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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The paired, leg-like appendages hanging out from this ant’s mouth don’t belong to some weird parasite. Instead, these are the maxillary (six segments) and labial (four) palps. Ant palps contain touch and taste sensors, and they are used to assess and manipulate food. Formica incerta. Woodstock, NY.

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Tonya Song 🪶 @tonyasong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

White guy furry artists drawing "tribal" art or making "tribal" stories, will never not be weird. First of all most of the time it's exploitative & second how would you know what that kind of life/society is even like? Yes I had a specific artist in mind in this post. No I won't publicly say who.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe y’all should seriously consider the process that brought you into near full-alignment with fascists on the subject of public health.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What was this, the second time in a month that leftists gleefully joined in on a harassment campaign initiated by reactionaries against covid cautious people? Seems like that indicates a critical absence in awareness and analysis. Maybe y’all should fix that. And your hearts too.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well this got even angrier than I planned woopsee. On the lesbian bar you should not care about, Jason Arday, Thélyson Orélien, murderous anti-Blackness, and ableism about covid precautions as the wedgiest wedge that leftists keep falling for: lia-sae.net/articles/202...

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Lia's blog - Hook, line and sinker

Build your immunity to ragebait with this one simple trick: giving a fuck about other people.

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 21/07/2026

Hey, that's a nice [THING YOU DO FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE], be a real shame if somebody were to [CONVINCE YOU TO MONETIZE IT, TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP INTO AN OBLIGATION AND ROBBING YOU OF JOY]

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Somebody wake me up if there is a single apology, anywhere, from anyone.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you are champing at the bit for a nice piece of plainly obvious propaganda to come along so you can indulge a weird desire to bash some faction of marginalized people who bother you, consider…not doing that.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look at how easy it was, to get most of the left to spend two days bashing maskers over a false story that had so many red flags for being false it was practically a Valentine’s Day parade.

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saint vagrant @saint-vagrant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

everybody loves when queer and trans people get mocked by the press because it has the same weight and value to them as enjoying some second/thirdhand vagueposting. teeheeing with our newest ally against the tenderqueers, Fox News

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it's not hyperbolic to say that if the ways you talk and think about disabled/sick people (as well as the COVID precautions we may take) are indistinguishable from how fascists talk about disabled/sick people—even down to the same statements—then you have a fucking problem.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A beautiful 0.22mm long female Megaphragma noyesi wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found at Castle Water of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in July. This wasp is a parasitoid of the eggs of thrips, but we don't yet know which species of thrips. #wasps #RyeHarbour

Side view of a tiny wasp. Its oar-shaped wings have long fringe hairs. Its hewad and antennae are to the right of picture.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

fastest jaws on earth versus my pathetic mammal flesh

The same trap jaw ant idly moving her jaws around

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 22/09/2026

H. R. Giger website in 1996

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I should make "scientifically accurate The Fly" but instead of having unprotected sex and fighting people the fly brain just occasionally whispers "pecan sandies"

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026

When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music

Depressed kermit the frog costume guy sitting hunched over on a park bench

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Take a stroll along a mossy log with this Euryurus leachii, one of eastern North America’s beautiful native millipedes.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I threw an old banana into the side yard to see if the Narceus would come out, and yeah they totally did

Slightly blurry photo of a grey brown Narceus millipede walking towards a rotten banana

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 08/09/2026

Jackie Chan’s Official Home Page in 1995

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 04/09/2026

Night eyes 😎 Finally got proper pictures of this amazing phenomenon! Mantises change their eye color (and light sensitivity) at night by transporting pigments from the surface of each compound eye unit toward the deeper eye region. Same female Tenodera sinensis, two different times. #bugsky

A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with dark black eyes against a light background, seen from very close up.

A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with green/brown eyes against a light background, seen from very close up to show the details of her face. The pseudopupil is clearly visible on her left eye, facing the camera.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

An unfortunate freshly stepped-on cicada I found on the street made a nice big meal for mama centipede.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I tried to feed my big male Phrynus an American cockroach and some cartoon chase antics ensued. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an amblypygid outmaneuvered like this. Good enrichment for the old man, and he did get it eventually, when I wasn’t looking of course

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The African driver ants are among the most charismatic and (in)famous social insects. Unfortunately, their taxonomy is a bit of a mess. In this new OA paper, we begin to rectify this, focusing on the West African species. Spearheaded by Caspar Schöning and Raphael Weniger. doi.org/10.3897/zook...

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

complex. symmetrical. undeniably stylish male gonopods, belonging to the crested millipedes in the genus Abacion

a pair of gonopods, they’re difficult to describe with words. the base of each is thick, boxlike, and three branches sprout from them, arising from the inner surface of the boxes: the lowest and thinnest are simple thin spikes directed at angles outwards; behind them a taller, thicker column, crowned with a pincerlike arrangement of twisted spines splaying out to the side, the largest curved, broad, and spoonlike; and a third, stout spine stands up from about the middle of the boxlike structure. the side of the box facing the camera has a soft membrane with a sparse tuft of long bristles

a similar structure but the third spikes are thinner and straighter, and the complicated crowns of the second bit differs a little in the angles of the pieces

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Quil @quilbug.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This was a weird one... I don't have a good ID for them and I have no idea what they were doing on this hanging dead stick. They seemed peaceful, and only got agitated when I got near with my camera... I wonder what they were up to? 🪲ID Guess: Sweat bees? #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A photo of multiple little black bees with small bodies, orange legs, and thin white stripes on their abdomens gathered closely together on a dead stick. The dead stick is suspended by old spider threads.

A closeup photo focusing on one of the bees. It has a thinner body than the common bee, its chitin is entirely black covered in sparse white hairs, and its legs are orange. Its abdomen has white markings on the bottom, and its wings are neatly folded over its body.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

this evening we are enjoying Frank & Barrera's 2010 paper on staphs in the genus Belonuchus lurking around water-filled Heliconia bracts and snatching tasty mosquito pupae out of the water like inverse crocodiles

Belonuchus cephalotes lurks at the surface of a Heliconia phytotelma, just waiting for ONE plump, tasty mosquito larva/pupa to get within yoinking range

are-you-kidding-me action shot of a successful Belonuchus cephalotes, skittering away with its succulent pupal meal (a Wyeomyia nearly the size of the beetle)

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Craig B @mutillidae.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've been working on a better setup for capturing focus-stacked images of immature insects in alcohol...and it's working well. 🙂 #NaturalHistoryCollections #Macrophotography #FocusStacking #Psephenidae #APennyForYourThoughts

Ventral view of a water penny larva (Psephenidae) against a black background. The six legs, antennae, and the feathery gills are all clearly visible—and would be well protected from above when the larva is clinging to a rock underneath the water.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

THIS. People educated enough in the specific subject to pull the data together don’t need LLMs; people without the knowledge to weed data from the bullshit are at the mercy of the LLM. They’re obsequious Dunning-Kruger machines. Designed to flatter midwits and the technologically obsolete.

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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

invasive species denialism

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Edgar Alan Poe's Fucked Up Monkey Mystery

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Leonard Koscianski, The Thick of It, 2010

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Dr. Wildlife @drwildlife.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If this thread has been useful, here is somewhere to put that into action. @anishinabeknation.bsky.social is accepting donations on behalf of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, whose entire community has been displaced by wildfire. Donations can be made at an7gc.ca/donate.

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DONATE - Anishinabek Nation 7th Generation Charity

Individuals who support the goals and vision of AN7GC can make a donation. The ways to donate: call us, mail your donation, use Paypal or CanadaHelps.

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Anyway, Wendy Carlos is still alive and that's wonderful 💜

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Her nest disturbed by the photographer, a Solenopsis thief ant worker exudes a droplet of venom on her stinger and waves it in the air. This behavior is known as "gaster-flagging". Paraná, Brazil.

Macro photo of a small shiny brown ant standing on a stick against a pure black background, head down and abdomen straight up, a droplet of clear liquid larger than her own eye at the tip of her stinger.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I recently learned that this Aussie ant species, Polyrhachis femorata, plays possum when threatened. But not just as individual ants. The entirely colony self-contorts into death poses and just lays there like the aftermath of a creepy ant suicide cult. connectsci.au/zo/article/7...

Macro photograph of a boxy black ant with orange legs, standing face-down on the side of a tree.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Crematogaster castanea, the red cocktail ant. South Africa.

Macro photo of a red ant with a yellow gaster in head view, walking towards us. The background is a pure white.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Pogonomyrmex desertorum, a small native harvester ant from Texas.

macro photograph of a red ant wtih a large head, in side view, in a pure white background.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Neoponera crenata huntress ant, Peru.

Macro photo of an elongate brown huntress ant with large eyes and yellowish legs walking on rotting wood.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This is Psalidomyrmex. It hunts earthworms. Which is a habit that probably merits weird mandibles. But I just learned they don't need to have slicing mandibles, just grabby ones, because earthworms drop their tails when attacked, so the ants just haul them off like they were harvesting fruit.

Macro photo of Psalidomyrmex reichenspergeri, a large purplish black ant with curved jaws that taper to a fine point like ice tongs.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A new composite image of the major and minor workers of Pheidole dentata, a native big-headed ant that persists in Austin by staking out shadier habitats than the invasive fire ants.

Macro photo of two orange ants on a pure white background, facing each other. The one on the left is larger, with a disproportionately larger head.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A big-headed ant, Pheidole fimbriata, you’ll never guess why they call it that. (Colombia)

Macro photo in side view of a large black ant walking on a stone, the ant’s head is rectangular and large, covered in fine parallel ridges.

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