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  1. "i am too a hummingbird, in fact, i am a kind of hummingbird known as a thorntail, you see that white band over my hips, all thorntails have that white band...

    "ignore the rumors suggesting i am a flying shrimp!" -- flying shrimp, probably

    #photograph #birds #birding #hummingbirds #insects #lepidotera #mimicry #illusions #wildlife #nature #outdoors #photography #nikon

  2. "i am too a hummingbird, in fact, i am a kind of hummingbird known as a thorntail, you see that white band over my hips, all thorntails have that white band...

    "ignore the rumors suggesting i am a flying shrimp!" -- flying shrimp, probably

    #photograph #birds #birding #hummingbirds #insects #lepidotera #mimicry #illusions #wildlife #nature #outdoors #photography #nikon

  3. How the insect centre for learning and memory, the mushroom body, evolves. By Farnworth et al. 2024, using the example of "the Heliconiini (Nymphalidae), which show extensive variation in mushroom body size over comparatively short phylogenetic timescales, linked to specific changes in foraging ecology, life history and cognition."

    Some key findings:
    * number of GABA cells change, concomitant with increase in Kenyon Cell number;
    * number of DANs don't.

    "Mosaic evolution of a learning and memory circuit in Heliconiini butterflies"
    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    #Lepidotera #neuroscience #entomology #butterflies

  4. How the insect centre for learning and memory, the mushroom body, evolves. By Farnworth et al. 2024, using the example of "the Heliconiini (Nymphalidae), which show extensive variation in mushroom body size over comparatively short phylogenetic timescales, linked to specific changes in foraging ecology, life history and cognition."

    Some key findings:
    * number of GABA cells change, concomitant with increase in Kenyon Cell number;
    * number of DANs don't.

    "Mosaic evolution of a learning and memory circuit in Heliconiini butterflies"
    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    #Lepidotera #neuroscience #entomology #butterflies

  5. Gasteruption jaculator and Blue-Spot Hairstreak, Satyrium spini Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/4.6 1/320 iso: 200 Srbsko, Czech Republic 7/23/2023 #Wasps #Gasteruption #parasitoid #BlueSpot #Satyrium #Lycaenidae #butterflies #SaveButterflies #Lepidotera #Macro #grasslands

  6. Gasteruption jaculator and Blue-Spot Hairstreak, Satyrium spini Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/4.6 1/320 iso: 200 Srbsko, Czech Republic 7/23/2023 #Wasps #Gasteruption #parasitoid #BlueSpot #Satyrium #Lycaenidae #butterflies #SaveButterflies #Lepidotera #Macro #grasslands