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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the cool thing about extremely high butterfly diversity in the Amazon is you inevitably get species or even genus complexes that all look exactly the fucking same

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𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖆𝖗 ✦ @cesar-umbrage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#insectember day 13: Maratus nimbus peacock spider! some of their butts look like they have clouds patterns available for €40 on my vgen shop 🪲 vgen.co/cesar-umbrage/shop [ #insectember2026 #bugoc #bugart #adoptable #insect #spideroc ]

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Moth 4/12 - Brenthia #Art #SciArt

Illustration of a black and white moth in front view, legs spread out, wings open like a peacock. The far end tips of the wings, which are on top of the image, have little dots resembling eye spots lining the edges. The side wings are striped in black and white in L-shaped repeating pattern like the legs of a bigger bug.

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Quil @quilbug.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Insectember day 11: Anteros formosus Common name: Black Bellied Anteros Butterfly Dandie the butterfly takes great pride in its immaculate floof✨ ✨Adopt Dandie here: vgen.co/quilbug/shop 🎨 #insectember2026 #anthro #bugart #adopts

A digital illustration of an incredibly fluffy cream, red and black butterfly with green eyes and striped antennae. The ends of its limbs fade from white to cream to black, and flair out in fluff near the feet.

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 22/09/2026

Just published a fun Open Access paper with several great co-authors from across the continent. Swimming caterpillars! 🐛 🏊‍♀️ 🪳🪲🧪 academic.oup.com/jinsectscien...

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Diversity of swimming behavior in larval Lepidoptera

Abstract. Lepidoptera are a highly diverse lineage of predominantly terrestrial insects, yet their larvae occupy diverse habitats where they may experience

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

lowkey my birthday was a couple days ago and I genuinely forgot to post about it 😭

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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Over 80% of insect species live in the tropics, yet these are often the species we know least about. Our new BioScience paper asks why and how we can change this. We cannot conserve insects if tropical species remain invisible to science and policy. doi.org/10.1093/bios... @monashbiol.bsky.social

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Joe Lapp @josephtlapp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Insect "total biomass is at least 10 times that of all humans and our livestock combined. It is hard to imagine a terrestrial or freshwater ecosystem that does not depend on insects. The world isn’t ours at all. We are newcomers on a planet made and maintained by insects." –McGavin, The Hidden World

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Quil @quilbug.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Insectember day 5: Gryllotalpa australis Common name: Southern Mole Cricket Clay uses its specialised digging claws and a delicate brush to uncover this specimen ✨Adopt Clay here: vgen.co/quilbug/shop 🎨 #insectember2026 #anthro #bugart #adopts

A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized bluish-brown mole cricket crouched down, using its large digging claws on its forelimbs to uncover an ammonite fossil from the earth. In one of its second pair of arms, it uses a little brush to dust off the specimen.

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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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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#SciArtSeptember - Day 3 - Sanguine Arran brown butterfly snacking on blood, as butterflies sometimes are known to do. #Art #SciArt

Digital art of an Arran brown butterfly drinking blood.

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NorCal Lynne @norcal-lynne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Papillons, a portfolio of butterfly studies and designs, plate 7. Pochoir print by E.A. Séguy, 1925. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. #SciArtSeptember #Malachite 🌿

A stencil print (Pochoir) of five butterflies with malachite coloring on their wings.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Leaving for Peru tonight!!! I thought a plane-looking moth might be fitting ^^ this is one of many wasp-mimicking tiger moths, with this species mostly likely trying to mimic scoliid wasps! #invertefest #bugsky #inverts #lepidoptera

A vivid, wasp-like moth resting on a large leaf. Its wings, indeed like wasps, are mostly clear, slender in shape, and lack scales, only being present on the wing veins and margins. The head and thorax are lined with vertical and alternating black and yellow stripes, almost inverse to a typical wasp. The most visible part of the moth of the moth is the abdomen; it is mostly covered in metallic dark blue scales, with the exception of six broad yellow spots lined in two columns positioned close to the thorax. Strikingly, the legs and antennae of this moth are a vivid red color contrasting from the rest of the body.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Okay I can’t only post lepidopterans, ummmmm grasshopper :) #invertefest #inverts #bugsky #orthoptera

A large grasshopper resting on a hand. It is mostly orange, with long black wings peppered in orange spots. The antennae and eyes are also black, and its pronotum looks like wrinked rhinoceros skin.

The face of the grasshopper. It is still orange and looks like a horse :D

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bug spray cody @aevris.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

everyone love caddisfly larva :)

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Todays Moth @todaysmoth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Todays moth: Callambulyx amanda Found in SouthEast Asia! From Burma to Singapore! Family Sphingidae #moths #mothposting

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Polyphemus pupa #InverteFest 🐡

Photo of an illustration of a polyphemus moth pupa framed by dead oak leaves. The pupa is dark orange with splashes of yellow and looks vaguely like a shiny moth folded up into a little burrito. The leaves are green in the center fading to yellow and orange and curled up into themselves. The background is white. A table and pencil are visible along the edges of the photo.

The same illustration, just a clean scan so more details are visible.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The new transitional insect/crustacean fossil might not look very insectlike, if you think of modern insects like butterflies and beetles, but check out its reconstruction (left) next to a photo of the oldest living lineage of extant insects, the bristetails (right). www.science.org/content/arti...

Paleo art by artist Chao Tan showing an orange, lobster-like animal standing on a rock above water.

Macro photo of a silvery, cylindrical insect, a jumping bristletail, standing on sand.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wishing well for everyone affected or hurt by the floods in Nepal and China. Such a horrifically tragic event

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#INVERTEFEST ‼️ Eighty-eight butterflies can be a common sight in Costa Rica and are known for their namesake ventral patterns, but rarely do they expose their beautifully iridescent dorsal wings! #bugsky #butterflies #inverts

A small black butterfly resting on a finger seen from above. Its wings are opened up exposing the dorsal side. On each forewing is a broad vertical band down the middle, lined with iridescent blue scales. A similar spot on each hindwing lines up with each band, and the bands also have a perpendicular line each towards the body. On the edges of the hindwing are a thin row of greenish scales as well.

The ventral wings of the same butterfly seen from the side. The wing pattern is completely different; what can be seen of the forewing is banding in order of red, black and white from closest to farthest from the body. The hindwing is mostly white, but lined with black rings, and with scattered red scales where it ends and the forewing begins. Within the black rings are another smaller set of rings that resemble the number “88”, albeit the singles digit pattern moreso resembles a semicolon while the tens digit pattern is closer to the colon symbol that would be seen in the number eight. The butterfly is still resting on a finger, and has a black proboscis seemingly trying to sip at the finger itself.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The wings on this one are pretty cool as well. The muted markings on the underwing are gorgeous. 🌿🌱

A mostly green moth on a yellow leaf. Theee are thin red squiggly lines at the posterior end of the forewings and white and brown patches barely visible under the green scales on the underwing close to the thorax.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

An underrated and beautiful moth for its small size, appearing dressed in regalia!

A moth on painted white wood among many much smaller insects. The moth’s wings are gray with light brown edges as a base, but a large golden line runs down the middle of the forewing into the hindwing and into a mirrored pattern on the other two wings. The exterior edge of this golden band is silver while the interior edge is black lined with silver. The edges of the hindwing also contain similarly silver spots, with one spot on each hindwing being a vivid red as well. A smaller clone of this golden band is also present only on each forewing in between the larger band and the body.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A leaf on a leaf. There are hundreds of species of moths that look like leaves. All have subtle differences: spots, lines, curly ends, uneven edges. They even fly like a leaf blowing in the wind 🌿🌱

A brown moth on a green leaf. The moth is shaped like a leaf with a line across its wings that looks like the central vein.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So as much as I’ve admittedly been slacking on bugposting, my break is already almost over and I leave for Peru in a week! I shouldn’t be quite as busy here so if I do post I’ll probably be mixing photos from both trips!

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Bertholdia. One of my favorite moths. Every single one in the genus is a stunner. Those translucent bits! 🌿😜

A moth on a leaf. The wings are mostly brown with a big area lacking scales so it is translucent and the leaf shows through. The thorax has a red crest. There are four yellow spots along the thorax and black and yellow dashed lines along the posterior edge of the forewings.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

you yes YOU will appreciate this amblypygid I held ⬇️

A large arachnid on a dirt wall dotted with short leaves. It is uniformally a light black color, and has a rounded prosoma and longer, but still blunt opisthosoma. All four pairs of its legs are long and slender and curve forward, with the first pair taking this to the extreme and floating in the air. The pedipalps are held in front.

A closer view of the same arachnid, resting on a hand. The arachnid’s size is much more evident, its average legspan being longer than the hand’s width and the first pair of legs extending far beyond and still flating in the air. Its pedipalps are a bit more visible now showing how they are held horizontally and parallel to the head of the arachnid and vaguely showing the large spikes pointing inwards.

The same arachnid on a clothed shoulder, better illuminated and waving its first pair of legs in the air.

The same arachnid back in the hand again but zoomed out, showing the full extent of the length of the first legs and the large size of the creature compared to the hand.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thinking of katydids I hope to see more soon,,. #bugsky #katydid #insects

A sideview of a large, long but squat katydid resting on a hand. It is a mottled black, brown and grey all over its body. Notably, its forelegs, hindlegs, and pronotum are all jagged with small spikes, and its hindlegs in particular are in a tucked position, readying the katydid to jump. Its thin antennae are extremely long and extend past the photo.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

the secret to being a true butterfly fan is appreciating them for all their disgusting weirdness. such as eating bird poop #insects #bugsky #butterflies

A ventral view of an orange butterfly from the side. It is standing on a leaf, and it is sipping at bird scat with its proboscis. The edges of its wings are black and lined with spaced out blue spots. Its fore wing is also almost entirely back minus wavering yellow stripes, while its hindwing is almost entirely orange within the borders. The butterfly’s body is striped black and yellow, while its antennae notably have large, bright yellow club tips.

The same butterfly seen from a dorsal view. The general wing color patterns are similar to the ventral side, but the dorsal wing edges do not have any blue spots. There is also a lone orange stripe on each forewing, as well as a small black dash near the edge of each hindwing.

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BIRD!! @thatonecreature.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A drawing of a Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica, that I did today. :) #art #bugart #furryart #beetle #digitalart

A screenshot of a digital canvas. The canvas has a drawing of a beetle. The beetles head and pronotum, the shield like structure located behind the head of beetles, are both bright shiny metallic green and so are the legs. The beetle's elytra is brown. The beetle has two big black eyes and has grey hairs all over its body. It has brown antenna with four segments and the tip of the antenna resembles a fan. The beetle is leaning leaning over a wooden table and has it's front pair of legs crossed in front of it. A third limb can be seen grasping onto the edge of the table. The beetle is looking up and there is a small pink heart above it. Besides the drawing on the left side, there are various reference photos of the beetle species the drawing is of.

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Quil @quilbug.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Little jet plane butterfly <3 🪲ID Guess: Green Grass-Dart #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

The sideview of an orange grass-dart butterfly sitting on the tip of a sap green leaf. Its forewings sit vertically ontop its back while its hindwings splay horizontally. It has a fluffy, orange body, with dark streaks splotched on its wings. It has big, round, black eyes and thin striped antennae that end in black and white.

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Craig Jones @craig63jones.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sometimes the butterfly gods smile down on you... A bilateral gynandromorph Common Blue at Grafton Wood, Worcs 1/8/26. @westmbms-99.bsky.social @worcswt.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Some crane flies in the genus #Geranomyia produce a little gel nursery to develop on leaves in the tropics. There they graze on algae & other organic matter. The mass provides moisture (other spp. live in water/soil) & likely protects from predators. #Tipulidae #Limoniidae #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica

A jelly mass on the midrib of a long leaf contains a long translucent larva within

A close up of a long, worm-like, translucent larva curving around inside a clear jelly mass

A thick jelly mass on a leaf surface has a long crane fly pupa suspended within

Two greenish crane flies with long beaks mating on a leaf. The female is resting above, while the male contorts himself underneath, connected by their genitalia.

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MOTH👑MONARCH 🤖🔪 Robot Knife Fight Recovery Zone @mothmonarch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky - Mine is "Starchild" from earlier this year. 💫 bsky.app/profile/hamp...

Digital artwork of a dragon head caterpillar (Polyura schreiber) with the many dots on its horned head and chubby body rendered to resemble little stars, a few actually being tiny four-pointed stars. Above its head a partially eclipsed moon is framed between its inner horns, and large four-pointed stars rest on the center of its upper head and hang on either side of its head between its outer horns. More stylized rays and stars radiate out into the edges of the image, rich textured gold against a dark blue framing the green bug's body. The caterpillar is outlined in metallic gold and has fairly realistic face details and feet. Art by Moth Monarch.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

for a month. I will be free for a month. Then it’s Peru time lmfao

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Course is over and I’m heading back now,,, I’ll miss Costa Rica, but expect bugposting to be more frequent now that I’m free!!

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime & #Fossilfriday! And today's entry is the biggest scorpion of all time, Praearcturus gigas! All the basic infos are here but if you want to learn more, there’s more in the thread below!⬇️🧵 #scorpion #devonian #paleoart #sciart #bugsky #invert 1/6

This arthropod is, as of 2026, possibly the largest scorpion to have ever lived, with a possible total length of 1 meter, towering by far the other animals living alongside it. It was most likely a semi-aquatic species acting as an apex predator.

Size : 1-ish meter in length
Time period : Early Devonian
Paleoart speculativometer : Some missing parts / Mostly based on another taxon

The animal drawn is a large scorpion with pointy sides and short but heavy legs

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Cinderoid✨ @cindervoidz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Attack on @qtfoxe.art of their adorable OC Mist! 💖 #artfight #artfight2026

Image shows an illustration of an adorable moth in mid flight holding a big, red heart.

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beany tuesday @beanytuesday.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Animal Crackers for Zoologists

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Butterflies of Western North America 🦋✨

An illustrated poster illustration featuring 33 species of colorful butterflies of all sizes native to western North America. They are each numbered to correspond to a typed key at the bottom of the illustration that displays their scientific and common name. They are illustrated on a light blue background.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I did find it!!! On the first night at the last field station! #bugsky #mothweek #nationalmothweek

A large moth on a branch with a hand to the left for scale. The moth has broad borders on the edges of its wings, with violet and black stained glass patterns on the inside of the wings. On the hindwings the brown bands transition to red, marked with small black eyespots located by the start of tails jutting out from the end of each wing.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Kicking off National Moth Week posts with not one… but three Erinnyis sphinx moths; all from the same location! #bugsky #mothweek #nationalmothweek

A large sphinx moth resting on a hand. It is almost entirely a very light beige color, but its abdomen is mottled with black and its hindwings show hints of bright red encased in black borders. The edges of each forewing are also noticeably jagged.

Another sphinx moth resting on wood. This one has more variable colors, being mottled light and dark gray across most of the body. A thick black line runs down the middle of the head, which at the thorax splits into two lines that continue to run down the middle of each forewing. Like the previous moth edges of each forewing are softly jagged.

Yet another sphinx moth resting on a light trap. This one has much more of a black coloration on the outer halves of the forewings and down the head, with a smaller black line on the thorax as well. These black colors elsewhere blend into a mottled mix of light brown on the thorax, mized in with thin wavy black lines on the thorax. The abdomen is mostly a darker brown color. Like the previous two loths the edges of the forewing are distinctly jagged.

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🎃Serana🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

*looks both ways* I don't think furries love animals as much as they claim they do.*runs away and hides* Let me explain, this goes beyond giving rabbits paw pads idc. I mean theres people that base their whole personality around rabbits, but have no idea that rabbits paws are completely furred.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Happy nonbinary day!!! i need to be more open about being enby, but always be proud of yourself regardless ^^

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’ve already seen so many insects, but I move to a new field station tomorrow! That’ll mean a new array of insects to see ^^ Posting them is slow I know but I’ll try and share at least a few soon

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The folks over at iNat really liked this tarantula… hopefully you guys will too ^^ #bugsky #inverts #tarantulas

A small tarantula crawling on the rim of a bug net, about half the size of the fingers to the right for reference. The tarantula itself is almost entirely black, with the notable exception of the opisthosoma being orange and lined with rows of black diamonds.

The same tarantula, but on a green leaf atop browner leaf litter. It is better illuminated in this photo, and each of the hairs that line its legs and opisthosoma have an orange tint to them.

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If I post everything in order it will take FOREVER to get to my favorites so I’ll just post whatever I feel like Alternatively feel free to suggest a bug to post!! I’ll see if I’ve found anything like it yet

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🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A bucket list species for me,,, I’m hoping to find it while I’m down in Costa Rica It’ll most likely take until I arrive at the last destination in a couple weeks from now though

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AleKat @kofeeo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Research show that when you're a bug, even if humanoid, you still display many bug-like behavior, such as preenin your antenas. source: my own observation

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