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Bernard Van Elegem
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Agency for Nature and Forests, nature protection and policy. Belief in independent science. Nature and wildlife photographer with a heart for the less known creatures. Trying to promote and protect the animals by showing their beauty. Birds Beetles Bonkers
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Bernard Van Elegem @bernardvanelegem.bsky.social · May 11
#Mothercare on #Mothersday. How cute are those tiny little baby spiders of Pardosa Pullata, the Common #Wolfspider #piggybackriding on #mom 's back? #macro #macrophotography #spiders #biodiversity #naturalsciences Spiders are unloved by many people, but look how sweet and caring they are.
Picture of the Common Wolfspider with little babies on her back. Macrodetail seen from the back of the cute babies on the hairy back of mom and showing mom's head too. #Mothercare on #Mothersday. How cute are those tiny little baby spiders of Pardosa Pullata, the Common #Wolfspider #piggybackriding on #mom 's back? #macro #macrophotography #spiders #biodiversity #naturalsciences Spiders are unloved by many people, but look how sweet and caring they are.
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The discovery of three Central American #orchids emphasise the importance of conservation.

#Rewilding and #nature restoration are important, but without protecting existing wilderness many species will disappear before they are discovered. #biodiversity

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New Central American orchids emphasise importance of conservation
Rewilding and restoration are important, but without protecting existing nature many species will disappear before they are discovered. Scientists have identified three new species of orchid belonging...
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June 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart
Painting of stylised pink poppies and seedheads on stems
June 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects
A macro photo, front three-quarter view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue patches. It is very cute. A macro photo, side view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue bands and patches. It is very cute.
June 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Beth Knight (Wales) works as a printmaking artist creating original lino cut artwork alongside freelancing as a wildlife illustrator. Her pieces are based on real places and experiences that evoke those moments of connection between our ancestral souls and the elemental spirits of nature.
A monochrome inocut of a path in a forest with a large tree with birds on the right
May 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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#SamediCuiCui

Lorena Kloosterboer...

... est une artiste néerlando-argentine qui peint en utilisant des styles trompe-l'œil, hyperréalisme et photoréaliste, créant souvent l'illusion d'objets tridimensionnels sur une surface bidimensionnelle.
Cette œuvre de Lorena Kloosterboer est un magnifique exemple de trompe-l'œil, une technique qui joue avec la perception pour créer une illusion de réalité. Elle représente un moineau perché sur une pile de bols en céramique ornés de motifs bleus et blancs. Les détails minutieux du plumage de l'oiseau et les reflets sur les bols donnent une impression saisissante de réalisme, rendant difficile la distinction entre la peinture et une photographie.
April 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Time seems to stand still when you enter Fern World.

#MayLeaves #Monochrome
#MinimalMonday #MacroMonday #Green #Photography
#Vintagelens
delicate little ferns (I think in this case: maidenhair spleenwort) growing in the cracks of a stone wall
May 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#Beetleporn Mating Tortoise Beetles, #Cassida vittata, Belgium. While looking for ground #beetles along an estuarine bank, I bumped into these this horny couple having fun. #kezendekevers #elkedageeninsect #naturalscience #beetle #entomology #macrophotography #nature #coleoptera #biodiversity #macro
Image of a beetle couple, tortoise beetles with the male having large green fluo dorsal stripes and the female more subtle smaller golden blue stripes. #Beetleporn Mating Tortoise Beetles, #Cassida vittata, Belgium. While looking for ground #beetles along an estuarine bank, I bumped into these this horny couple having fun. #kezendekevers #elkedageeninsect #naturalscience #beetle #entomology #macrophotography #nature #coleoptera #biodiversity #macro
June 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Wayne Mondok
June 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Pasture of the Sea
Illustration of a whale shark over a bed of seagrass, encircled by a school of yellowtail scad fish, swimming into the distant blue of the ocean.
December 18, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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'LUSKENTYRE SAND TRACKS'
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Sand tracks meander gently toward the sea on Luskentyre beach, Isle of Harris, Scotland
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#photography #photographersunited #scotland #seascape #isleofharris #longexposurephotography #classicmono #wallart #ayearofart
A photograph of sand tracks leading gently toward the calm sea on Luskentyre Beach on the Isle of Harris. Their subtle curves draw the eye across a minimalist landscape, where soft, blurred clouds drift above distant mountains. The monochrome tones and smooth textures create a quiet, meditative mood that reflects the peacefulness of the Outer Hebrides.
June 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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An oldie that was partly inspired by a conversation with the great birder Laura Erickson. The name Bufflehead actually comes from the buffalo.
A comic titled Misheard Birds of North America. There's a ruffled grouse wearing ruffles, ribbons, and pearls. There's a pleated woodpecker wearing a pleated collar and skirt. There's a morning dove sitting on a coffee cup that says MONDAYS CAN KISS MY CLOACA. There's a greater and lesser scope, part duck part scope, with the lesser scope shorter. Finally, there's a buffalohead, a bufflehead with the head of a buffalo.
June 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Check out this amazing monsta! Delicate and hardcore at the same time. How beautiful is this design. 😃Nick and Gwen did it again, well done guys. 😍 bsky.app/profile/nvol...
nvolpe.bsky.social Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social · May 18
TARANTULA HAWK WASP!! 🤯😱

The world's most PAINFUL insect sting belongs to this crazy wasp! Paralysing the biggest spiders in the world, they mean business! 🕷️🐝

This wasp was very relaxed in Gwen's professional bug touching hands & I was NOT even close to game enough to try! 😳
June 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Weevil snoots
#insects #bugs #weevil #beetle #snoot #doodle
Three weevils, each with progressively longer snouts
May 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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🖼️ Jenny Moed Korpela #OwlishMonday
Barn owl in flight, about to land to catch prey, against cream, silver design background, painting.
June 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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#NewSpecies!
New darkling beetle from #chile just snuck in:

Diastoleus alveolaris

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/7F3987EA-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #DiastoleusAlveolaris

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #nature #conservation #entomology #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #darklingbeetles
May 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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A spectacular jumping spider from the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. We found a clearing with several of these tiny (around 3 mm.) spiders in the leaf litter. Females are also colorful, but not quite as vibrant. (When I get an ID I'll add it in the comments.) 🐙🌿📷🕷️ #arachnids
A macro photo of a jumping spider on a decaying stick, front three-quarter view. The spider is spectacularly colored - dark, nearly-black body and legs with yellow-orange patches on the abdomen and face, and metallic blue hairs on the legs, palps, chelicerae (mouthparts that end in the fangs) and on top of the head just behind the central eyes.
June 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Get wet & stinky! Salt Marsh Ground Beetle, Dicheirotrichus gustavii. In situ, Belgium. I was laying on wet smelly brackish shores for behaviour shots and rare #estuarine #beetle species. This individual was feeding on a little fly. #ElkeDagEenInsect #coleoptera #beetles #biodiversity #entomology
Get wet & stinky! Image of a medium sized ground beetle of 8 mm, pale yellowish, almost transparant. Feeding on a little fly with rainbow coloured wing reflections. Salt Marsh Ground Beetle, Dicheirotrichus gustavii. In situ, Belgium. I was laying on wet smelly brackish shores for behaviour shots and rare estuarine #beetle species. This is how I found this individual feeding on a little fly. #ElkeDagEenInsect #coleoptera #beetles #biodiversity #entomology
June 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Holy smokes! I've got the male too! I'm tearing up. Just heard from the scientist that described the new species and this handsome lad is the male. So awesome!
(Chrysometa chuchaqui)
A skinny spider with swirly light sockets for pedipalps, a tan cephalothorax, cone shaped abdomen with shiny plates. He is sitting on a leaf.
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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‘Hydra’. Dendritic patterns from Iceland.
A vertical format photo of sinuous blue and yellow patterns against an orange background. Aerial perspective.
April 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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#Wolkenluchten #VandaagGemaakt. Ik meende zojuist een oplichtende draak door de wolken te zien zwemmen.
Foto van bewolking na zonsondergang. De hoge sluierbewolking vangt nog zonlicht op terwijl de lager hangende bewolking al in de schaduw van de aarde zweeft. Dat geeft het effect van een oplichtende wolk die door de lagere wolken heen schijnt.
May 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Look. At. This. (!). A fungus spore landed on this weevil. Grew inside and caused it to climb to the top of this plant- while the fungus killed it. Consumed its body. Used that energy to shoot up a red fruiting body to release more spores. To zombify more weevils. A mind controlling killer fungus.
A dead weevil with a fungus fruiting body growing out of it
May 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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#ElkeDagEenInsect #natuur #nature #macro
Kleine bandzweefvlieg
May 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Hidden #beetlegems on @bsky.app. Anthaxia Salicis, South France. Most people think you can only find such gems in the tropics. It occurs in Belgium too. The larvae prefer old oaks, adults are often seen on yellow Rananculus & Quercus. #beetles #coleoptera #buprestidae #ElkeDagEenInsect #entomology
Image of a small Jewel beetle on a buttercup. 6-7 cm, blue head and pronotum, and shields with dark red bordeaux and a tinge of blue and green at the basis. Hidden #beetlegems on @bsky.app. Anthaxia Salicis, South France. Most people think you can only find such gems in the tropics. It occurs in Belgium too. The larvae prefer old oaks, the adults are often seen on Rananculus species or on oak #beetles #coleoptera #buprestidae #ElkeDageenInsect #entomology
May 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Resharing for #NationalSnailDay 🐌
arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Jul 1
A #snail for a slow Sunday: 🐌
John Paul Miller (American, 1918–2013)
Snail Pin, 1956
Gold & enamel, 6.1 x 2.6 cm (2 3/8 x 1 in)
The Cleveland Museum of Art 1956.113.a: www.clevelandart.org/art/1956.113.a
“Artist John Paul Miller demonstrates a mastery of metalworking techniques in this snail pendant brooch. Miller often used a technique he rediscovered in the early 1950s whereby gold granulation was applied to the surface to decorate the snail’s body and antennae, while multicolored enameling enlivens its shell.”
May 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM