Delanik
@delanik.bsky.social
PhD Student. Bug taxonomy and goofing off.
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Sap #beetles covered in mites, getting down & dirty in their putrid oozing love spa ❤️ 😘 #Nitidulidae: #Amphicrossus [Costa Rica]
They do clean up nice, though! I love the male's fins 😍 [US species]
They do clean up nice, though! I love the male's fins 😍 [US species]
December 21, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Sap #beetles covered in mites, getting down & dirty in their putrid oozing love spa ❤️ 😘 #Nitidulidae: #Amphicrossus [Costa Rica]
They do clean up nice, though! I love the male's fins 😍 [US species]
They do clean up nice, though! I love the male's fins 😍 [US species]
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you may not like it, but this is what a normal american family looks like
December 16, 2024 at 7:40 PM
you may not like it, but this is what a normal american family looks like
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this goddamn page
"The major forms of life at this time were the arthropods." then mention only meganeura and arthropleura, then ramble about vertebrates 2x the text length of the arthropods
we need more invertebrate people to help make invert knowledge more accessible, like, yesterday
"The major forms of life at this time were the arthropods." then mention only meganeura and arthropleura, then ramble about vertebrates 2x the text length of the arthropods
we need more invertebrate people to help make invert knowledge more accessible, like, yesterday
Pennsylvanian (geology) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 16, 2024 at 3:36 PM
this goddamn page
"The major forms of life at this time were the arthropods." then mention only meganeura and arthropleura, then ramble about vertebrates 2x the text length of the arthropods
we need more invertebrate people to help make invert knowledge more accessible, like, yesterday
"The major forms of life at this time were the arthropods." then mention only meganeura and arthropleura, then ramble about vertebrates 2x the text length of the arthropods
we need more invertebrate people to help make invert knowledge more accessible, like, yesterday
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#InsertAnInvert2024
Motion - Flyer
Winged insects make up nearly all of insect species that live today, up to 99.9% of the one million species known today.
Though not as powerful or famous as dragonflies, owlflies too are predators that use their wings to catch other flying insects. 🎨 🐡
Motion - Flyer
Winged insects make up nearly all of insect species that live today, up to 99.9% of the one million species known today.
Though not as powerful or famous as dragonflies, owlflies too are predators that use their wings to catch other flying insects. 🎨 🐡
December 16, 2024 at 7:53 AM
#InsertAnInvert2024
Motion - Flyer
Winged insects make up nearly all of insect species that live today, up to 99.9% of the one million species known today.
Though not as powerful or famous as dragonflies, owlflies too are predators that use their wings to catch other flying insects. 🎨 🐡
Motion - Flyer
Winged insects make up nearly all of insect species that live today, up to 99.9% of the one million species known today.
Though not as powerful or famous as dragonflies, owlflies too are predators that use their wings to catch other flying insects. 🎨 🐡
Incredibly relateable.
This is one of my favorite specimens I've run into scouring through museums.
This is one of my favorite specimens I've run into scouring through museums.
December 13, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Incredibly relateable.
This is one of my favorite specimens I've run into scouring through museums.
This is one of my favorite specimens I've run into scouring through museums.
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Bouba vs kiki - the #minerals edition. Here are two very different types of mineral habits
Left: Chalcedony with a botryoidal habit. This word comes from the Ancient Greek "βότρυς"/"bótrus" (bunch of grapes)
Right: Acicular natrolite. This name comes from the Latin "acicula" (little needle)
Left: Chalcedony with a botryoidal habit. This word comes from the Ancient Greek "βότρυς"/"bótrus" (bunch of grapes)
Right: Acicular natrolite. This name comes from the Latin "acicula" (little needle)
December 12, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Bouba vs kiki - the #minerals edition. Here are two very different types of mineral habits
Left: Chalcedony with a botryoidal habit. This word comes from the Ancient Greek "βότρυς"/"bótrus" (bunch of grapes)
Right: Acicular natrolite. This name comes from the Latin "acicula" (little needle)
Left: Chalcedony with a botryoidal habit. This word comes from the Ancient Greek "βότρυς"/"bótrus" (bunch of grapes)
Right: Acicular natrolite. This name comes from the Latin "acicula" (little needle)
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I find it very amusing but also slightly disturbing that this species just gets bigger the more it duplicates its genome
some sizable Octolasion tonight. O. cyaneum are the larger, and O. lacteum smaller, but cyaneum varies very widely in size and can be that small. unpleasantly, this is related to the ploidy level of this polyploid, parthenogenetic species: everything from 2n to 12n
December 12, 2024 at 4:58 AM
I find it very amusing but also slightly disturbing that this species just gets bigger the more it duplicates its genome
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Is a fumeless insect preservative too much to ask for?
One that automatically precipitates butterfly scales and other impurities.
Costs nothing and is completely non-poisonous.
Never evaporates allowing insects to rot.
Automatically sorts insects by size, and other features I'll demand in a moment.🧪
One that automatically precipitates butterfly scales and other impurities.
Costs nothing and is completely non-poisonous.
Never evaporates allowing insects to rot.
Automatically sorts insects by size, and other features I'll demand in a moment.🧪
December 10, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Is a fumeless insect preservative too much to ask for?
One that automatically precipitates butterfly scales and other impurities.
Costs nothing and is completely non-poisonous.
Never evaporates allowing insects to rot.
Automatically sorts insects by size, and other features I'll demand in a moment.🧪
One that automatically precipitates butterfly scales and other impurities.
Costs nothing and is completely non-poisonous.
Never evaporates allowing insects to rot.
Automatically sorts insects by size, and other features I'll demand in a moment.🧪
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Yes, mealworms can eat plastic -- but not fast enough for it to solve our plastic problems, alas.🐛 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/worm...
Here’s how long it would take 100 worms to eat the plastic in one face mask
An experiment reveals that a bio-solution to humans’ microplastics mess is likely to fall short, but could inspire other ways to attack the problem.
www.sciencenews.org
December 9, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Yes, mealworms can eat plastic -- but not fast enough for it to solve our plastic problems, alas.🐛 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/worm...
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I hate you turbo tax I hate you microsoft onedrive I hate you automatic internet results in search bar I hate you worthless tech bloatware garbage
December 8, 2024 at 2:33 AM
I hate you turbo tax I hate you microsoft onedrive I hate you automatic internet results in search bar I hate you worthless tech bloatware garbage
Cute little croissant!! 😭
A little focus stacked Cryptodius kelleri amphipod. My first try with affinity focus merge it actually turned out pretty well! #Crustmas #ArtAdventCalendar
December 7, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Cute little croissant!! 😭
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No idea who this extremely miniature Hemipteran is, but I like his lava lamps
December 7, 2024 at 3:52 AM
No idea who this extremely miniature Hemipteran is, but I like his lava lamps
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will always re-post shiny weevils ✨🪲
weevil covered with green, yellow, and blue sparkles
#WeevilWednesday
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#WeevilWednesday
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
December 4, 2024 at 7:01 PM
will always re-post shiny weevils ✨🪲
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Imagine your notebook surviving for centuries to be studied by historians. This happened to transcriptions by Nicholai Miklouho-Maclay, Russian of Ukrainian Cossack descent, of a palaeontology class delivered by Ernst Haeckel (1866) This unlikely record, captures the rise of race science in Germany🧵
December 4, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Imagine your notebook surviving for centuries to be studied by historians. This happened to transcriptions by Nicholai Miklouho-Maclay, Russian of Ukrainian Cossack descent, of a palaeontology class delivered by Ernst Haeckel (1866) This unlikely record, captures the rise of race science in Germany🧵
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"Anyone who considers themselves a member of the STEMM community is welcome to sign.
Please go to: forms.gle/oHqgSPGpiYte..., and provide your name, affiliation, and field of study."
Please go to: forms.gle/oHqgSPGpiYte..., and provide your name, affiliation, and field of study."
Around this time last year @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social, @allomygale.bsky.social, @spissatella.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social and I published an open letter on supporting transgender persons in STEMM.
We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑
medium.com/@transrights...
We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑
medium.com/@transrights...
An open letter to the scientific community in the US and UK on the crisis impacting transgender…
Downloadable file
medium.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:36 PM
"Anyone who considers themselves a member of the STEMM community is welcome to sign.
Please go to: forms.gle/oHqgSPGpiYte..., and provide your name, affiliation, and field of study."
Please go to: forms.gle/oHqgSPGpiYte..., and provide your name, affiliation, and field of study."
Waaaaah--so coool!!!
(Alt text for the quoted post's image: Smiling artist standing in front of her gigantic, nearly person-sized detailed mostly accurate crochet bugs hanging on the wall which include a brownish-green and black cicada with wings that include veination, and a cute chubby weevil)
(Alt text for the quoted post's image: Smiling artist standing in front of her gigantic, nearly person-sized detailed mostly accurate crochet bugs hanging on the wall which include a brownish-green and black cicada with wings that include veination, and a cute chubby weevil)
i got to exhibit my giant crochet bug sculptures!
December 2, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Waaaaah--so coool!!!
(Alt text for the quoted post's image: Smiling artist standing in front of her gigantic, nearly person-sized detailed mostly accurate crochet bugs hanging on the wall which include a brownish-green and black cicada with wings that include veination, and a cute chubby weevil)
(Alt text for the quoted post's image: Smiling artist standing in front of her gigantic, nearly person-sized detailed mostly accurate crochet bugs hanging on the wall which include a brownish-green and black cicada with wings that include veination, and a cute chubby weevil)
Mood 😭
(Quoted post's image alt text: a close-up of a lone, single quarter-rest at the end of a music measure with the word "cry" written beneath it.)
(Quoted post's image alt text: a close-up of a lone, single quarter-rest at the end of a music measure with the word "cry" written beneath it.)
November 27, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Mood 😭
(Quoted post's image alt text: a close-up of a lone, single quarter-rest at the end of a music measure with the word "cry" written beneath it.)
(Quoted post's image alt text: a close-up of a lone, single quarter-rest at the end of a music measure with the word "cry" written beneath it.)
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have you seen a centipede today? here is Rhysida longipes, a widespread invader of the tropics that is now probably the most common centipede in Miami. subtly beautiful, if they sit still long enough to observe
November 26, 2024 at 7:26 PM
have you seen a centipede today? here is Rhysida longipes, a widespread invader of the tropics that is now probably the most common centipede in Miami. subtly beautiful, if they sit still long enough to observe
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Two-toned pinchy wasp lass -with wings! The vast majority of the pincer wasp (Dryinidae) females I see have no wings. I have not seen this species before (I have no idea which species this is). She's very cute though. Pincer wasps are basically the mantids of Hymenopterans. I love them of course.
November 26, 2024 at 4:37 AM
Two-toned pinchy wasp lass -with wings! The vast majority of the pincer wasp (Dryinidae) females I see have no wings. I have not seen this species before (I have no idea which species this is). She's very cute though. Pincer wasps are basically the mantids of Hymenopterans. I love them of course.
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An oldie from Inktober 2018: trilobyte
November 26, 2024 at 2:19 AM
An oldie from Inktober 2018: trilobyte
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terrible invasive New Guinea Sneety-Snooty
November 26, 2024 at 12:51 AM
terrible invasive New Guinea Sneety-Snooty
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I hope federally funded scientists are preparing for large scale, bad faith attacks by Musk and his troll army.
It’s pretty clear the DOGE operation is going to take snippets of grant proposals and papers, present them out of context, and direct weaponized harassment of individual people.
It’s pretty clear the DOGE operation is going to take snippets of grant proposals and papers, present them out of context, and direct weaponized harassment of individual people.
November 23, 2024 at 4:16 PM
I hope federally funded scientists are preparing for large scale, bad faith attacks by Musk and his troll army.
It’s pretty clear the DOGE operation is going to take snippets of grant proposals and papers, present them out of context, and direct weaponized harassment of individual people.
It’s pretty clear the DOGE operation is going to take snippets of grant proposals and papers, present them out of context, and direct weaponized harassment of individual people.
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Really not a fan of "in-person conferences are the best because it let's everyone get together and chat". Sure - undeniably, it provides networking opportunities, but to not offer hybrid options makes it inaccessible for many. And let's not pretend those "chats" don't benefit some over others.
November 26, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Really not a fan of "in-person conferences are the best because it let's everyone get together and chat". Sure - undeniably, it provides networking opportunities, but to not offer hybrid options makes it inaccessible for many. And let's not pretend those "chats" don't benefit some over others.
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