asgore fans....hmu....pleaaasee..... #asgore #undertale

✨ Nature SPAM Filter, launched this week, is an easy and fun reading-based project to help wildlife globally. Look at real newspaper article titles from archives and complete a simple yes-or-no task to identify animals and wildlife in the news.

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what it feels like to be interested in literary analysis in a class full of "the curtain was just blue" believers

timely insect of the day

cerambyx longicorn (cerambyx cerdo)

this species of longhorn beetle can be found in most of europe, north africa, and caucasia.

#LiteratureNotice Mai et al. DNA but not always morphology help to recognise monophyletic genera within Cercyon terrestrial water scavenger beetles:a case study of Asiacyon gen. nov.( #Coleoptera: #Hydrophilidae) doi.org/10.1071/IS24... #Beetle #Beetles #NewGenus #NewSpecies #WaterScavengerBeetles

#LiteratureNotice Ranasinghe et al. Morphospace disparity and species diversity in Sri Lankan phytophagous #ScarabBeetles—A comparison by forest types, altitude and sites doi.org/10.1111/een.... #Beetle #Beetles #Morphometrics

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Youth Incentive Award to recognize #HighschoolStudents interested in studying #beetles
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#Proposals or #nominations for our honors, #awards, and #grants are due on March 1.
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Arthropod Photo of the Week: January 29, 2025
Cellophane bee
Colletes wilmattae
Hymenoptera: Colletidae
Thilina Hettiarachchi, Manitoba, Canada
#arthropodPOTW

📣 #Forschungsnews: Regenwurm-Artenvielfalt ist auf Ackerflächen weltweit um fast 30% geringer als in ungestörten Lebensräumen – dabei sind die „ökologischen Landwirte“ entscheidend für gesunde Böden. Nachhaltige Ansätze wie Agroforstwirtschaft können ihre Populationen schützen. 🪱🌍

⬇️ sgn.one/mt2

There’s an app called Good to Go that allows you to purchase surplus food from restaurants and stores. It’s a little dystopian, but hey 🤷🏽‍♀️

If you don’t need it, it’s a good, inexpensive way to help folks experiencing food insecurity

apps.apple.com/us/app/too-g...

📣 #Forschungsnews: Blauwale im Nord-Pazifik und Nord-Atlantik zeigen signifikante genetische Unterschiede – verschiedene Unterarten? Senckenberg-Forscher sagen ja und schlagen neuen Unterartennamen "Balaenoptera musculus sulfureus" vor, nach historischem Spitznamen "Sulfurbottom". 🐋🧬

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Caladenia attingens subsp. attingens - Forest Mantis Orchid

A distinctive #orchid with red and green colouring and upturned sepals. Apparently, this orchid has also been known as the Sneezing Spider Orchid... and I can see why 🤧
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist

My first decent photo with my new camera! I have a lot to learn when it comes to macro photography, but its so fun so far :D

🪲ID Guess: Australian Crop Mirid (Sidnia)

📣 #Forschungsnews: So artenreich war #Messel: 1409 Taxa – also Lebewesen-Typen – wurden bisher als #Fossilien aus den 47 Mio Jahre alten Ölschiefern geborgen. 🪲🐍🦇 Im Eozän war die Artenvielfalt in Messel größer als heute in Mitteleuropa – ein tropischer Regenwald war Messel aber nicht.
👉 sgn.one/l2q