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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Walking around in the bush with my head down again this morning. I’m absolutely in love with the gills on this mushroom. I think it might be a type of oysterling. 🍄🌿

Looking at the underside of a frilly oyster mushroom. The different lobes overlap, each other kind of like a nudibranch, it’s tan gills form, beautiful, ripping patterns.

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Despite their teeeeeny size you can always spot a male Rufous Hummingbird, no matter how far across the yard they are😂🔥 #birds #becurious

$photo of a male rufous hummingbird at a distance, he is perched on top of a fig branch facing the camera and his gorget is brightly refracting yellow-orange and vibrant coral.$

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Max Waugh @maxwaughphoto.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

New Photos: Guyana 2026 This coming week I'll start sharing my new Guyana photos in earnest, but as usual my BlueSky audiences gets a sneak peek! Here's a lovely tropical flat snake we found during one of our night walks. Preview more photos from this trip: www.maxwaugh.com/2026/01/30/n...

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Gigantic light rays hitting Segla mountain, captured back in 2018 during one of the coolest morning shoot of of my life. #photography #nature #light #art #landscape

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Arthropod Photo of the Week: November 19, 2025 Horsehead grasshopper Pseudoproscopia latirostris Orthoptera: Proscopiidae By Dennis Botterbusch, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany #arthropodPOTW

A close-up view of a brown, elongated insect resembling a stick or twig, with bulbous eyes at the top and a rough-textured body against a plain, dark background.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A lifer #butterfly for me today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social, the Zavaleta Glasswing (Godyris zavaleta). These are found mostly in Ecuador and Peru, and this was fun to see in #CostaRica #butterflies #invertebrates #lepidoptera

A butterfly with yellow and black wings and white spots perched on a green leaf against a soft green background.

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Eastern Baton Blue (Pseudophilotes vicrama). Taken at a site close to home in Greece 🇬🇷

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 20/07/2025

A Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp.) showing off the beautiful display on those wings! They strut around waving their wings and doing a little wiggle, an amazing behavior right in your own backyard. #Invert #Diptera #bugsky 🌿 #entomology

Macrophotograph of a Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp) resting on a slightly weathered metal beam. The fly holds its patterned wings upright in an elaborate, fan-like display, appearing almost butterfly-like. Each wing is intricately marked with shades of dark brown, black, white, and subtle hints of iridescent blue, creating a mosaic-like camouflage pattern. The fly’s body is robust and heavily speckled in shades of brown, black, and cream. Bright, vivid orange-red eyes stand out distinctly on its head, along with delicate antennae and fine bristles visible along its legs and thorax. The textured metal beam beneath it has faint scratches and rust streaks, providing contrast that highlights the detail and coloration of the insect.

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

A dripping wet Porcini with a massively wide stipe grows in a sea of vibrant green moss 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 400 Stack of 29 images 10/27/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

A mushroom with a chestnut brown cap and a light oatmeal brown stipe grows among bright green moss. Its base is surprisingly wider than its large cap. A single large drip of water hangs from its cap on the right side. The entire cap is wet and reflects the light gray sky above.

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Terry & Judy Wood @tandjwood.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

A mid instar Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina) on a Fuchsia bud after the rain.

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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

A favorite from my archive a day: A TEENY-TINY Atheniella. So small my phone camera struggled to focus. Note the pine needles for scale. They come in pink, yellow, orange, red. I’ve only found pink and I’ve only found three. Different angle below⬇️ #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

A super shiny Parrot Mushroom, Gliophorus psittacinus, reflects the forest canopy on its viscous cap 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/2.8, 1/30, ISO 800 Stack of 32 images 11/24/21 Olympia area, Washington #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms #gliophorus #parrotmushroom 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

A beautiful yellow and green mushroom sits among reddish-brown cedar duff. Its stipe is bright yellow, and its cap is a very pretty light and dark green. The cap is extremely reflective, making it appear glass-like.

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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 01/07/2025

Another one of our beautiful Canadian animals, here's a Bighorn Sheep photographed a couple of days ago in the Rocky Mountains. #wildlife #sheep

A bighorn sheep's head, with larger antlers curling around.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is a painted grasshopper nymph (Poekilocerus pictus). Gorgeous. Yes, it’s real. I caught and released an adult one of these in Arondizuogu, Nigeria once. 😃 My cousin said it looked like a masquerade and I’ve thought of them like that ever since.

Timeline cleanse: A colorful details yellow, blue, black and red grasshopper

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Amanita pachycolea, the Western Grisette, is a choice edible and a fun mushroom to photograph 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/4, ISO 400 Stack of 10 images 10/9/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

A tall and large mushroom with a brown cone-shaped cap and roughly textured white stipe emerges from a white egg-like structure. Like many Amanitas, this one grows from what appears almost like an egg before it breaks through and grows taller. Brown soil with thin roots and fir needles surrounds it.

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

My favorite type of Amanita that grows around our home is the beautiful Amanita augusta 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/15, ISO 400 Stack of 10 images 10/7/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms #amanita #amanitaaugusta #mushroomphotography

A very tall mushroom with a long white, roughly textured stipe, which appears almost toasted due to soft brown-yellow color that is seen on the left side, a light brown-yellow ring of thin mushroom flesh, and a darker yellow color between the ring and the cap, which is a woody-brown color that's broken up by flaky yellowish-white spots.

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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 18/06/2025

A mother bear and her cub stand up to take a look at the surroundings. #wildlife #bears

A brown mother bear and her cub stand up to take a look at the surroundings while standing amongst a bunch of cattails and looking out towards the water.

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Terry & Judy Wood @tandjwood.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

For #macromonday and a favourite. One of the Figwort Weevils (Cionus tuberculosus) photo'd a couple of days ago on one of the Common Figworts in the garden.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A moody photo of a male Rufous-tailed Jacamar at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #nature #birds

A small bird with iridescent green feathers, a white collar, and rust-colored underparts perched on a branch against a soft green background.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Guess what? Fireworks butt. Here's a tiny planthopper nymph (not sure which family) from Costa Rica, one of several kinds we saw. The fibers are a waxy material; if a predator attacks from behind, they can break off harmlessly and let the nymph escape. Alternatively...Coachella-ready. 🐙🌿 🎆 #insects

A macro photo of a planthopper nymph, viewed from the side, standing atop a green stem against a black background. The insect is all kinds of odd: a very large, blocky head and thorax, bright red eyes, red-cream-black stripes and bands on the body, and an upward-curved abdomen from which a spray of straight fibers protrudes, almost like fireworks shooting out of its backside. I mean, there's a lot going on.

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Richard @ricketywindmill.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Going through some folders of things I made when I was learning 3D modelling. I had some health issues and stopped making things for years, but I'm back at it now. Anyway, I found this. No idea why I made it, but it probably speaks for itself

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Albert Dros @albertdros.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A fairytale in Tuscany. Fun fact: Taken with my smartphone

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects

A macro photo, front three-quarter view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue patches. It is very cute.

A macro photo, side view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue bands and patches. It is very cute.

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Richard @ricketywindmill.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

It could definitely have been worse, I suppose

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Richard @ricketywindmill.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

It was Tygers of Pan Tang. They'd had an album in the charts, and I was all about the NWOBHM at the time. They were supported by Generic Local Metal Band, I think

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Richard @ricketywindmill.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I might get away with 'The Tygers of Pan Tang at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1982', as long as I refused any further questions

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This male Snowcap was getting ready for bed last night at @tapirvalley.bsky.social. Very low light, but he was very relaxed. #birds #hummingbirds #costarica #nature 🌿

A small bird with deep magenta plumage and a striking white crown is perched on a slender branch against a smooth green background.

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Good Morning! ☀️🪶🌵

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Pile o'weevils Hey buddy, three's a crowd. #invert Ironweed Curculio (Rhodobaenus tredecimpunctatus)

Three weevils with black-spotted red on the pronotum and elytra, black faces, black on the underside, and black legs. Two are mating and a third appears to be trying to join the action.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I found this very cool weevil in the forest at @tapirvalley.bsky.social this morning. #bugsky #nature #weevils #costarica 🌿

A small beetle with a long, curved snout stands on the edge of a green leaf, its body covered in mottled brown and yellow patterns.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

He's taken me up the Empire State Building.

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The highlands of Iceland photographed from a small plane… #photography #aerial #landscape #nature

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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A favorite from my archive a day: I thought these were rustgills but I’m not sure of that. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A male Green Honeycreeper alert in the rain at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature 🌿

A small, vivid turquoise bird clinging to a dark branch. It has a jet-black head, a bright yellow bill, and striking red eyes.

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Lavender Fields of Provence… Can’t wait to return next summer for our workshop there ☺️ #photography #landscape #geometry

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A young male Resplendent Quetzal that was outside our cabin in San Gerardo de Dota #CostaRica #birds #nature

A brightly colored bird with shimmering green feathers, a red chest, a yellow beak, and a fluffy crest perched on a lichen-covered branch against a softly blurred background.

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The beautiful mountains of northern Spain… #photography #landscape #nature

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A bit of drama over Wastwater

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linda2.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Bluebellscape! I think i have a photo a day for the rest of the year just of bluebells! #bluebells #spring #woodlandphotography #nature #forestfriday #floralFriday #scape #photographersunited #PhotoHour

A view of bluebells covered by the shade of surrounding trees. Shafts of light penetrate the canopy illuminating bluebells below.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 25/04/2025

"relax, it's just for a stock photo - they'll probably use it for a new herbal tea brand or something"

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I guess I shouldn't tease the name Blue-throated Goldentail without showing the golden tail! At @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature

A small bird with iridescent green and blue feathers sits on a thick, spiny stem. Its throat glows a deep violet, and its tail feathers shift from golden yellow to burnt orange. The bird has a bright red bill, and the background is a smooth blur of green.

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Andy Jones @photography-aj.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Great Prominent to light in the North Hampshire garden last night. #TeamMoth

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