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One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps
@diplopodracer.bsky.social
Amateur wildlife photographer & invert keeper (millipedes, but also some beetles, tarantula, isopods, and Gryllus crickets)

Interested in most invertebrate orders, but especially Diplopoda, Isopoda, and Hymenoptera.

My OC photography is CC0 public domain
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Another oldie while I wrap up new paintings for my January show at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans.

"Delicate"
2018
Acrylic on canvas
5" x 5"

#art #painting #insects #beetle #contemporaryart #nature
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Is the bird feed down/broken? I can't get it to load anymore
December 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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A Dark-eyed Junco foraging on the ground
#birds
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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EG very expressive this morning LMFAO

#crows #corvidae 🪶
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Read to the end, and you’ll see it was the Hitler Youth behind the suspension of the second instructor.

Turning Point USA is a toxic, bigoted organization incompatible with the modern university. Which is their point, I guess.
“The latest educator removed from the classroom allegedly told students they would be excused for attending a Friday protest in support of a transgender instructor who was suspended for accurately grading a paper.”
www.advocate.com/news/second-...
Another University of Oklahoma instructor suspended in biblical psychology paper grading controversy
The university is investigating whether the second instructor engaged in "viewpoint discrimination."
www.advocate.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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A mid-snack temporary cold-induced stupor allowed me time to capture these water droplets resting on the springtails hydrophobic (water proof) skin.

Immature Hemitrichia / Trichia species pictured with Collembola - Neanura muscorum feeding/sleeping.
#myxomycetes #collembola #macronature
December 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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It's day 9 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here, have a hermit crab 😘
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Marketing? Very well (sigh).

Big thread of all my art and books! (Most of my books are also illustrated!)

Cool t-shirts and other merch with my art available in my threadless shop:

whistberry.threadless.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Fleet Street Hill, London E2

Footpath bridge staircase with graffiti

#reference #materialreference
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Nothing like the joy of crows riding a southern squall.
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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For all my extra gifted 80's and 90's kids who are discovering they are tired, burned-out adults:
June 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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A very nice thread about an office crow, Emma Goldman.

If you befriend crows, they will provide companionship like no other, as well as go out of their way to protect you from hawks for life. 🪶
I will never understand people who have any sort of walk as part of their commute, or work somewhere with crows at their workplace, who do not go out of their way to make friends with as many of the crows as possible.

One of the most rewarding interactions that is possible with city wildlife
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Our only native mantis in Illinois, the Carolina mantis. I've looked for them often in the forest preserves and other natural areas, but I finally found one hanging off of a tire in a parking lot while running an errand
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New wasp dropped

#hymenoptera
This is Amazoboea selva, a new species and genus of Darwin wasp. It comes from Ecuador's Yasuní region, one of the most biodiverse areas in the world whose future is unfortunately threatened by the petroleum industry.

Read more about Amazonian Darwin wasps here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I will never understand people who have any sort of walk as part of their commute, or work somewhere with crows at their workplace, who do not go out of their way to make friends with as many of the crows as possible.

One of the most rewarding interactions that is possible with city wildlife
December 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Ruffy the Rufous hummingbird
Canon R5 and Canon 100-500mm L IS USM
SS1/4000 F8 ISO1000
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Day 8 of #InsectAdvent

Want to attract the opposite sex but fed up being bashed on the dancefloor? This male fly, Deuterophlebia sp., never lands but dances over fast-flowing rivers, guarding it for a receptive lady, using its really long antennae to make/guard his space

@royentsoc.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Tiny birds perch on tiny branches. Rob has chosen today's #BirdOfTheDay theme: #BirdsOnTwigs, any bird on a thin branch. The Alternative theme is Ducks #OutOfWater.
#birds #hummingbird
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hoverflies are always one of my favorite insects to watch.

#insects #invertefest #pollinators #Syrphinae #diptera
December 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Porcelain crab on an anemone

#photo #photography #scuba #dive #crab #crustmas
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The woodlouse spider, Dysdera crocata. It's one of my favorite local spiders because of the bright colors. I found this one out wandering.

#spider #bugsky #inversky #arachnid #bug
December 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Post a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real.

Giant Anteros (Anteros kupris), Colombia
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM