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'Zirkus' #FotoVorschlag

ich sehe ja in dem muster auf dem

Vierzehnpunkt-Marienkäfer
Propylea quatuordecimpunctata
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vierzehnpunkt-Marienk%C3%A4fer

ein clownsgesicht, einerseits freundlich dreinblickend, andererseits bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher ob das nicht doch vielleicht ein gruselclown ist

#insekten #insects #kaefer #krabbeltierchen #BugOfTheDay #LadyBug #bugstodon #nature #biodiversity #entomology

'Optische Täuschung' #FotoVorschlag

tarnung ist ja an sich eine form der täuschung, oft eine optische. und hier fühlt es sich beim betrachten auch wie eine an, hirnverzwirbelnd

Marmorierte Baumwanze
Halyomorpha halys
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmorierte_Baumwanze

#insekten #insects #BugOfTheDay #bugstodon #krabbeltierchen #wanze #tarnung #camouflage #nature #biodiversity #entomology

Earlier this year we had over 30 Queen Butterflies eclose in our yard! 😍 Here’s my Perpetual Journal art chronicling this excitement! I also posted 3 Butterfly success stories with photos on my blog https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/lots-and-lots-of-queen-butterflies

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly

Earlier this year we had over 30 Queen Butterflies eclose in our yard! 😍 Here’s my Perpetual Journal art chronicling this excitement! I also posted 3 Butterfly success stories with photos on my blog https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/lots-and-lots-of-queen-butterflies

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly

Earlier this year we had over 30 Queen Butterflies eclose in our yard! 😍 Here’s my Perpetual Journal art chronicling this excitement! I also posted 3 Butterfly success stories with photos on my blog https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/lots-and-lots-of-queen-butterflies

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly

Earlier this year we had over 30 Queen Butterflies eclose in our yard! 😍 Here’s my Perpetual Journal art chronicling this excitement! I also posted 3 Butterfly success stories with photos on my blog https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/lots-and-lots-of-queen-butterflies

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly

Earlier this year we had over 30 Queen Butterflies eclose in our yard! 😍 Here’s my Perpetual Journal art chronicling this excitement! I also posted 3 Butterfly success stories with photos on my blog https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/lots-and-lots-of-queen-butterflies

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly

Here’s the 8th page of my new art project, an Illustrated Journal—my art & notes celebrating the little things in everyday life, like watching the ISS, counting chrysalises & seeing Raccoon tracks! See more on my blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/lots-and-lots-of-chrysalises

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #nature #outdoors #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #environment #ecology #flower #wildflower #BloomScrolling #poppy #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis #ISS #Raccoon

Here’s the 8th page of my new art project, an Illustrated Journal—my art & notes celebrating the little things in everyday life, like watching the ISS, counting chrysalises & seeing Raccoon tracks! See more on my blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/lots-and-lots-of-chrysalises

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #nature #outdoors #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #environment #ecology #flower #wildflower #BloomScrolling #poppy #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis #ISS #Raccoon

Here’s the 8th page of my new art project, an Illustrated Journal—my art & notes celebrating the little things in everyday life, like watching the ISS, counting chrysalises & seeing Raccoon tracks! See more on my blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/lots-and-lots-of-chrysalises

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #nature #outdoors #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #environment #ecology #flower #wildflower #BloomScrolling #poppy #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis #ISS #Raccoon

Here’s the 8th page of my new art project, an Illustrated Journal—my art & notes celebrating the little things in everyday life, like watching the ISS, counting chrysalises & seeing Raccoon tracks! See more on my blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/lots-and-lots-of-chrysalises

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #nature #outdoors #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #environment #ecology #flower #wildflower #BloomScrolling #poppy #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis #ISS #Raccoon

Here’s the 8th page of my new art project, an Illustrated Journal—my art & notes celebrating the little things in everyday life, like watching the ISS, counting chrysalises & seeing Raccoon tracks! See more on my blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/lots-and-lots-of-chrysalises

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #nature #outdoors #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #environment #ecology #flower #wildflower #BloomScrolling #poppy #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis #ISS #Raccoon

'Abgeprallt oder zerschellt' #FotoVorschlag

dieses käferlein hat eine mächtige delle im halsschild, wo der wohl dagegengelaufen oder -geflogen und abgeprallt ist?
ja, ich weiß, weit hergeholt für diesen vorschlag, aber mei 🤷

Siebenpunkt-Marienkäfer
Coccinella septempunctata
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebenpunkt-Marienk%C3%A4fer

#insekten #insects #krabbeltierchen #BugOfTheDay #kaefer #beetle #LadyBug #bugstodon #nature #biodiversity #entomology

In Oct. I painted in my Perpetual Journal 3 Queen Butterfly pupae we had then. Fast forward 3 months—now we have 🥰17 Queen Butterfly pupae🥰 on/near our Milkweeds! Maybe they’re descendants of our Oct. pupae/butterflies?

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecology #nature #outdoors #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis

Here’s my Perpetual Journal art showing a Queen Butterfly 10 minutes after it emerged (eclosed) from its chrysalis! My latest blog post has my photos of a Queen emerging 😍https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/butterfly-visitors-part-2

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecology #nature #outdoors #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis

We’ve seen a number of Sleepy Orange chrysalises & butterflies this Fall. Here’s a chrysalis (pupa) & butterfly I illustrated for my Perpetual Journal. See more of my pupa/butterfly art & excitement on my latest blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/butterfly-visitors-part-1

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecology #nature #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis

Saw this extremely convincing wasp-mimicking hoverfly, _Spilomyia_ (https://bugguide.net/node/view/3288), on the goldenrod in the garden today! Then on the way to the store saw plenty of the "model", _Ancistrocerus_ wasps (https://bugguide.net/node/view/6812), also on goldenrod.

#bugstodon #insects #wasps #flies #mimicry #Hymenoptera #Vespidae #Eumeninae #Diptera #Syrphidae #Eristalinae

Happy #FridayFlyDay from my garden!

1. A long-legged fly (family Dolichopodidae) that actually stayed still for a photo
2. A hoverfly (family Syrphidae) amid the brown-eyed Susans, methodically going from flower to flower

#bugstodon #FlyFriday #insects #flies #Diptera #Dolichopodidae #Syrphidae

Do you know what a group of Ravens is called? Here are 7 that I illustrated for my Perpetual Journal. Learn more fun collective nouns for birds on my blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/ravens-soaring-overhead

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #nature #wildflower #BloomScrolling #insect #arthropod #arachnid #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #mite #bird #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #Raven

Do you know what a group of Ravens is called? Here are 7 that I illustrated for my Perpetual Journal. Learn more fun collective nouns for birds on my blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/ravens-soaring-overhead

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #nature #wildflower #BloomScrolling #insect #arthropod #arachnid #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #mite #bird #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #Raven

Do you know what a group of Ravens is called? Here are 7 that I illustrated for my Perpetual Journal. Learn more fun collective nouns for birds on my blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/ravens-soaring-overhead

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #nature #wildflower #BloomScrolling #insect #arthropod #arachnid #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #mite #bird #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #Raven

Do you know what a group of Ravens is called? Here are 7 that I illustrated for my Perpetual Journal. Learn more fun collective nouns for birds on my blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/ravens-soaring-overhead

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #nature #wildflower #BloomScrolling #insect #arthropod #arachnid #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #mite #bird #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #Raven

Do you know what a group of Ravens is called? Here are 7 that I illustrated for my Perpetual Journal. Learn more fun collective nouns for birds on my blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/ravens-soaring-overhead

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #nature #wildflower #BloomScrolling #insect #arthropod #arachnid #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #mite #bird #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #Raven

For this #FridayFlyday: today I was browsing around trying to ID a fly and inadvertently discovered these. Ant-mimicking flies, genus _Myrmecothea_. Now I've seen it all. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/132235-Myrmecothea

Photos:
- Katja Schulz https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/139649 :CreativeCommons: :cc_by:
- Louis Burns https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/292460732 :CreativeCommons: :cc_by: :cc_nc_us:
- Jane Waters https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/18914443 :CreativeCommons: :cc_by: :cc_nc_us: :cc_sa:
- Mark Faherty :CreativeCommons: :cc_by: :cc_nc_us:

#FlyFriday #bugstodon #flies #insects #Diptera #Ulidiidae #iNaturalist #mimicry #myrmecomorphy

trying to be perceived as a normal, friendly person by nodding and smiling as an old man passes me on the sidewalk while I'm hunched over someone's bushes next to their green bin extremely suspiciously, taking photos of flies having sex

#FridayFlyDay #FlyFriday #bugstodon #insects #flies #SoldierFlies #Diptera #Stratiomyidae

@FotoVorschlag
#FotoVorschlag
'kugelrund'

marienkäferfliege Gymnosoma rotundatum

#insekten #insects #bugstodon #fly #krabbeltierchen #AuwaldRunde #entomology #nature #mimikry

#FridayFlyday: after seeing boxwood leaf miners emerging for the first time last weekend, the day before yesterday I saw lots of females ovipositing in the fresh new boxwood leaves!!

#bugstodon #insects #flies #midges #parasitism #galls #Diptera #Cecidomyiidae

Best discovery at this weekend's yard sale day: I saw a bunch of tiny orange midges swarming around certain shrubs in people's yards. Looking closer, I saw they were molting from galls on the undersides of the leaves—often in bundles of three or four, leaving empty exuviae behind. Many were mating, presumably about to start the cycle all over again.

Just got around to looking it up. They are boxwood leaf miners, a kind of gall midge (family Cecidomyiidae). More information: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN1291

#bugstodon #insects #flies #midges #parasitism #galls #Diptera #Cecidomyiidae

#FlydayFriday: Warm weather has returned and so have what I call "zebra flies", _Anthomyia_! With their dark red eyes and striking black and white stripes they are very appealing.

#bugstodon #FlyFriday #insects #flies #Diptera #Anthomyiidae

Our 1st ever Monarch larva pupated 😍; here’s my Perpetual Journal art of it & Sonoran Desert wildflowers from ‘25, ‘24 & ‘23! Read more on my latest blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/butterfly-excitement-part-2

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #ecosystem #nature #climate #wildflower #BloomScrolling #Cactus #insect #arthropod #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis #Monarch

I wasn't expecting to find something for #FridayFlyDay, but then I stumbled across this adorable hoverfly in Trinity-Bellwoods on a mint-type plant that was still flowering in the garden! Due to the cold and the rather late hour it was placid and let me get lots of photos.

#FlyFriday #bugstodon #insects #flies #hoverflies • #Diptera #Syrphidae

#FridayFlyday: I saw this fetching couple on the new-ish wood fence in Trinity-Bellwoods, but only got this one photo before some people asked me for directions and I inadvertently scared them off. The flies, not the people.

Best I can guess is Muscoidea?

#FlyFriday #bugstodon #insects #flies #Diptera

Happy #FridayFlyday! I was astonished to see this ENORMOUS, ferociously bristled fly, the size of a bumblebee, visiting the garden goldenrod. I had no idea flies could get this big, at least not here.

It stared me down when my picture-taking annoyed it. I backed off, as I figured the beast could give me a concussion if it flew into my head with enough force.

Click for bristle butt and intimidating eye contact

#FlyFriday #bugstodon #insects #flies • #Diptera #Tachinidae

SciArtSeptember Day 8 “Chrysalis”: my art on 4 of my Perpetual Journal pages of a Cloudless Sulphur chrysalis & 3 Queen Butterfly chrysalises, Tucson, AZ.

#SciArtSeptember #SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #nature #caterpillar #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #larva #pupa #chrysalis #NativePlants #wildflower

SciArtSeptember Day 8 “Chrysalis”: my Perpetual Journal art: a Sleepy Orange chrysalis & butterfly, Tucson AZ. I saw the larva pupate AND eclose as a butterfly! 😍

#SciArtSeptember #SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #nature #cactus #Saguaro #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #woodpecker

#FridayFlyday: at golden hour by the lake, saw the sunny side of a silver maple simply covered with cluster flies (_Pollenia_). Sunning? Hanging out? Speed dating? Anyone know what their deal is?

These flies are quite docile and I was able to get lots of close-up pictures. Their golden hair is quite handsome, I think.

#FlyFriday #bugstodon #insects #flies #Diptera #Polleniidae

Thank goodness it's #FlyFriday!

"Hanging thieves," "bee killers," and now "micropanthers" (_Atomosia_, like this _A. puella_ found in High Park)—how come robber flies get the coolest common names?!

#iNaturalist observation: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/226825798 :inaturalist:

#FridayFlyday #Flyday #bugstodon #insects #flies #Diptera

#FridayFlyday: met one of these little freaks (_Rainieria antennaepes_) again in High Park.

Bonus normal-ass flesh fly or whatever being like "yeah, I don't know what this guy's deal is."

#FlyFriday #Flyday #bugstodon #insects #flies #Diptera #Micropezidae

Fireflies!
#Bugstodon #Insects #Beetles #Lampyridae #Crepuscular #Phenology

Sabella.

(Somewhat out of focus because she was just out of range, and it's through her glass jar.)

#DailySpiderPic #bugstodon #spiders #Araneae #Theridiidae #Latrodectus