#invertebrates — Public Fediverse posts

Cressida cressida, the clearwing swallowtail or 'big greasy' butterfly. Large and conspicuously coloured - it is toxic to potential predators. Toxins are absorbed from the food that it eats as a caterpillar. Seen in Cape York. FNQ.

#nature #photography #australia #wildlife #insects #butterflies #invertebrates

Cressida cressida, the clearwing swallowtail or 'big greasy' butterfly. Large and conspicuously coloured - it is toxic to potential predators. Toxins are absorbed from the food that it eats as a caterpillar. Seen in Cape York. FNQ.

#nature #photography #australia #wildlife #insects #butterflies #invertebrates

Cressida cressida, the clearwing swallowtail or 'big greasy' butterfly. Large and conspicuously coloured - it is toxic to potential predators. Toxins are absorbed from the food that it eats as a caterpillar. Seen in Cape York. FNQ.

#nature #photography #australia #wildlife #insects #butterflies #invertebrates

Cressida cressida, the clearwing swallowtail or 'big greasy' butterfly. Large and conspicuously coloured - it is toxic to potential predators. Toxins are absorbed from the food that it eats as a caterpillar. Seen in Cape York. FNQ.

#nature #photography #australia #wildlife #insects #butterflies #invertebrates

Cressida cressida, the clearwing swallowtail or 'big greasy' butterfly. Large and conspicuously coloured - it is toxic to potential predators. Toxins are absorbed from the food that it eats as a caterpillar. Seen in Cape York. FNQ.

#nature #photography #australia #wildlife #insects #butterflies #invertebrates

Here are some hymenopterans 🐝🌿

#bugsky #invertebrates

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66x6tziyavg3nmt3x46xu2bw/post/3mv6r4n6npk2s

Checked on my free range menagerie. Here are some lepidopterans 🦋🌿

#bugsky #invertebrates

The Beginnings of Man -Part 1

https://tonyaholisticblog.com/2026/08/31/the-beginnings-of-man-part-1/

24-Aug-2026
Evolutionary arm race in Cenozoic seas shaped modern diversity of marine #snails

A large scale study of nearly 700 species reveals the #evolution ary relationships and history of #Neogastropoda, a diverse group of marine snails. The findings provide new evidence for their single origin, identify four new families and reveal a previously undetected burst of diversification in the early #Cenozoic.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1141219

#science #marineBiology #invertebrates #gastropods

Mixed media

Busy Beavers - The Turbidity Signature Of Ecosystem Engineers At Work
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https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.70661 <-- shared paper
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H/T @alan Puttock
“Beavers are the quintessential ecosystem engineers. In slow-flowing streams, they create complex wetlands with ponds by building dams and canals that can positively impact biodiversity, hydrology and water quality. These activities can interchangeably capture or release sediment along the watercourse. To date this has not been quantified at the resolution of rainfall events or beaver activity. This study used 15-min frequency, sustained monitoring upstream and downstream of a newly establishing beaver wetland to measure episodic changes in water turbidity at an event resolution. Monitoring showed no significant differences between upstream and downstream turbidity over 160 days when the first pair of beavers, known not to be building dams or canals, were resident. Shortly after introduction of another beaver pair, however, dam building, burrows and canal excavations were quickly observed, resulting in the creation of a complex beaver wetland between 2021 and 2024. Monitoring over 375 days during this period showed significant differences. Downstream turbidity was significantly higher overall than upstream: 13.1 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU) compared to 4.2 NTU. Stochastic spikes in downstream turbidity during the study period not recorded upstream were associated with dam building and burrowing. Overall, there was no significant difference in turbidity loads, which was at least partially explained by a reduction in discharge downstream, particularly in higher flows, during the dam building period. This demonstrates a complex system with the trapping of influent sediment, the storing of water and the periodic release of beaver wetland sediment leading to net balance in loads. These results help provide context for other studies which have used temporally discrete sampling campaigns rather than continuous high-frequency monitoring. They provide a unique insight into the downstream impacts of a rapidly developing beaver wetland over its first three and a half years in a landscape that hasn't had beavers for over 400 years…"
#hydromorphic #water #hydrology #dam #beaverdam #waterquality #biodiversity #ecology #benefits #NatureBasedSolutions #Wetlands #Ecology #Biodiversity #EnvironmentalScience #Wildlife #Ecosystem #bioviversity #conservation #restoration #landscaperecovery #floodmanagement #FloodMitigation #flooding #energy #floodrisk #sustainability #wetlands #hydrography #dams #impoundment #deadwood #waterresources #landscapeengineer #benefits #vegetation #ecology #ecosystem #riversystemsstabilisation #naturalwaterregulation #resilience #valleysreborn #fisheries #invertebrates #extremeweather #floodflows #sediment #baseflow #drought #landmanagement #naturalsystems #landuse #monitoring #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal

Eager Beavers - Rodents Engineer Czech Wetland Project After Years Of Human Delay [ecosystem engineers]
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/beavers-save-czech-taxpayers-by-flooding-ex-army-training-site <-- shared technical media article
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic <-- shared wiki technical page
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https://phys.org/news/2025-02-fine-beavers-czech-treasury-million.html <-- shared technical article
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https://youtu.be/GSTw8qmBP4Y?si=XK2Iy2pAltW91flj <-- shared video (Czech)
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H/T @ScienceGirl
"We don't expect any conflict with the beaver in the next 10 years," ~ Bohumil Fiser from the Czech Nature Conservation Agency
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“For seven years, planners struggled to complete a $1.2 million wetland restoration project in the Brdy region of the Czech Republic. The goal was to build a dam that would improve water management and bring back valuable wetland habitat, but the project remained trapped in a maze of permits and approvals.
Then a family of eight Eurasian beavers did what engineers had planned… without permits, machinery, or a budget.
The beavers built a network of dams in almost the exact area chosen for the proposed project, naturally restoring the wetland system officials had spent years trying to create. After seeing the results, authorities decided there was little point continuing with the original human-built dam.
Although some reports suggested the beavers completed the work overnight, experts say their construction likely took several weeks. The reason it seemed sudden is that the animals quietly worked away until their finished dams became impossible to miss.
Beavers are known as “ecosystem engineers” because their behaviour can reshape entire environments. By cutting trees and blocking streams, they create ponds and wetlands that support countless species, including fish, amphibians, insects, birds, and mammals.
Their wetlands also act as natural water reservoirs, helping during droughts, reducing flood risks, filtering water, storing carbon, and keeping landscapes wetter during wildfires…
Once heavily hunted across Europe, beaver populations have been recovering thanks to conservation efforts, proving that sometimes nature can solve problems humans spend years trying to fix…"
#water #hydrology #KlabavaRiver #Czech #BrdyRegion #protected #CzechRepublic #armytraining #military #beaver #Eurasianbeavers #dam #beaverdam #waterquality #restoration #biodiversity #crayfish #wetland #ecology #benefits #Beavers #NatureBasedSolutions #Wetlands #Ecology #Biodiversity #Agroforestry #EnvironmentalScience #Conservation #Wildlife #Ecosystem #bioviversity #conservation #restoration #landscaperecovery #EcosystemEngineers #nature #floodmanagement #FloodMitigation #flood #flooding #energy #floodrisk #sustainability #wetlands #hydrography #dams #impoundment #deadwood #waterresources #landscapeengineer #agriculture #benefits #vegetation #ecology #ecosystem #riversystemsstabilisation #naturalwaterregulation #resilience #drought #wildfire #valleysreborn #slowdetermination #fisheries #invertebrates #extremeweather #floodflows #sediment #baseflow #drought #landmanagement #naturalsystems #landuse #ecosystemengineers #watermanagement

`Notably, sleep deprivation, ultraviolet radiation, and mutagens increased neuronal DNA damage and sleep pressure, while spontaneous and induced sleep facilitated genome stability in both the diurnal and crepuscular cnidarians. These results suggest that DNA damage and cellular stress in simple nerve nets may have driven the evolution of sleep.`

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67400-5

#cnidaria #invertebrates #marineBiology #neurology #neuroscience #evolution #sleep #homeostasis

Why is #JavaScript so popular? I hate everything about it.

I'm speaking at the #Canberra Field #Naturalists meeting at #ANU next month on #Malaise trapping and the #insects and other #invertebrates that surround us without our noticing them.

I expect most of my slides to be arrays of four or six #microscope images with a header (probably a family name in most cases) and captions for each image.

I don't want to lay out all these images in #LibreOffice (or any similar presentation tool) because I'm a perfectionist and getting it all tidy will take forever.

So, I decided to try out #Slidev, #Marp and other #Markdown-based presentation tools. The Markdown part is very appealing, but they all lean hard into JavaScript. That would be fine so long as I don't have to think about that side of things.

Slidev's AppleBasic theme seemed to be the best starting point, so I started hacking it to add som extra gridded image views. Plain image grids were not too challenging, but I really want captions for each image, so I started trying to understand how the templates use the forest of underlying JS libraries and CSS artefacts to produce the displayed slides.

Frankly, the whole thing is so opaque and would take me much longer to understand than preparing multiple presentations by hand would.

Then I realised I can use #montage on the command line to produce the kind of layouts I want, and I can script #exiftool to extract and prepare the captions which will save time.

So, my new plan is to write a #Python script that processes a #YAML file listing all the slides, titles and image paths. It can generate PNG images that are close to the target 1920*1080 size (give or take a little). I'll then use LibreOffice for a couple of more text-oriented or irregular slides, export those and combine all the images into a PDF.

I'm sure this will be way faster than battling Node.js. Not sure why I felt I had to write it up.

https://fieldnatsact.com/

Why is #JavaScript so popular? I hate everything about it.

I'm speaking at the #Canberra Field #Naturalists meeting at #ANU next month on #Malaise trapping and the #insects and other #invertebrates that surround us without our noticing them.

I expect most of my slides to be arrays of four or six #microscope images with a header (probably a family name in most cases) and captions for each image.

I don't want to lay out all these images in #LibreOffice (or any similar presentation tool) because I'm a perfectionist and getting it all tidy will take forever.

So, I decided to try out #Slidev, #Marp and other #Markdown-based presentation tools. The Markdown part is very appealing, but they all lean hard into JavaScript. That would be fine so long as I don't have to think about that side of things.

Slidev's AppleBasic theme seemed to be the best starting point, so I started hacking it to add som extra gridded image views. Plain image grids were not too challenging, but I really want captions for each image, so I started trying to understand how the templates use the forest of underlying JS libraries and CSS artefacts to produce the displayed slides.

Frankly, the whole thing is so opaque and would take me much longer to understand than preparing multiple presentations by hand would.

Then I realised I can use #montage on the command line to produce the kind of layouts I want, and I can script #exiftool to extract and prepare the captions which will save time.

So, my new plan is to write a #Python script that processes a #YAML file listing all the slides, titles and image paths. It can generate PNG images that are close to the target 1920*1080 size (give or take a little). I'll then use LibreOffice for a couple of more text-oriented or irregular slides, export those and combine all the images into a PDF.

I'm sure this will be way faster than battling Node.js. Not sure why I felt I had to write it up.

https://fieldnatsact.com/

Why is #JavaScript so popular? I hate everything about it.

I'm speaking at the #Canberra Field #Naturalists meeting at #ANU next month on #Malaise trapping and the #insects and other #invertebrates that surround us without our noticing them.

I expect most of my slides to be arrays of four or six #microscope images with a header (probably a family name in most cases) and captions for each image.

I don't want to lay out all these images in #LibreOffice (or any similar presentation tool) because I'm a perfectionist and getting it all tidy will take forever.

So, I decided to try out #Slidev, #Marp and other #Markdown-based presentation tools. The Markdown part is very appealing, but they all lean hard into JavaScript. That would be fine so long as I don't have to think about that side of things.

Slidev's AppleBasic theme seemed to be the best starting point, so I started hacking it to add som extra gridded image views. Plain image grids were not too challenging, but I really want captions for each image, so I started trying to understand how the templates use the forest of underlying JS libraries and CSS artefacts to produce the displayed slides.

Frankly, the whole thing is so opaque and would take me much longer to understand than preparing multiple presentations by hand would.

Then I realised I can use #montage on the command line to produce the kind of layouts I want, and I can script #exiftool to extract and prepare the captions which will save time.

So, my new plan is to write a #Python script that processes a #YAML file listing all the slides, titles and image paths. It can generate PNG images that are close to the target 1920*1080 size (give or take a little). I'll then use LibreOffice for a couple of more text-oriented or irregular slides, export those and combine all the images into a PDF.

I'm sure this will be way faster than battling Node.js. Not sure why I felt I had to write it up.

https://fieldnatsact.com/

Why is #JavaScript so popular? I hate everything about it.

I'm speaking at the #Canberra Field #Naturalists meeting at #ANU next month on #Malaise trapping and the #insects and other #invertebrates that surround us without our noticing them.

I expect most of my slides to be arrays of four or six #microscope images with a header (probably a family name in most cases) and captions for each image.

I don't want to lay out all these images in #LibreOffice (or any similar presentation tool) because I'm a perfectionist and getting it all tidy will take forever.

So, I decided to try out #Slidev, #Marp and other #Markdown-based presentation tools. The Markdown part is very appealing, but they all lean hard into JavaScript. That would be fine so long as I don't have to think about that side of things.

Slidev's AppleBasic theme seemed to be the best starting point, so I started hacking it to add som extra gridded image views. Plain image grids were not too challenging, but I really want captions for each image, so I started trying to understand how the templates use the forest of underlying JS libraries and CSS artefacts to produce the displayed slides.

Frankly, the whole thing is so opaque and would take me much longer to understand than preparing multiple presentations by hand would.

Then I realised I can use #montage on the command line to produce the kind of layouts I want, and I can script #exiftool to extract and prepare the captions which will save time.

So, my new plan is to write a #Python script that processes a #YAML file listing all the slides, titles and image paths. It can generate PNG images that are close to the target 1920*1080 size (give or take a little). I'll then use LibreOffice for a couple of more text-oriented or irregular slides, export those and combine all the images into a PDF.

I'm sure this will be way faster than battling Node.js. Not sure why I felt I had to write it up.

https://fieldnatsact.com/

Why is #JavaScript so popular? I hate everything about it.

I'm speaking at the #Canberra Field #Naturalists meeting at #ANU next month on #Malaise trapping and the #insects and other #invertebrates that surround us without our noticing them.

I expect most of my slides to be arrays of four or six #microscope images with a header (probably a family name in most cases) and captions for each image.

I don't want to lay out all these images in #LibreOffice (or any similar presentation tool) because I'm a perfectionist and getting it all tidy will take forever.

So, I decided to try out #Slidev, #Marp and other #Markdown-based presentation tools. The Markdown part is very appealing, but they all lean hard into JavaScript. That would be fine so long as I don't have to think about that side of things.

Slidev's AppleBasic theme seemed to be the best starting point, so I started hacking it to add som extra gridded image views. Plain image grids were not too challenging, but I really want captions for each image, so I started trying to understand how the templates use the forest of underlying JS libraries and CSS artefacts to produce the displayed slides.

Frankly, the whole thing is so opaque and would take me much longer to understand than preparing multiple presentations by hand would.

Then I realised I can use #montage on the command line to produce the kind of layouts I want, and I can script #exiftool to extract and prepare the captions which will save time.

So, my new plan is to write a #Python script that processes a #YAML file listing all the slides, titles and image paths. It can generate PNG images that are close to the target 1920*1080 size (give or take a little). I'll then use LibreOffice for a couple of more text-oriented or irregular slides, export those and combine all the images into a PDF.

I'm sure this will be way faster than battling Node.js. Not sure why I felt I had to write it up.

https://fieldnatsact.com/

The “chemization” of aquatic habitats

“Mapping chemical footprints of organic micropollutants in European streams. There is increasing awareness that chemical pollution of freshwater systems with complex mixtures of chemicals from domestic sources, agriculture and industry may cause a substantial chemical footprint on water organisms, pushing aquatic ecosystems outside the safe operating space.” >>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202300644X

Polluter pays
Mandated advanced treatment of micropollutants in wastewater
"But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, which are responsible for most of those contaminants, are now pushing back." >>
https://e360.yale.edu/features/europe-water-micropollutants
#water #pollution #AquaticEcosystems #AquaticOrganisms #micropollutants #runoff #regulation #delayism #chemicals #pharmaceuticals #cosmetics #agriculture #lobby #consumers #rivers #platypus #invertebrates #fish #wildlife #PlanetaryBoundaries

Furry-claspered Furrow Bee, Lasioglossum lativentre Canon 5D3 Sigma 70 2.8 f/6.3 1/320 iso: 160 Prague, czech Republic 7/19/2024 #Halictidae #Lasioglossum #hymenoptera #bees #SweatBees #Pollinators #WildBees #insects #invertebrates #Macro

Small Heath, Coenonympha pamphilus Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/3.2 1/126 iso: 400 5/20/2012 #Lepidoptera #Satyridae #meadowBrowns #SaveButterflies #butterflies #Insects #invertebrates #macro #Grasslands

Essex Skipper, Thymelicus lineola Canon 5D3 Sigma 70 2.8 f/4.5 1/320 iso: 100 Prague, Czech Republic 6/24/2024 #Skippers #hesperidae #SaveButterflies #butterflies #insects #macro #grasslands #invertebrates #Sigma

Jewel Wasp, Chrysididae sp Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/5.6 1/400 iso:125 Prague, Czech Republic 6/19/2024 #Wasps #hymenoptera #Chrysididae #jewelwasps #polinators #insects #invertebrates #Macro

Small Skipper, Thymelicus sylvestris Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/7.1 1/160 iso: 400 Milovice, Czech Republic 5/18/2009 #Skippers #Hesperidae #lepidoptera #SaveButterflies #butterflies #insects #invertebrates #Macro #grasslands

Black-veined Moth, Siona lineata on Sanfoin, Onobrychis Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f /5 1/200 iso: 800 Srbsko, Czech Republic 5/26/2009 #mothsMatter #geometridae #lepidoptera #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Essex Skipper, Thymelicus lineola Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/5.6 1/100 iso: 200 Srbsko, Czech Republic 7/5/2008 #Skippers #hesperidae #SaveButterflies #lepdoptera #insects #invertebrates #Macro #grasslands

Small Heath, Coenonympha pamphilus Canon 7D F 100 2.8 f/2.8 1/250 iso: 400 #Brushfoots #Nymphalidae #Satyridae #MeadowBrowns #lepidoptera #SaveButterflies #butterflies #Insects #invertebrates #macro #Grasslands

Checquered Skipper, Carterocephalus palaemon Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/4.6 1/250 iso: 400 Celakovice-Jirina, Czech Republic 5/20/2011 #Skippers #hesperidae #hesperids #SaveButterflies #butterflies #Lepidoptera #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Black-veined moth, Siona lineata Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/9 1/200 iso: 400 MIlovice, Czech Republic 6/10/3009 #mothsMatter #moths #geometridae #looper #Lepidoptera #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Small Heath, Coenonympha pamphilus Canon 7D EF 100 2.8 f/3.2 1/200 iso:400 Celakovice-Jirina, Czech Republic 9/8/2013 #Satyrids #Nymphalidae #brushfoots #MeadowBrowns #SaveButterflies #Butterflies #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Checquered Skipper, Carterocephalus palaemon Canon 400D Ef 100 2.8 f/7.1 1/100 iso: 800 Prague, Czech Republic 5/21/2010 #Skippers #hesperidae #Butterflies #lepidoptera #SaveButterflies #Insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Silver-spotted Skipper, Hesperia comma Canon 400D Ef 100 2.8 f/7.1 1/250 iso: 200 Srbsko, Czech Republic 8/10/2008 #Hesperidae #Skippers #SaveButterflies #butterflies #lepidoptera #insects #invertebrates #macro #Grasslands

Small Heath, Coenonympha pamphilus Canon 5D3 Sigma 105 2.8 f/4 1/320 iso: 320 Srbsko, Czech Republic 8/13/2023 #Satyridae #meadowBrowns #Butterflies #SaveButterflies #Lepidotera #brushfoots #Insect #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Small Heath, Coenonympha pamphilus Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/6.3 1/400 iso: 125 MIlovice, Czech Republic #Satyridae #MeadowBrowns #Butterflies #lepidoptera #SaveButterflies #Grasslands Macro #invertebrates #insects

Meadow Brown, Maniola jurtina Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/5 1/250 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 8/5/2010 #Saturidae #lepidoptera #butterflies #meadowBrowns #SaveButterflies #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Dingy Skipper, Erynnis tages Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/5.6 1/320 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 5/23/2010 #Skippers #Hesperidae #Lepidoptera #Butterflies #SaveButterfles #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Violet Carpenter bee, Xylocopa violacea Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/ 5 1/320 iso:160 Prague, Czech Republic 7/31/2023 #Apidae #Xylocopa #CarpenterBee #Hymenoptera #Insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Ringlet, Aphantopus hyperantus Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/4 1/320 iso: 200 Milovice, Czech Republic 7/15/2022 #Nymphalidae #Satyridae #MeadowBrowns #Butterflies #SaveButterflies #lepidoptera #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Light Emerald, Campaea margaritaria Canon 7D EF 100 2.8 f/4.5 1/320 iso: 200 Prague, Czech Republic 8/30/ 2013 #mothsMatter #Geometridae #Looper #Lepidoptera #insects #invertebrates #moths #Macro

Silver-spotted Skipper, Hesperia comma Canon 400D EF 2.8 f/2.8 1/160 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 8/5/2010 #Skippers #hesperidae #SaveButterflies #butterflies #lepidoptera #insects #Invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Mallow Skipper, Carcharodus alceae Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/10 1/125 iso: 200 Prague, Czech Republic 5/3/2009 #Skippers #hesperiidae #Lepidoptera #butterflies #SaveButterflies #Insects #invertebrates #macro #Grasslands

Ringlet, Aphantopus hyperantus Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/5 1/320 iso: 400 Milovice, Czech Republic 7/4/2010 #lepidoptera #SaveButterflies #butterflies #Satyridae #meadowBrowns #Insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Meadow Brown, Maniola jurtina Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/3.5 1/250 iso: 200 Milovice, Czech Republic 5/27/2012 #SaveButterflies @Butterflies #lepidoptera #Satyridae #meadowBrowns #Insects #invertebrates #Macro #Grasslands

Ornate Shieldbug, Eurydema ornata Canon 7D f/2.8 1/250 iso:500 Prague, CZE 4/28/2020 #Eurydema #Shieldbug #Bug #Hemiptera #Pentatomoidea #insect #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Advanced imaging reveals the last bite of a 465-million-year-old trilobite https://phys.org/news/2023-09-advanced-imaging-reveals-million-year-old-trilobite.html

Uniquely preserved gut contents illuminate #trilobite #palaeophysiology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06567-7

"The digestive tract of the trilobite #Bohemolichas incola was tightly packed with #calcareous #shells and their fragments that belonged to marine #invertebrates such as #ostracods, #bivalves and #echinoderms, some of them identifiable to the species level."

Red and Black Striped Bug, Graphosoma italica Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/4 1/160 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 5/30/2010 #hemiptea #shieldbugs #stinkbugs #Pentatomoidea #insects #invertebrates #grasslands #pests

Brassica Shieldbug, Eurydema oleracea Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/5/ 1/320 iso:160 Prague, Czech Republic 6/16/2020 #Shieldbugs #stinkbugs #pentatomoidea #grassland #pests #inects #invertebrates #bugs ##insectphotography #canon

Jewel Wasp, possibly Chrysis spendidula Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/6.3 1/400 iso 160 Milovice, Czech Republic 7/11/2023 #JewelWasp #chrysididae #wasps #Hymenoptera #Insects #invertebrates #Macro #grasslands #kleptoparasite #cleptoparasite #parasitoid

Jewel Wasp, Hedychrum nobile Canon 7D EFS 50 2.8 f/5.6 1/320 iso: 200 Mikovice, Czech Republic 7/9/2023
#Hymenoptera #Chrysididae #jewelwasps #Wasps #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

Small Heath Butterfly, Coenonympha pamphilus Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/7.1 1/400 iso: 160 Milovice, Czech Republic June 11 2023 #Satyridae #meadowBrowns #butterflies #SaveButterflies #Lepidoptera #Satyridae #insects #invertebrates Macro #Grasslands