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Rockwolf 🇪🇺
@rockwolf74.bsky.social
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Love photography, wildlife, Entomology (especially Pentatomoidea, Coreoidea and Coccinellidae!) ...nature in general! 333.19 PPM
also @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social
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arnoldtortoise.bsky.social
Fluffy Bum Friday?

Found this little beauty wandering around on the bathroom floor. Relocated it to the sunny roof outside so it could warm up thoroughly before flying away.
Rear view of a very hairy Bumblebee on a roof tile.
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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collemyria.bsky.social
Cet artiste transforme métal de récup et déchets électroniques en sculptures d’insectes bluffantes : une libellule aux ailes de carte mère, une luciole qui s’allume...
Zak Miskry : des sculptures d’insectes en déchets électroniques (libellule en carte mère, luciole lumineuse)
On a tous, quelque part, un petit cimetière technologique : câbles “au cas où”, vieux chargeurs, routeur d’une époque où Internet faisait encore bip-bip. Zak Miskry, artiste britannique, voit plutôt là une réserve de matière première. Et il en tire un bestiaire spectaculaire : insectes, animaux, créatures mécaniques, sculptés à partir de métal de récupération et de déchets électroniques (e-waste). Le résultat est doublement satisfaisant : de loin, c’est du vivant. De près, c’est une chasse aux composants.   par Rincevent Publié le 26 novembre, 2025   Zak Miskry Creations https://www.creationszakmiskry.com/  
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November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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martinebrennan.bsky.social
Last night was mild and I saw 3 December Moths (NFY) at home in Laois. #teammoth
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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andrew-jewels.bsky.social
Found three Green Shieldbugs (Palomena prasina) inside a garden wheelie bin today, waiting patiently to be let out. Relocated to a dense patch of ivy. In Upshire, Essex. Two still green, the other in brown winter mode. #EssexWildlife #UKBugs
Three Green Shieldbugs on the inside of a garden wheelie bin with lattice fence in background.
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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vc40orthops.bsky.social
Its that time of year again: a male Snow Flea, one of 3 seen yesterday in woodland on the Shrops/Herefords border. These 4mm relatives of Scorpionflies live in moss (esp. Polytrichum & relatives) & are winter active as adults. Not fleas of course but they can jump a bit.
A Snow Flea - a small, long-legged insect with a very long face (like its relatives the scorpionflies). An overall dark, bronzy colour with yellow & orange highlights.
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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sejarnold.bsky.social
Has anyone found an Android app that genuinely, really:
1. Provides translation of voice/speech
2. Between English and Brazilian Portuguese
3. And does this in offline mode?
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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tillingtonchum.bsky.social
Flying along the shore at RSPB Titchwell Marsh, a pair of Oystercatchers. One of our favourite birds.
#birds #UKwildlife
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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ankemarsh.bsky.social
Sooo… pedestrians are supposed to go into the road?? 😳 (click and zoom in)

#RoadRepairs #Signs
A photograph of a street. On one side is a sign that says ‘Pedestrians’ with an arrow pointing to the left (towards the street. There is a ramp for wheelchairs. Glad they thought about less mobile people. On the opposite side of the street is an identical sign. Except that the arrow points right. To the street. I’m confused.
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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maffro2000.bsky.social
Diffwys and a slightly frozen Llyn Cwm Mynach.
#Eryri #meirionnydd
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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weirdxmas.bsky.social
Mood.
Mood.
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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ajcann.bsky.social
Woo hoo! Winter Moth, Operophtera brumata.
Never had one of these in the garden before.

#VC55Moths #VC55 #TeamMoth #Moths
Winter Moth, Operophtera brumata
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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sh-discoverycentre.bsky.social
We have had lots of lovely items left recently that haven't been claimed. If you are missing a coat, any hats or gloves, water bottles and you think you may have left them here, please get in touch.
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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shropshirelive.bsky.social
The M54 motorway remains closed westbound between Junction 2 (Wolverhampton) and Junction 3 (Albrighton) this morning following a serious collision late last night.
M54 closed westbound Junctions 2 to 3 after HGV crosses central barrier
The M54 motorway remains closed westbound between Junction 2 (Wolverhampton) and Junction 3 (Albrighton) this morning following a serious collision late last night.
www.shropshirelive.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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martynwarren.bsky.social
I'm very pleased to be booked in for my hernia op next week, but the upshot is that my Etsy shop will then be closed for about a week. So, if you had your eye on a Christmas present for a bug enthusiast, this week is the best time to place an order. www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Mart...
www.etsy.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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jaiiiiiii1.bsky.social
Now the EU has done its magic with USB-C, I think camera screw threads are next

These 20th century piece-a-shit rangefinders are gonna be the death of me, cause I still have no clue what the difference between M39, LTM, and L39 is.

Emotional support FED attached
A FED-4 Type B rangefinder camera, circa 1975, is balanced in one hand against a coat, viewed from eye level looking down. Mounted is an Industar-61 lens.
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
rockwolf74.bsky.social
Back to France (I wish!!), I was really pleased to see one of my favourite treehoppers, Stictocephala bisonia! Alas, I only got this shot before it pinged off into the oblivion, and I didn't manage to find another...! #Membracidae #Hemiptera #Treehopper #France
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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wild-dave.bsky.social
Seems Regatta have made a breakthrough in imaging. It turns out bacteria look just like insects.
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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ruthnewby.bsky.social
#MothMemories2025 Latticed Heath, another NFG in late June. I trapped a second one in mid-August, but it didn’t pose as nicely. #teammoth
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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gigl-lerc.bsky.social
Did you know that London has Important Invertebrate Areas? 🪲🦋🐝

GiGL has recently been working with Buglife to include their IIA maps and B-Lines in our data search reports to inform on strategic areas. Read the article from Jamie, Buglife's Programme Manger here: 📖 www.gigl.org.uk/2025/11/20/l...
London’s Important Invertebrate Areas - GIGL
Over the past nine years, Buglife has been busily mapping a network of Important Invertebrate Areas (IIAs) for Great Britain. Each of the 100+ IIAs is home to nationally or internationally important…
www.gigl.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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lizzie-harper.bsky.social
#Botanicalillustration courses I'm teaching next year are now open for booking! All are at #Cambridgeuniversity #botanicgardens in the UK. Here's the first, in late March

www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/education-le...
#penandink #sciart botanical illustration of the Sweet chestnut fruit showing its spiky seed case, catkin-like flower, and #chestnut fruit. #Monochrome, cut to white #penandink #sciart botanical illustration of the #mulberry #morus nigra with watercolour on top, making the leaves green and the fruit a shiny burgundy purple. Cut to white hand drawn #ink #illustration #penandink #sciart botanical illustration of the #Olive #tree, Olea europea. Showing the fuzzy #foliage and twisted trunk and bark. Cut to white #monochrime #naturalscienceillustration #penandink #sciart botanical illustration of the #peach with a slice and a leaf. Very intensely stippled to give a soft texture to the #fruit. #Blackandwhite #illustration, cut to white.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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nfbr.bsky.social
Last few days to get your responses in!
www.linkedin.com/posts/keiron...
Fungus Recorder Online Survey | Keiron Derek Brown
Do you record fungi? If so, please fill in our short Fungus Recorder Online Survey (closes on 30th November). The survey is open nationwide and invites everyone involved in fungi recording to share t...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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sh-discoverycentre.bsky.social
Lasagna Soup, a rich, warming and filling soup to make you forget the weather - just don't let Garfield invite himself.
The recipe is on our website www.shropshirehillsdiscoverycentre.co.uk/recipes
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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bug-gwen.bsky.social
Yes, this is absolutely my Monday expression
jencmars.bsky.social Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 4d
These fork-tailed bush katdid nymphs have drama antennae

Whenever I find them I wonder about the bright colors, they're very striking and noticeable to my eye
Photo of a grasshopper-like insect standing on a leaf surrounded by other leaves. The insect has a bright body with spots of traffic cone orange and aquamarine and long black and white banded antennae.
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
Up close with a pygmy mole cricket, Neotridactylus apicalis. Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station, Texas.
Macro photograph in side view of a diminutive, shiny black cricket-like animal with broad, shovel-shaped forelegs and short, upright antennae standing alert on a rocky substrate.
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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grahamc57.bsky.social
Lots of Knots! Calidris canutus, from the family Scolopacidae. Watching them forage was interesting, but when they took flight it was an amazing spectacle.

#Knot #ukwildlife #Birds 🪶 #NorfolkBirds
A photo of hundreds, if not thousands, of Knot taking flight. It's said to get it's name and species epithet from King Cnut. Because of the Knot's foraging along the tide line and the story of Cnut and the tide. Hmmm…?
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM