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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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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
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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andypurvisnhm.bsky.social
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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arnoldtortoise.bsky.social
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
Side view of a tiny brown wasp. Its head and antennae are to the left of picture, its ovipositor is pointing to the right. Wings with shaded bands are held above the body.
January 15, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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arnoldtortoise.bsky.social
A beautiful 0.5mm long Uscana princeps wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 5.9.2023 at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.

#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #RyeHarbour
Side view of a tiny wasp. Its bright yellow head with a large red eye is to the left of picture.Its body is predominantly a smoky grey colour. Its wings are held vertically above the body; they are paddle-shaped with long fringe hairs, and they have a smoky area at their bases.
January 13, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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arnoldtortoise.bsky.social
A female Anaphes globosicornis wasp of the Mymaridae found 10.9.2025 in the old meadow at Great Dixter.

#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #HighWeald
Looking down onto a tiny brown wasp with outstretched wings which are clear, and have long fringe hairs. The wasp's head is to the top of picture
January 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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brislen.nz
I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces “YOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREA” and below that in smaller letters “Make sure you know the rules.”
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
#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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nfbr.bsky.social
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On Wednesday, 11 February 2026, our Invasive Species Work Sector will be hosting a virtual webinar on Combatting the Threat of Asian Hornets Across These Islands. To find out more and register for… ...
On Wednesday, 11 February 2026, our Invasive Species Work Sector will be hosting a virtual webinar on Combatting the Threat of Asian Hornets Across These Islands. To find out more and register for t...
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January 10, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Nugget 🖤

(Scelionid wasp)
Miniscule compact nugget-y black wasp, on a broken dry pine needle, about to hop, little flappy antennae waving
January 10, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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grays.art
Lasioglossum sweat bee
on purple loosestrife
(Lythrum salicaria)

July 29, 2025
Chicago, Illinois, USA

#native #bees #pollinators #bloomscrolling #flowers #macro #photography #macroPhotography #art #eastCoastKin
Small golden bee visiting a light green wand of light fuchsia flowers.
January 6, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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drsusan.bsky.social
Good morning!
Bumble bee on a creeping thistle.
January 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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thebeeguy.bsky.social
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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colpizen.bsky.social
🖤🌿 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
Illustration (détail) de femelle ichneumon en train de pondre (j'ai ajouté une paire d'élytres en plus pour la fantaisie du dessin) + fleurs d'oranger
December 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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wa-moths.bsky.social
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
Picture of a wasp that has a black and white striped abdomen, white forelegs and black and white striped hind legs
December 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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bigearthdata.bsky.social
How Stingless Bees in the Amazon Became the First Insects With Legal Rights
->Discover | #insect #bee | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
How Stingless Bees in the Amazon Became the First Insects With Legal Rights
For the first time in history, the law is recognizing an insect as a rights holder. In Peru’s central Amazon, officials in Satipo approved an ordinance recognizing native stingless bees as legal subjects with inherent rights. The ordinance focuses on...
www.discovermagazine.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
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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dezene.me
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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wa-moths.bsky.social
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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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Ms Dryinidae, up to nothing nefarious of course
Orange ant-like wasp with no wings and big bug eyes and little folded nutcracker hands on her 1st leg pair, looking sneaky on a dry pine needle
January 7, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Pair of tiny nugget wasps in the sand from a short walk this evening 🖤
*taptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptap of tiny antennae*
Miniscule black wasp in bright white sand, each body segment the size of a single sand grain The creature amongst the white boulders (sand), tapping her antennae as she goes A tiny black wasp lad, possibly the same species, running along a single dry pine needle like it's a massive downed tree
January 7, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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grays.art
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
Yellow & black wasp preflight maintenance balanced on a small, opening yellow and red flower bud.
January 8, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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ascalaphid.com
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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arnoldtortoise.bsky.social
A faded Ooctonus hemipterus wasp of the Mymaridae found in Combe Valley 31.7.2024. Love those brachypterous wings!

#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae
Side view of a tiny brown wasp with disproportionately small wings. Its head is to the left of picture and has a large red eye and long pale antennae.
January 6, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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hugodarras.bsky.social
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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alexwild.bsky.social
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?
Macro photo of a leggy, slightly fuzzy black ant with blackberry red infestations on her thorax, standing alert on dirty white sand. A barely visible dark red ant nips at her hind leg.
January 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM