#entomologist — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #entomologist, aggregated by home.social.
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Why You Should Never Kill Spiders In Your Home, According To An Entomologist
Getty Images/iStockphoto I know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Don’t kill the next spider you see in your home. Why? Because spiders are an important part of nature and our indoor ecosystem – as well as being fellow organisms in their own right. People like to think of their dwellings as safely insulated from the outside world, but many types of spiders can be found inside. Some are accidentally trapped, while others are short-term visitors. Some species even enjoy the […] -
Why You Should Never Kill Spiders In Your Home, According To An Entomologist
Getty Images/iStockphoto I know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Don’t kill the next spider you see in your home. Why? Because spiders are an important part of nature and our indoor ecosystem – as well as being fellow organisms in their own right. People like to think of their dwellings as safely insulated from the outside world, but many types of spiders can be found inside. Some are accidentally trapped, while others are short-term visitors. Some species even enjoy the […] -
Had to take a break from Art Fighting to draw some groovy guys 🕺
#art #digitalart #fanart #rhythmheaven #rhythmparadise #rhythmheavengroove #rhythmparadisegroove #komaximum #fruitflex #guitarist #aforeffort #entomologist #flutterspeed #nintendo
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Had to take a break from Art Fighting to draw some groovy guys 🕺
#art #digitalart #fanart #rhythmheaven #rhythmparadise #rhythmheavengroove #rhythmparadisegroove #komaximum #fruitflex #guitarist #aforeffort #entomologist #flutterspeed #nintendo
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Orfelia fultoni
aka “Glowworm”
It is not actually a worm, but a fly larvae! I have an ongoing research project studying their use of caves.#caving #speleo #speleology #diptera #foxfire #glow #dark #longexposure #queerscientist #entomology #entomologist #queer #lgbtq #cave #caves
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Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1421349950
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt
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Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1421349950
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt
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Why are some people #mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging
It's not a misconception -- mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others," Frederic Simard of France's Institute of Research for Development told AFP. "But we are not all magnets all the time," the medical #entomologist added.
A range of sensory cues can cause #mosquitoes to pick one human over another—mainly the smell and heat our bodies give off, and the carbon dioxide we exhale.
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-people-mosquito-magnets-clues-emerging.html -
Why are some people #mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging
It's not a misconception -- mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others," Frederic Simard of France's Institute of Research for Development told AFP. "But we are not all magnets all the time," the medical #entomologist added.
A range of sensory cues can cause #mosquitoes to pick one human over another—mainly the smell and heat our bodies give off, and the carbon dioxide we exhale.
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-people-mosquito-magnets-clues-emerging.html -
Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed”.
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Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed”.
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Seven #Ticks Hitched Very Long Rides to #Connecticut
Nonnative species from #Europe, #LatinAmerica and Eastern #Africa reached the #US by latching on to travelers, offering clues about how ticks spread in a warming world.
"Main finding is that we are facing an increasing risk of invasive ticks in the United States,” said Goudarz Molaei, author and #entomologist. He added rate of unintentional introductions of nonnative species appears to be rising
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/science/ticks-invasive-species-connecticut.html
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Seven #Ticks Hitched Very Long Rides to #Connecticut
Nonnative species from #Europe, #LatinAmerica and Eastern #Africa reached the #US by latching on to travelers, offering clues about how ticks spread in a warming world.
"Main finding is that we are facing an increasing risk of invasive ticks in the United States,” said Goudarz Molaei, author and #entomologist. He added rate of unintentional introductions of nonnative species appears to be rising
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/science/ticks-invasive-species-connecticut.html
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Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimens 🧵
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt
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Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimens 🧵
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt
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Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed”. 🧵
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Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed”. 🧵
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In "The Raid on the Termites" (Paul Ernst, 1932), an #entomologist daydreams about being shrunk to ant-size and exploring a #termite mound. His friend finds the notion of being “suddenly confronted by a thing as big as a horse, with fifteen-foot jaws of steely horn that could slice [him] in two” exciting. Jim imagines writing a book:
“What a book of travel it would make! ‘The Raid on the Termites. Exploring an Insect Hell. Death in an Ant-hill…’”
“Termitary! Termitary!” corrected Denny irritably.Doing a long press on the word, what sayeth Wiktionary in #koReader?
_Termitary: an anthill built and occupied by termites._
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Robber fly, genus Cerdistus, from Kolymvari, Crete, Greece. Thanks to Agapakis Georgios for the ID.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164859360
#iNaturalist #Diptera #insects #entomologist -
Robber fly, genus Cerdistus, from Kolymvari, Crete, Greece. Thanks to Agapakis Georgios for the ID.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164859360
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A man has been charged with the Blockhouse Bay murder of entomologist Stephen Thorpe.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/man-charged-murder-auckland-entomologist
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A man has been charged with the Blockhouse Bay murder of entomologist Stephen Thorpe.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/man-charged-murder-auckland-entomologist
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Hey #Entomologist types, I just got to my place in the Sonoran Desert and am kind of surprised that there are virtually no insects around the porch light. I expected it to be swarming this time of year. The monsoon has been hit or miss around here so there are patches of greenery but overall the desert is fairly brown. I'm guessing this might be why?
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Hey #Entomologist types, I just got to my place in the Sonoran Desert and am kind of surprised that there are virtually no insects around the porch light. I expected it to be swarming this time of year. The monsoon has been hit or miss around here so there are patches of greenery but overall the desert is fairly brown. I'm guessing this might be why?
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Any #preservation folks who can give me a hand identifying these critters? When we came back to California we found a mess of them in the back of a closet chowing down on cardboard and fancy art paper and maybe bookcloth. About 1/4” long, kind of translucent, antlike head, skinny abdomen, not much thorax, possibly vestigial wings? Looks like the larva or nymph stage of something bigger, but IANA #entomologist, so 🤷
PS apologies for the no alt text but it’s just 3 pix of the bug described above
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Any #preservation folks who can give me a hand identifying these critters? When we came back to California we found a mess of them in the back of a closet chowing down on cardboard and fancy art paper and maybe bookcloth. About 1/4” long, kind of translucent, antlike head, skinny abdomen, not much thorax, possibly vestigial wings? Looks like the larva or nymph stage of something bigger, but IANA #entomologist, so 🤷
PS apologies for the no alt text but it’s just 3 pix of the bug described above
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My 1.5 y/o daughter has this ritual when she finds a piece of debris. First she picks it up, then carefully tastes it, and if deemed inedible gives it to me. This weekend she did this and when I looked at it with her, I told her it was a scarab beetle. Immediately she leaned in, gave it a kiss, and went back to playing. Future #entomologist maybe?
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My 1.5 y/o daughter has this ritual when she finds a piece of debris. First she picks it up, then carefully tastes it, and if deemed inedible gives it to me. This weekend she did this and when I looked at it with her, I told her it was a scarab beetle. Immediately she leaned in, gave it a kiss, and went back to playing. Future #entomologist maybe?
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My fondest memory from this weekend was seeing how fascinated and careful my 1.5 year old daughter was with a Forest Tent Caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria). She kissed it on the head 3 times and pet it so gently (most times petting my arm 2 cm away from the larva). #entomologist #lepidoptera
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My fondest memory from this weekend was seeing how fascinated and careful my 1.5 year old daughter was with a Forest Tent Caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria). She kissed it on the head 3 times and pet it so gently (most times petting my arm 2 cm away from the larva). #entomologist #lepidoptera
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Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵
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Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵
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Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, "I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed".
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Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, "I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed".
🧵1/n
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Butterflies in shades of pink 🌿🌷🍃🌸🍃
https://jan-matson.pixels.com/featured/butterflies-in-shades-of-pink-jan-matson.htmlA painting of butterflies in shades of pink.
#butterfly #insects #WildLife
#JanMatson #artist #painting #art #MastoArt #prints #oilpainting #ArtistsOfMastodon #HomeDecor #FediGiftShop #bugs #entomology #GiftIdeas #prints #art #FediArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #artwork #Entomologist #nature #invertebrates #lepidoptera #insekten #gardening #butterflies -
Butterflies in shades of pink 🌿🌷🍃🌸🍃
https://jan-matson.pixels.com/featured/butterflies-in-shades-of-pink-jan-matson.htmlA painting of butterflies in shades of pink.
#butterfly #insects #WildLife
#JanMatson #artist #painting #art #MastoArt #prints #oilpainting #ArtistsOfMastodon #HomeDecor #FediGiftShop #bugs #entomology #GiftIdeas #prints #art #FediArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #artwork #Entomologist #nature #invertebrates #lepidoptera #insekten #gardening #butterflies -
What kind of #moth is this? Need some #entomology tips here, please share, need to find #entomologist fedi.
Location - midwest USA.
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Do we have any #Danish speaking natural #science enthusiasts in the hus? I'm looking for help identifying which term in this sentence (from #entomologist J.C. Schiodte) could have been translated by "accommodated," as well as what a more direct translation of said Danish term would be.
(Bonus factoid for your troubles: Darwin cites this sentence from Schiodte in the Origin.)
Please boost if you have Danish contacts. Tak allesammen! 🙂
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Do we have any #Danish speaking natural #science enthusiasts in the hus? I'm looking for help identifying which term in this sentence (from #entomologist J.C. Schiodte) could have been translated by "accommodated," as well as what a more direct translation of said Danish term would be.
(Bonus factoid for your troubles: Darwin cites this sentence from Schiodte in the Origin.)
Please boost if you have Danish contacts. Tak allesammen! 🙂
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Black Witch Moth - insect painting 🦋🦋🦋
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/black-witch-moth-insect-painting-jan-matson.htmlSome people believe these moths bring financial well-being and luck. Black moths can symbolize inner peace and strength and also a sign of rebirth.
#moth #insects #WildLife
#JanMatson #artist #painting #art #MastoArt #prints #oilpainting #ArtistsOfMastodon #HomeDecor #FediGiftShop #bugs #entomology #GiftIdeas #prints #art #fediart #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt
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Black Witch Moth - insect painting 🦋🦋🦋
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/black-witch-moth-insect-painting-jan-matson.htmlSome people believe these moths bring financial well-being and luck. Black moths can symbolize inner peace and strength and also a sign of rebirth.
#moth #insects #WildLife
#JanMatson #artist #painting #art #MastoArt #prints #oilpainting #ArtistsOfMastodon #HomeDecor #FediGiftShop #bugs #entomology #GiftIdeas #prints #art #fediart #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt
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Bumble Bees 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
https://jan-matson.pixels.com/featured/bumble-bees-jan-matson.htmlA bright and colorful flying bees oil painting. An impressionist painting to brighten up a kitchen, cafe etc.
#bees #insects #WildLife
#JanMatson #artist #painting #art #MastoArt #prints #oilpainting #ArtistsOfMastodon #HomeDecor #FediGiftShop #bugs #entomology #Entomologist #nature #insekten #gardening #fediart #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #artwork #bumblebee -
Bumble Bees 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
https://jan-matson.pixels.com/featured/bumble-bees-jan-matson.htmlA bright and colorful flying bees oil painting. An impressionist painting to brighten up a kitchen, cafe etc.
#bees #insects #WildLife
#JanMatson #artist #painting #art #MastoArt #prints #oilpainting #ArtistsOfMastodon #HomeDecor #FediGiftShop #bugs #entomology #Entomologist #nature #insekten #gardening #fediart #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #artwork #bumblebee -
Man is defined not by what he creates , but what he chooses not to destroy. Edward O. Wilson #entomologist #montreal #botanicalgardens
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Yesterday, I was stung multiple times on the face by wasps after accidentally disturbing a nest in a wooded area. It's not the first time I've been stung by anything - I grew up in Australia. But now the area feels bruised and got me wondering how the toxin causes bruising. Any #entomologist here with an answer? #science #insecta #insects #InsectsOfTheFediverse #toxins
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Yesterday, I was stung multiple times on the face by wasps after accidentally disturbing a nest in a wooded area. It's not the first time I've been stung by anything - I grew up in Australia. But now the area feels bruised and got me wondering how the toxin causes bruising. Any #entomologist here with an answer? #science #insecta #insects #InsectsOfTheFediverse #toxins
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Butterflies in shades of pink 🌷🍃🍃🌸🌷🍃🍃🌸
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/butterflies-in-shades-of-pink-jan-matson.htmlAn oil painting of flying butterflies in shades of pale pink on a black background. Graceful butterflies for bedroom or living room decor.
#butterfly #insects #WildLife
#JanMatson #artist #painting #art #MastoArt #prints #oilpainting #ArtistsOfMastodon #HomeDecor #FediGiftShop #bugs #entomology #Entomologist #nature #invertebrates #lepidoptera #insekten #gardening #butterflies -
Blue Morpho Butterfly painting 🦋🦋🦋
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-morpho-butterfly-painting-jan-matson.htmlPalette knife oil painting of a Blue Morpho Butterfly on a black background.
#BlueMorpho #butterfly #insects #WildLife
#JanMatson #artist #painting #art #MastoArt #prints #oilpainting #ArtistsOfMastodon #HomeDecor #FediGiftShop #bugs #entomology #Entomologist #nature #mothtodon #invertebrates #lepidoptera #insekten #gardening
