#arthropods โ Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #arthropods, aggregated by home.social.
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๐๐ปโโ๏ธ TIL: ๐ฆ๐ช 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.
๐ 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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๐๐ปโโ๏ธ ICYMI: ๐ฌ๐ธ Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ใบใใฉใ) 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.
๐ 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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๐๐ปโโ๏ธ ICYMI: ๐ฌ๐ธ Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ใบใใฉใ) 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.
๐ 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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๐๐ปโโ๏ธ ICYMI: ๐ฌ๐ธ Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ใบใใฉใ) 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.
๐ 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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๐๐ปโโ๏ธ NEW: ๐ฌ๐ธ Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ใบใใฉใ) 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.
๐ 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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CW: Bee balm now with bee! (Pic of a bumblebee, plus an unknown (to me) insect)
There are always bees in the bee balm โ today I got lucky and got pic of one. Here's a bumblebee friend foraging in the sunshine.
Also, a new-to-me insect encounter. Anyone know who this little guy is?
#natureJournal #pollinators #bees #bumblebee #insects #arthropods #bugstadon
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Fiery Skipper (Hylephila phyleus)
A small butterfly visits a business' flower garden.
iNaturalist link [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/384400699 ]
#FierySkipper #Butterfly #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
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Huron Skipper (Atalopedes huron)
A couple of a few small butterflies visits a business' flower garden.
iNaturalist links [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/384400697 ] [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/384400695 ]
#HuronSkipper #Butterfly #Insect #Insects #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Tulsa #Oklahoma #iNaturalist
