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ISAAC THE DOG
@wetdogclaws.bsky.social
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HE / HIM / HIS / HIMSELF

My name is Isaac. I am fond of organisms that can be colloquially referred to as a "bug" (such as many invertebrates). I have a neurotic disposition and I was born at exactly 2:27 AM on a Saturday morning.
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
more absolute filth in the pollination literature
Gottsberger's florid report (1991) on the pollination of Cyclanthaceae: "beetles arrived at the inflorescences, crawled around, copulated, gnawed on the staminodes, and frequently entered into the interior [...] there they "licked" on the stigmatic exudates"
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Munchipede update: she's getting big, one oak leaf at a time 💚

I spend so much time at my home away from home that I get to watch my children grow. She's just munching her way through the leaf in a neater fashion than I can do cutting a pizza

(Isla textula, the crowned slug moth)
Large flat green slug caterpillar lined with spiny tubercules and 2 little red horns on her head, halfway through an oak leaf The view from under the leaf, the creature's mouth beneath the 2 little horns methodically turning Leaf into Caterpillar
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Another little alien…or Ochrolechia sp lichen growing on (and killing) lowbush blueberry shrubs. Newfoundland, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of an Ochrolechia lichen. It’s cream in colour with bright orange apothecia. It’s growing on lowbush blueberry, and the shape of the blueberry leaves are visible under the lichen thallus. The apothecia look like a cartoon “face”
December 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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davidleakenney.bsky.social
Love Rook's for portraits, they have a gnarly metal look to them. Mid-blink for an even more scary look. They have a beautiful iridescence in sunshine!

#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography
A portrait of an iridescent Rook. Rooks have a distinctive beak and have been associated with death. The Rook was in mid-blink and very close.
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
specifically, your heart,

Thomas Lux
SNOW AS THE RAIN’S FATHER — for Claudia What is it up there, back porch to the beyond, what, up there where the zero resides, unpierced by radar, atomic telescope, what is it? Is this where snow starts, the designs thereof, before it drops down, or hailstones, their layer upon layer around the perfect, purest ball bearings at their cores before they drop down seeking, specifically, your heart, that single bone sizzling in a skillet? What calls from there? Or is it a bounceback merely, a lonely ventriloquial discourse, lament? And the snow now falling — was it once rain, a river, sea, or lake, and before that was it snow again?
December 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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flygirlnhm.bsky.social
Day 10 of #InsectAdvent & we are wrapping the presents

What about this bling covering - The genus Formosia (Tachinidae) have some of the most striking bodies. Its not for showing off but to hide in the mottled forest light (hiding as we do under a tree) their 'presence'

@royentsoc.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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wizentrop.bsky.social
A few months ago I shared this beautiful and mysterious hawkmoth caterpillar from the Amazon, and it seems that now more than ever we are finally close to revealing its ID thanks to @gwentomologist.bsky.social, who decided to rear it to adulthood. I highly recommend following this story on IG!
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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suillia.bsky.social
A dry, warm (10 degrees) day brought out quite a variety of invertebrates at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve this morning. Just a few here...Pisaura, Curculio, Brachypera and Notostira perhaps. @ynuorg.bsky.social #ukwildlife
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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ajcann.bsky.social
Dioxyna bidentis.

#Diptera #VC55
Dioxyna bidentis
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Convergent evolution invertebrate tailfeathers

(Planthopper nymph 🤍)
Pale tan planthopper nymph on rotted wood, just a little sub-shaped creature with a ridiculous thick tail of waxy fibers longer than its body
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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ajcann.bsky.social
Microneta viaria.

#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Microneta viaria female
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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claretaz.bsky.social
Four species of Hawk-moth were recorded in the garden this year. Elephant Hawk-moths have only started turning up in the last couple of years since we planted the Jasmine #teammoth
December 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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graemelyons.bsky.social
1/2 #speciesaday no. 679 is Euophrys frontalis. A very common jumper in open habitats. Identifiable throughout much of the year. Adult males have magic wands for front legs and red-ringed eyes (think Paul Daniels with hay fever). Striking white on the top of the palps too! I just love salticids!
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
"The Non-swimming Chydorid Cladocera of Wet Forests, with
Descriptions of a New Genus and Two New Species" Frey 1980. what do you mean they just ooze around the world
"This cladoceran can’t swim, but it can climb trees! It never leaves contact with the substrate, even when sufficient water is present, as in the culture vessels. Here it crawls over the bottom and assiduously crawls over or through the detritus, chiefly by the action of the trunk limbs with occasional assistance from the postabdomen. The antennae seem to function more as balancing structures, like halteres, in that when the animal is erect on a horizontal surface, such as the bottom of a petri dish, the antennae vibrate rapidly without seeming to contribute in any way to the forward movement. The animal moves slowly and deliberately. Even when undisturbed it undergoes long quiescent periods, sometimes with no movement of any of the trunk limbs. Disturbance, such as from touching with a needle, results in cessation of all activity. I n this possum-like condition live animals can be removed easily from cultures with an ordinary tungsten loop." drawing of Bryospilus repens terrestrial water flea. It is very round and has one eye
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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entsocamerica.bsky.social
Arthropod Photo of the Week: December 3, 2025
Thick-legged hoverfly
Syritta pipiens
Diptera: Syrphidae
By Robert Kunter, Sachsen, Germany
#arthropodPOTW
A close-up side view of a black and brown fly with large eyes on yellow flower stamens, with a blurred dark background.
December 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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flygirlnhm.bsky.social
Its day 2 of #InsectAdvent

I think that this little fly ate too many mince pies! Welcome to Platyna hastata - whose bum maybe as wide as they are long!

Soldierflies or Stratiomyidae are some of the most eye-catching of the flies.

@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
thrips
flat color cartoon drawings of several thrips, small insects which may have four wings or none. clockwise from top left: a thrips with very complex fringed wings, a thrips with large crab claws, two drawings of thrips with no wings and a dark brown front end and tan back, and a long and thin black thrips with red legs photos of the real animals that are drawn in the previous image; Arachisothrips has large and complex wings, Stephanothrips is wingless with a dark brown head and thorax, Idolothrips is very long and thin, and Carcinothrips has very large crab claw-like forearms
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
there's an entire superorder (very big category) of crustaceans called Syncarids, and like 99% of them are tiny white eyeless sub-millimeter things living in cavewater, except in Tasmania, where they just casually live on the surface world like regular shrimp. infuriating
photo of Tasmanian mountain shrimp by joeysantore on iNaturalist. It is dark brown and a few cm long, similar to a crayfish but lacking chelae photo of syncarids by beschwar on iNaturalist. they are tiny white eyeless creatures with long bodies.
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Here's the lad at the end of a 9-inch journey to a female. He's got wings but he just derpily ambles along the tree bark with the singular mission of finding the Source of those pheromones and then get scraped off as the lass crawls into a crevice for the winter
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
picture of tubercle burrowing crayfish by sneaker1 on inaturalist
tubercle burrowing crayfish is found in southeastern Australia and is mostly dark yellow and orange in color, with a very tiny face
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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alexwild.bsky.social
On Thantsgiving, the ants eat too much.
Macro photo of a large, slender, skinny black ant walking on the ground with her mandibles stuffed full with several termites.
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited #NovaScotia

Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited | CBC News
Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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ajcann.bsky.social
#Arachnids #Opiliones
sharkeee.bsky.social Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 18d
A touch dry, but tonight we'll be searching the mossy trees for aboreal Opiliones like these 'amorous', Ramosus sp.
If you find these creatures fascinating, consider joining @megabunus.bsky.social et al, in a webinar on the 30th dec and learn more.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arboreal-h...
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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bugeric.bsky.social
A Banded Sunflower Moth, Cochylichroa hospes, in flight. Cheyenne Mountain State Park, El Paso County, Colorado, USA, July 25, 2017. #FlyFriday #EastCoastKin #bugsky #moths #moth
Small moth in flight, overall beige in color with dark brown blotches. Short antennae, legs trailing beneath and behind as it flies from lower right to upper left, shadow beneath on wooden window frame.
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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applewildlife.bsky.social
Is it safe to call this Callitula pyrrhogaster or are there any confusion species? I can't find a relevant key but it looks like other photos of this species and it's supposed to be distinctive. It's 1.5mm long and was found by suction in late July in grass at the edge of wet woodland in Norfolk.
Presumed Callitula pyrrhogaster, a tiny wasp with a shiny red gaster and very dark (almost black) green strongly sculptured head and thorax. The legs and antennae are orange. #UKinvert #wasp A view under the microscope of the same presumed Callitula pyrrhogaster, now deceased. #Hymenoptera A side view of the same presumed Callitula pyrrhogaster.
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM