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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli

@scibugs.bsky.social
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🦋 A crazy entomologist of sorts who will lead you around Ecuador🇪🇨 to look at bugs and stuff. www.SciBugs.info/links | Dyslexic, typos are my own | SciComm | Video Games | DnD | Cosplay | Tarot |

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's a glittering green tanager from #ecuador 's cloud forest. Feel like he should fit the #green #bird theme.
A bright emerald green bird sits on a mossy trunk surrounded by lush foliage
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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just 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
An original digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a Dicarnosis Erthrocephala parasitic wasp against a white background. A small but unusual insect with black mottled body which has speckled white dots and striped black clear transparent wings. It's legs are a rich orange red that fade into a light orange as they go down. What's particularly striking about this wasp is it's very large and thick feelers/antennae (I think, not an entymologist) they are segmented and are reddish orange with white tips. The head of the wasp is a deep maroonish red with large greenish yellow eyes.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This 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)
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In 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.
Hand  palm up with purple liquid (was a scale insect a minute prior)  and 3 colors of yarn are wrapped around her fingers. 
1) deep red / pinkie finger
2) yellow orange / ring finger
3) purple / middle finger
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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Resuming programming here for #invertefest! Here's a bunch of our lepidoptera stickers... IDs in alt. 🐡🎨
Stickers of butterflies and moths in dorsal view. Rosy maple moth, buckeye butterfly, black swallowtail, Luna moth, Pandora sphinx moth, pipevine swallowtail butterfly, monarch butterfly, polyphemus moth, painted lady butterfly, io moth, mourning cloak butterfly, and garden tiger moth.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Actual footage of me looking for dessert. El Septimo Paraiso, Mindo, EC
A brown snail with a small shell but a veerrrryyy long neck and looonnnggg eye stalks
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We 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
A banner featying drawings of a toad, tyra, toucan, moth, and hummingbird. Sticker like, layered between mountain cutouts. The texts reads "Cloud 9 Retreat"
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Here's a Black Tailed Trainbearer #hummingbird visiting some flowers at the #Quito Botanical Gardens
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Alexander 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.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Stop! Hammer fly time! El Septimo Paraíso, Mindo, Ecuador
An orange fly with a wide head. If a hammerhead shark were a fly this would be it.
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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
These 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
A side by side composite image of a beetle. The image on the left shows a gold beetle with some reddish iridescence. The one on the right looks blue with a gold spot in the middle. These are tortoise beetles so they have clear elytra that extend well beyond the shape of its body like a helmet.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hi. Im a bird photographer now. Golden tailed sapphire ☆ Wild Sumaco Ecolodge
A stunning hummingbird with his copper tail feathers spread. His head is blue and his back is green.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Best 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
A large katydid with a purple head, purple legs, yellow toes, and black wingsCloseup of the katydid with its purple head
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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 15/07/2026
minor 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
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
25 minutes of Photuris tremulans fireflies in Tennessee's smoky mountains.
Portrait orientation photograph of a meadow in thick forest viewed over a split rail fence, with a small hut at center. Hundreds of glowing yellow orbs light up the scene.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Bonus 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!
Adult females of Kerria chinensis, from Amani et al 2019. I'm not using Kerria lacca here bc the adult females of that species don't even look like a plausible earth life formcluster of Dactylopius on a cactus, from wikipedia page for the genus. They are round, plump, and sort of beignet-shaped, except the powdery coating is gross bug wax instead of powdered sugar.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Here'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.com
The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end‐Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution
Here 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 ...
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 25/05/2026
Female 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...
A poster titled "north american birds" that features 11 bird species in their female plumage: red-necked phalarope, painted bunting, belted kingfisher, california quail, anna's hummingbird, blue grosbeak, northern harrier, black-throated blue warbler, northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird, and common merganser.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Paint me like one of your french girls ...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother’s Day everyone, and best of luck keeping all your little ones together.
Macro photograph of a mother centipede curled atop an enormous pile of waxy white baby centipedes, two of them snuggled up outside by her head.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Date: 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.
Fine ants, six of them, the very best Crematogaster, in dorsal view feeding from a bright orange tropical flower.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Epic gif
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Maybe we saw a faerie 🤷‍♀️🧚‍♀️
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Im 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.
A weevil with a long nose. Its carrying around a small.clawed creature that is gripping onto its leg. Its a paeudoscorpion. Basically it looks like a tiny scorpion without the tailA weevil with a long nose. Its carrying around a small.clawed creature that is gripping onto its leg. Its a paeudoscorpion. Basically it looks like a tiny scorpion without the tail
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Some 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
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A 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
A greenish yellow insect with three large horns protruding from above her head. She sits above a cluster of eggs that have been deposited in the stem of a leaf.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
What's the weather like up at 13,000 ft?
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Montane 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
A warm brown bird with rufous tail feathers and handsome tan scalloped marking on the chest and belly and light tan specs on the head. It is clinging to the trunk of a white tree with green leaves in the background.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Most 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.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A reminder that #EarthDay means appreciating all of earth and its inhabitants
A woman with slate blue hair in a bangs style with transparent glasses and a big and bright red millipede on her nose
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Stingless bee afternoon commute. A swarm of stingless bees forms a cloud outside the nest, seen on the right. Sendero Fruttitour, Pedro Vincente Maldonado, Ecuador
A swarm of golden colored small bees hovers near a cone shaped nest to the right that is poking out from under a metal roof.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A zen moment - forest light passing through a reed
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Super 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
A brown insect with an enlarged, helmet-like pronotum edged in bright red and clear wings with the bottom edge bright red and a blue patch near the head. The insect is standing on a leaf.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This frog and I feel the same about the state of the world. EL Refugio, Intag, Ecuador
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
When 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
A very chonky pale green caterpillar with aqua blue eye spots and an orange tail that curls downward. It is standing on a leaf on the mossy ground with a waterfall in the background.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Who's gonna tell him his mimicry is ... kinda off ...? Hawk moth El Refugio, Intag, Ecuador
Front part of a hawk moth caterpillar. Looks like he has two turqoise googly eyes.Hawk moth caterpillar. He's a super pastel green color with two turqoise googly eye looking spots near hua head and a orange cheeto for a horn tail
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
He's a vibe.
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
There 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
An elongated beetle with metallic green head and pronotum, bright pink elytra, and a black abdomen. It is standing among yellowish-white mushrooms.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
These 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
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Just 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.
A photo showing the screen of a phone with a fly in the frame and the mushrooms in the background on a mossy log. The mushrooms are pale yellow and have tiny brown flecks on them that are the flies.
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
When 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
An elongated insect with a blue metallic head and pronotum, shiny pink elytra, and a black abdomen. It is standing among fronds of moss.
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Ill take a fistful of moth plz Hawk moth left. Black witch right El refugio, Intag, Ecuador
A hand with a large dark brown moth next to it. The moth is as large as the hand. The hand also has a large graphically patterned hawk moth on it
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Magic opal glitter weevil. Im always excited to find these!
A picture of a weevil facing forward . A shimmery pale orange head and a creamy seafood colored body
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Some fun bugs we found around the lodge yesterday. Leafhopper, Long-waisted Honey Wasp, Leaf Beetle, and everyone's favorite, the Magic Sparkle Weevil.
A aqua green and brown striped insect standing on a leaf.A snazzy little black wall with orange and yellow markings. It is standing on a leaf.A beetle with a bright red head, pronotum, and elytra, with black color on the back half of the elytra. It is standing on a leaf.A weevil with a pink head and legs and pale aqua green body. It is standing on a rock.
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We 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
A brownish-black insect with four yellow spots ion his elytra and a pair of pincer protruding from his abdomen. He is standing on a white sheet.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 19/03/2026
Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/
Comic. [Small panel overlaying large panel.] PERSON 1: What’s up with this weird landscape? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Oh, it was caused by… [Large panel is map of the United States with with red overlays denoting landscape phenomena. Mega-floods in the northwest, a plate tectonics speedrun on the west coast, volcanoes next to the west coast, water and time in the southwest, geology in the west, a supervolcano within the west, glaciers in the north, farming in the middle, rivers in the mideast, geology in between rivers and farming, ??? toward the northeast, farming on the east coast, continents colliding next to the east coast, ongoing disputes between limestone and water in the south of Florida, volcanoes in Hawaii, geology in Alaska with volcanoes and glaciers below.]
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
They fit!
A yellow taxi with 4 weed wackers sticking out of the window
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I like the beetles clever little white line. "Nothing to see here... I totally have an ant waist"
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
EntSoc's Chrysalis Fund gives out grants to K-12 educators for insect-themed projects. Applications due June 1st.
entsoc.org
Chrysalis Fund: Apply for Funding
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