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diplopodracer.bsky.social
One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps
@diplopodracer.bsky.social
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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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amyguidryartist.bsky.social
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
Acrylic painting of a stag beetle sitting on top of a chrysanthemum flower. The beetle's body is covered in a lace pattern.
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
diplopodracer.bsky.social
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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photosteve.bsky.social
A Dark-eyed Junco foraging on the ground
#birds
A dark-eyed junco standing on a dirt floor, looking back over its shoulder towards the camera.
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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diplopodracer.bsky.social
EG very expressive this morning LMFAO

#crows #corvidae 🪶
a photo of a crow taken from inside an office window of the bird perched on the top of a gatepost with its head tilted to the side in a very anthropomorphically quizzical fashion
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
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.
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15h
“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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allthingsfungi.bsky.social
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
Collembola - Neanura muscorum feeding in a orange slime mould with water droplets on its back
December 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
It's day 9 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here, have a hermit crab 😘
a light pink hermit crab stands in like. idk, imagine they're about to start dancing in the musical chicago, with legs all spread out? That's how they're standing. On a leaf.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
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
Photo of a light blue tshirt with an illustration of a red crab holding up a chocolate cupcake with pink frosting in each front claw. It is standing on a beach with blue waves behind it and the caption beneath the image reads I come in peace. Black tshirt with an illustration in white of a raccoon standing on its hind legs with its front paws raised above its snarling face. The words Fix Your Heart are spread between its paws in the blue, white, and pink colors of the trans flag. Photo of a black tshirt with an illustration in white of a fantastical-looking squid with red eyes and tangled arms. It is holding a large white pearl in one tentacle. Pink tshirt with circular image of a small tropical frog with black legs and pink and blue coloration meant to evoke the colors of the trans flag. It is sitting amidst large tropical green leaves that have white and pink patterns on them.
October 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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saskya.com
#ArtAdventCalendar day 9

#watercolor
#corvid
#crow
#birdsky
A watercolor painting of a crow perched on a branch.. he is leaning forward and has a slightly wilted pink flower in his beak
December 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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deswalsh.bsky.social
Fleet Street Hill, London E2

Footpath bridge staircase with graffiti

#reference #materialreference
Footpath bridge staircase with graffiti
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Nothing like the joy of crows riding a southern squall.
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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madrinkwater.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #SmallBirdsBigPersonality #hummingbird #birds #photography #naturephotography 📷 🪶
A hummingbird in a grapefruit tree perched on a thin branch. His wings are outstretched and his beak is up, as he prepares to take on the day. In the background are blurred green leaves, patches of blue sky, a bit of red bougainvillea, and a yellow grapefruit.
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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srslymagenta.bsky.social
For all my extra gifted 80's and 90's kids who are discovering they are tired, burned-out adults:
Ordinary My love, what if you were not Nietzsche and I was not Gloria Steinem. And I was not Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and you were not Isaac Newton, or Einstein, or Hegel, and we lived Ordinary lives, here and there, foraging for mushrooms in the swamps and children's minds and sometimes find ing chickory root for inflammation, poke for lymphatic tincture, honey for mead. What if sometimes you sang in the kitchen while making bone broth from chicken feet, and played happy snippets on the violin, and I periodically baked bread in a clean (ish) kitchen, sang Broadway, laughed, and sometimes, we held hands in the grocery, took kids to the Asian market, watched Netflix with our eyes closed, spooned in bed, and weren't the next Nobel Prize Winner, breakout academic Wunderkind, surprise New York Times Best-selling magical fairy child. What if we went wild: Mowed lawns. Got mail. Refused to live up to the potential somebody wrote on our report cards long ago, and instead utterly wasted our lives on loving and living and loving and refused to yield to the expectations that anything less fiscally responsible is imprudent. What if what we saved did not end up being millions, my sweet, but our own souls? And all along there will be enough for the movies sometimes, enough for croissants and soft pretzels, and enough to sit and do the crossword and kiss you goodnight. What if instead of being memorable, we make memories, responsible to not the whole world but our world. And what if it is ordinary, and we are inordinately enough. Heather Harris-Bergevin Ordinary My love, what if you were not Nietzsche and I was not Gloria Steinem. And I was not Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and you were not Isaac Newton, or Einstein, or Hegel, and we lived Ordinary lives, here and there, foraging for mushrooms in the swamps and children's minds and sometimes find ing chickory root for inflammation, poke for lymphatic tincture, honey for mead. What if sometimes you sang in the kitchen while making bone broth from chicken feet, and played happy snippets on the violin, and I periodically baked bread in a clean (ish) kitchen, sang Broadway, laughed, and sometimes, we held hands in the grocery, took kids to the Asian market, watched Netflix with our eyes closed, spooned in bed, and weren't the next Nobel Prize Winner, breakout academic Wunderkind, surprise New York Times Best-selling magical fairy child. What if we went wild: Mowed lawns. Got mail. Refused to live up to the potential somebody wrote on our report cards long ago, and instead utterly wasted our lives on loving and living and loving and refused to yield to the expectations that anything less fiscally responsible is imprudent. What if what we saved did not end up being millions, my sweet, but our own souls? And all along there will be enough for the movies sometimes, enough for croissants and soft pretzels, and enough to sit and do the crossword and kiss you goodnight. What if instead of being memorable, we make memories, responsible to not the whole world but our world. And what if it is ordinary, and we are inordinately enough. Heather Harris-Bergevin
June 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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swampvids.bsky.social
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. 🪶
diplopodracer.bsky.social One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps @diplopodracer.bsky.social · 23h
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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jencmars.bsky.social
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
Close up photo of a green Carolina praying mantis standing in profile against a dark out of focus background
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
diplopodracer.bsky.social
New wasp dropped

#hymenoptera
zookeys.pensoft.net ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net · 1d
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
diplopodracer.bsky.social
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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birdzandbees.bsky.social
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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flygirlnhm.bsky.social
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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beetlechipz.bsky.social
bugs #art #insects #bugs
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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hardlikearmour.bsky.social
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
A male Anna's Hummingbird perched near the tip of a tiny branch. Profile view with its bill to the left. Just a few of his head feathers are showing their magenta gleam. The tip of the branch has a few tiny russet colored leaves but is otherwise bare. The background is modeled green and black.
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
diplopodracer.bsky.social
Hoverflies are always one of my favorite insects to watch.

#insects #invertefest #pollinators #Syrphinae #diptera
I small hoverfly sits on a pink Fatsia bud. It has large eyes, very short stubby antennae, a single pair of wings and stabilizers as their second pair, and a black and yellow striped abdomen.
December 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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skinks-and-such.bsky.social
Porcelain crab on an anemone

#photo #photography #scuba #dive #crab #crustmas
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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jayspeidell.bsky.social
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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tjalamont.bsky.social
Post a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real.

Giant Anteros (Anteros kupris), Colombia
A closeup photo of most of the side of a butterfly on a green leaf. The butterfly has a white, extremely fluffy body and white fluffy legs tipped in black. Its proboscis is out and touching the leaf. Its antennae are black and white banded, and its eye is bright yellow. The wings are white-cream with thick, scattered red markings that look remarkably like some sort of ancient runes.
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM