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Josh @joshecology.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Top 100! 📸 This photo of mating harvestmen (Dicranopalpus ramosus) made it to the top 100 of 'Close-up Photographer of the Year' @cupoty.bsky.social - the annual top international #macrophotography awards. Grateful to the judges to be selected, and to be among amazing finalists! #opiliones

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Josh @joshecology.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

2024 had promise but it wasn't it. A select few highlights. If want further info on any, feel free to ask. #macrophotography #birds #opiliones #weevils #bees #moths #wildflowers

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Josh @joshecology.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Nominated by @majailiczg.bsky.social (thank you!) on German Bluesky to share a hexapod for #HexapoDezember (forgot to do it 27th, sorry!) 🇩🇪 Went for a walk today, not a lot about but did find a Juniper Shieldbug (Cyphostethus tristriatus) For 29th December I nominate @microwildhq.bsky.social

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Maja Ilić @majailiczg.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Zum 26. #HexapoDezember möchte ich ein paar Fotos von schlafenden Wespenbienen (parasitäre Wildbienen) der Gattung Nomada teilen (engl. Nomada cuckoo bees), gesichtet Ende März. Für den 27. Beitrag nominiere ich/For the 27. post I nominate @joshecology.bsky.social

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Josh @joshecology.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Two non-invertebrate portraits Bohemian Waxwing with head like a whip of ice cream or Terk from animated Tarzan. January 2024, east Belfast Irish Hare with the tiny ears. Antrim Hills, November 2021 #wildlifephotography #irishwildlife #birds #mammals #bohemianwaxwing #irishhare #animalportraits

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Ireland's Incredible Invertebrates! @microwild.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Well, today, I rechecked the vivarium and spotted that the egg had hatched. It took me ages to find the juvenile as it is so tiny (~1mm) and well-camouflaged. I also found two more! Raising 'harvestkids' is very tough; I'd love to bring them to adulthood. Please send me your best wishes! 🤞

A baby harvestman sitting on a piece of wood. It camouflages well into the background

The same baby harvestman on the same wood, this time, with a ruler beside it, showing that it is probably just about one millimetre in length, maybe less.

The same baby harvestman from a slightly different angle.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Some of what I do as an entomology curator is Chrysis management.

Microscope photograph in side view of a brilliant metallic blue wasp in the genus Chrysis with black wings, dead and pinned through the thorax. The photo shows tremendous detail of the fine hairs and pits on the insect's body.

Wide angle photograph of a glass-topped museum drawer filled with little white trays full of small insects. The trays are labeled "Chrysis spp." and other various species names in the genus Chrysis.

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Josh @joshecology.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Some people might say I am obsessed with harvestmen. But I don't know what they're talking about. Dicranopalpus ramosus Platybunus pinetorum Nemastoma bimaculatum Megabunus diadema #opiliones #ouropiliones #harvestmen #irishwildlife #wildlifephotography #irishbiodiversity

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Josh @joshecology.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi, I'm Josh - ecologist/conservationist/photographer from & based in Belfast. Here's a small series of photographs covering a few things 🦋🌃 Red Admiral 🐝 Nomada rufipes resting 🪻Broad-leaved Helleborine 🐦 White-throated Dipper #irishwildlife #wildlifephotography #entomology #botany #birds

Red admiral, a butterfly with dark wings but distinct red stripe with white spots at rest in a wet night time urban setting. The urban lights illuminating it.

A bee that looks like a wasp grasping a yellow petal with it's mandibles and seemingly 'planking' but is at rest.

An orchid with subdued colours but no less impressive - the petals open up almost like the mouth of the fictional alien from the movie franchise Predator. The flower is illuminated, with the background darkened.

A stout bird with dark wings, a chocolate head, and white throat, getting ready to dive from the moss covered rock it is on I to the stream to catch prey.

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