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madwomanmoon.bsky.social
An old picture. I spotted this guy (not sure what kind of fly) and was enchanted by his iridescent green body. Luckily, he decided to model for me.
#InsectThursday
#BugSky #Insects #Photography #fly #pnwinsects
A bright green fly is perched on a curled, brown leaf on the brown grass.
January 29, 2026 at 10:09 PM
rainhead.bsky.social
The goal was to make the site easy to maintain and cheap to run. Everything but image assets are managed as files in github.com/pnwinsects/p.... The site is a static build, with no other server-side or third-party runtime components. Even the Identify tool and site search are client-side scripts.
GitHub - pnwinsects/pnwmoths: Static rebuild of pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu using Eleventy, DuckDB/Parquet, Vite, and Lit web components
Static rebuild of pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu using Eleventy, DuckDB/Parquet, Vite, and Lit web components - pnwinsects/pnwmoths
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July 28, 2026 at 12:35 AM
edwardnathan.bsky.social
Western Thatching Ants - Formica obscuripens | Photographed in Silverdale, Wa. 2024 (close up photo is not mine, found on internet)
#nature #insects #insectfeed #entemology #bugs #bugfeed #insectidentification #insectphotography #pnwinsects #pnw #pnwants
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
nimblenewt.bsky.social
The most beautiful teeny-tiny beetle I’ve ever met landed on me at breaktime; out of the 47 photos I took as it scurried, this is the final one before it flew away, and the only one in focus! Just a gorgeous little beetle, the highlight of my week.
#beetle #inverts #pnwInsects
A beautiful beetle that looks like a gold statue perches on a fingertip. The finger’s ridges are grubby from gardening. The beetle is shiny gold in the photo, but in person also glinted green and blue in the sunlight, much like the much larger (and more ridged) golden Buprestis beetle that is also native here on Vancouver Island. The beetle in this photo is similar in structure to lady beetles (but much much smaller), and has glossy sturdy brown legs, and segmented antennae that are beige at the base and a burgundy-brown as they thicken towards their tips. Really beautiful!
July 17, 2026 at 10:04 PM
nimblenewt.bsky.social
First Katydid I’ve seen this year at work; I think this is Meconema thalassinum. I appreciate their funny gleaming eyes and dressy racing stripe. 💚💛💚
#inverts #PNWinsects
A lime-slushie green teeny Katydid (looking like a svelte micro grasshopper without the sturdiness) with dainty pale legs and white eyes, and a lemon-meringue-yellow spine stripe sits on the underside of a green, deeply ribbed Alocasia odora leaf I’d removed. In the background are the variegated green and yellow leaves of Alpinia zerumbet variegata gingers. A lime-slushie green teeny Katydid (looking like a svelte micro grasshopper without the sturdiness) with dainty pale legs and white eyes, and a lemon-meringue-yellow spine stripe sits on the underside of a green, deeply ribbed Alocasia odora leaf I’d removed. In the background are the variegated green and yellow leaves of Alpinia zerumbet variegata gingers.
July 3, 2026 at 11:36 PM