Golden-backed weaver
Marches of East Africa
It takes a male 2 days to weave and intricate nest.
He then waits for a female to accept the nest
Once they mate the female adds a soft nest inside, and incubates then feeds chicks and raises them solo.
He goes on to build more nests for other females.
Marches of East Africa
It takes a male 2 days to weave and intricate nest.
He then waits for a female to accept the nest
Once they mate the female adds a soft nest inside, and incubates then feeds chicks and raises them solo.
He goes on to build more nests for other females.
September 28, 2026 at 10:43 PM
September 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
broad-tailed hummingbirds built a nest atop a tea light on a friend's front porch. one bird fledged yesterday, and one kiddo (who I saw flying, too) was hanging around for more food from mom #birds
July 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
You think your life is 💩? Sure, amateur.
This baby lives in a little wizard hat made of its own poo, then blossoms into a lovely little fecal pellet beetle. And they wouldn't have it any other way 🥰
warty leaf #beetle; #Chrysomelidae: #Exema
North Carolina, USA
@dradriansmith.bsky.social
This baby lives in a little wizard hat made of its own poo, then blossoms into a lovely little fecal pellet beetle. And they wouldn't have it any other way 🥰
warty leaf #beetle; #Chrysomelidae: #Exema
North Carolina, USA
@dradriansmith.bsky.social
June 14, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Webspinners have to be one of the coziest insects, at least the girlies.
September 28, 2026 at 8:38 PM
September 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
#AnimalArchitecture gathering materials
Lady Organ Pipe Dauber carrying a mud ball to her nest. She looks like she’s just coming back from the grocery store. #WaspWednesday
(Trypoxylon politum)
(Trypoxylon politum)
December 12, 2024 at 10:46 PM
#AnimalArchitecture gathering materials
#AnimalArchitecture found materials
Feels kind of illegal to be featured by "Nature" with a bird's nest this artificial. But here we are. 😅🪹🪶
@nature.com 🌿🧪
@nature.com 🌿🧪
March 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#AnimalArchitecture found materials
Leaf-rolling beetle or itaya-hamaki-chokkiri (Byctiscus venustus). Japanese name “chokkiri” comes from the onomatope “choki” which is sound of scissors cutting. It cuts off the rolled leaf containing the egg onto ground. Tokikubo, Komoro, Nagano #Invertebrate #Insects
イタヤハマキチョッキリ。長野県小諸市鴇久保 #虫
イタヤハマキチョッキリ。長野県小諸市鴇久保 #虫
June 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
February 12, 2026 at 8:19 PM
🧵🐙🌿Here is your Wednesday Wasp, one of the most fascinating things I saw in Costa Rica. It's a silk wasp, Microstigmus adelphus. They're ant-size, ~3 mm. This nest was maybe the size of a pea. Females produce silk from their abdomen (almost like spiders) to bind organic material for the nest, and--
June 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
First day on here!
How do I get added to ento and science starter packs?
I offer a beautiful psyllid (Creiis longipennis) emerging from its lerp and nymph, I guess 😍
How do I get added to ento and science starter packs?
I offer a beautiful psyllid (Creiis longipennis) emerging from its lerp and nymph, I guess 😍
February 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Hello #invertefest, here is a valentine for the beautiful paper wasps I got to know when I still lived in California. They were very polite about our shared porch and never tried to come inside, never acted aggressive towards me. Sadly I think they were an invasive type, but I was fond of them.
April 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
#waspday at @NHM London!! look this amazing Polybia nest!!! thanks @gavinbroad.bsky.social with @waspwoman.bsky.social @femi-benny.bsky.social @ionace.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Sorting samples today from Honduras. These are some of the most delicate cased caddisflies (Trichoptera) I’ve come across.
They construct them using tiny stones held together by silk produced from modified salivary glands
@opwallscience.bsky.social
They construct them using tiny stones held together by silk produced from modified salivary glands
@opwallscience.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Poopy baby #beetles #AnimalArchitecture
This strange looking invertebrate is a Thistle Tortoise Beetle larva. That brown thing on its back is a poop shield. Yes, you read that correctly - the shield is made of fecal matter and shed exoskeleton bits to help protect the larva from predators.
(Cassida rubiginosa) PA #invert
(Cassida rubiginosa) PA #invert
May 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Poopy baby #beetles #AnimalArchitecture
great thread and new paper on #Caddisflies #AnimalArchitecture. Using old #collections to search for #microplastics.
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
April 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
great thread and new paper on #Caddisflies #AnimalArchitecture. Using old #collections to search for #microplastics.
Black-and-red broadbills build nests that mimic flood debris accidentally caught on the river edge. Several years ago, two students at our Tropical Biodiversity field course mapped these nests along the Kinabatangan River, and made the cover of J. Trop. Biol. Cons.
jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index....
jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index....
December 8, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Artists are everywhere! Just look at this gorgeous web. An orb weaver I think? #invertebrates #spiders 🌿
June 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Experimental birdhouses at MAD Brussels
(Following up on similar shows at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Christies, Muz Yer; also: Paul Gagner’s Calamaityville…)
(Following up on similar shows at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Christies, Muz Yer; also: Paul Gagner’s Calamaityville…)
Eighty-two experimental bird houses take flight in Belgium
MAD Brussels has set a whole flock of designers to the task of reinventing the birdbox, tapping into the homemaking instinct that unites us across species. The result? Flights of fancy made delightful...
www.worldofinteriors.com
March 20, 2026 at 3:09 PM
How many insects can you see in this photo? Believe it or not, there are five. This termite alate fell victim to four perfectly camouflaged assassin bug nymphs (Reduvius tarsatus) Their bodies are covered with minute setae that trap grains of sand and various debris, making them virtually disappear.
February 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This summer wasps made a nest in our garden beside our bike stand in an old tree stump. I persuaded the family to put up with it and the wasps have finally died off. This is what it looks like now. (Wasps don’t reuse their nests) #biodiversity #speirgorm @gardeningwell.ie
January 2, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Because I had to drag a ladder out onto the porch - took me a while to get around to pics (there are three males on the nest at this point!) but love this nest of Western Paper Wasps (Mischocyttarus flavitarsis)
First time I've seen a queen reuse an old nest (more than one season old too!) #inverts
First time I've seen a queen reuse an old nest (more than one season old too!) #inverts
September 5, 2026 at 10:30 PM
After a night of heavy rains at Danum Valley, I found this alien meteorite that had fallen onto a trail.
February 23, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Another Caddisfly larva feeding, this time on a more typical food, scraping algae/biofilm off a dead leaf
Pretty sure this is Limnephilidae
#Pondlife #BugSky #UKWildlife #inverts #Insect #Caddisflies
Pretty sure this is Limnephilidae
#Pondlife #BugSky #UKWildlife #inverts #Insect #Caddisflies
January 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM