#blattodea — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blattodea, aggregated by home.social.
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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: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251992 :OpenAccess:
📰 News story: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/18/nx-s1-5749488/cockroach-pair-bonding-relationships-wing-eating(via @globalmuseum)
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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 [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/260360911 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Termites #Blattodea
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Forgot to share this one yesterday.
Ectobius sp.
Published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2rd4Ez1
#Blattodea #Ectobiidae #Ectobiinae #Ectobius #Pentax #Macro #Cockroach #Animal #Wildlife #Nature #Mywork #Photography
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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