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Julian Resasco @julianresasco.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m recruiting a grad student to join our lab at CU-Boulder in Fall 2027. I’m especially interested in students excited about insect community ecology and biodiversity, sp. interactions, and landscape connectivity. Please share with students who may be interested! www.colorado.edu/lab/resasco/...

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yellow moth striking a pose. Curbia martiata, Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysia #photography #moth

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I believe they just stop having baby orcas. Here is a recent video on the subject youtu.be/ktkkt31AtuY?...

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Orcas Shouldn’t Have This Human Trait

YouTube video by Stephanie Sammann

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Super proud to have a photo reach Finalist stage in the Big Picture Competition! If you're in SF, check out all the winners in the California Academy of Sciences.

Screenshot of the Finalist photo of Giant Stink bugs on a leaf

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is a female Black Meadowhawk. Meadowhawk habitat, yep, meadows and shallow wetlands. Peak time now to see them in Rocky Mountain States, though they are circumboreal in distribution.

The inch and a quarter long female Black Meadowhawk are not all black like adult males. Instead they are yellow-brown on the top half of the abdomen (bottom half black) and the top side of the thorax. The side of the thorax is distinctly marked with yellow shapes. Largest shape behind head like an upside down boot, then separated by black embedded with four small elliptical shapes, finally bordered with larger crude blob. As pictured dragonfly postioned atop snowberry exhibiting "obelisk" behavior...body posture to dissipate heat.

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Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What happens when evolution adds an extra pair of eyes? Male mayflies evolve an extra pair of dorsal compound eyes, the Turbanate eyes, thought to help males detect females during mating swarms. we have investigate how this remarkable evolutionary novelty develops. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Wandering Glider is showing up in North America - it migrates thousands of miles, which you can see on inat observations #dragonflies

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Macro photography by explore with Dara. Incredible

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

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David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Megalagrion nesiotes, Hawaiian damselfly rediscovered on Big Island! #odonata www.bigislandvideonews.com/2026/07/19/p...

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Pinapinao, Hawaiian Damselfly, Rediscovered on Hawaiʻi Island – Big Island Video News

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Have you surveyed there? My understanding is it's closed to the public.

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#NewSpecies! New #damselfly from the #philippines just landed: Drepanosticta minhanhiana Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC878F-... Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Zootaxa #DrepanostictaMinhanhiana #FAIRdata #taxonomy #nature #animals #fauna #invertebrates #entomology #insects #odonata

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#NewSpecies New #dragonfly from #madagascar just landed: Paragomphus matroka Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/039687DC-... Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Zootaxa #ParagomphusMatroka #FAIRdata #OA #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #animals #entomology #insects #odonata

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I find it's easier to crop into portrait, than trying to position the flash appropriately in the field.

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If you write an end date like that...

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Ever wonder how much biodiversity in the area you've seen? I have - so I made a quick app using @inaturalist.bsky.social data. Enter your username, any area and taxon, and get some stats! inat-coverage.danosipov.com

Site screenshot showing danospv's statistics of observing odonata in Sarawak, MY - and showing 43.8% observations

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 06/05/2026

Dragonfly and damselfly biodiversity is declining in India's 🇮🇳 Western Ghats. "...at least 79 additional species that were previously reported in the region were not found, an almost 35% decline in the number of dragonfly and damselfly species..." www.bbc.com/news/article... 🪲 🪳 🧪 🌏

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Dragonflies in distress: Scientists sound alarm in India's Western Ghats

A new study reveals a decline in dragonfly and damselfly species in India's Western Ghats.

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This account regularly posts AI generated images, this is another example. Behavior is real, photo isn't

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Ambition is lifting the same rock every week because you found a rare bug there a couple years ago and you really want to get a better picture this time.

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Shifting baseline syndrome (SBS) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

#NewSpecies! New #damselfly from #india just landed: Coeliccia magna Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/04718783-... Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Zootaxa #CoelicciaMagna #FAIRdata #OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #entomology #insects #odonata

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Most likely eastern Pondhawk

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

If the info is concise and condensed - yes. But so often it's just the same narrative just broken into bullet points.

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Flies seems like a right group for the naming. Could name other mayflies for crypto - here one day, gone the next.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Hey SoCal folks - on 3/21-22 @mhedin.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-day macro workshop in Anza-Borrego Desert! We'll have Saturday class time to cover composition, equipment, lighting, etc., then field time Saturday afternoon, blacklighting that night, and reconvene for a morning bug-walk. 📷🐙🌿

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Macrophotography: Photographing Our Smallest Organisms

Bring the tiny wonders of Anza-Borrego into focus!

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Dan Osipov @danospv.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

First thing, pilgrim. You're new. And you look it. Here's 200 drakes. Go get yourself a decent weapon. Or armor. Or a spell.

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🥈 Our 2nd place winner in the #InsectWeek Photography Competition is Dara Ojo (IG: explorewithdara) with a striking image captures a leafhopper overtaken by a green Metarhizium fungus, revealing the dramatic and often unseen interactions that shape tiny ecosystems. Read more & view the galleries 🔽