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Lee Dyer
@gusanero.bsky.social
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loves family, friends, rock climbing, moths, caterpillars, statistics, math, poetry, music, literature; hates the current US Super-Fascist Regime
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mikemelton.bsky.social
Another species of clearwing #butterfly, the Rusted Clearwing-Satyr (Cithaerias pireta) at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#butterflies #nature #bugsky
Close-up of a delicate butterfly with transparent wings edged in orange and a single eyespot, perched on a green leaf against a softly blurred background.
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
gusanero.bsky.social
Not any news to love these days, but I do love this paper on caterpillar sensory ecology. I can't wait to use figures from this for teaching. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The sensory ecology of caterpillars - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Caterpillars (larval Lepidoptera) are one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily significant taxa on Earth. As both feeders and food, they shape the dynamics of enumerate ecosystems on land. Key ...
link.springer.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
gusanero.bsky.social
This is a really thorough and interesting paper on moth orientation strategies, relevant to migration, pollination, host location. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The diversity of lepidopteran spatial orientation strategies – neuronal mechanisms and emerging challenges in a changing world - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
The Lepidoptera, butterflies and moths, display an astonishing diversity of spatial orientation strategies essential for survival, reproduction, and ecological success. These spatial orientation strat...
link.springer.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
My neighborhood #Ocelot keeps visiting me but I still don't have any photos of it. It's a very sneaky kitty. One day.

At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

#nature #cats #wildlife
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
gusanero.bsky.social
What an honor to work with an amazing group in Colombia, Rio Vaupes, collecting caterpillars, marking and releasing butterflies and moths, learning Traditional Knowledge.
a group of students in front of a traditional community gathering structure in the Amazon
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
gusanero.bsky.social
On the Vaupes. Comunidades.
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
gusanero.bsky.social
Far away in Colombia. Trying not to pay attention to news.
rock with lowland rainforests all around
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
gusanero.bsky.social
Another amazing paper from Tara Christensen - with a surprising result that nectar generalists (butterflies) are declining more than specialists. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Specialized flower visitation in montane butterflies is associated with positive population trajectories over time
Insect biodiversity is under threat from multiple stressors, including climate change and extreme weather. For butterflies, nectar resource use is an understudied trait in relation to population traj....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
gusanero.bsky.social
Nice paper by Wesley and Tlacaelel in Ecology Letters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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landguyminor.bsky.social
Twist and shout. Fall color on the Dwarf bald cypress in Tates hell state Forest in Florida.
#stunday #cypress #fall #waterlilies #trees #naturephotography #photography #eastcoastkin
October 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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enriquegilal.bsky.social
Buenos días. Cópula de la mariposa Polyommatus hispana. La hembra a la izquierda de la foto y el macho a la derecha!!
#insects #insectos #mariposas #butterfly #macro #lepidoptera #photography #nature #naturaleza #fotografia
Cópula de la mariposa Polyommatus hispana
October 15, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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shaneyoda82.bsky.social
A NFG this week in the form of this Green-brindled Crescent. Both a brown ☕️ version (Mon 13th) and one glittering with green ❇️ (Wed 15th). #TeamMoth #MothsMatter @obsidentify.bsky.social #DERBYSHIRE @derbyswildlife.bsky.social #macro #moths #nature #wildlifephotography #Lepidoptera
October 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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wa-moths.bsky.social
One of my favourite moths, and the first we’ve recorded for this season.

From the genus Pseudanapaea. Likely Pseudanapaea denotata, but there’s a suggestion that the moths of this genus recorded in WA are possibly a different species.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Side view of a moth on a wall with pale forewings that have several light edged darker spots. The moth has long scales like hair on its head and feathery antennae
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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grays.art
Orange-spotted Flower Moth
(Syngamia florella)

on red mangrove
(Rhizophora mangle)
Size: ~1.5cm (1/2”)
Location: Bonita Springs, Florida

#ColorADay #YellowThu #eastcoastkin #bugsky #insectThursday #Lepidoptera #moths #yellow #native #insects #bugs #nature #macro #photography #macroPhotography #art
Diagonally situated from upper left, to lower right, wing tip to wing tip. Dark brown wings with yellow patches. Brown eyes, dark stripe down center of yellow head and thorax. Citrus orange abdomen with two narrow bands across rear end. Brown and white stripped legs. Bright green leaf background.
October 23, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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grays.art
Dorantes Longtail skipper butterfly
(Cecropterus dorantes)

On paths near Naples zoo yesterday, admiring these flowers, freely sweating, when this little skipper arrives, fits like the missing piece.

#nature #native #insects #Lepidoptera #butterflies #macro #photography #macrophotography #art 🦋
On an orchid-like flower of lavender, white, yellow and green, sits a brown butterfly with a wingspan of 44–51 mm, with two long tails on its hindwings. The upperside is dark brown, with a V-shape of white dots on the forewing, while the underside is brown with a purplish tinge and darker bands.
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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grays.art
Happy Fly-day!

Zebra longwing
(Heliconius charithonia ssp. tuckeri)

on Butterfly needles
(Bidens alba)

Golden gate parkway, Naples, Florida
10-21-25

#eastCoastKin #bugSky #FlyDay #flowers #bloomscrolling #Lepidoptera #native #butterflies #nature #macro #photography #art #macrophotography 🦋
The state butterfly of Florida, long, black wings with narrow yellow stripes.
October 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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zoesstudio.bsky.social
Day 23 of #inktober- the prompt is firefly
A small sketch of fireflies in a woodland at nighttime

#inktober2025 #inktober2025firefly #fireflies #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #inkdrawing #dailydrawing
A pen and ink sketch of fireflies in a woodland at nighttime
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
gusanero.bsky.social
bloom county comic that parodies the current administration's efforts to keep crazy stuff in the news as a distraction, including bulldozing the white house east wing
October 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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andrewkostrub.bsky.social
Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
gusanero.bsky.social
If the US could see what was happening in the US right now, it would invade the US to free it from the tyranny of the US
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
gusanero.bsky.social
Sam Jaffe's plate for Euchlaena in the Eastern USA. His work is so good.
Geometrid moths and caterpillars.
October 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
gusanero.bsky.social
Stephen Miller will just make up a new "nobler" peace prize for his king.
picture of national guard in dc, with statement: president who declared war on his own country doesn't win nobel peace prize"
October 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
gusanero.bsky.social
Thanks Sloan Tomlinson for all your cool images of parasitoids (attacking leps in Mass. USA - from about 2 years ago).
Wasp larvae, pupae, and adults parasitizing caterpillars and pupae of Lepidoptera.
October 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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birdbeard.bsky.social
A few #moths dropped by last soir. Best of the bunch was this nfg Green Brindled Crescent. #teammoth #norfolkmoths
October 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
www.theatlantic.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM