilleas #gardening #ozplants

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For #flyfriday - paratypes of Machimus cowini - the Manx robberfly seen here in the Manx Museum entomology collections The Manx robberfly was 1st discovered on the Isle of Man in the 1940s but has since been found else where but not ‘across’ (eg UK) as they say here. @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

don't like to engage in finger-pointing, but everything is this ant's fault

Macro photo of an elongate, wasplike red and black Harpegnathos ant with long jaws standing in a white field facing a much larger human fingertip

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NYT Op-ed: "Each has its own voice. A peat swamp in Brunei, on the island of Borneo, hums with insects, birds and frogs, the sound crescendoing to a peak every few minutes like a wild orchestra." We should all listen to the boglands. From www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

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Nomada Studio @nomada.studio · 02/10/2026

Still sleeping side by side💤

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Trump administration has delayed a final decision on Endangered Species Act protections for monarch butterflies, with a new deadline of June 6, 2030. Monarchs remain without protections while the decision is pending. The agency could act sooner, but this agreement allows years more of waiting. 😔

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Log of the week #LogOfTheWeek

A mossy, rotten log in the woods covered with Sulfurtuft mushrooms.

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#SidewalkSightings near a Houston, Texas: False bee killer (Promachus bastardii)

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here are some nice mushrooms

A family of translucent Mycena mushrooms rise from the side of a mossy log in a darkening fall forest. All photos by me

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October Rabbit #joncarling #art #fall

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sometimes I worry about the mental health of the UT insect collection volunteers

Photo of a glass-topped drawer of pinned white and yellow butterfly specimens with the note “undetermined pierids to give up on”

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@macro_action @birdzandbees.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don’t let poor weather stop you. Raise up that ISO and get the shot and worry about post processing later and yet another reason you should shoot raw whenever possible. Nikon Z9 and Sigma 150mm macro SS1/2500 F8 ISO6400! This is just adobe’s built in noise reduction.

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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

candlesnuff #fungi

Flat forked fruiting body with downy surface, black at the base, through grey to white at the tips. Growing on a mossy log

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Dave Brice @davebriceflies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Calling ecologists! Diptera backlog? Need ID work done before next season? Planning lots of diptera work next year? We can help! Please contact me for Diptera ID, full species lists and conservation status etc, see dipteraid.co.uk/projects/ Please share Conicera tibialis (Phoridae) for interest.

Conicera tibialis (Phoridae) tiny fly with huge pointed antenna

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ms Megischus bicolor, a very silly, very serious wasp. Very long.

Slender long wasp with a rough-textured red hed cd thorax, and shiny long black abdomen with an ovipositor as long as the rest of her body. Chilling on a fallen log topped with dry shrooms

Close shot of the creature's head. They're called crown wasps, because they have a rough knobby crown they use to burrow out of wood when they emerge as adults

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A parasitic Apocephalus ant-decapitating fly closes in on her target, a Camponotus chromaiodes carpenter ant. Sand Ridge State Forest, Illinois.

Macro photo of a large black and red ant, slightly backlight, standing with antennae raised as a small black and yellow striped fly approaches from the right.

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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wrinkled club #fungi

Dull white branching fungus growing in pine needles

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Narwhalnut 🦋 Wishlist Insectile! @narwhalnut.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Silly creatures from my indie game about interestingly-shaped bugs

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Coastal #Proteaceae at South Pacific Heathland Reserve, Ulladulla NSW. (Clockwise from T-L) Lambertia, Conospermum, Grevillea and Isopogon in flower on a short stroll. There's also Banksia, Petrophile, Persoonia and Telopea (NSW Waratah) nearby - many at the southern limit of their pops. #ozplants

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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The very toxic Funeral Bell #fungi

Small brown fungi with rounded smooth cap and slight whitish fringe, growing in moss

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have photographed the infamous German yellowjacket before, as it is widely invasive around the world. But I'd never photographed one in Germany until this summer. This rather cooperative colony didn't mind my hanging around to shoot the workers cleaning excavated soil from the nest. Freiburg.

Macro photograph of a large black and yellow wasp standing alert in a crack between two limestone rocks, its mouth full of a clump of wet sand.

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Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 23/09/2026

Various forms of and angles on Milkweed, photographed under UV light. As nature intended. #naturephotography #flowerphotography

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Arthropod Photo of the Week: September 23, 2026 Foxglove aphids Aulacorthum solani Hemiptera: Aphididae Observed in Virginia, USA By Tong Zhang, Virginia, USA #arthropodPOTW

Close-up of a yellow flower bud with several small green aphids and some translucent nymphs on its surface. The background is blurred, highlighting the insects and flower detail.

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Amanita citrina #FungiFriends

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@macro_action @birdzandbees.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I do love a red head 🤩 Found in Sarapiqui Costa Rica Canon R5 + Sigma 150mm + EF Lifesize converter. SS1/2500 F9 ISO3200 #wasp #wasps #redhead #nature #wildlife

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Grevillea macleayana flowering in coastal heathland near Ulladulla, NSW. These coastal plants with mostly entire, elliptic leaves + semi-prostrate habit when young offer a lot as garden plants - but I'm not sure when I last saw one available in a nursery or native plant sale. #grevilleas #ozplants

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@macro_action @birdzandbees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mud Dauber wasp! I went back to the same spot this year to try and get some better shots than this but the weather Gods said No! 😂 Valca Slovakia OM1 mkii and 90mm F3.5 + MC-14 tele SS1/3200 F7.1 ISO1600 #macro #wasp #vespa #ossa #slovakia

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Chlorociboria aeruginascens. #MushroomMonday

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