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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Scandalous forbidden love on the deer carcass..... (Oiceoptoma inaequale, Oiceoptoma noveboracense)

Oiceoptoma inaequale mounted on Oiceoptoma noveboracense, presumably attempting to mate.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 21/12/2025

party larva

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

ran into these things that shouldn't be on the continent

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Matthew L. Miller @matthewlmiller.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Largescale suckers with parasitic nematodes. I’ve caught a few like this over the years. #25DaysofFishmas

Largescale sucker with parasitic nematode.

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

They weren't lying this thing is creepy as fuck! (Brown Creeper, Certhia americana)

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

a swamp eel (Monopterus sp.) taking a gulp of air. Insanely adaptable and probably Florida's single highest impact invasive fish, but I can't lie they're also extremely cute

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Acronicta fallax at the sheet last night. Aptly named the green marvel cause I sure was marveling at that green

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A pretty little cockroach (iNat suggests Euphyllodromia sp.) in Costa Rica. Only around 30 of the 4,600 or so species of cockroaches enter homes. Most are detritivores, important members of nature's cleanup crew. This one had cool chevron patterns and compound eyes like polished glass. 🐙🌿 #insects

A macro photo of a strikingly-patterned cockroach on a lined, pale green leaf. The insect is brown and orange, with white spots against black on the upper thorax, and angled chevron-like lines on the wings. Its head is orange and the large compound eyes are beautifully shiny.

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 13/08/2025

A comparison image of three similar juvenile boxfish species 🐡🐡🐡

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, Weather Loach, introduced to and quite widespread in much of the US. This small tributary-of-a-tributary creek of the Hackensack River had probably hundreds of <1" young-of-year loaches in the muck and weeds

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Anton Sorokin @antonsrkn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Schooling Sacramento pikeminnow, despite being minnows they reach impressive size (4+ft) and are top predators in the ecosystems they inhabit. Really bold fish too which is always welcome for photography.

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toxicojendron radicans @toxicoradica.northsky.social · 19/07/2025

🌸 thicket bean 🌿 Phaseolus polystachios only native Phaseolus in eastern north america 🫘 #nativeplants #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #bloomsky

two bean flowers and a bud on a long, loose raceme, difficult to get into good focus due to the lighting conditions within the deeply shaded forest holler where these beans live. the flower in the middle looks best though. its pale purple banner petal is held over the other petals like a hood. the two wing petals hang below and appear almost clublike because of how they curl along their length; their pink-purple coloration is darker than on the banner petal. the keels also have some of that pink-purple color, as well as a pale green patch at the tip; they are tightly coiled up on themselves.

a bean vine growing in a deeply shaded woods, with many pink-purple flowers in various stages of development growing on long, loose, sometimes-branching axillary racemes. the fully developed flower in the center has a pale pink banner petal hooding the rest of the flower; two pink-purple wing petals turned over facing the ground; and a twisted pair of pink-purple keel petals that turn pale green at the tip. the plant's dark green trifoliate leaves are blurry in the background.

a thicket bean vine twining its way through various forest floor foliage. the bean's dark green trifoliate leaves have broad, pointed leaflets on long leaf-stems. long, loose racemes of pink-purple bean flowers grow from the leaf axils; each one with a dozen or more flowers in various stages of development (many having already faded & fallen off).

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

New fave weevil just dropped - an NC native! 🤗 This stunning insect is a sesbania clown weevil. Numerous were feeding on the leguminous host in a field; grower was happy they were eating the weed 😆 Thanks to Dominic Reisig for collecting them! #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Eudiagogus maryae #weevil

A cylindrical weevil sits on a white background. It has gray legs, and a granular black surface made up of scales. There are reddish orange scales on the back of the head and on the thorax, the thorax pattern marking the edges and a plus sign on the center. The wing covers have three yellow orange scale stripes running the length.

A cylindrical weevil sits on green leaflets on a white background. It has gray legs, and a granular black surface made up of scales. There are reddish orange scales on the back of the head and on the thorax, the thorax pattern marking the edges and a plus sign on the center. The wing covers have three yellow orange scale stripes running the length.

Side view of a cylindrical weevil sits on green leaflets on a white background. It has gray legs, and a granular black surface made up of scales. There are reddish orange scales on the back of the head and on the thorax, the thorax pattern marking the edges and a plus sign on the center. The wing covers have three yellow orange scale stripes running the length.

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Forbidden strawberry... A Giant Velvet Mite found during #BugShot Arizona #inverts (Dinothrombium sp.) Portal, AZ

A red and white mite as as seen from the front, on a white background.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 19/07/2025

Hotel had a complimentary Gibbium aequinoctiale in the bathtub

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This spectacular little fish, Rasbora jacobsoni, is endemic to central Sumatra — and right now, there are only a few iNaturalist observations of it! 📷 fishtse on iNaturalist 📍 Indonesia 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Two small narrow fish with beige-brown bodies and single black stripes down their middles swim amongst twigs and roots.

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

going off in the garden right now (Lobelia inflata, Clinopodium vulgare, Monarda fistulosa, Ratibida pinnata)

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

male florida flagfish (Jordanella floridae) on a nest in my outdoor tub. This species seems to shift between active nest guarding and egg scattering based on environmental factors. This guy has clearly been successful so far though as theres several age classes of fry flitting around the tub

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

New favorite arachnid just dropped. We set up a Wind Scorpion in a habitat and she went to town digging. These animals dig burrows to get out of the desert heat, maintain humidity, and hide from predators. I think she's adorable. (Solifugid) Southwestern Research Station, Portal, AZ

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ciclasoman.bsky.social @ciclasoman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

It’s been a warm summer and setting new mops may help kick the breeding season in high gear for Pachypanchax patriciae

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Aplocheilus panchax looking good outside, he's currently paired with a female in a tub

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

mint collection, Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, incanum, virginianum, muticum

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

the lovely baby animal Papilio polyxenes caterpillar munching away at unripe Zizia aurea fruits

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

LOOK at this stunner of an Orangespotted Sunfish! Caught and released from a floodplain lake off the Minnesota River. Yes, freshwater fishes can be quite colorful too!

Brightly colored fish held above a net by a fish scientist.

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JD Schooley @dirtydog.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Gratuitous #nongame pics taken on our study lake this week. #buffalo #gar

A black buffalo with its intermediate mouth orientation (approx halfway between terminal like bigmouth buffalo and sub-terminal like smallmouth buffalo). Correctly differentiating BKB from SMB in OK has proven difficult, according to genetic results. Hybridization complicates the similar morphology.

This is a large spotted gar collected from a small reservoir population with only the single gar species present (four species are native to OK).

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A new study shows that a grape-only diet isn't sustainable for the invasive spotted lanternfly, w/ development and reproduction severely limited. The findings suggest that eliminating spotted lanternflies' preferred host, tree of heaven, near vineyards could be a key tactic to minimize their impact.

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Spotted Lanternflies Fare Poorly on Grape-Only Diet

A new study suggests eliminating spotted lanternflies' preferred host, tree of heaven, near vineyards could be a key tactic to minimize their impact.

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toxicojendron radicans @toxicoradica.northsky.social · 15/06/2025

🌻 yellow coneflower 🌿 Ratibida pinnata the common name 'coneflower' is shared by plants in four different genera in the sunflower/aster/daisy family Asteraceae #nativeplants #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #bloomsky

an egg-shaped composite flower atop a tall green stem. the 'egg' is a cone of many dozens of tiny yellow-green disk florets, none of which are fully mature. at the base of the 'egg' some of the disks are approaching maturity, their corollas starting to darken and elongate. beneath the bottom series of disks there are a little over half a dozen long, bright yellow ray florets which hang down beneath the cone. green floral bracts stick out sideways between the rays. in the bottom right corner of the pic there's a younger cone where even the rays are still developing, looking like short yellow-green tubes.

a close-up on the cone of a yellow coneflower. bright yellow ray florets hang below the egg-shaped cone, but are mostly out of frame. the cone is composed of many dozens of yellow-green disk florets, most of which are not fully mature. a few series of disks along the bottom of the cone adjacent to the rays are mature; their corollas have lengthened & turned a dark purple color. a tight cluster of stamens sticks up out of the corollas; it's not clear if the anthers have yet to dehisce & reveal their yellow pollen, or if the weevils that are crawling all over the base of the flower may have something to do with it.

yellow coneflowers growing tall above grasses et cetera on the edge of limestone cedar glade. a few pinnate green leaves adorn the coneflower's tall stems, which stand nearly head-high. some of the flowerheads are early in development, but two of them are sufficiently mature that their long, bright yellow rays fall away from their yellow-green egg-shaped cones like an inverted falling star.

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

beasts from the sheet (Phengodes sp. male, Automeris io, Orchesella villosa, Leuconycta diphteroides)

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 05/06/2025

🦀 #invertebrates

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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I see some people posting their strawberry moon photos from last night, so here is my humble contribution. Micrathena clypeata, sometimes referred to as the strawberry spider, is seen here spinning her moon-like egg sac. This is one of the photos from WildSumaco that I am most proud of.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

As a power user and donor, I've met multiple staff members and talk to them every now and then. I don't think this whole program was something they pursued maliciously, it was just a terrible solution for a problem they misdiagnosed. I believe they can be convinced to take a different path.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Even if iNat seems dispensable to you due to your abundance of local resources, it's the only thing people like me have. They're now taking feedback from the community so this is our chance to steer them in a better direction. I don't want the platform to die, I want it to do better.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I get that people are deeply annoyed by iNat right now, but despite its deep flaws, I hope people can see that a better iNat, both the site functionality and the community, is worth fighting for. Here's my personal perspective.

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I think ppl are being way too hasty and dogmatic abt the inat thing but I think the way this feature is gonna shake out you're going to need curators to go through each description with such a fine toothed comb that you may as well just have it be user made in the first place

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"Estimated globally for the period 1851–2016, the modern extinction rate for freshwater fishes stands at 33.47 extinctions per million species-years (E/MSY), more than 100 times greater than the natural background extinction rate of 0.33 E/MSY". 🌍

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 07/06/2025

I found a baby clownfish in the sea. I let it go back to where it was—so the story never began.

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geosesarma.bsky.social @geosesarma.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Incredible tricks with Proteinaceous Food

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Here is a large Goliath Tigerfish specimen from the main Congo River at Kinsangani that some fishmen had caught and were butchering for sale locally. The dentition of these fish is amazing, and the fish's jaws were still moving when I photographed them!

Photo of two fishermen butchering a Goliath Tigerfish for sale in Kisangani, DRC.

Photo of the decapitated head of a Goliath Tigerfish showing its large teeth.

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Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Saw one of the greatest freshwater fishes of all time this morning in Tanzania. The Goliath tigerfish is a formidable predator with some of the largest teeth that you will ever see. There was a local fisherman selling them door to door

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