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Sean McCann
@ibycter.bsky.social
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Entomologist, sometime arachnologist, natural history enthusiast.
I used study caracaras. I still do, but I used to as well. Avatar by the endlessly talented @blackmudpuppy.bluesky.social

Also, photographer!
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Deer looking all majestic and stuff
A male blacktail deer with nice antlers silhouetted on a hilltop against gray clouds
December 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Some guys at the garbage can
A couple of crows silhouetted against a water backdrop perched on a garbage can with graffiti
December 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Harlequin ducks are very beautiful
A male and female harlequin duck swimming in the water, the female is drab brown with a white spot on her head, and the male is fabulous with patterns of white, blue and orange all over
December 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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yum
A crow with a large crab claw in its beak stands on gray rock
December 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Kingfisher in Oak Bay
A female belted kingfisher against a gray sky, perched in a bare tree.
December 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Song sparrow in the duff
A dark Pacific coast song sparrow kicks around in some dead leaves and wet grass. It is looking at the camera.
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Field botanist job with Virginia Natural Heritage, based in Roanoke, VA. $55-65K pay range. Please share widely! www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/field-b...
Field Botanist - Roanoke, Virginia, United States
Title: Field Botanist State Role Title: Scientist II Hiring Range: $55,000 - $65,000 Pay Band: 5 Agency: Dept Conservation & Recreation Location: Roanoke, VA Agency Website: www.dcr.virginia.gov R...
www.jobs.virginia.gov
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Day 9 of my 2025 Favorites: Habronattus alachua (again)

I think this species has featured in every one of my favorites run-downs, and I can't help it. They're perfect: the floof and crimson red face of the boys, and the stripy eye makeup on the lasses ❤️
#EmotionalSupportSpood
Crimson red faced jumping spider peering up at you from a dry pine needle, he's got big floofy grey palps and long yellow and blue-gray floof on his 1st leg pair The lad peering straight ahead along the pine needle The lass peering at you with head tilt from a pine needle; she's grey all over except for reddish brown stripes down over her big eyes Another lass peering up at you curiously from a pine needle
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Sandcut Beach
guy with a camera in the distance on a rocky beach with conifers at the edge. There is a big one leaning out toward the ocean.
December 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Looking up at China Beach
A wide angle shot looking up at a white sky in a dark forest
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Great Blue Heron
A great blue heron stands among dead brown grasses and weeds.
December 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Black Turnstone from Esquimalt Lagoon today
A white and black shorebird with a short beak and dark orange legs runs along a rocky beach.
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Harbour seal chillaxing in Oak Bay
Head of a harbour seal with flippers sticking up. It seems it is perched on an underwater rock and is lying in the water
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar
Ms. Crested Caracara feeding her trio of mini dinosaurs 🪶
Feeding time at the Caracara nest in a Saguaro
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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New paper on bark spiders, who build the largest webs made out of the toughest silk. We show that their extremely tough silk, which is potentially metabolically costly, is limited to large females. Juveniles and males use inferior silk.
ezlab.bsky.social EZ Lab @ezlab.bsky.social · 12d
New publication!

Orb weavers evolved some of the toughest silk, reaching extremes in bark spiders, genus Caerostris. We investigate sex and stage specific patterns in silk properties and find that extremely tough silk is limited to adult females.

www.ezlab.si/post/extreme...
Extreme silk toughness in Caerostris spiders is limited to adult females
Spider silks are protein fibers, renowned for their remarkable intrinsic mechanical properties. Dragline or major ampullate (MA) silk is particularly noteworthy for its combination of high tensile str...
www.ezlab.si
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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#EmotionalSupportSpood
Young Hamataliwa helia, the fiercest of Lumps ♥️
Stripy orange and white lynx spider, legs bunched around her, being a lump, peering at you
December 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Diego looks dreamy at F0.95
head of a yellow dog, only the eyes in focus, he is looking up and to the left of the frame, perhaps wistfully.
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Look at those eyes! #flyday #bugskye #entomology #macro
A macro photograph of a robber fly on a blade of grass
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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90% of the time when Rashford barks at "something" through the floor level window...it's nothing.

Now and then he gets it right (deer were utterly unbothered by his barking).

Bebe Black-tailed (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) demonstrates the origin of the moniker!

#mammals #becurious
Photo of a young black-tailed deer on a bed of fall colored leaves with small pine trees behind them. they are angled away from the camera showing their very black tail and just turning to the right so their head is in profile.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Got a 10 mm F2 lens from TTArtisan, so here is Zora shot at F2
A cattle dog mix, red and white in colour, relaxing on a purple chair with a nice quilt. her whole body is in frame and her head appears large.
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Latrodecta, Organ of the Laboratory of Arachnology, National Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Company "Fauna" Ltd, Weissenburg
ISSN: 0940-8185
Mainly scientific articles on the breeding & maintenance of arachnids, but it also includes faunistic works.

Anyone know more about this journal?
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Who wants another baby earwig update? Everyone? Thought so. The babies are now two days old and slightly darker than when they hatched. Mama is guarding them and will stay on the job until their second molt. Btw, in the earlier post, the newly-hatched babies only had--
A macro photo of a mother earwig guarding a cluster of her tiny, pale babies, all of them on damp earth.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Way too much politics on my timeline right now, deploying weird marine life image. :) Here's up close and personal with an unusually cooperative Flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans). Night dive, Ulua Beach Maui. 🌿📷🐟🦑
Close up on the head and front half of a Flying gurnard, a truly unusual fish that creeps across the sand bottom using specially modified fins. It has very large eyes that show refractive irridescence from my strobe, and is sort of polka-dotted in reds, browns and blues
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Give the gift of hundreds of bugs this year with the OWLFLY HOLIDAY SALE! All orders above $40 USD are eligible for free shipping anywhere in the world (within our normal shipping range) with the coupon code BUGBOOK2025, now through December 31st. Restrictions apply.
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Two books are propped upright against a wooden cabinet, titled "The Cicadas of North America" and "The Social Wasps of North America". Both books show many colorful examples of the respective insects on their covers. Various holiday ribbons, garlands, and lights are strewn about the edges and foreground of the photo, which I shamelessly pilfered from my mom's attic. The text at the top reads "FREE SHIPPING ON ALL QUALIFIED ORDERS".
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM