Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here's a glittering green tanager from #ecuador 's cloud forest. Feel like he should fit the #green #bird theme. 29213
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Just a couple of days before my next @backerkit.com launches and I'm still drawing ideas for stretch goals as suggested by the insect loving community. Let me introduce you to this Dicarnosis erythrocephala, a type of parasitic wasp.... #BugSky #SciArt #Invertebrate #Illustration #Procreate 25710
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorellic0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This tiny crab captured by Pedro Valencia of Blackwater Cozumel has me learning about crab life-cycles. Prepare for some vocabulary (& errors)! This is a swimming stage called a 'megalopa'. The furious tail structures moving a mile a minute are 'pleopods' or swimmerets. (📷: pedrovalenciam on IG) 15744224
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026In Otavalo #Exuador people still use the cochineal scale insect to dye textiles. By itself it creates a deep red color. Mixed with acid it creates a bright orange color. Mixed with baking soda makes a purple. 1190
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelliblueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Resuming programming here for #invertefest! Here's a bunch of our lepidoptera stickers... IDs in alt. 🐡🎨 0276
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Actual footage of me looking for dessert. El Septimo Paraiso, Mindo, EC 422744
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We had a cancellation so two more spots opened up on our nature journaling trip to the cloud forest! (My favourite ecosystem in Ecuador!) If you want something to do in november come hang out drawing some frogs, plants, birds, and bugs! Trip dates: November 28-Dec 6 142
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Here's a Black Tailed Trainbearer #hummingbird visiting some flowers at the #Quito Botanical Gardens 0285
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Alexander Humboldt noted that several of these headlight beetles in a perforated gourd make an acceptable reading lamp. In the western slopes of Ecuador, instead of the typical green color usually associated with these beauties- these guys glow cigarette orange. 3288
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Stop! Hammer fly time! El Septimo Paraíso, Mindo, Ecuador 1132165
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliBea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026These two are the same insect, 26 minutes apart. The picture on the left is the regular appearance. The one on the right is what the insect looks like after it is scared and produces a chemical that spreads between its body and its elytra. 🌿🌱 #beetle #insect 15641170
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Hi. Im a bird photographer now. Golden tailed sapphire ☆ Wild Sumaco Ecolodge 627640
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Best bug color pallet ever! It's one of the few katydids that's actually toxic so these wild colors give predators a warning. #Moncheca elegans ☆ Wild Sumaco Ecolodge #katydid #purplebug #Ecuador #cloudforesr 14614
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 15/07/2026minor bsky tip for readability if you want nested replies/trees: Settings > Content and Media > Thread Preferences > Tree View video instructions in replies mine was off by default and i much prefer nested comments 24884485
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 09/06/202625 minutes of Photuris tremulans fireflies in Tennessee's smoky mountains. 271634309
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliAinsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Bonus entomology: lac/shellac is from our friend Kerria lacca, which is of course a scale insect just like the new world's fave dye source, Dactylopius. Different families but both coccoids! 15314
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Here's a National Science Foundation paper I worked on that will be impossible under the regime's proposed rules. We study evolution, which happens across the entire globe. We had collaborators in Argentina, in Australia, in Germany. We cannot do our kind of science in one country.resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end‐Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolutionHere we present a phylogeny of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) based on DNA sequence data from eight nuclear genes, including six single-copy nuclear protein-coding genes, for 367 species representing ... 613448
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 25/05/2026Female Bird Day was this past weekend but I missed it femalebirdday.wordpress.com I do have a print of female birds that's sure to educate and baffle topatoco.com/products/rom... 5503133
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Paint me like one of your french girls ... 190
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Happy Mother’s Day everyone, and best of luck keeping all your little ones together. 446672
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Date: I thought you said you worked in Finance? What's up with your 15 year old beater car?! Entomologist: Finance? Date: Entomologist: Oh, I see what's happened here. 1531262
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Im bummed I couldn't get a better picture of this but it was dark and this creature was really small. This! Is a pseudoscorpion (the black clawed thing) that has grabbed onto a weevil leg and is being toted around and is using the weevil like a bus. 2172
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Some beetle squeaks for you! If you listen carefully, this beetle is making a squeaking sound by rubbing its wings against its abdomen. It’s not happy with being picked up. #invertefest (Veturius sp.?) Cotacachi, Ecuador 513618
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 29/04/2026A treehopper mom guards her eggs from predators and parasites. Many treehoppers have an enlarged pronotum (the segment behind the head), in this case resembling thorns. (Alchisme sp.) El Refugio de Intag, Ecuador #Invertefest 425745
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026What's the weather like up at 13,000 ft? 1324
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Montane Woodcreeper chattering outside my window this afternoon. This is a nice view of their grappling hooks and spiky tail feathers. These birds can be found in the Andes from 1,500m to 3,000m (4,900ft to 9,800ft). 🪶 El Septimo Paraiso Lodge, Ecuador 420127
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Most in the US are parthenogenic - meaning females make clones of themselves. Here in Ecuador, if you're lucky you can find the males which are almost non-existant in the states. We found a male but he noped out of there real fast. 4256
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026A reminder that #EarthDay means appreciating all of earth and its inhabitants 2251
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Stingless bee afternoon commute. A swarm of stingless bees forms a cloud outside the nest, seen on the right. Sendero Fruttitour, Pedro Vincente Maldonado, Ecuador 1816
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026A zen moment - forest light passing through a reed 418641
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Super snazzy treehopper found in a shrubby patch along a roadside near a small stream. Check out the red racing stripes! (Metcalfiella erecta) Intag Refugio, Ecuador 530534
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026This frog and I feel the same about the state of the world. EL Refugio, Intag, Ecuador 2937
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 18/04/2026When your snake mimic outfit ends up looking like a cartoon instead. This funky friend is a Sphinx Moth caterpillar found by @scibugs.bsky.social today. (Xylophanes crotonis) Intag Refugio, Ecuador 1249696
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Who's gonna tell him his mimicry is ... kinda off ...? Hawk moth El Refugio, Intag, Ecuador 1221
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 14/04/2026There were also rove beetles running around swiping fly larvae. It was a whole tiny ecosystem on one log. Amazing. (Chroaptomus sp.) #invert Intag Refugio, Ecuador 1738
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026These guys were so cool. And they seem to only come out in the afternoon around 1200pm. We passed by earlier in the morning two days in a row and they weren't there 5352
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Just to give you a sense of how tiny these guys are here is @scibugs.bsky.social getting some video. If you zoom in the tiny flecks on the mushrooms are the flies. 2634
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 13/04/2026When you're rockin' metallic blue with a shiny pink backpack. We found a few of these beautiful rove beetles in a mossy area on the trail today. Most rove beetles are predators of insects and other invertebrates living on the forest floor. (Phanolinus sp.?) #invert Intag Refugio, Ecuador 731140
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Ill take a fistful of moth plz Hawk moth left. Black witch right El refugio, Intag, Ecuador 2337
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Magic opal glitter weevil. Im always excited to find these! 491465194
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Some fun bugs we found around the lodge yesterday. Leafhopper, Long-waisted Honey Wasp, Leaf Beetle, and everyone's favorite, the Magic Sparkle Weevil. 1933864
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliJen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 13/04/2026We found this amazing earwig at a bug light last night. This one is a male, they typically have larger pincers. There is not much info available about the genus so I'm not sure why he has those strange protrusions from his abdomen. (Ancistrogaster sp.) Intag Refugio, Ecuador 1641974
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest! 351139393118
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 19/03/2026Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/ 8251651001
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I like the beetles clever little white line. "Nothing to see here... I totally have an ant waist" 0195
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 MiorelliAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 04/03/2026EntSoc's Chrysalis Fund gives out grants to K-12 educators for insect-themed projects. Applications due June 1st.entsoc.orgChrysalis Fund: Apply for Funding 72920