#arthropods — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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

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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

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)

European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)

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

GARDEN COLUMN: Do you have “good bugs” in your yard? | Community https://www.allforgardening.com/1734015/garden-column-do-you-have-good-bugs-in-your-yard-community-2/ #animals #Ant #aphid #arthropods #beetle #biology #botany #bug #caterpillar #coccinellidae #dragonfly #entomology #Fly #food #garden #GardenSpider #gardener #gardening #hemiptera #hexapoda #insect #insects #InsectsAndHumans #invertebrates #Kingdoms(biology) #LadybirdBeetle #mosquito #organisms #Pest(organism) #pollinator #predation #spider #TrapDoorSpider #wasp #Zoology

GARDEN COLUMN: Do you have “good bugs” in your yard? | Community https://www.allforgardening.com/1734015/garden-column-do-you-have-good-bugs-in-your-yard-community-2/ #animals #Ant #aphid #arthropods #beetle #biology #botany #bug #caterpillar #coccinellidae #dragonfly #entomology #Fly #food #garden #GardenSpider #gardener #gardening #hemiptera #hexapoda #insect #insects #InsectsAndHumans #invertebrates #Kingdoms(biology) #LadybirdBeetle #mosquito #organisms #Pest(organism) #pollinator #predation #spider #TrapDoorSpider #wasp #Zoology

I just saw the first house centipede of the year in the family room. Next up: wolf spiders in the garage.

#centipedes #arthropods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata

Americorchestia sp.

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

Yes, I worry a lot about this.

#insects #BiodiversityDecline #InsectDecline #arthropods #environment

Even untouched ecosystems are losing insects at alarming rates, new study finds https://phys.org/news/2025-09-untouched-ecosystems-insects-alarming.html

I totally forgot it was time for a new episode of @KateShaw 's podcast, only to find out it's about one of the best animals ever, millipedes!!

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/25/episode-447-so-many-legs/

#fossils
#millipedeMonday
#arthropods
#arthropleura
#centipedes

The mystery eggs have hatched! Look at the little i1 slings. So cute! I wonder which species they are!

#spiders #salticidae #slings #eggsac #entomology #arachnology #jumpingspider #invertebrates #arthropods #arachnid #australia

GARDEN COLUMN: Do you have “good bugs” in your yard? | Community https://www.allforgardening.com/1299598/garden-column-do-you-have-good-bugs-in-your-yard-community/ #animals #ant... #aphid #arthropods #beetle #biology #botany #bug #caterpillar #coccinellidae #dragonfly #entomology #Fly #food #garden #GardenSpider #gardening #GardeningCanada #hemiptera #hexapoda #insect #insects #InsectsAndHumans #Kingdoms(biology) #LadybirdBeetle #mosquito #organisms #Pest(organism) #pollinator #predation #spider #TrapDoorSpider #wasp #Zoology

GARDEN COLUMN: Do you have “good bugs” in your yard? | Community https://www.allforgardening.com/1299598/garden-column-do-you-have-good-bugs-in-your-yard-community/ #animals #ant... #aphid #arthropods #beetle #biology #botany #bug #caterpillar #coccinellidae #dragonfly #entomology #Fly #food #garden #GardenSpider #gardening #GardeningCanada #hemiptera #hexapoda #insect #insects #InsectsAndHumans #Kingdoms(biology) #LadybirdBeetle #mosquito #organisms #Pest(organism) #pollinator #predation #spider #TrapDoorSpider #wasp #Zoology

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."

Here's a video with some narration about the "#ant porch" I got from undergroundCiti a few weeks back. It has a little water mote and lets you interact with the ants close up and take photos. I might modify it to have its own lighting system. There is so such thing as "too much light" when photographing ants.

Enjoy! and let me know what you think.

#antvideo #ants #camponotus #antkeeping #cutebabies #arthropods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmwHW7f5Pgs

The final pic relating to this slime mold scene is of a bristly millipede (Polyxenus lagurus, I think), a group I had never heard of before. They have detachable rear bristles that apparently function like grappling hooks and can be deployed against ants and spiders. Details of that in linked paper if you need more. #millipedes #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae #arthropods #nature #biology
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.93.20.10848.