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@0rthoptera.bsky.social

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mainly posting bugs i keep or find in nature 🍃 Polyneoptera enthusiast 🦗 header by me (Tettigonia cantans), pfp by saltedpeanuts on pinterest

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · Jul 5

woke katydid... call that wokedid

thank u soggy for help, even
tho ur barely there @thesoggiest.bsky.social

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 14h

nothing left but to post my pets and drawings

katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 14h

good morning... it snowed today, so it's officially bugover

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 19h

Like other members of the Hyperbaeninae, Dialarnaca zhoui spins silk to create shelters from rolled leaves. What ISN'T common is the species' striking pink and gold colouration! This gorgeous leaf-roller is known only from the Yunnan province in China. #EverydayEnsifera

📸: Zhou Yu

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189864718

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 14h

that would be great

katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 22h

Yuriptera diagram and a specimen

katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 22h

woke bugs persist. behold,
Yuriptera

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 22h

what a beauty...

katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 22h

holy crunches

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 22h

😭😭😭

katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 1d

what didn't she do

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 1d

oh my god what the fuck😭😭😭

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 1d

Field crickets (Gryllinae) aren't just plain brown chirping things in backyards - the group is actually pretty diverse, with >3,000 species. Maybe the weirdest are in the genus Sciobia, which all have these delightful Pikmin-like "hats" 🥺

📸: Sciobia barbara, Pierre-Henri Fabre

#EverydayEnsifera

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 1d

my cambrian chud son cant close his mouth

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 1d

hands you some bugs

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 2d

tympanal organs (for hearing) of a katydid

Siliquofera grandis nymph pictured from the front. tympanal organs on forelimbs (specifically tibia) circled red

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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 3d

A male Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) seen earlier this week in Brambles near the River Severn in Telford. This species sticks almost exclusively to the Severn corridor in Shropshire, perhaps because of the warmer microclimate?

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 2d

fat wingless ensiferans 🗣️🗣️

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 2d

The Mexican Jerusalem cricket (Stenopelmatus talpa) calls to mates by beating its chunky abdomen against the ground, producing a drumming sound. Each species of Stenopelmatus has a different drumming song. #EverydayEnsifera

📸: Jalil Rodríguez M

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 4d

#invertober 8, bee killer robber fly. GO my diptera 👐

#invertober2025

thick lineart drawing of a bee-killer robber fly from the side, head angled to look towards the viewer. there is a pattern of simple bees and honeycomb on the yellow background

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Spidercat 🕷️🐱 @spidercat.io · 4d

I call it cultural arachnophobia because I firmly believe it is, in large part, taught. "Icky bugs" in general. Ever see kids with bugs? Kids love bugs. They're so often *taught* to find them icky and gross and scary.

🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 4d

Arachnophobia is interesting to me because it's so specific. Like, people generally aren't afraid of crabs, even though they're hairy and skitter around. And they're not afraid of bugs, even though they have about the same number of eyes. Most people will never even see a dangerous spider irl.

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 4d

LETS GO

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 4d

The Cook Strait giant wētā (Deinacrida rugosa) is an anostostomatid from New Zealand. It's one of the largest insects in the world! Major threats to this cutie include land clearing and predation by rats. It's listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. #EverydayEnsifera

📸: d_kluza (iNaturalist)

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6343096

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katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 4d

i think i wanna try keeping earwigs... i should have kept this one i found 2 weeks ago, its getting cold

katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 4d

well, my katydid... is not as fat as i thought

a female katydid, species Nesoecia nigrispina, on an analytical scale. it shows she is 5,8700 g

katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 5d

forgot i had annam sticks now i have these babies

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