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suillia.bsky.social
My first Snow Flea (Boreus hyemalis) of the winter at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve today. Nice of her to pose out in the open on a fallen leaf, so didn't need to spend hours waiting for one to emerge from the Polytrichum moss! @ynuorg.bsky.social #Mecoptera #Boreidae #ukwildlife
A female Snow Flea posing on a fallen leaf on acid grassland. One of the Mecoptera order, like scorpionflies, but flightless, living down among short, Polytrichum mosses on sandy soil.
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
aglaia.bsky.social
Dat is een schorpioenvlieg (Mecoptera). Geen wesp, geen vlieg.
June 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
macroarthropods.bsky.social
This is the not so rare but not so common tiny Brazilian scorpion fly
Mecoptera
Bittacidae
#macrophotography #closeupphotography #arthropods #animals #bugs #biodiversity #enthomology #insects #insectphotography #invertebrates #naturephotography
November 26, 2024 at 12:16 PM
khuston.bsky.social
Looks like a Scorpion fly in the Genus Panorpa (family Panorpidae in the order of insects called the Mecoptera). Scavenger on dead insects and will feed on remains in spiders webs - though I've not witnessed that. We only have a few species in UK. US probably has numerous species.
November 26, 2024 at 6:16 AM
entobiologist.bsky.social
MECOPTERA (scorpionflies, potentially including fleas): insects with a distinctly long face like some weevils. many males have a bulbous and pointy abdomen like actual scorpions, but these just house their harmless genitalia.
photo of a male scorpionfly. credit blake layton photo of a scorpionfly. credit reiner richter
June 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
poondonkus.bsky.social
I'm also not convinced that Gligar is even based on the Scorpionfly. Its type is とびさそり "Flying Scorpion", but the Scorpionfly is known as シリアゲムシ in Japanese.

idk, I think it might just be a Scorpion That Can Fly, not a representative of Order Mecoptera.
February 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
bassjunkiiiie.bsky.social
According to Wikipedia, that’s a dong???
19:49 WIKIPEDIA • 84 Mecoptera Article Talk Mecoptera (from the Greek: mecos = "long", ptera = "wings") is an order of insects in the superorder Holometabola with about six hundred species in nine families worldwide. Mecopterans are sometimes called scorpionflies after their largest family, Panorpidae, in which the males have **enlarged genitals raised over the body** that look similar to the stingers of scorpions, and long beaklike rostra. The
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
ameriaru.bsky.social
O bicho da imagem é um inseto da ordem Mecoptera, da família Panorpidae. Esse espinho caudal dele não tem função de injetar peçonha e eles são bem inofensivos. Não ocorre no Brasil.
August 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
jhemiptera.bsky.social
Some insect groups have shown various fossil records during the Mesozoic Era, but have now lost their diversity.
Tettigarctidae, the closest family-level clade of the Cicadidae, were diverse during the Mesozoic, but now only a single genus and 2 species are extant. The oldest archostematan fossils are from the Permian rocks, but mostly diversified during the Mesozoic. Some extant genera including Omma have also fossil records from Cretaceous-aged sediments. Only a single species of Anaxyelidae is still extant, Syntexis libocedrii, aka Cedar Wood Wasp. This species prefers laying eggs at some species of recently-burnt trees, but we don't know whether its Mesozoic cousins preferred something similar. Nannochorista is the only remaining genus of Nannochoristidae. Like other mecopterans, they were diverse during the Mesozoic. Diversity loss in the Mecoptera is perhaps caused by several different reasons, including floral change and new competitors during the mid-Cretaceous.
December 18, 2024 at 9:23 AM
hourlyspecies.bsky.social
Genus/Species: Mecoptera
Subtitle: Scorpionflies and hangingflies
Image of Mecoptera
April 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
nazihfares.com
A first of its kind military drone made in Ankara, Turkiye, the Mecoptera comes with high precision machine gun that carry more than 200 rounds of ammunition and can fire single shots or 15-round bursts. A new strike to wreak havoc in the game! #gamedev
July 26, 2023 at 6:06 AM
gbifmorpho.bsky.social
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: First record of the insect order Mecoptera (Hexapoda) from Uruguay (10 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/effd39fb-e5e4-422e-b2b5-a0a2cd6fb1b4
August 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
sharkeee.bsky.social
Tonight I’m sharing a #fridayfly
In fact its 2, these are both male mecoptera aka Scorpion flies. They usually only use their tail claspers in courtship, making this behaviour I think, unusual.
#entomology #diptera #ukwildlife #nature
November 15, 2024 at 9:22 PM
plazi-species.bsky.social
#NewSpecies!
New scorpionfly from #china just flew in:

Dicerapanorpa dajinhuang

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/0393DC77-...
Publication: doi.org/10.5852/ejt....
#ejtaxonomy #DicerapanorpaDajinhuang

#FAIRdata
#biology #ecology #nature #conservation #entomology #insects #mecoptera #scorpionfly
June 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
paleobyliam.bsky.social
I've gone down a bit of a rabbit hole with the flora/fauna of Jurassic China. Off the top of my head, other insect groups you could include in your Jurassic #paleoart: caddisflies, beetles, water boatmen, mayflies, lacewings, cockroaches, snakeflies, scorpionflies etc.
Jurassic scorpionflies (Mecoptera) with swollen first metatarsal segments suggesting sexual dimorphism [Zhang et al. 2021] Figure 3 The first fossil wedge-shaped beetle (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae) from the middle Jurassic of China [Hsiao et al. 2017] Figure 6 The early assemblage of Middle–Late Jurassic Yanliao biota; checklist, bibliography and statistical analysis of described taxa from the Daohugou beds and coeval deposits (Lian et al. 2021) Figure 3 Illustration by Dinghua Yang for The first Sharephemeridae (Insecta; Ephemeroptera) from the Jurassic Shiti Formation of South China [Zhang et al. 2022]
January 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
camargos.bsky.social
Um belo panorpídeo #insetosdaalemanha
#mecoptera
#inseto
Um inseto com antenas medianas, asas longas com manchas escuras em algumas veias. Ele está sobre as folhas de alguma erva
May 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
awenninger.bsky.social
On today's episode of Moss Makeover, a moss-covered boulder gets brushed by an entomologist who decided to take a quick look for Boreus snow scorpionflies during a fishing trip. Sadly she did not find any Boreus but this moss looks really great. #entomology #mecoptera #Alaska 🧪
A woman is standing next to a mossy boulder holding a white tray with one hand and raking the moss with her fingers using the other hand. The landscape is springtime in an Alaska coastal rainforest; some snow patches remain and the trees haven't yet leafed out but the moss is very green.
March 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
arnoldtortoise.bsky.social
Can only quote - "Primary and secondary parasites. Major hosts: braconids infesting aphids (secondary parasitism), Neuroptera, predatory gall midges, coccids, Mecoptera, gall wasps, and ladybirds."
May 8, 2024 at 8:08 AM
saimihanma.bsky.social
I'm pretty sure the third photo are scorpionflies!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecoptera

I don't know if this is the species, but it's found in Japan, and one that I drew last week.
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/356377-...
Common Japanese Scorpionfly (Panorpa japonica)
Panorpa japonica, the common Japanese scorpionfly, is recognized for its translucent wings with two black bands. It has a sleek, entirely black body and a distinctive curved snout as long as its thora...
www.inaturalist.org
May 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
atila.bsky.social
RT @gmgmorais: @oatila O (a) Mecoptera é um escorpião que voa? #Perguntatila
April 2, 2015 at 10:39 PM
gbifmorpho.bsky.social
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Three new species of Mecoptera (Insecta, Antliophora) from Yunnan, China (7 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/3a6cf183-8a87-4fc2-9223-8746306b8004
July 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
dudefromearth.bsky.social
11-16-24
Nuptial Scorpionfly
(Panorpa nuptialis)
Lick Creek Park
College Station, TX

#tx #texas #nature #nikon #nikond7500 #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #Wildlife #arthropods #entomology #Mecoptera #Scorpionflies #NuptialScorpionfly #Panorpidae #Panorpinae #Panorpa
March 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
jhemiptera.bsky.social
1. Mecoptera

This group with unique proboscis, related to flies and fleas(Perhaps includes the latter) were very diversified until the mid-Cretaceous, and it is suggested that they took an important role in the pollination of gymnosperms, before the bees or butterflies.
Most mecopteran families are only known with fossil records, including this Mesopsychid, Lichnomesopsyche. Fossils of mesopsychids are known from the late-Permian to the mid-Cretaceous. Image from Lin et al. 2016.
October 20, 2024 at 1:15 PM
stephenbheard.bsky.social
For #FossilFriday, how about some insects from the collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna? Sure, anyone can have a honking big dinosaur; but look at these lovelies! A dragonfly, a cockroach, a grasshopper, and a hangingfly.
A dragonfly fossil, Coreogomphus tuberculatus, from Brazil; a single dragonfly on a slab of light beige stone. A cockroach fossil, Blattoidea indet., from Brazil. Dark brown but somewhat squashed, on a round slab of light beige stone. Grasshopper fossil, Orthoptera indet., dark brown in side view on a whitish slab of stone. Hangingfly fossil (Mecoptera indet.) from China, in light brown on a light grey slab. Above it is a Chinese print of a pair of copulating hangingflies, with their long gangly legs.
August 23, 2024 at 2:17 PM
natur-in-nrw.bsky.social
Skorpionsfliegen sehen mit ihrem "Pferdegesicht" schon sehr außergewöhnlich aus. Sie gehören weder zu den Skorpionen noch zu den Fliegen, sondern zu den Schnabelfliegen.

#artenvielfalt #natur #nature #insekten #Schnabelfliegen #Mecoptera #Skorpionsfliegen #Panorpidae
Nahaufnahme einer Deutschen Skorpionsfliege (Panorpa germanica) auf einem dünnen Pflanzenstängel vor unscharfem grünem Hintergrund. Das bernsteinfarbene Insekt zeigt seinen charakteristischen verlängerten Kopf mit den großen dunklen Facettenaugen und den langen Fühlern. Das Tier sitzt mit seinen schlanken Beinen auf einem Grashalm. Die Makroaufnahme betont die filigranen Details der Skorpionsfliege in ihrer natürlichen Umgebung.
September 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM