#invertebrates — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #invertebrates, aggregated by home.social.
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Glowworms shine again in North Yorkshire after larvae reared in garden shed https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/07/glowworms-shine-again-north-yorkshire-larvae-reintroduction #Insects #EndangeredSpecies #Animals #Conservation #NorthYorkshire #Environment #Invertebrates #UkNews #Wildlife
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Glowworms shine again in North Yorkshire after larvae reared in garden shed
By Patrick BarkhamVolunteer ‘glow-getters’ overseeing reintroduction of endangered beetles at Nosterfield nature reserve
#Insects #Endangeredspecies #Animals #Conservation #NorthYorkshire #Environment #Invertebrates #UKnews #Wildlife #TheGuardian #PatrickBarkham
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Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
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Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
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Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
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Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
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Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
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: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.
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: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.
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: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.
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: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.
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: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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Beginnings of Man -Part 1
The nature of Man has evolved over millions of years, changed by environmental conditions, by the response of his instinctual nature and by the actions of his ego. Man’s inner characteristics are altogether different from the ancestral root which governs other species. Why then is he so different?https://tonyaholisticblog.com/2026/08/31/the-beginnings-of-man-part-1/
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The Beginnings of Man -Part 1
The nature of Man has evolved over millions of years, changed by environmental conditions, by the response of his instinctual nature and by the actions of his ego. Man’s inner characteristics are altogether different from the ancestral root which governs other species. Why then is he so different?https://tonyaholisticblog.com/2026/08/31/the-beginnings-of-man-part-1/
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The Beginnings of Man -Part 1
The nature of Man has evolved over millions of years, changed by environmental conditions, by the response of his instinctual nature and by the actions of his ego. Man’s inner characteristics are altogether different from the ancestral root which governs other species. Why then is he so different?https://tonyaholisticblog.com/2026/08/31/the-beginnings-of-man-part-1/
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The Beginnings of Man -Part 1
The nature of Man has evolved over millions of years, changed by environmental conditions, by the response of his instinctual nature and by the actions of his ego. Man’s inner characteristics are altogether different from the ancestral root which governs other species. Why then is he so different?https://tonyaholisticblog.com/2026/08/31/the-beginnings-of-man-part-1/
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The Beginnings of Man -Part 1
The nature of Man has evolved over millions of years, changed by environmental conditions, by the response of his instinctual nature and by the actions of his ego. Man’s inner characteristics are altogether different from the ancestral root which governs other species. Why then is he so different?https://tonyaholisticblog.com/2026/08/31/the-beginnings-of-man-part-1/
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‘These are human fires, not wildfires’: Dunwich reflects on the devastation
By Patrick Barkham and Pippa NeillAs residents, nature wardens and experts consider the damage to the heathland and how to restore it, the climate crisis is foremost in their minds
#Suffolk #Wildfires #Climatecrisis #Environment #UKnews #Birds #Wildlife #England #Conservation #TheNationalTrust #RSPB #Endangeredhabitats #Animals #Invertebrates #Insects #TheGuardian #PatrickBarkham #PippaNeill
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‘These are human fires, not wildfires’: Dunwich reflects on the devastation https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/09/these-are-human-fires-not-wildfires-dunwich-reflects-on-the-devastation #Suffolk #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #Environment #UkNews #Birds #Wildlife #England #Conservation #TheNationalTrust #Rspb #EndangeredHabitats #Animals #Invertebrates #Insects
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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 -
🐝 Just posted to Habitat Gardening, this time covering the importance of native shrubs and vines to birds and other forest friends - and how to find them.
🦋 Native vines in particular 'don't get no respect' in the native plant literature. I found a particularly useful source where you can search specifically for vines.
🐦⬛ As usual. there are seasonal habitat improvement ideas and a long list of references and further reading. Photos from my garden are also included.
Go Native!
https://write.as/habitat-gardening/move-up-with-shrubs-and-vines
@NCConnect
#HabitatGardening #BiodiversityGardening #Gardening #NativePlants #Nature #Environment #Conservation #Biodiversity #Invertebrates #Pollinators #BirdConservation -
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
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🦗🔬 University of #Sydney researchers found that house #crickets perform "flexible self-protection" by nursing specific injuries, suggesting they experience pain-like states rather than simple reflexes.
The directed behavior indicates a level of conscious experience previously underestimated in #invertebrates. The findings could challenge our approach toward #insects, supporting a growing scientific consensus on their complex cognitive capabilities.
👉 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/13/insects-feel-pain-research
#insects #biology #science #entomology #nature #research #evolution #neuroscience #discovery #ethics #fruitflies
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Wildlflower Wednesday
🌱 Just posted my latest blog for Habitat Gardening. This time covering planting your natives (finally).
🌻 And, for those who are a little more experienced, the seasonal improvement section helps you get real about your climate and changes you may have to make to your native garden.
And I get into composting a little, because it is so important!
👉 Look for the picture of an ugly, rain starved bed of flowers!
📓 As usual, the Resources section at the bottom is jammed with related information for new native gardeners.
Go Native!
https://write.as/habitat-gardening/planting-time
#HabitatGardening #BiodiversityGardening #Gardening #NativePlants #Nature #Environment #Conservation #Biodiversity #Invertebrates #SolarPunk #WildflowerWednesday
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Oysters have such amazing zig-zag shells! New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../low-tide-sampler.html #VancouverIsland #Oysters #InverteFest #Molluscs #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #IntertidalInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
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Sea anemones have feelings, too! Plumose anemone protests against falling tide. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/anemone-doings.html #VancouverIsland #Anemones #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #IntertidalInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
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Just posted again to my blog Habitat Gardening. This time, I cover
🪱Preparing soil for native plants - by not doing hardly anything.
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🪲Protecting #wildflowers that bloom early - by just relaxing and not ripping them out.https://write.as/habitat-gardening/prepare-your-garden-soil
#HabitatGardening #BiodiversityGardening #Gardening #NativePlants #Conservation #Wildflowers #Biodiversity #Invertebrates #SolarPunk
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Pink-tipped green anemones in the upper intertidal zone. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/when-sun-shines.html #VancouverIsland #Anemones #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
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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.
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HELP BUILD BIRD AND BEE POPULATIONS
🌱 New post in HABITAT GARDENING for those considering purchasing native plant seeds: Know germination requirements.
🐝 Also, store-bought bee houses can be dangerous for bees, unless you manage them correctly.
📒 Finally, several FREE resources that help you help the 30% of native bees in North America that live above ground. You can bee a hero and help for zero dollars.
https://write.as/habitat-gardening/know-before-you-buy-native-plant-seeds
#WildlifeWednesday
#HabitatGardening
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👀 Check out the latest post to Habitat Gardening.
🐦⬛ This time I cover where to find sources of native plants so you can prepare for the next growing season using *Keystone Plants* that are critical in your area to supply food for birds and butterflies to bolster their falling populations.
🐝 But there's more! For winter season improvement, I described how to keep a spot for ground-dwelling bees. I give you a link to a helpful guide from the Xerces Society that provides you with details.
🔗 And, as always, there are links to expert resources.
#HabitatGardening #BiodiversityGardening #Gardening #NativePlants #Nature #Environment #Conservation #Biodiversity #Invertebrates #SolarPunk #Thrutopia
https://write.as/habitat-gardening/where-to-purchase-native-plants
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sloe Hairstreak, Satyrium acaciae Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/5.6 1/320 iso: 125 Prague, Czech Republic 6/19/2024 #hairstreaks #Satyridae #Lepidoptera #Lycaenidae #SaveButterflies #Butterflies #Insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands
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Sloe Hairstreak, Satyrium acaciae Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/5.6 1/320 iso: 125 Prague, Czech Republic 6/19/2024 #hairstreaks #Satyridae #Lepidoptera #Lycaenidae #SaveButterflies #Butterflies #Insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands
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Sloe Hairstreak, Satyrium acaciae Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/5.6 1/320 iso: 125 Prague, Czech Republic 6/19/2024 #hairstreaks #Satyridae #Lepidoptera #Lycaenidae #SaveButterflies #Butterflies #Insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands
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Sloe Hairstreak, Satyrium acaciae Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/5.6 1/320 iso: 125 Prague, Czech Republic 6/19/2024 #hairstreaks #Satyridae #Lepidoptera #Lycaenidae #SaveButterflies #Butterflies #Insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands
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Ringlet, Aphantopus hyperantus Canon 5D3 Sigma 105 2.8 Srbsko, Czech republic 7/23/2023 #Ringlet #Satyridae #SaveButterflies #butterflies #Lepidoptera #Insects #invertebrates #macro #Grasslands
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Ringlet, Aphantopus hyperantus Canon 5D3 Sigma 105 2.8 Srbsko, Czech republic 7/23/2023 #Ringlet #Satyridae #SaveButterflies #butterflies #Lepidoptera #Insects #invertebrates #macro #Grasslands
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Ringlet, Aphantopus hyperantus Canon 5D3 Sigma 105 2.8 Srbsko, Czech republic 7/23/2023 #Ringlet #Satyridae #SaveButterflies #butterflies #Lepidoptera #Insects #invertebrates #macro #Grasslands
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Ringlet, Aphantopus hyperantus Canon 5D3 Sigma 105 2.8 Srbsko, Czech republic 7/23/2023 #Ringlet #Satyridae #SaveButterflies #butterflies #Lepidoptera #Insects #invertebrates #macro #Grasslands
