#flyinginsects — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #flyinginsects, aggregated by home.social.
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📍: Bridge 22. Lea Hall Bridge
ℹ️: track bridge
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.1729013313949&mlon=-2.4850598036222#map=17/53.1729013313949/-2.4850598036222
📸: Photo by Wildlife Terry on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/44510888@N05/51539262472#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #england #uk #flickr #shropshireunioncanal #middlewichbranch #towpathwalk #cheshire #cheshirecountryside #october2021 #dragonfly #flyinginsects
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#EightSpottedSkimmer #dragonfly
Native to #PacificNorthwest area.
Dragonflies are one of nature's insect indicators. They're only seen in healthy ecosystems.
#Nature #insects #Skimmers #FlyingInsects #entomology #DragonflyIdentification #InsectIdentification #Wsanec #Saanich #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #Cascadia #PNW #BCNativeInsects
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CW: Insects
TIL that earwigs can fly. Though they mostly don't bother flying, it's a little embarrassing as someone with two biology degrees not to have known this 😳
(HT @aegilops)
They have shimmering, foldable wings that they hide away under their stiff forewings, like beetles do. Their wing deployment reminds me of an unfurling solar sail.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/earwig-origami-wings-how-they-work-insect-flight (includes video)
#Earwigs #FlyingInsects #InsectFlight #AnimalFacts #NationalGeographic #TodayILearned #Biology
