#invertebrates — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #invertebrates, aggregated by home.social.
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Amazing these otherworldly creatures inhabit the little ol' English coast. Unlike other #Devon #ctenophores we saw the Northern Comb Jelly (Beroe cucumis) lacks tentacles, instead engulfing other ctenophores with huge mouth. These ancient marine #invertebrates are largest animals to swim with cilia.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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24-Aug-2026
Evolutionary arm race in Cenozoic seas shaped modern diversity of marine #snailsA 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.
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#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...
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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 -
Found on lettuce; Western Tarnished Plant Bug. (Watch for it in your garden and your salad.) New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/polyphagous.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #GardenPests #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
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Giant, #kraken-like #octopuses may have ruled the #Cretaceous deep
Fossilized jaws reveal that enormous octopuses growing up to 19 meters long were top predators in the #oceans during an era when #dinosaurs ruled on land. These super-sized #cephalopods would have been the largest marine animals of the Cretaceous Period and may be the biggest #invertebrates to ever live
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/kraken-octopus-largest-invertebrate
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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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Yellow-face bumblebee busy pollinating the hardhack. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/07/busy-busy-in-pink.html #VancouverIsland #Bloomscrolling #WetlandPlants #Bees #Insects #Invertebrates #Wildlife #Nature
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Willow Emerald, Chalcolestes viridis Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/5.6 1/320 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 8/28/2008 #Lestes #Lestidae #Odonatae #Dragonflies #Damselflies #Insects #invertebrates #macro #wetlands
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Willow Emerald, Chalcolestes viridis
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Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/ 5.6 1/320 iso: 100 Prague, Czech Republic 9/8/2008
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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 -
CW: Pycnogonids are awesomefreakycool
Endeis charybdaea photo from Lehmann T, Heß M, Melzer R (2014) Common littoral pycnogonids of the Mediterranean Sea. Zoosystematics and Evolution 90(2): 163-224. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.90.7520
