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cimbex.bsky.social
Fraxinus 🪚🪰
@cimbex.bsky.social
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Insect photographer; obsessed with sawflies.
Mostly re/posts of bugs, sometimes other nature. Occasionally video games.
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Megischus wasps are so bizarre to watch - in flight and just walking around. I love them of course
October 13, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
Gawrsh I wonder why they call ‘em “domino beetles”
Unit tray containing an efficient TEN (10) Anthia sexguttata, which as advertised have six large perfectly round spots
October 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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martinefenn.bsky.social
A lovely combination of Puffballs and Coral Fungus on a fallen log in our local woodland at the weekend #MushroomMonday #Fungi #FungiFriends
Stump Puffballs and Upright Coral Fungus, Ramaria stricta with a little of the mossy log showing. (Happy to be corrected on Fungi ID!)
October 12, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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alexwild.bsky.social
Found a midge this morning, Goeldichironomus carus, that appears to mimic a jumping spider.
macro photo of a small brown midge in front view, with six triangular black spots on its back above the head, and the legs arranged a bit like jumping spider legs. macro photo of a small brown midge in oblique front view, with six triangular black spots on its back above the head, and the legs arranged a bit like jumping spider legs.
October 10, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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crawlieswithcri.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay is #Green, any birds or backgrounds that have Green in them. Alt theme is #Geese

Snow Geese!

#birds #becurious
photo of hundreds of snow geese in flight, more on the water, and mountains in the background.
October 10, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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birdzandbees.bsky.social
WWW. Weevil Wolf Wasp
Belonging to the same group as Beewolves but instead of bees they hunt and paralyse weevils and other beetles to feed their larvae.
Nikon Z9 + Sigma 150mm
SS1/3200 F8 ISO3200
#wasps #insect #prey #hunter #entomology
October 10, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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templebalsall.bsky.social
October 10, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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lorrainesimeart.bsky.social
A wee bit of sketching. #fungi #insects #arachnids #ukfungusday #ukfungusday2026 #sketchbook
An opened sketchbook, with unfinished pages. It shows ladybird sketches and drawings, sawfly larvae, but mostly drawings and sketches of various types of fungi.
October 10, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Thanks @teamdiptera.bsky.social for busting me into the entomology archives... beefly from 1965
A wood panel painting of a beefly pictured next to a small pinned beefly specimen. The painting features the fly sipping a margarita next to birthday balloons on a patio.
October 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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blibloop.bsky.social
Dog 🐕
October 9, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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rainhayes.com
Not my usual, but when it’s just sitting right there…

Milky Way, just after dark at Lake Leavitt in the Sierra Nevada. Sure looked close from up there!

And a happy Friday to all who celebrate.

#astrophotography #naturephotography
October 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Here are some nice mushrooms
A colony of vibrant yellow and orange chickens the woods mushrooms grow from the side of a mossy log in a late summer forest. All photos by me
October 8, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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dunnjons.bsky.social
Another lovely Colias clouded yellow species in my summer of them, this Moorland Clouded Yellow was a thoroughly obliging and decent individual, flying past me in Arctic Sweden and, the moment a cloud obscured the sun, dropping down to roost right in front of us. Sometimes a bit of cloud is good...
Moorland Clouded Yellow (Colias palaeno), seen on the Butterflies of the European Arctic tour I co-led for Mariposa Nature Tours, Sweden © Jon Dunn
October 8, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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alexwild.bsky.social
A gallery of mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes - Alex Wild
Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, but the primary food of adult mosquitoes is actually ...
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October 8, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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martinefenn.bsky.social
Lots of creatures enjoying the Ivy flowers at the moment. Here’s a Hornet having a good go! #InsectThursday
October 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
Today in the carabid section, a question we all must ask
Unit tray of many multi-mounted beetles (Oxypselaphus obscurus) with a large typewritten note from the previous collection manager (in what might have been his 1st or 2nd year on the job). The note reads “What the hell’s the story with these?” and notes that a bunch of specimens were mixed in with a similar North American species, despite the fact that they are exclusively palearctic
October 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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bernoid.bsky.social
There’s some lovely colours out there…
#FungiFriends
October 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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birdzandbees.bsky.social
Living in a dream world
Mating Damselflies mating with two different lots of bokeh balls surrounding them, it must be love.
Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 + 1.4x tele
SS1/5000 F8 ISO1600
#macro #bokeh #bokeh_nature #insect #insects
October 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
Blue button jellies float on the waters surface. They’re related to true jellies, but they’ve got a dry top that feels a bit like a fingernail, and is filled with air-trapping chambers to keep the jelly above the waves

This float also means they slide on the water like hockey pucks 🏒
October 8, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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joncarling.bsky.social
'dragon panic'
inktober day seven
#joncarling #inktober #panic
October 8, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Sleepy snuggly bees on one of our rayless sunflowers out back 🥹
Pair of bees covered in soft sparse golden floof, chilling under a spiky purple flower with no petals
October 8, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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matthewberry.bsky.social
Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)
October 7, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
so many of the "perks" of genAI seem to be "replacing having any sort of real friend interactions with real humans"

"I ask ChatGPT for advice!" that's so sad bro, do you not have any friends?
October 6, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
This, too, cannot be undone. It is just wanton death and destruction.
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
October 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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joncarling.bsky.social
The forest of silver leaves
October 6, 2026 at 7:57 AM