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  1. Romance isn't dead. A new paper argues that a species of wood-eating cockroaches (_Salganea taiwanensis_) pair-bond by eating each other's wings. Then they defend their nest and care for their children all their lives.

    📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251992 :OpenAccess:
    📰 News story: npr.org/2026/03/18/nx-s1-57494

    (via @globalmuseum)

    #bugstodon #entomology #cockroaches #Blattodea #Blaberidae

  2. Two winged Fungus-growing Termites (Subfamily Macrotermitinae) spotted in the water at MacRitchie Reservoir Park, Singapore on 23 March 2025. I don't usually see these termites.

    On iNaturalist:
    - inaturalist.org/observations/2
    - inaturalist.org/observations/2

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Termites #Blattodea

  3. Two winged Fungus-growing Termites (Subfamily Macrotermitinae) spotted in the water at MacRitchie Reservoir Park, Singapore on 23 March 2025. I don't usually see these termites.

    On iNaturalist:
    - inaturalist.org/observations/2
    - inaturalist.org/observations/2

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Termites #Blattodea

  4. Two winged Fungus-growing Termites (Subfamily Macrotermitinae) spotted in the water at MacRitchie Reservoir Park, Singapore on 23 March 2025. I don't usually see these termites.

    On iNaturalist:
    - inaturalist.org/observations/2
    - inaturalist.org/observations/2

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Termites #Blattodea

  5. Two winged Fungus-growing Termites (Subfamily Macrotermitinae) spotted in the water at MacRitchie Reservoir Park, Singapore on 23 March 2025. I don't usually see these termites.

    On iNaturalist:
    - inaturalist.org/observations/2
    - inaturalist.org/observations/2

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Termites #Blattodea

  6. Some termites, genus Hospitalitermes, spotted moving objects along a tree branch at MacRitchie Reservoir Park, Singapore on 2 Feb 2025. There were, of course, a lot more termites moving about.

    These termites are quite common in nature areas.

    On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/2 ].

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Termites #Blattodea

  7. A Giant Cockroach, Pseudophoraspis nebulosa, spotted at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park, Singapore on 24 Dec 2023. It has a lovely patterning on its back. The second shot shows a close-up of the partially transparent shell over its head.

    This is a forest cockroach and, I believe, never found in houses.

    On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/1 ]

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Insects #Cockroaches #Blattodea

  8. Haven't even gotten around to IDing stuff yet, too tired to hashtag assiduously, but here's just a few finds!

    - this gorgeous damselfly, I just went real slow to get close enough with the macro lens
    - lots of these cockroaches, native _Parcoblatta_ I think
    - an extremely pregegnant ant-mimic jumping spider, _Synemosyne_ I think
    - lots of huuuge isopods!

    #bugstodon #insects #damselflies #cockroach #cockroaches #spiders #JumpingSpiders #isopods#Odonata #Zygoptera #Blattodea #Ectobiidae #Araneae #Salticidae #Isopoda

  9. Dusky Cockroach, Ectobius lapponicus Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/4 1/320 iso: 640 Milovice, Czech Republic June 11, 2023 #Cockroach #Blattodea #inects #invertebrates #macro #woodlands