#arthropods — Public Fediverse posts
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Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus)
I hard time continuing my park walk after spotting this beautiful wasp. The link has more pics.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/397249647 ]
#GreatGoldenDiggerWasp #Wasp #Polistes #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus)
I hard time continuing my park walk after spotting this beautiful wasp. The link has more pics.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/397249647 ]
#GreatGoldenDiggerWasp #Wasp #Polistes #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus)
I hard time continuing my park walk after spotting this beautiful wasp. The link has more pics.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/397249647 ]
#GreatGoldenDiggerWasp #Wasp #Polistes #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus)
I hard time continuing my park walk after spotting this beautiful wasp. The link has more pics.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/397249647 ]
#GreatGoldenDiggerWasp #Wasp #Polistes #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus)
I hard time continuing my park walk after spotting this beautiful wasp. The link has more pics.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/397249647 ]
#GreatGoldenDiggerWasp #Wasp #Polistes #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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(Euodynerus crypticus)
Always look down, you might just find a cool species.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/397249663 ]
#EuodynerusCrypticus #Wasp #Polistes #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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(Euodynerus crypticus)
Always look down, you might just find a cool species.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/397249663 ]
#EuodynerusCrypticus #Wasp #Polistes #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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(Euodynerus crypticus)
Always look down, you might just find a cool species.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/397249663 ]
#EuodynerusCrypticus #Wasp #Polistes #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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(Euodynerus crypticus)
Always look down, you might just find a cool species.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/397249663 ]
#EuodynerusCrypticus #Wasp #Polistes #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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(Euodynerus crypticus)
Always look down, you might just find a cool species.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/397249663 ]
#EuodynerusCrypticus #Wasp #Polistes #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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Metric Paper Wasp (Polistes metricus)
Always look down, you might just find a new friend.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/395259294 ]
#MetricPaperWasp #Wasp #Polistes #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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Variegated Meadowhawk (Sympetrum corruptum)
I had to stop and photo this dragonfly that landed on a metal post.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/395259290 ]
#VariegatedMeadowhawk #Dragonfly #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦗🪐 A 324-million-year-old fossil from West #Texas, collected in 1985 and shelved in a #museum drawer for decades, was recently reexamined under polarized light and identified as "Chosha praecursor", an #insect ancestor with 24 legs. Nine pairs of paddle-like limbs may have helped it swim or scuttle through shallow seas.
👉 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/insects-fossil-record-24-legs
#evolution #fossils #paleontology #science #hexapods #prehistoric #nature #wildlife #news #naturalhistory #arthropods
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There were 10 species of arthropods: a bee fly species with many individuals, two of parasitic wasps (one of them superb: metallic red, blue and green, likely Succinta sp.: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/393282112 ), two bees, two beetles, one ant, a true bug and a spider.
All of them:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2026-08-20&d2=2026-08-21&user_id=albertcardonaQuite some diversity for such a short sampling of a single tiny cluster of bushes by the sea.
#iNaturalist #entomology #arthropods
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.
These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimushi-sminthurides-springtails-video
#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.
These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimushi-sminthurides-springtails-video
#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.
These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimushi-sminthurides-springtails-video
#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ NEW: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.
These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimushi-sminthurides-springtails-video
#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video
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this week's feature in #CurrentBiology is about counting #insects. Just how many #species are there, and how on Earth does one arrive at a reasonable estimate for that number? Also: new species discoveries, population declines. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-many-insects-are-there.html
#science #ecology #evolution #environment #arthropods #invertebrates -
Finally, a #centipede!
People are scared when one of these fellows runs across the floor. However I think they're fascinating. This one here is a smaller species, but its relative, the Mediterraenean banded centipede, can grow to lengths up to ~18 centimetres.
#photography #nature #arthropods #centipedes #Greece #Angistri
(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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📖 Further reading: The study underlines the need to re-examine the #paleoecology of these fascinating #arthropods and that additional discoveries like Polonolimulus may led to further revisions in our understanding of the #habitat and early #diversification of this group. Full paper can be found here in #OpenAccess for everyone to read: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20950 #fossils #paleobiology #paleontology #evolution
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Another exciting preprint by @nextstrain, with one of the coolest animals out there, the horseshoe crab! #EvoDevo #HorseshoeCrab #Arthropods
https://bsky.app/profile/nextstrain.bsky.social/post/3mfwrrjxbmk2f -
#Trilobites were primeval #arthropods, still unknown whether they belong to the ancestor lineage of #Chelicerata or all #Euarthropada. Besides their body segmentation, they possess #compoundeyes. #Asaphus #kowalewskii lived in the Ordovician and had #stalkedeyes, allowing it an overview of its surroundings even when covered with sediment.
©#StefanFWirthI seriously depend on support, buy me a coffee
https://ko-fi.com/sfwirthReading
B.Schoenemann (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2021.101032Pics
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Common Shiny Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus)
#Woodlouse #Crustacean #Isopod #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Isopods #Isopoda #Woodlice #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
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Common Sea Slater (Ligia oceanica)
#SeaSlater #Crustacean #SeaLife #MarineLife #Woodlouse #Isopod #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Isopods #Isopoda #Woodlice #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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Common Sea Slater (Ligia oceanica)
#SeaSlater #SeaLife #MarineLife #Woodlouse #Crustacean #Isopod #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Isopods #Isopoda #Woodlice #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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there's a mysterious
marine chelicerate
that's got nine eyes
but don't lose any sleep
those nine eyes
can't form images
of you or me or anything
in the deep blue seathere's a mysterious
marine chelicerate
that's got spikes
on five pairs of thighs
but don't lose any sleep
all those spikes
just break up food
so it can eatit's not closely related to crabs
it's not closely related to horses
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Apologies for the poor pictures, but here's a little bee-mimicking robber fly, after and before catching a tiny bee for dinner. I followed this wily hunter around for quite a while, and he wasn't pleased with my interference so he didn't let me get very close.
#fly #flies #FlyFriday #asilidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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CW: Mosquito macro
Its Friday! Here's one of my local dengue vectors. If you know the genus or species, please tell me.
#FlyDay #Diptera #SriLanka #Insects #Arthropods #Culicinae #Culicidae #Mosquito
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A mosquito, gathering a blood meal from a knuckle of the hand that wasn't holding the camera. I admire her white tufts and bristly antennae.
#fly #flies #mosquitos #culicidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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Round two, poll five of the #CAMBRIANSMACKDOWN!
Hallucigenia vs. Fortiforceps
A graphic with visuals of our contestants will be posted in the replies.
Please boost for reach so that we can see who the best #Cambrian era critter is!
#Poll #Polls #Tournament #Bracket #CambrianExplosion #Arthropod #Arthropods #Fossil #Fossils #Extinct #Silly #Prehistoric #Paleo #Paleontology #Hallucigenia #HallucigeniaSparsa #Fortiforceps #FortiforcepsFoliosa -
Round one, poll nine of the #CAMBRIANSMACKDOWN!
#HALLUCIGENIA vs. #AEGIROCASSIS
Graphic with visuals of our fighters in the replies! Propaganda and boosts are encouraged!
#Poll #Tournament #Bracket #Cambrian #CambrianExplosion #Arthropods -
Presenting: THE #CAMBRIANSMACKDOWN! A silly Tumblr style bracket. I will create a series of polls to determine which screwy looking Cambrian era critter is perceived as the coolest on Mastodon!
Polls will start at 7 days long.
Depending on how well-received this is, the polls may shorten in length.
Polls coming soon. Enjoy. This thread will be for bracket updates rather than the polls.
#Anomalocaris #Yohoia #Amplectobelua #Skania #Stanleycaris #Siberion #Ramskoeldia #Wiwaxia #Kylinxia #Marrella #Balhuticaris #Megadictyon #Leanchoilia #Jianshanopodia #Jianfengia #Hurdia #Hallucigenia #Aegirocassis #Cambroraster #Fortiforceps #Alalcomenaeus #Haikoucaris #Erratus #Surusicaris #Fengzhengia #Isoxys #Paradoxides #Titanokorys #Utaurora #Canadaspis #Tuzoia #Opabinia #Cambrian #Arthropod #Arthropods #Animal #Fossil #Fossils #Poll #Polls #Bracket #Tournament -
Mighty #Anomalocaris stirs, spreading dust and terror throughout the #Cambrian sea. #Opabinia, #Hallucigenia, #Pikaia, #Canadia, #Burgessia, #Marella, and #Elrathia can only hope the rocks and ridges they cover behind will hide them.
Inspired by a display at the Naturkunde Museum Stuttgart that perfectly showed off the difference in size between Cambrian critters. At 40 cm, Anomalocaris was a leviathan.
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A tiny robber fly enjoying a snack.
#fly #flies #asilidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #nature #photography
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the crushing disappointment when you think you've found a bunch of big juicy mites and it's just some fucking beetles. no offence beetle people.
(there was one mite tho)
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I like all flies, but some are less favorite than others. Here's a perfectly adequate treehole mosquito on my hand.
#fly #flies #FlyFriday #culicidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #nature #photography #macrophotography
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A large, bristly robber fly, no doubt up to no good.
#fly #flies #asilidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #nature #photography
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A tiny "gnat ogre" (a kind of robber fly) perches on the tip of a twig while waiting for dinner (a gnat, or similar-sized insect) to fly by. While he waits, an even tinier red mite snacks on HIM.
#fly #flies #diptera #asilidae #insects #arthropods #nature #photography
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A Common Mormon butterfly stops for a sip of nectar, from bougainvillea blossoms growing near a construction site.
Such is the dichotomy of life in Mumbai , where wildlife manages to eke out a living, even in the face of development.
📸 10 MAR 2022 near Bhandup, Mumbai.
#wildlife #arthropods #insects #pollinators #butterflies #urbanwildlife #Mumbai #butterfly #cityforest
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Scarlet skimmer (Crocothemis servilia) ♂️
A stunning orange-red #dragonfly which breeds in many #ponds, #lakes, ditches, and marshlands of Mumbai city.
📸 1 SEP 2022 (17:59 hrs.), near #Powai #lake, inside #IIT #Bombay campus, #Mumbai.
#dragonflytales #Odonata #insectsofmastodon #insects #Arthropods #wildlife #UrbanNature #CityForest