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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…

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/robber-fly/

📅 29 avril 2012

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

#Animals #Arthropods #Insects #Photography

#animals #arthropods #insects #photography

Nicolas Hoizey @[email protected] · 2026-09-08 · 16:35 UTC

“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…

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/robber-fly/

📅 29 avril 2012

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

#Animals #Arthropods #Insects #Photography

#animals #arthropods #insects #photography

Nicolas Hoizey @[email protected] · 2026-09-08 · 16:35 UTC

“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…

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/robber-fly/

📅 29 avril 2012

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

#Animals #Arthropods #Insects #Photography

#photography #insects #arthropods #animals

Nicolas Hoizey @[email protected] · 2026-09-08 · 16:35 UTC

“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…

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/robber-fly/

📅 29 avril 2012

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

#Animals #Arthropods #Insects #Photography

#animals #arthropods #insects #photography

Nicolas Hoizey @[email protected] · 2026-09-08 · 16:35 UTC

“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…

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/robber-fly/

📅 29 avril 2012

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

#Animals #Arthropods #Insects #Photography

#animals #arthropods #insects #photography

Theramansi 🏳️‍🌈🦁✊🏽💉'd @[email protected] · 2026-09-04 · 21:01 UTC

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

#greatgoldendiggerwasp #wasp #polistes #insect #insects #arthropods

Theramansi 🏳️‍🌈🦁✊🏽💉'd @[email protected] · 2026-09-04 · 20:39 UTC

(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

#euodyneruscrypticus #wasp #polistes #insect #insects #arthropods

Theramansi 🏳️‍🌈🦁✊🏽💉'd @[email protected] · 2026-08-28 · 20:09 UTC

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

#metricpaperwasp #wasp #polistes #insect #insects #arthropods

Theramansi 🏳️‍🌈🦁✊🏽💉'd @[email protected] · 2026-08-28 · 19:49 UTC

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

#variegatedmeadowhawk #dragonfly #insect #insects #arthropods #animal

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @[email protected] · 2026-08-27 · 15:30 UTC

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

#texas #museum #insect #evolution #fossils #paleontology

Albert Cardona @[email protected] · 2026-08-22 · 21:39 UTC

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=albertcardona

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

#iNaturalist #entomology #arthropods

2/3

#arthropods #entomology #inaturalist

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @[email protected] · 2026-08-17 · 09:00 UTC

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

#nature #springtails #teleportation #animals #arthropods #biology

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @[email protected] · 2026-08-16 · 10:00 UTC

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

#nature #springtails #teleportation #animals #arthropods #biology

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @[email protected] · 2026-08-15 · 10:00 UTC

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

#nature #springtails #teleportation #animals #arthropods #biology

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @[email protected] · 2026-08-14 · 22:47 UTC

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

#nature #springtails #teleportation #animals #arthropods #biology

kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮ 🖖 @[email protected] · 2026-08-01 · 21:32 UTC

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)

#centipede #photography #nature #arthropods #greece #angistri

Anson @[email protected] · 2026-03-30 · 08:49 UTC

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

#centipedes #arthropods

Marc Robinson-Rechavi @[email protected] · 2026-03-02 · 13:53 UTC

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

#evodevo #horseshoecrab #arthropods

ReallyCanadianFly @[email protected] · 2025-09-10 · 18:25 UTC

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

#insects #biodiversitydecline #insectdecline #arthropods #environment

llewelly @[email protected] · 2025-08-25 · 20:14 UTC

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

#fossils #millipedemonday #arthropods #arthropleura #centipedes

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺 @[email protected] · 2025-04-09 · 08:57 UTC

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

"#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."

#fossil #evolution #helmetia #arthropods #trilobites #burgessshale

llewelly @[email protected] · 2025-01-16 · 20:41 UTC

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

#poetry #xiphosuran #horseshoecrab #arthropods

AutisticMumTo3 She/her @[email protected] · 2023-09-28 · 23:03 UTC

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

#microbes #necrobiome #autolysis #gutbacteria #clostridia #putrefaction