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Sergio Ibarra @theafenogaster.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Pandora fungus reproductive cycle on Formica exsecta hosts for Csata, E., Erős, K., Szabó, Á. et al. Blade-running: an efficient yet simple behaviour to potentially combat summit disease in ants. BMC Ecol Evo (2026). doi.org/10.1186/s128... #scientificillustration #parasite

Formica exsecta workers are infected by Pandora fungus

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Sergio Ibarra @theafenogaster.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Graphical abstract for Maziarz et al. (2026) Bird nests support a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community on the forest floor. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 1–14. Really enjoyed doing this one, and don’t forget to check out the paper!! #sciart #entomology

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

¡La Asociación Ibérica de Mirmecología os desea una Feliz Navidad y un próspero 2026!

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

To see these beeflies, Australoechus sp, flying around in the Fynbos, SA, has to be 1 of my life’s highlights Many were buzzing around Micrdon capitatus, the heady catstailbush - a rare endemic to this region. Rare because of habitat loss (land clearance) & invasive species. Brilliant #beeflies

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Alicia Sempere Marín y yo revisamos los documentos conocidos sobre la introducción de los cangrejos y añadimos pruebas de que los cangrejos enviados desde Toscana llegaron vivos a los estanques de los Sitios Reales en el entorno de Madrid Ilustración de @theafenogaster.bsky.social

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

🖼️ Image 1 – Hypothetical reconstruction of the queen. This is what she might have looked like had she founded a colony instead of fossilizing after drowning in a water pool. The queen and her first nurse are shown tending eggs and larvae of two generations.

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Sergio Ibarra @theafenogaster.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

no reference earwig (hind legs need to be pushed back a bit and other anatomical inaccuracies) #dermaptera

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Dr.BioBlogo @drbioblogo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Sólo vengo a recordar que tuve el honor de escribir un capítulo en el libro "Artrópodos: Las fascinantes criaturas que cambiaron la historia" Libro en el que contamos cosas muy curiosas sobre bichitos. Y tiene ilustraciones muy bonicas de @theafenogaster.bsky.social Feliz #DíadelLibro 🐝🦋🐞🐜🪰🪲😉

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

e. Hormigas polinizadoras: e.1 Lasius grandis. e.2 Lasius cinereus. e.3 Camponotus cruentatus. f. Hormiga dispersora: Pheidole pallidula. g. Flor siendo polinizada por Lasius grandis.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Back to the pleistocene

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Sergio Ibarra @theafenogaster.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Messor ibericus, Proatelurina, Neoasterolepisma and Microhodotermes for a study on Zygentoma diversity within nests of ants and termites. @biojairo.bsky.social #silverfish #entomology #ants #termites

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

🐜 Crónicas de una colonia: incipientes reinos de Crematogaster.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

💀 Lo que la marabunta se llevó: competencia entre invasoras. 👀 El pasado verano, durante el XVIII Taxomara celebrado en Málaga, algunos socios de la #AIM tuvimos la oportunidad de visitar la ciudad y, entre otras cosas, sus #hormigas.

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I recently posted a picture of a large Dorylus molestus army ant worker from Mount Kenya. Here is the same ant again, but this time in comparison to its smaller sisters. These ants are incredibly polymorphic, and the different worker types take on different tasks in the colony.

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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The big beaky boy

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

I dug up this old picture from Twitter, so here you go: Meet the Pterosaurs! #paleoart #paleontology #pterosaurs

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

⁉️ ¿Sabías que…? La comunidad de criadores, aficionados e investigadores del mundo de las #hormigas cuenta con un #FORO que ofrece un espacio común y permite generar, conservar y gestionar un valioso conocimiento.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

My chapter - authored with @tattersdill.bsky.social - in the new Palaeontology in Public book is "The ‘Spin’ in Spinosaurus: inventing a modern dinosaur superstar", discussing changing depictions and attitudes towards this now A-list dinosaur - read it here: uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon... #palaeoart

A series of grey-shaded line drawings showing the changing shape of the sail-backed predatory dinosaur Spinosaurus over the last 100 years, moving through sometimes upright, sometimes spiny, sometimes T. rex-like depictions to longer-snouted, "newt-tailed" versions.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

⁉️ ¿Sabías que…? El nombre del género Messor viene de un dios romano.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The best preserved pterosaur from the Afro-Arabian continent, Mimodactylus 🫒

A black, white and red pterosaur with long wings on green background, minimalist, with arabic text للشهداء‎ (for the martyrs)

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

hello late #PortfolioDay !! I'm Avi! Full time artist, doing direction (and many other things) in animation, and paleoart in my free time. I'd be happy to work on scientific illustrations and reconstructions! I do both extant and extinct animals and i'm open for some work rn :) #sciart #paleoart

A large pterosaur Bogolubovia stands on the beach, framed by the dim light of the sun due to a solar eclipse. The sky feels high and is heavily covered with clouds. A solar halo can be seen - it's getting quite cold, and it might just be this pterosaur's last winter.

A digital drawing of Eohippus pair, doing the cute horse thing when they scratch and lick each others back. I thought that they could probably do that as well, like modern horses do now. They're colored light brown, with some white parts and warm shading. Almost all the head is white, they have pink noses and pink little hooves, and the main brown fur on their body is a mix of light and dark hairs, so it's quite contrasted. I actually took some inspo from hares for the colors. They stand on the dark background, a star is shining above them; next to the star are two little horses stylized sort of like cave paintings. It isn't anything i based this reconstruction of (also, it was too early for eohippus to be painted like this), just a little thing i wanted to try.

A digital drawing of Psittacosaurus sibiricus. There are three of them, running to the left, on a light beige background, all in different poses to study their anatomy in motion. One of them, in the middle, is a male - colored green, with bright red on his head and quills. He's brighter than other two, females, who are colored light brown. They also have a bright spot on the face, but it's yellow and doesn't stand out as much as red on the male.
I also gave them just a little, tiny bit of fuzz on the back and neck. It's barely visible and completely speculative, so take it with a grain of salt - I haven't seen it in other reconstructions. Overall, I really like how it turned out. They look silly enough to be good for me

A realistic digital drawing with pterosaur embryo, 3 stages of development are shown. The left one is still tiny and barely resembles a pterosaur. It has a big and not fully developed yet eye, a thin neck and a tiny body. The second one, in the middle, starts looking like a pterosaur already. It's a little more developed, has a beak, and already has a thin membrane between the wings and legs. The yolk with blood vessels is also shown there. The last drawing on the right shows the late stage of development, it's already fuzzy, curled up with it's head between folded wings. The exact species is unknown.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Devonion fishies Elpistostege (close relative of the famous Tiktaalik) and couple of bothriolepis swimming by. Needs updating but still thinking this is one of my better paintings I have done

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🐜 Hormigas al descubierto: Las hormigas dominantes utilizan cadáveres para mantener su territorio

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Gema Trigos-Peral @trigos-peral.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Keeping you updated with my last year works! Nutritional ecology and urban areas - the stepping stone of my current study together with @CsataEniko ❤️🐜🥪 #ants #healthyfood #Diet #urbanization Link 👉🏼 myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.ph... Graphical abstract by @theafenogaster.bsky.social

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🐜 Inconfundible por su patrón bicoloreado y brillo al sol, #Messor marocanus presenta un #polimorfismo marcado, aunque no alcanza el tamaño de otras especies del género.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🐜 La hormiga del mes: Messor marocanus, recolectoras de costa. 🎨 @theafenogaster.bsky.social

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Hormigas al descubierto: Inteligencia individual vs. Inteligencia colectiva II 🐜 Paratrechina longicornis, la #hormiga loca (black crazy ant), es una excelente trabajadora en equipo. Se caracteriza por sus movimientos rápidos y erráticos y, anatómicamente, por sus larguísimas patas y antenas.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Hormigas al descubierto: Inteligencia individual vs. Inteligencia colectiva. 🔍 Los investigadores retaban a estas 2 especies animales sociales a resolver el mismo rompecabezas en el que un objeto de una geometría peculiar tiene que ser transportado a otra habitación atravesando puertas estrechas...

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Coolioart - 3D Commissions Open! @coolioart.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I did it again! Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2 #jurassicpark #blender3d

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Hormigas al descubierto: El mundo oculto de las hormigas subterráneas en la Península Ibérica 👀 Proceratium melinum y Strumigenys argiola son #hormigas #endogeas, habitantes del subsuelo y muy difíciles de observar...

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

🎁 ¡La Asociación Ibérica de Mirmecología (AIM) te desea unas Felices Fiestas! 12 Uvas? Mejor 12 #Hormigas repletas!

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

📖 Chronicles of a Colony: Winter is coming! 🐜❄️ #Diapause is a state of physiological rest that many #ants undergo to survive unfavorable conditions, such as winter cold or drought. During this period, their metabolism slows down, they stop growing, and they barely move.

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Sergio Ibarra @theafenogaster.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Just read The Journey of Shuna (シュナの旅, Shuna no Tabi) today during a train ride and employed the rest of the time making this Yakul sketch. #miyazaki #ghibli #yakul

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 27/12/2024

🐡 🎨 InsertAnInvert 2024 Motion, week 4: Diver 🤘🦠🪰 grousewinged backswimmer (notonecta undulata)

a grousewinged backswimmer insect that's roughly almond-shaped and has long back leggies and cute large eyes. its wings are folded up nicely on its back and slightly sheer. it's drawn in blue lines and shaded with blue halftone and hatching

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Laura :) @zeablau.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

dibujos para procesar 2/2

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Laura :) @zeablau.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

feliz navidad ! 🌟

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Ecosystem Engineers Ants modify their environment and play a significant ecological role.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

¿Sabías que…? Existe una asombrosa diversidad de tamaños en las hormigas ibéricas 🐜 En la Península Ibérica habitan cerca de 300 especies de hormigas y su tamaño varía increíblemente. Desde las diminutas Leptanilla, de apenas 2 mm, hasta las impresionantes Camponotus, que pueden superar los 15 mm.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

🐜 La hormiga del mes: Formica exsecta Nylander, 1846 🔎 ¿Qué la hace especial? El apellido de esta #hormiga, exsecta, del latín exsectus, que significa "cortado". Este nombre hace referencia a la forma de su cabeza, que recuerda a una punta de flecha. ¡Una característica que no pasa desapercibida!

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