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DTL @dtl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Late-summer swallowtail—this one has seen some stuff #invertebrates

A black butterfly with tattered wings feeding on a puffy white flower
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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A common nighthawk. They are so fast! #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Common nighthawk with brown and black striped wings and a white stripe on each wing and on its chest in flight overhead.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Beetle 2/11 - Sophiodela #Art #SciArt

illustration of a tiger beetle, a relatively long beetle with primarily dark green-blue iridescent body interwoven with equally shiny orange-yellow spots. The jaws are as big as the head, the thighs covered in bristles.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Snowy Egret on the lookout over the marsh #birds 🌿

A white egret stands tall on a broken off tree trunk, looking intently off to the right with its neck extended up.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Coelioxys slossoni ssp. slossoni is a sharptail cuckoo bee that doesn't seem to have a common name. A kleptoparasite, it lays eggs in the nest cells of leafcutting bees (like the White-footed Leafcutter recently posted) and its larva eat the host pollen. #Florida #invertebrate #insect #macro

Coelioxys slossoni ssp. slossoni - an interesting sharptail cuckoo bee is hanging upside down to a dead flower stem, clinging with its front four legs and mandibles, resting and waiting for rain to come in. The bee has a segmented rusty red thorax and legs, warm dark brown wings, black body, head, and antennae, with pale yellow in the eye. Though it has a bit of white fuzz in places, it does not have the hairs seen on pollen collecting bees, since it is klepto parasitic and its offspring steal the pollen from host bees. The background of this vertical frame is shades of green.

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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The Whole World is Bark" Brown Creeper and Colorful Zale 8"x10" oil painting on panel Inspired by a Brown Creeper exploring the intricate landscape of bark on an older Yellow Birch, before totality during the 2024 solar eclipse. If you explore the bark too, you'll find the Colorful Zale. 🪶🐡

An oil painting of a Brown Creeper, clinging to the curling and craggy bark of an older Yellow Birch tree. A Colorful Zale moth, which uses Yellow Birch as one of its host plants, clings to the bark in the upper center of the painting, in soft shadows. The light is a somewhat surreal warm grey, as the solar eclipse was well underway, minutes from totality. The artist watermark reads: Copyright 2026 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com

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Kristin Wyatt @kristinwyatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar #caterpillars #nature #photography

A red and black spiky caterpillar nibbles on a passion flower vine.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mr polka-dot wasp moth is always welcome in our yard Syntomeida epilais

Lovely dark moth with white spots and a bright red-tipped abdomen, slurping bidens alba

The creature facing you on the flower, long proboscis slurping

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Mstreefrog @mstreefrog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh! I saw a wee bullfrog at the refuge yesterday just right for #ColorADay #GreenSat #Herps 📷🐸

American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) is native to the eastern US, but has been introduced here in the west, and is considered invasive.
It is resting on a floating plank among duckweed and has a nice camouflage pattern with mottled greens and browns and nearly black coloration. A yellow throat would indicate a male though I’m not certain we’re seeing that.

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay: #BirdsInAbstract Juvie Anna's #birds #becurious 🪶

$extreme close up of juvie male anna's hummingbird face showing a smattering of adult refractive feathers.$

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Nature’s Eye🌱 @see3trees.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A Tufted Duck wading through surrealism. #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInAbstract #blueskyartshow #undulating

A stark black and white duck with bluish gray beak wades through highly reflective water featuring orange wavy lines

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Slurrrrp! White-lined Sphinx moth with its awesome straw!

A bath colored with gray white brown, and some pink, reaches into a pink flower with a proboscis that’s nearly the length of its body.

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Rina @rina2012.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The magical Lützenschlucht: A green rocky paradise in the Black Forest, #Germany ✨🌿 #Scape #ForestFriday #woodland #woods #Schwarzwald #landscape #Forest #ECK #photography #RockinTuesday

A narrow stream, almost dry, winds its way through a narrow, wooded gorge. Very little water flows in the sandy stream bed, which is covered with stones and leaves. To the left and right, shady, terraced rock faces rise up, densely covered with green moss and ferns. A rotten tree trunk lies across the foreground. Bright, warm sunlight filters through the trees in the background, falling on the green vegetation.

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Atlantic Birding @atlanticbirding.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Good Morning & Happy Friday Everyone! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Mouthful; any bird with anything in its beak Alt. is #Black; any bird with black plumage - A Rook delicately holding an acorn #birds #ECK #birdphotography #naturephotography #ForestFriday #Flyday

A Rook perched on a bare branch holding an acorn in its beak. The bird is left of centre of the frame, facing right with its head turned back to the left. The acorn is being held by the stem so the acorn and cup are hanging from the end of the beak.
The bird is a large, stocky corvid; it has a long, slender, pointed beak and its plumage is all black. The shoulder and underparts have a purple-violet sheen from the bright sunshine.
The Rook is on a small, thin branch with clumps of thick lichen growing along it. It is extended towards the camera towards the right side of the shot. Five larger branches are in the background; all vertical, bare and covered in lichen, against a clear blue sky

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Chelton's Bird and Wildlife Photography @bird-photography.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A belted kingfisher holds onto a massive (for its size) fish. I didn't get to see it eat the fish. Curious if it was actually able to! #birds #bird #photography #ornithology #birdphotos #nature #naturephotography #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birdoftheday #beltedkingfisher 🦉 🪶

A big belted kingfisher holds a large fish in its beak as it perches on a thick tree branch on an overcast day. The bird's spiky blue head feathers stick up, and a thick band of white separates its body from its head. The fish hangs lifelessly on its side and faces the camera. Strands of lichen and fir branches hang down around the bird and its meal.

📷 Canon R5 Mk II
Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM
Av, f/7.1, 1/2000, ISO 1600, 500mm
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Mstreefrog @mstreefrog.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Eight-Spotted Skimmers #ColorADay #BlueTue #Inverts 📷🌿💙

This photo shows an Eight-spotted Skimmer perching on a dried blackberry cane at the edge of the local lake. The addition of white spots on the wings identify this as a male skimmer.

Here is a second Eight-spotted Skimmer male, perched on the dried blade of cattail, with a background of green grasses and cattails.

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdBuddies. A northern shoveler and a mallard duck. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

A northern shoveler with blue, white, orange and tan feathers, and a mallard duck with green, blue, tan and white feathers fly over a partially frozen lake.

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Tom Hibbert @wildlifetom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Probably the most dazzling rove beetle I’ve seen! Just look at the shimmering elytra on this Ocypus ophthalmicus

A rove beetle scurrying across small stones on a path. It’s a long, thin black beetle with shimmering metallic blue elytra

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Capped heron near Porto Jofre, Mato Grosso, Brazil. #BirdOfTheDay #Herons&Egrets #birds

Heron standing on a branch in a tree, against a background of leaves. It has a buffy neck and belly, black cap, blue lores, and long white plumes on the back of its head.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Pitchers, pitchers for daaaays 😍 Got to introduce Bug to the Okefenokee Giant Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia minor okefenokeensis) today. They're so tall! Floating by in our kayaks the tallest bunches seemed to tower over us. I love them, they're so happy here

Marshy island nigh covered in bunches of y'all hooded pitcher plants

Bug peering at a small clump of pitchers, with a cypress dome in front of us as we chill in our kayak

Border of the kayak trail, the bunches of tall pitchers looming in the brush over us

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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Shades of red among the ponderosa pine forest yesterday.

Woodland Pinedrops above a pine needle covered forest floor. There’s a large pine trunk in the background

Iridescent spider web in the red bark of a pine tree

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Tanuki’s Ghostie Revenge @tanukisrevenge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Lurking…. YYYEESSSSSSSSSS #FrogFearFriday

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Mark Levine @marklevinephotos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay alt | #BrightAccents | #blackcheekedwoodpecker From the cloud forest of Ecuador, a bright red cap and golden forehead contrast nicely on a Black-cheeked Woodpecker! #birdphotography #birdsofecuador #blackcheekedwoodpecker

A female woodpecker stands on a branch with legs splayed. It is facing away from the camera while looking to the upper left corner of the frame, giving a side view of the head. There is a corner of the forehead visible which is a bright golden yellow. Also the red nape stands out.

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Carol Pope Gordon @carolpopegordon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Since I'm on a Kookaburra kick, here is a Blue-winged Kookaburra (15-17 inches long) compared with a Little Kingfisher (4.4-5.1 inches long), both seen in northern Queensland. #Australia 🪶

Large Kingfisher with a large head and heavy beak perched in a tree. It has a bright blue band on its wings.

Tiny bright blue and white Kingfisher perched on top of an unopened water lily.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A wee masked bee, I think Hylaeus sp., maybe 5 mm. long. Every time I leaned in with my camera, the bee would run a lap around the flower then come back to face me. Single shot, handheld, with the new Laowa 45 mm. 1-5X at 3X with a crop to about 3.5X. (Montana) #BugSky 🌿🐙📷

A macro photo of a small bee, upper left in the frame, facing the camera from its perch on a yellow flower petal. The bee has a pale cream-yellow face and black eyes. The background (apart from the yellow petal) is blue sky and a bit of out of focus green in the lower left and lower right corner.

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Open Ponderosa Pine forest on Mt Falcon today 🌿

Scattered ponderosa pine trees against blue sky

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Charlie Ludwig @chuck4242.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An American Goldfinch on a pale purple coneflower. #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #Photos #Photo #ECK #BirdOfTheDay #Contrast

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Kristin Wyatt @kristinwyatt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Spider Milkweed (Asclepias viridis) #nature #flowers #photography

A green flower with a purple, white, and green star shape in the center. This plant is not native in North Carolina, but it is in the states that border, like Tennessee and South Carolina. I thought I would give it a try here in the NC mountains.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A Baltimore Oriole in a Locust tree in spring for #BirdOfTheDay #FlowerPower #birds 🌿

An orange and black bird sits on a branch with green leaves and a cluster of small white flowers against a bright blue sky.

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Tom @birdfan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #contrast, I am submitting this great blue heron standing on a log in a pond. Have a great day! #NAture #Birds #Photography

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good morning. Here’s the #moon 5 minutes ago. Handheld shot, so no complaining. 😂 Hope you all have a wonderful day ahead. #ClassicMono #photography #ECK

A detailed black-and-white photograph of the Moon against a deep black sky, taken just minutes ago. The bright lunar surface shows numerous craters and darker maria, with the rugged, heavily cratered edge of the shadowed portion clearly visible along the lower and right side. The Moon appears as a large, softly illuminated waning gibbous. 🌙

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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🧵1/ Survivors of nuclear tests have been at the centre of discussions at the UN this week, reminding the world of the catastrophic consequences of nuclear weapons.

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Bill Stedman @steddybirds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Surrounded by #FlowerPower a female ruby-throated hummingbird works her wings for multiple meals. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #hummingbirds #birdphotography #nature #ECK 🪶

With its back to the camera, a green ruby-throated hummingbird is almost lost in a sea of orange trumpet vine flowers as it searches for spots to find food. Its wings are beating too fast for my camera to freeze them, so they appear as just a blur.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Probably hundreds of these buddies in my yard today. They are not committed to goldenrod and will hang out on whatever's blooming. 🌱 #nativeplants 🪲 #bugsky #invertebrates

A goldenrod soldier beetle on blue mistflower. It does not blend in.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Even arthropods are recruited to disperse plants. Some years ago, I published a study on millipedes dispersing the sticky gemmae of a moss, Calymperes palisotii. Millipedes moving among the moss pick up the sticky asexual propagules. #Calymperaceae #epizoochory #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 1/2

Photo of a millipede, Anadenobolus monilicornis, on the bark of a tree among patches of moss. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

IT'S HERE! 📣 "Rainforest Radiance" is LIVE 19 brand-new bird designs have just landed! 🎁 Special early-bird freebie for the first 48 hours ❤️ Returning-backers get bonuses 🦅 Every pledge helps support our wildlife rescue & rehabilitation work Come meet the new flock! 👇 tinyurl.com/v5sry3m8

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Brian Peterson @drbrianpet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#FlowerPower is the #BirdOfTheDay theme Female Broad-billed Hummingbird feeding from barrel cactus flowers

The females have white chests. The barrel cactus is near our front door.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today was the first time I encountered the fascinating Oak Rough Bulletgall Wasp (Disholcaspis quercusmamma). Small females are developing inside the gall. The galls are exuding honeydew, attractive to yellow jackets and ants, who might protect the gall from parasitic wasps. #invertefest

Round and nipple shaped greenish brown galls being attended by Yellowjackets and paper wasps. Inside the gall is a developing female solitary wasp. When she emerges this fall, she will lay an egg in a dormant leaf bud.

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Tam||maT @tamvmat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#InverteFest 6 Deceptive Sallow Moth - ink drawing #moths #insects #invertebrate

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A headshot of an Osprey for #BirdsUpClose! Taken from my car so I wasn’t disturbing them. #BirdOfTheDay #birds 🌿

Close up photo of the head and shoulders of a brown and white bird of prey with a round orange eye.

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a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The little cat steps on the wizard's head, waking him up. He goes to make waffles with kumquat marmalade and put some fish out for the little cat. As he makes tea, the air fills with the smell of blackberry. After breakfast, he unpacks his reagent delivery and puts the new reagents away.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A wee purple damselfly to wrap up #InverteFest. They come in a range of beautiful colors and it always surprises me to see these jewel tones. Also, here’s a free art book filled with incredible invertebrates! #BugSky 🌿

A long thin purple bug stands on a light brown rock facing into the camera with its big, round, appealing eyes.

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Common Darter. X-wings ftw. #MacroMonday #insects #photography #nature Liking the bokeh on this one.

Red dragonfly flying with wings in an x shape, circles of light behind

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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Tree feller #fungi Giant polypore

Looking down slightly on a bracket fungus irregular, wavy shapes, whitish dusty top on brown. Growing on a beech brought down by this fungus

Underside view of the Giant polypore. The underside has a creamy appearance

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jtkindt @jtkindt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nothing to see here, just the browning, irregularly shaped edge of an azalea leaf that has been chewed on by an insect, which is obviously long gone. #invertefest #bugsky

Schizura ipomoeia (Morning-glory prominent moth) caterpillar conforming to the edge of a leaf that it is chewing up, so that the caterpillar’s brown and green body look like a damaged leaf edge.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

At this point of the year I'm having to hold myself back from actually identifying a lot of my fungus and moss samples so that I can keep myself busy over the winter months. Just going to go out and find interesting things while weather permits. For now, check out this slick moss and scaly mushroom!

A little scaly brown mushroom, perhaps Inocybaceae growing in some light green Thuidium moss

A dark green, wet, poorly branched moss in a brook. It looks kinda greasy if you ask me

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A cool sponge with a flared top! 1373 m North Tutuila Flank, American Samoa #Okeanos #spongeThursday

white sponge with a big spoon like head narrow stalk

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David Stevens 🇺🇦 @davidst999.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Time for slime! Raspberry Slime mold (Tubifera ferruginosa). Not a true fungus. Forms of decaying wood. This seen a couple of days ago on a mossy log in a Midlothian wood. #SlimeMold #Nature #Photography #Nikon

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