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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Not the oldest firefly, just one of four from the same deposit. It is the oldest that was definitely placed in the subfamily Luciolinae

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Hey. This is Lucidota atra. Also Ellychnia was synonymized under Photinus. Great pics

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

"Ellychnia" now Photinus corruscus is down there, but this is indeed Pyractomena borealis

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Ecology Supplies @ecologysupplies.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

📍✨Don't forget to sign up for THE PIN DOWN - Insect Mounting Challenge at the annual @entsocamerica meeting in Portland📍✨ #EntSoc25 On Nov. 11 at 3:00PM in the OCC Exhibit hall, you will have 30 minutes to mount 10 arthropods. Winners determined based on the mounting method and aesthetics.

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

That streak is only about 1-1.5 seconds long. The species that makes it is Photinus pyralis and it looks like a J kind of

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This is not Photinus pyralis. The black on the pronotum is more like a spot on the pronotum in P. pyralis. This could be a couple other species like P. consimilis or P. obscurellus.

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

There are fireflies in every state of the US but Hawaii. West of the Rocky Mountains they just don't glow/flash as adults.

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Female Photinus firefly. Judging from the pronotum Photinus pyralis

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Yes, that's Lucidota atra. Great daytime firefly

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Do an update as a website of the checklist like the fireflies have now

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LIB @leibnizlib.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We are #hiring a Biodiversity Researcher in Quito, Ecuador. Be part of an exciting project cooperating with us, The Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE), the Zoological Museum (QCAZ) and the Center for Research on Health in Latin America (CISeAL). More: cisealpuce.edu.ec/en/about_us/...

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Their signature cocktail does sound delicious

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

These jagged ambush bugs (Phymata sp.; #Hemiptera: #Reduviidae) are amazing hunters and their camouflage game is usually on point. They can catch some pretty big prey with those raptorial forelegs.

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One of my favorite #insects. Draeculacephala inscripta the water lettuce leafhopper. Look at that amazing #Dracula face on the scutellum. You can't unsee it when you spot it. #horror #hemiptera #insectwonders The genus name translates to Dracula head

Close-up of leafhopper scutellum which markings resemble the face of Dracula

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The Camphor Shoot Borer (𝘊𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴, #Coleoptera: #Curculionidae: #Scotylinae) is an adventive bark #beetle found in sweetgum and a few other hardwoods. But it is also found in plastic fuel storage containers: t.co/UpVMgx2lJs #AmazingBeetles #Beetles #Macrophotography #Macro

Image of the Camphor shoot borer Cnestus mutilatus

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Rufolychnia borencona, a #firefly endemic to Puerto Rico. One of the prettiest fireflies I have encountered so far. #AmazingBeetles #Lampyridae #WestIndies #FireflyMagic

Orange and Black firefly from Puerto Rico sitting on leaf

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

As far as I know the real purpose is unknown. Males sometimes use it to wipe the females, but why is unclear.

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

More Chrysomela scripta to be made. Blacklight sheet love affair. #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #AmazingBeetles #Sexonsixlegs

Two leaf beetles mating on blacklight sheet

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Yes. They all think we can't pronounce squirrel, yet none of them can say Eichhörnchen

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

That little face of guilt just before taking the feeder down. #Squirrel. Oh wait I am not supposed to know how to say that as a German

Squirrel trying to get peanuts from a bird feeder

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Feast your eyes on Sparmannia flava. Maybe the greatest melolonthine of them all. That "winter" coat though... #AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Africa #Scarabaeidae #Winteriscoming

Frontal view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head and thorax

Side view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head, thorax, and abdomen

Top view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head and thorax,

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

#CollectionCuriosities Rhinostomus barbirostris, the bearded #weevil, is maybe my favorite weevil and look at that bottle brush snoot #AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Curculionidae

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

When your morphology tries to make you look like bird poop, but you dress like a rock star. #Chlamisus #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #FSCA #AmazingBeetles #Bolivia

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Cosmisoma plumicorne #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae. When one brush isn't enough you upgrade.

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Unxia gracilior #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae. Longhorns and their original bottle brush.

Pinned longhorn beetle and their fancy antennae

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I really want a garbage can like this one at the @TaipeiZoo #insectarium. It would fit right in with the rest of the decor #Coleoptera #Taiwan #Taipei

Enlarged dung beetle figure trying to roll a garbage can.

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Dominik Kusy @dominik-kusy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Our Lampyris sardiniae colony celebrates 20 years in 2024, and slowly approaching generation 27! 🎄 Best early Christmas gift ever - just received the original founder pair and F1 generation specimens preserved in alcohol from 20 years ago! 🧬✨

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Chalcosoma sp. on my hand and in my #entomology #tattoo. Good thing only one of them has found the ONE ring #LOTR. What #AmazingBeetles they are. Show me your entomology tattoos!

Image of a large beetle on an adult hand.

Image of a tattoo with a large beetle burying out of human skin with the One Ring from Lord of the Rings on its horn surrounded by the One Ring poem in elfish script.

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Photuris douglasae flashing along side a highway in Dixie county, Florida in May 2023. Ten 10-second long-exposure images stacked. #FireflyMagic #Florida #Lampyridae

Image of fireflies flashing along a country road in rural Florida in May 2023

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The lesser known dangerous side of #fireflies as this tabloid wanted us to believe. 600 V and advancing 50 miles per week. These deadly creatures would generate some funding opportunities

Image of very old tabloid article stating that a man was electrocuted by lightning bugs.

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Late #FireflyFriday treat! Undescribed Heterophotinus species from the Dominican Republic. #FireflyMagic

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

With todays paper from the Zaragoza-Caballero lab we now have over 2600 described firefly species #FireflyMagic. Website is updated (www.lampyridae.world)

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Still one of my favorite thrifting finds of all time. Couldn't believe it was still working and only $5. #FireflyMagic #PopupBooks

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Excited about this paper about the #Firefly genus Cheguevaria with @neolycus.bsky.social et al. researchgate.net/publication/38…

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

Last night in Ann Arbor, MI. At least six different species. Photinus pyralis, Photuris fairchildi, one in the Photuris versicolor complex. Will have to collect next time to figure out the rest. #FireflyMagic Tonight I will check out the type location for Photinus aquilonius Lloyd

Long exposure photograph of fireflies flashing

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ElectroCeratops @ehrenenglish.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

One more day or #InverteFest! Here's a Firefly I painted for my sister's birthday earlier this month. Black light reactive and glow in the dark paint added to make this funky.

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

New paper published: Powell et al. An annotated and illustrated catalog of the primary type material of Hemiptera deposited in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods researchgate.net/publication/37…

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