#webspinners — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #webspinners, aggregated by home.social.
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Sometimes one stumbles across the most unusual bug: here, a member of the insect order Embioptera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embioptera (also called Embiidina).
Black webspinner, Oligotoma nigra (tentative ID), a male (only males are winged) http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181104245 casually sitting on a curtain at home … I wasn’t even trying to find a rare insect order.
#iNaturalist #Embioptera #Embiidina #entomology #insects #webspinners