#bluebugs — Public Fediverse posts

We're doing #bluebugs for #bluemonday? Yay! Here's a bluetiful dolichopodid fly! These guys are fun to watch. They're not very shy, and will come back to the same spot again and again. They're little predators who catch smaller flying insects.

#fly #flies #diptera #insects #dolichopodidae #nature #photography.

@nev

I saw some of them for the first time this past summer. So cool! They were only on one particular shrub growing off the sidewalk and it was crawling with them. #BlueMonday #BlueBugs

For today's #BlueBugs hashtag, I offer the NZ Southern Blue, Zizina oxleyi, seen on the campus of #LincolnUniversityNZ.

Students have been counting butterflies in our second year biodiversity class since 2014, using #iNaturalist. They've shown that blues were rare on campus, until one of our big earthquake damaged buildings was demolished and fenced off, making a large wild gravel area for the butterflies to live. That's largely tidied up now.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/146720321

#insects #butterflies

Saw the #BlueBugs hashtag floating around and this ink-blue _Chalybion_ mud dauber immediately came to mind!

:inaturalist: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/123658567

#BlueMonday #wasps #MudDaubers #ArthroBeauty

Carabus intricatus
Freiburg, Germany

#BlueMonday #BlueBugs

#bluebugs for #BlueMonday