#caterpillars — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #caterpillars, aggregated by home.social.
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@entomology
I wrote a little text about the pine processionary that I want to use in an art project. I am not an entomologist, just a Jean-Henri Fabre fan.
Dear #entomology community in the fediverse, could you proofread and fact check this for me?Full text is the also in the image description.
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New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2024/08/17/london-spirit-into-the-final/
#cricket #TheHundred #Eliminator #OIvLS #photography #birds #insects #butterflies #caterpillars
A look at the Eliminator match between Oval Invincibles and London Spirit, a correction/ clarification regarding yesterday's post and a photo gallery. -
When we moved to our current home in 2015, I was delighted to find a patch of #PurplePassionflower down by our little muddy pond. This #native plant is the #host for #GulfFritillary #butterflies, so I would frequently check for #caterpillars, often finding them. I also collected fruits and attempted to get new patches established. This work finally paid off this weekend, when from the pupa I'd been following emerged a new adult Gulf Frit!
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#LightPollution from #StreetLamps linked to #InsectLoss
"There are practical solutions that don't compromise public safety, they say, including dimming streetlights in the early hours, fitting motion sensors or using colour filters to cut out the most harmful wavelengths."25 August 2021
By Helen Briggs"Scientists say light pollution may be contributing to 'worrying' declines in insects seen in recent decades.
"In a UK study, artificial street lights were found to disrupt the behaviour of nocturnal #moths, reducing #caterpillars numbers by half.
"Modern #LED #streetlights appeared to have the biggest impact.
"There is growing evidence that #insect populations are shrinking due to the likes of climate change, habitat loss and pesticides.
"Factors are complex and varied, including the steady loss of #forests, #heathlands, #meadows and #marshes, overuse of #pesticides, #ClimateChange and #pollution of rivers and lakes.
"The use of artificial lights at night-time has been proposed as another driver of insect decline, although the scale remains unclear.
"The researchers say their study, published in Science Advances, is the strongest evidence yet that light pollution can have detrimental impacts on local insect populations, with consequences for the birds and other wildlife that rely on caterpillars for food.
"'In a local setting we can now be quite confident that light pollution is important, but what's less clear is if we're looking at a whole landscape,' said lead researcher Douglas Boyes of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
"'If insects are in trouble - as we believe they are, and have evidence to support that - perhaps we should be doing all we can to reduce these negative influences.'"
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"There are, in fact, so many insect species—at least 2 million and possibly as many as 10 million—that Robert May, an Australian physicist turned theoretical ecologist, once joked, “To a good approximation, all species are insects!”
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Insects transfer more energy from plants to animals than any other group. They are the solder that holds food chains together." 🐛#TheNewYorker #caterpillars #DavidWagner
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/the-little-known-world-of-caterpillars
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“To a person attuned to smaller creatures,” Wagner’s former professor Howard Ensign Evans once wrote, “there is no corner of nature not full of excitement, not rich in unsolved problems.” The Earth, Evans added, “is a good place to live.” 🐛
#TheNewYorker #caterpillars #DavidWagner
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/the-little-known-world-of-caterpillars
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The utterly fascinating life of entomologist David Wagner and his quest to discover and study the caterpillars of North America. 🐛
#TheNewYorker #caterpillars #DavidWagner
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/the-little-known-world-of-caterpillars