insects

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Causos de uma amante de animais - babies Mariposas

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Howdy! New to this whole Mastodon thing (I'm not even sure what instance I should be on) but eager. Name's Bug — I'm a queer master's student in an entomology lab, passionate about scientific outreach.

When I’m not staring at insects, I spend my time creating zines, comics, other art, and playing D&D. I want to learn how to make video games. Let’s connect if you think little critters are cool!

#introductions #pixelart #zines #entomology #academia #comics #queer #insects

Pixel art of a humanoid insect wearing a brown western shirt. He is waving and saying hi.

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1y

In case anyone’s not too sure.. this is what a 'spring lawn' is supposed to look like.

Breakdown:

• No irritating lawn-mower lines.
• A multitude of flowers.
• Lawn-mower rests, unperturbed in garden shed.
• No Louis X1V - 'rules over nature'.
• No walking up and down for hours, making a really annoying, loud noise and irritating the neighbours.

• Just peace, quiet and LOTS of bees.

#Nature #NoMowMarch #NoMowApril #ClimateDiary #Climat #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #WildLife #Insects #Bees

An image of a lush, unmown lawn in late March, showing lots of small flowers, which are mostly daisies, primroses and dandelions. Soon there will be buttercups too.
At the foot of the garden is a blossoming cherry tree in front of a blue sky, with a terracotta roof to the side. And yes... for the observant, just in front, there are the beginnings of what is a roughly 10 metre stretch of raspberry bushes (two lines deep! Yum!)

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1y

Replacing some or all of your #lawn with native plants and food is one way to support each other and the environment – but it truly does so much more than that.

Here are some significant research-backed and expert-approved benefits you’ll experience when you make the switch.

#nolawn #nolawns #rewilding #gardening #biodiversity #cities #urbannature #insects #ecology #landscaping #ediblelandscaping #mentalhealth #bees

https://www.rewildingmag.com/6-reasons-to-downsize-your-lawn/

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1y

Pleased with this shot of a field ant (Formica subsericea) grabbing a pile of eggs. Tennessee.

#Insects #Ants #Formica

Macro photo, portrait orientation, of a silvery gray ant, her mandibles open around dozens of small white jelly bean shaped objects.

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1y

Band-winged dragonlet #dragonfly (Erythrodiplax umbrata) on a red yucca flower spike in the front garden.

#SilentSunday #photography #insects #insectphotography

Color photo of a dragonfly on a flower spike stem with its blurred pink flowers in the background.

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1y

An Agreeable Tiger Moth [Spilosoma congrua] doing its best bat impression in the slats of my deck.

#Nature #Moths #Insects

Side view of a moth in between two deck boards. It is approximately 1.5 inches long, facing upward with its wings tucked tightly behind it. Its head is white and looks like a fuzzy pom-pom. It has small antennae that are somewhat striped looking, black and white. There are 2 or 3 visible tiny black spots on its outer wing. The gap between the two planks is only ¼ inch.

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Got this shot out in west Texas a couple days ago. It’s a Pogonomyrmex harvester ant sprinting across a sand dune carrying one of her nestmate sisters. The carried ant curls into a stereotypical pupal position to be easier to transport.

#Ants #Insects #Deserts #Pogonomyrmex

Photograph of a running red ant in side view on what looks like beach sand, her skin with a corduroy texture and a very shiny raised abdomen, holding a curled up ant in her mandibles.

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For those who know anything about ants, here's a weird one: Lasius xerophilus.

Most Lasius species live in north temperate/boreal forests. This one? Sand dunes in North American deserts. A total oddball, and unexpected, living alongside classic desert species like Pogonomyrmex harvester ants.

Photographed at Monahans Sand Dunes, Texas.

#Ants #Lasius #Deserts #Insects

Photograph of a fuzzy, somewhat pudgy orange ant standing alert nest to a giant (compared to the ant) hole in the ground, which is made of sand grains.

Photograph of a wind-rippled sand dune speckled with a dozen or so little ant mounds.

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303d

A snail-eating beetle, Scaphinotus, from Arizona. #insects #Scaphinotus #beetles

Photograph of a large purple beetle walking on dead leaves. The beetle has a long head and a concave shield-like pronotum.

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78d

MILLIONS of Monarchs: Inside MEXICO'S COOLEST Experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gy3ooBbw_8

Books about butterflies at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=butterflies

#animals #insects

Cover of the book "Butterflies Worth Knowing" by Clarence Moores Weed

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104d

The enemy. So pretty. So hungry. Eating my tomatoes and looking gorgeous. #insects #hornworm #lepidoptera #gardening

Artistic photo of a poised green hornworm, sitting upside down in the curl of a tomato leaf.

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97d

The Sex Lives of Insects

Some male insects come bearing nuptial gifts to put females into the mood.

By Melody Ko

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/environment-did-you-know/sex-lives-insects

Insects at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=insects&submit_search=Search

#insects #environment #entomology

Plate XLVII. 1. LIBELLULA AXILENA. 2. LIBELLULA EPONINA (= Celithemis eponina). 3. LIBELLULA PORTIA (= Palpopleura lucia). 4. LIBELLULA SOPHRONIA (= Neurothemis fulvia).

Plates: Dru Drury (1725–1803). Text: John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893) - Illustrations of Exotic Entomology,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect#/media/File:Illustrations_of_Exotic_Entomology_II_47_('LIBELLULA_AXILENA').jpg

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117d

Peony Frog - a little whimsy to start your day: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/peony-frog-lisa-s-baker.html

#frog #frogs #ladybug #peony #flower #flowers #spring #fun #cute #art #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #artprints #canvasprints #kidsroomdecor #interiordecor #cutefrogs #bug #insects #artforkids #Monday #charming #whimsy

An art print of a frog sitting in font of a large peony flower. A ladybug is crawling on the frogs head. Art by Lisa S Baker.

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84d

Bee happy.

#bees #photography #CarpenterBee #nature #naturephotography #insects #insectphotography

Close up color photo of a carpenter bee in flight facing toward the camera.

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79d

Love going outside right after it rains. All the little critters come out to explore!

Met two friends today, a #caterpillar and a #PotatoBug.

Relatively, we're all small.

#caterpillars #insects #mosstodon #nature #lichensubscribe #bloomscrolling #bugs #awalkaday

A fuzzy orange caterpillar explores a damp leaf.

A potato bug chills on a branch. Will he head downwards, to the brown lichen, or upwards, to the moss on the branch's top side? We'll never know.

Sunlight on wet maple leaves. Gorgeous.

Foxgloves being all kinda extra. Showoffs.

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Insects: Facts about the creepy-crawlies that make up more than half of the world's animal species

https://www.livescience.com/animals/insects/insects-facts

Books about insects at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=insects

#animals #insects

Insects and Fish with Island Background by Maria Sibylla Merian (ca. 1719)
Various fish are shown in the water, and insects are shown on trees and land.

"Hand-coloured etching from Maria Sibylla Merian's seminal Metamorphasibus Insectorum Surinamensium, the product of two years of research — from 1699 to 1701 — in the then-Dutch colony of Surinam. It was first published in 1705 in
Amsterdam, with a number of subsequent editions issued over the next decades."- from the Public Domain Image Archive

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37d

Black swallowtail in the front #garden.

#butterflies #photography #nature #insects #insectphotography #butterflyphotography

Close up color photo taken from behind of a black swallowtail with closed black wings with blue, yellow, and orange spots.

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56d

ユウマダラエダシャク（たぶん）
こんなに目立つ色なのに堂々と葉表に止まっている（多くの蛾は葉の裏に止まる）。この自信は一体どこから来るの？
#蛾も案外いいぞ
 #昆虫 #insects #nature #photography #マストドン写真部

葉に止まるユウマダラエダシャク。白い翅に灰色や茶色の紋がある。

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33d

Dragonfly near Green Lake in Seattle. This is an Eight-Spotted Skimmer - very relaxed about photography happening nearby!

#insects #dragonfly #macroPhotography #seattle #pnw

A large dragonfly is sitting on a stem. Its large wings are white, with eight black spots.

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38d

Best part of this project is going through my old photos for inspiration, and finding it in abundance.

#sketchbook #wip #art #pollinators #musicForBugs #music #photography #insects

Listening to the perfect album while I sketch: Music for Bugs
https://youtu.be/rIYnXgvRJVM?si=hg_c2l6JPmMxxP8r

Work in progress sketch of a butterfly with a firewheel flower behind it, one of the butterfly's pupils is a tiny heart.

Macro of the underside of an orange and black butterfly with a white fuzzy body and blue eyes, against an overcast sky on a dirty porch screen door window.

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Another beautiful butterfly that is currently flying here is the Harris's Checkerspot (Chlosyne harrisii).

#insects #butterflies #naturephotography #closeup

A Harris's Checkerspot (Chlosyne harrisii) butterfly sits on a pebble on the ground with its wings closed.

A Harris's Checkerspot (Chlosyne harrisii) butterfly sits on a pebble on the ground with its wings half open.

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51d

An American Painted Lady looking a little rough around the edges. Can relate. 🧡

ᏥᎫᏫ (tsiguwi)

#Insects #butterfly #nature #naturephotography

An American Painted Lady on my butterfly bush

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13d

Gulf fritillary #butterfly on a Turk’s cap blossom in the backyard.

#SilentSunday #stunday #photography #butterflies #butterflyphotography #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature #insects #insectphotography

Closeup color photo of an orange butterfly with white and black spots and a curled proboscis perched on a red Turk’s cap flower.

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🌸 Echinacea is a plant known for attracting insects, especially bees, bumblebees, and butterflies 🐝🦋.

#echinacea #bumblebees #bees #natuur #nature #naturephotography #insects #natur #insecten

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