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  1. “Robber Fly”

    Is that close enough? 😅

    Though it doesn't look like a standard fly, the Robber Fly is actually a fly.

    The sheer size of the insect can alarm people unfamiliar with it, but the loud buzzing it creates by furiously beating its wings can be more disturbing.

    Flying insects like wasps, bees, beetles, and even other flies are all…

    🔎 nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/ro

    📅 29 avril 2012

    📸 Canon 5D II + 100mm macro
    🎛️ ISO 2500, ƒ/10, 1/80 s

    #Animals #Arthropods #Insects #Photography

  2. “Robber Fly”

    Is that close enough? 😅

    Though it doesn't look like a standard fly, the Robber Fly is actually a fly.

    The sheer size of the insect can alarm people unfamiliar with it, but the loud buzzing it creates by furiously beating its wings can be more disturbing.

    Flying insects like wasps, bees, beetles, and even other flies are all…

    🔎 nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/ro

    📅 29 avril 2012

    📸 Canon 5D II + 100mm macro
    🎛️ ISO 2500, ƒ/10, 1/80 s

    #Animals #Arthropods #Insects #Photography

  3. “Robber Fly”

    Is that close enough? 😅

    Though it doesn't look like a standard fly, the Robber Fly is actually a fly.

    The sheer size of the insect can alarm people unfamiliar with it, but the loud buzzing it creates by furiously beating its wings can be more disturbing.

    Flying insects like wasps, bees, beetles, and even other flies are all…

    🔎 nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/ro

    📅 29 avril 2012

    📸 Canon 5D II + 100mm macro
    🎛️ ISO 2500, ƒ/10, 1/80 s

    #Animals #Arthropods #Insects #Photography

  4. “Robber Fly”

    Is that close enough? 😅

    Though it doesn't look like a standard fly, the Robber Fly is actually a fly.

    The sheer size of the insect can alarm people unfamiliar with it, but the loud buzzing it creates by furiously beating its wings can be more disturbing.

    Flying insects like wasps, bees, beetles, and even other flies are all…

    🔎 nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/ro

    📅 29 avril 2012

    📸 Canon 5D II + 100mm macro
    🎛️ ISO 2500, ƒ/10, 1/80 s

    #Animals #Arthropods #Insects #Photography

  5. “Robber Fly”

    Is that close enough? 😅

    Though it doesn't look like a standard fly, the Robber Fly is actually a fly.

    The sheer size of the insect can alarm people unfamiliar with it, but the loud buzzing it creates by furiously beating its wings can be more disturbing.

    Flying insects like wasps, bees, beetles, and even other flies are all…

    🔎 nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/ro

    📅 29 avril 2012

    📸 Canon 5D II + 100mm macro
    🎛️ ISO 2500, ƒ/10, 1/80 s

    #Animals #Arthropods #Insects #Photography

  6. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 sciencenews.org/article/insect

    #evolution #fossils #paleontology #science #hexapods #prehistoric #nature #wildlife #news #naturalhistory #arthropods

  7. 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.: inaturalist.org/observations/3 ), two bees, two beetles, one ant, a true bug and a spider.

    All of them:
    inaturalist.org/observations?d

    Quite some diversity for such a short sampling of a single tiny cluster of bushes by the sea.

    #iNaturalist #entomology #arthropods

    2/3

  8. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu

    #animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

  9. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu

    #animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

  10. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu

    #animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

  11. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu

    #animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

  12. 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)

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

    #centipedes #arthropods

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutiger

  14. Ancient #fossil sheds big light on #evolution enigma, solving a 100-year arthropod mystery
    phys.org/news/2025-04-ancient-

    "#Helmetia expansa belongs to a rare group of early #arthropods called concilitergans, close relatives of #trilobites. Unlike trilobites, concilitergans lacked calcified exoskeletons, so their remains only fossilized under exceptional conditions—like those in the 508-million-year-old #BurgessShale of Canada, where even soft tissues like guts, legs, and gills were preserved."

  15. 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 sea

    there'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 eat

    it's not closely related to crabs
    it's not closely related to horses
    and not even related to shoes

    #poetry
    #xiphosuran
    #horseShoeCrab
    #arthropods

  16. Round one, poll sixteen of the #CAMBRIANSMACKDOWN!
    #TUZOIA vs. #OPABINIA
    Graphic with visuals of our fighters in the replies! Propaganda and boosts are encouraged!
    #Poll #Tournament #Bracket #Cambrian #CambrianExplosion #Arthropods