#arthropods — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🛩️🪰 Male #dragonflies engage in aerial dogfights to defend territory, using simple visual rules like fighter pilots.

Researchers in the #UK used stereoscopic cameras to reconstruct 3D flight paths of the scarlet Trithemis aurora dragonfly. The #insects pull up to 6 Gs and compete for tail chase positioning rather than intercepting like they do with prey.

👉 https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/dragonflies-maneuver-like-fighter-pilots/

#flight #biomechanics #animals #science #nature #biomimicry #drones #research #royalsociety #arthropods

European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)

#Crab #SeaLife #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #MarineLife #Decapoda #Decapods #Crustacea #Crustaceans #Crustacean #Arthropod #Arthropods #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

Americorchestia sp.

#Sandhopper #Talitridae #Amphipod #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Amphipoda #Crustacean #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Arthropod #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

Your microbes live on after you die − a microbiologist explains how your necrobiome recycles your body to nourish new life - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/your-microbes-live-on-after-you-die-a-microbiologist-explains-how-your-necrobiome-recycles-your-body-to-nourish-new-life-2665753971

via Alternative News ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.pinenuts.altrastampa )

#Microbes
#Necrobiome
#Autolysis
#GutBacteria
#Clostridia
#Putrefaction
#Death
#SoilMicrobes
#Oxygen
#Nitrogen
#Decomposers
#Ammonium
#Nitrate
#Carbon
#Fauna
#Arthropods
#Insects

Feeding traces on #fossil leaves help #researchers identify factors leading to enormous #herbivore diversity https://phys.org/news/2023-08-fossil-factors-enormous-herbivore-diversity.html

#FossilLeaves reveal drivers of herbivore functional diversity during the #Cenozoic https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300514120

"the diversity of #herbivorous #insects evolved over the last 60 million years primarily through the shared use of food #plants. The results are based on the analysis of feeding traces left by #arthropods on more than 45,000 fossil leaves."