#invertebrates — Public Fediverse posts

Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

:woozy_bee: 🦐

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated

Lab Trials Show Shrimp Survival Rising From Zero to 58% With Inherited Immune Priming

Bee vaccine is not injected. It is mixed into the feed that worker bees consume, incorporated by those workers into royal jelly, and fed to the queen.

#Invertebrates #bees #Shrimp #Agriculture #Science

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319569/20260702/first-insect-vaccine-bypasses-antibody-barrier-epigenetic-immune-priming.htm

:woozy_bee: 🦐

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated

Lab Trials Show Shrimp Survival Rising From Zero to 58% With Inherited Immune Priming

Bee vaccine is not injected. It is mixed into the feed that worker bees consume, incorporated by those workers into royal jelly, and fed to the queen.

#Invertebrates #bees #Shrimp #Agriculture #Science

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319569/20260702/first-insect-vaccine-bypasses-antibody-barrier-epigenetic-immune-priming.htm

:woozy_bee: 🦐

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated

Lab Trials Show Shrimp Survival Rising From Zero to 58% With Inherited Immune Priming

Bee vaccine is not injected. It is mixed into the feed that worker bees consume, incorporated by those workers into royal jelly, and fed to the queen.

#Invertebrates #bees #Shrimp #Agriculture #Science

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319569/20260702/first-insect-vaccine-bypasses-antibody-barrier-epigenetic-immune-priming.htm

:woozy_bee: 🦐

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated

Lab Trials Show Shrimp Survival Rising From Zero to 58% With Inherited Immune Priming

Bee vaccine is not injected. It is mixed into the feed that worker bees consume, incorporated by those workers into royal jelly, and fed to the queen.

#Invertebrates #bees #Shrimp #Agriculture #Science

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319569/20260702/first-insect-vaccine-bypasses-antibody-barrier-epigenetic-immune-priming.htm

:woozy_bee: 🦐

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated

Lab Trials Show Shrimp Survival Rising From Zero to 58% With Inherited Immune Priming

Bee vaccine is not injected. It is mixed into the feed that worker bees consume, incorporated by those workers into royal jelly, and fed to the queen.

#Invertebrates #bees #Shrimp #Agriculture #Science

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319569/20260702/first-insect-vaccine-bypasses-antibody-barrier-epigenetic-immune-priming.htm

in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

#scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

#scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

#scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

#scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

#scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

London, August 2026. #entomology #bee #Hymenoptera #invertebrates #insect

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6hzglooptrt5bsqy2oziokoz/post/3muk3zy3zec2b

London, August 2026. #entomology #bee #Hymenoptera #invertebrates #insect

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6hzglooptrt5bsqy2oziokoz/post/3muk3zy3zec2b

London, August 2026. #entomology #bee #Hymenoptera #invertebrates #insect

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6hzglooptrt5bsqy2oziokoz/post/3muk3zy3zec2b

London, August 2026. #entomology #bee #Hymenoptera #invertebrates #insect

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6hzglooptrt5bsqy2oziokoz/post/3muk3zy3zec2b

London, August 2026. #entomology #bee #Hymenoptera #invertebrates #insect

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6hzglooptrt5bsqy2oziokoz/post/3muk3zy3zec2b

Fall Field Cricket, Gryllus pennsylvanicus, on his way to tonight's gig. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/midnight-serenade.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Invertebrates #InverteFest #NaturePhotography

Cellar spider, a week ago, and tonight. Look what she's done! New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/happy-event.html #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Invertebrates #InverteFest #NaturePhotography

Small neighbor

🕷️ #spider #invertebrates #invertefest
🌱🌿 #nativeplants

This red-spotted purple puddling on my garden path did an obliging little twirl for me earlier. 🦋🧑‍🩰

#insects #pollinators #invertebrates #Invertefest #bugsky

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🪼🐙 A couple who ran aquariums in #Ukraine opened #Florida’s first jellyfish-only #museum in #PompanoBeach after fleeing the #war. It holds up to 25 #jellyfish species plus immersive projection and a mini lab.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/only-one-of-its-kind-jellyfish-museum-opens-in-florida-astounds-visitors-awe-inspiring-displays-nettles-safely-behind-glass-180989381/

#ocean #animals #nature #wildlife #fish #biology #marinebiology #science #ancient #invertebrates #climate #beach #nature #cnidaria

Embrace your inner bug (and stop excusing politicians by labelling them as such)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/20/winner-invertebrate-of-the-year-2026-crowned-leaf-sheep

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/humans-bugs-invertebrates-of-the-year-natural-world-chris-packham

#Invertebrates #Lovely #Useful #Attractive #Essential #Environment #Celebration

Pallid-winged grasshopper, on the stones at Oyster Bay. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/beach-hoppers.html #VancouverIsland #Grasshoppers #Insects #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

#ArtRepostJuly Day 28: Environment

Kinda a stretch but here's a little game project I made. And when I say "I made" I mean pretty much everything; the models, the rigs, the textures, the animations, the sound effects, the code, the environment for the spider to play in...

#Invertebrates #GameDev #Arachnid

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

Octopus surge spreads up UK coast as far as Scotland, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/08/octopus-invasion-spreads-up-uk-coast-as-far-scotland-study #MarineLife #Invertebrates #Fishing #FishingIndustry #Wildlife #Environment #UkNews

Quiet extinctions of invertebrates are largely unnoticed and unmourned

‘This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper’ TS Eliot, The Hollow Men

"Australian species have become extinct over this 236-year period...We predict that 39–148 species will become extinct in 2024. This is inconsistent with a recent pledge by the Australian government to prevent all extinction...Unless there is a major increase in investment and change in conservation priorities, and more effective control of threats, this rate of extinction will increase. We should not simply maintain the current conservation status quo and let these extinctions happen."

"So long as invertebrate extinctions remain nameless and invisible, this failure cannot be demonstrated, or readily overcome; and efforts will instead be directed towards the less imperilled, but better-known and iconic species."
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Woinarski JCZ, Braby MF, Gibb H, et al. This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction. 2024;2:e23. doi:10.1017/ext.2024.26
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-prisms-extinction/article/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper-estimating-the-number-and-ongoing-rate-of-extinctions-of-australian-nonmarine-invertebrates/D0DCAA03EBA7ACC25F98F7BF5D87A2A6
#invertebrates #extinction #narrative #QuietExtinctions #ecosystem #biodiversity #HabitatDestruction #habitat #degradation #taxonomy #TaxonomicInequality #biases #cute #iconic #disinterest #BushBlitz #conservation #values

Water Availability Creates Global Thresholds In Multidimensional Soil Biodiversity And Functions
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02071-3 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #water #mapping #water #hydrology #biogeography #phylogeography #geography #global #environmental #biodiversity #productivity #agricultural #agriculture #farming #plant #microbe #soilscience #soilhealth #soil #soilfertility #soilconservation #soilmanagement #ecosystems #EnvironmentalThresholds #survey #fieldsurvey #climate #vegetation #watermanagement #waterconservation #rainfall #precipitation #EV #evaporation #evapotranspiration #biogeochemical #geochemical #bacteria #fungi #protists #invertebrates #model #modeling #soilcarbonsequestration #wateravailability #sustainable