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David Notton
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Mad about diapriid wasps/bees 🐝taxonomy, zoological nomenclature, museums, entomology curation & IPM! Former NHMUK, now freelance. Recording Lauriston Agroecology Farm🌾🥕 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Notton #Edinburgh
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New paper with Neal Evenhuis: ICZN Case 3903 – Removal of homonymy between Psilini Fallén, 1812 (Hymenoptera) and Psilidae Walker, 1853 (Diptera) by emending the former to Psilusini. Comments encouraged. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Image Psilus fuscipennis Wikimedia commons public domain.
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World profoundly out of balance.

"Insects are undergoing concerning declines across the world and as this trend continues, essential ecosystem services will increasingly be at risk."
#PlanetaryBoundaries #Biodiversity
phys.org/news/2026-01...
Insects are victims, not just invaders, says study
Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird and fire ant. But new research reveals insects are also major victims of in...
phys.org
January 15, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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Super new #OA meta-analysis, led by the terrific Grace Skinner and Joe Millard of @glitrs.bsky.social and out today in @natcomms.nature.com: effects of invasive alien species in insects doi.org/10.1038/s414...
January 15, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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A female Chartocerus subaeneus wasp of the Signiphoridae found 29.7.2025 in the old meadow at Great Dixter.
It was very good year for Signiphorid wasps.

#UKWildlife #Signiphoridae #wasps #HighWeald
January 15, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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A beautiful 0.5mm long Uscana princeps wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 5.9.2023 at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.

#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #RyeHarbour
January 13, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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A female Anaphes globosicornis wasp of the Mymaridae found 10.9.2025 in the old meadow at Great Dixter.

#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #HighWeald
January 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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#ClimateEmergency

"Hotter oceans contribute to rising sea levels, disrupt fragile marine ecosystems and fuel extreme weather."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocea...
Ocean Temperatures Just Hit a Dire New Record
The world’s ocean absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any other year on record
www.scientificamerican.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Nugget 🖤

(Scelionid wasp)
January 10, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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Lasioglossum sweat bee
on purple loosestrife
(Lythrum salicaria)

July 29, 2025
Chicago, Illinois, USA

#native #bees #pollinators #bloomscrolling #flowers #macro #photography #macroPhotography #art #eastCoastKin
January 6, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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Good morning!
January 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Bee

Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep.

Dream wild dreams of wild places safe from our plunder…

#bee #goodnight #dream
January 7, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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🖤🌿 Pile dessiné un ichneumon (un peu fantaisiste) comme dernière illustration de l'année 2025 :)
(Encre de Chine, détail sur l'insecte + fleurs d'oranger)
#invertefest
December 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Sericopimpla crenator - the Case Moth Larvae Parasite Wasp

One of the Ichneumon wasps, the female of this species will lay her eggs inside the case of a Case Moth caterpillar. Seen from n Perth Hills garden in late Dec

#ausinverts #wildoz #wasps #Hymenoptera #mothsmatter #inaturalist #invertefest
December 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first
Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first
Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Peru 🇵🇪 has given legal rights to 175 native bee 🐝 species:

"...stingless bees now have the fundamental right to exist and flourish in a healthy environment, without pollution, habitat loss, climate change, human activity or other threats..."

🪲🪳🌎

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...
Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights
Two local ordinances granted rights to at least 175 stingless bee species in Peru, which are culturally and spiritually significant to Indigenous peoples and help maintain a healthy rainforest ecosyst...
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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Watched this lovely wasp, which I think is Prionyx globosus, finishing her nest yesterday

For each nest she will dig a single hole, add a paralysed grasshopper to each, lay her egg, then seal the entrance and disguise it with pebbles

#ausinverts #wildoz #insectthursday #wasp #Hymenoptera #nature
January 8, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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Ms Dryinidae, up to nothing nefarious of course
January 7, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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Pair of tiny nugget wasps in the sand from a short walk this evening 🖤
*taptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptap of tiny antennae*
January 7, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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European paper wasp
(Polistes dominula)

cleaning itself on a little wildflower
Chicago, Illinois 8-21-25

#insectThursday #bugsky #ColorADay #YellowThu #eastCoastKin #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #flowers #art #pollinators #nature
January 8, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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Epistenia coeruleata, one of our larger and more striking chalcidoid wasps. first time I saw one I thought it was a weird chrysidid. last pic is the same specimen just more professionally photographed
January 6, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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A faded Ooctonus hemipterus wasp of the Mymaridae found in Combe Valley 31.7.2024. Love those brachypterous wings!

#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae
January 6, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps 🐜🐝, despite virtually no sequence conservation 😮 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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Discerning a sense of size from macro photographs is hard. Camponotus intrepidus, for example, is one of Australia’s largest sugar ants at slightly under an inch long.

But did you see the little Pheidole ant at her heels?
January 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM