Jen Cross
@jencross.bsky.social
Engineer by day | Nature & landscape photographer | Birds, bugs, spiders | Friend of animals that scare people | Be decent & kind | she / her | IG heyjencross
📸www.jencrossphoto.com
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Jen Cross
@jencross.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Hello new followers! I drag around a camera and take lots of photos. I love learning new techniques and tend to post lots of bugs and birds, but nothing is off limits.
Eastern Bluebird, Hummingbird Clearwing Moth, Glacier National Park landscape, Puffins floating on the ocean
Eastern Bluebird, Hummingbird Clearwing Moth, Glacier National Park landscape, Puffins floating on the ocean
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November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Each signed/doodled copy of Feral Flame that I'll sell at MFF will come with a "Voice of the Canids" print on top-quality baryta photo paper, crafted by a pro local print shop, signed in red ink with my gay fountain pen.
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Each signed/doodled copy of Feral Flame that I'll sell at MFF will come with a "Voice of the Canids" print on top-quality baryta photo paper, crafted by a pro local print shop, signed in red ink with my gay fountain pen.
We’re snailposting, post your snails.
This particular snail with its long tail caused a stir in the snail community on iNat a few years ago.
Family Proserpinellidae
Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador
This particular snail with its long tail caused a stir in the snail community on iNat a few years ago.
Family Proserpinellidae
Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We’re snailposting, post your snails.
This particular snail with its long tail caused a stir in the snail community on iNat a few years ago.
Family Proserpinellidae
Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador
This particular snail with its long tail caused a stir in the snail community on iNat a few years ago.
Family Proserpinellidae
Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador
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It's almost the weekend! 🥳
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It's almost the weekend! 🥳
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
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Dung beetles know where they want to go. They roll, push or shove their dung ball & every few seconds they stop pushing to climb on top of the ball to make sure they are going in the right direction. This dung beetle male is just climbing down after a look around.
More info in alt text
#insects
More info in alt text
#insects
November 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Dung beetles know where they want to go. They roll, push or shove their dung ball & every few seconds they stop pushing to climb on top of the ball to make sure they are going in the right direction. This dung beetle male is just climbing down after a look around.
More info in alt text
#insects
More info in alt text
#insects
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Some more photos of my favourite Heron catching fish that I never got around to editing. These are taken with a different lens & camera than earlier images today. A shorter, faster lens can help to maximise the available light and allows a faster shutter speed for action. #birds
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Some more photos of my favourite Heron catching fish that I never got around to editing. These are taken with a different lens & camera than earlier images today. A shorter, faster lens can help to maximise the available light and allows a faster shutter speed for action. #birds
It's a beautiful day here in Pennsylvania. Here a Great Blue Heron shakes things out during golden hour. Despite their large size, Great Blue Herons only weight about 5 to 6 lbs, thanks to hollow bones.
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's a beautiful day here in Pennsylvania. Here a Great Blue Heron shakes things out during golden hour. Despite their large size, Great Blue Herons only weight about 5 to 6 lbs, thanks to hollow bones.
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Leopards are one of the apex predators in Africa and we were thrilled to have a couple encounters.
Unlike lions, they are solitary animals and can drag a prey that’s twice their body weight up into a tree.
This male had just finished a large meal of zebra and was resting in the shade.
#mammal
Unlike lions, they are solitary animals and can drag a prey that’s twice their body weight up into a tree.
This male had just finished a large meal of zebra and was resting in the shade.
#mammal
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Leopards are one of the apex predators in Africa and we were thrilled to have a couple encounters.
Unlike lions, they are solitary animals and can drag a prey that’s twice their body weight up into a tree.
This male had just finished a large meal of zebra and was resting in the shade.
#mammal
Unlike lions, they are solitary animals and can drag a prey that’s twice their body weight up into a tree.
This male had just finished a large meal of zebra and was resting in the shade.
#mammal
Awesome! Can’t wait to see this.
Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Awesome! Can’t wait to see this.
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Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.
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If you're going to make a post praising an incredible news photo, it's a real bad look when you don't include the photographer credit in the post.
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you're going to make a post praising an incredible news photo, it's a real bad look when you don't include the photographer credit in the post.
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Apologies for forgetting this month's #InvertArtChallenge again and thanks once more to @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social for the reminder.
This month we travel to Scotland for this wonderful tachinid fly. I don't know the species, so if anyone does, please lmk.
Feel free to create using this photo!
This month we travel to Scotland for this wonderful tachinid fly. I don't know the species, so if anyone does, please lmk.
Feel free to create using this photo!
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Apologies for forgetting this month's #InvertArtChallenge again and thanks once more to @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social for the reminder.
This month we travel to Scotland for this wonderful tachinid fly. I don't know the species, so if anyone does, please lmk.
Feel free to create using this photo!
This month we travel to Scotland for this wonderful tachinid fly. I don't know the species, so if anyone does, please lmk.
Feel free to create using this photo!
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The @changelingart.bsky.social auctions are returning, starting with 'Deck the Halls' later this month.
Would there be interest if I were to auction this sketch from a few years ago?
Inspired by a post on XTwitter by Anne Louise Avery, a flash fiction, one might call it (see below).
Would there be interest if I were to auction this sketch from a few years ago?
Inspired by a post on XTwitter by Anne Louise Avery, a flash fiction, one might call it (see below).
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The @changelingart.bsky.social auctions are returning, starting with 'Deck the Halls' later this month.
Would there be interest if I were to auction this sketch from a few years ago?
Inspired by a post on XTwitter by Anne Louise Avery, a flash fiction, one might call it (see below).
Would there be interest if I were to auction this sketch from a few years ago?
Inspired by a post on XTwitter by Anne Louise Avery, a flash fiction, one might call it (see below).
Get out and vote today!
It can often feel like there's a whole lot outside our control.
But if there's any kind of election in your town today, that's a way to make a meaningful difference in your state or local affairs.
But if there's any kind of election in your town today, that's a way to make a meaningful difference in your state or local affairs.
Today I’m voting for school board. Keep the local MAGA out. Keep the ABA teacher with no real information about her out too (IYKYK).
Your local election for boards and judges and funding and so forth really do matter. Go vote!
Your local election for boards and judges and funding and so forth really do matter. Go vote!
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Get out and vote today!
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Snootflies are back 🖤
Spotted a handful of these silly creatures this afternoon near a cypress swamp. Panorpa lugubris, the mourning scorpionfly. Distant relatives of fleas. I make a small pilgrimage or 7 to this spot every year around this time in hopes of seeing them, as one does
Spotted a handful of these silly creatures this afternoon near a cypress swamp. Panorpa lugubris, the mourning scorpionfly. Distant relatives of fleas. I make a small pilgrimage or 7 to this spot every year around this time in hopes of seeing them, as one does
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Snootflies are back 🖤
Spotted a handful of these silly creatures this afternoon near a cypress swamp. Panorpa lugubris, the mourning scorpionfly. Distant relatives of fleas. I make a small pilgrimage or 7 to this spot every year around this time in hopes of seeing them, as one does
Spotted a handful of these silly creatures this afternoon near a cypress swamp. Panorpa lugubris, the mourning scorpionfly. Distant relatives of fleas. I make a small pilgrimage or 7 to this spot every year around this time in hopes of seeing them, as one does
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The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
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One of my favourite polar bear photos I've taken to date. It was a weird, misty evening with just a sliver of sunlight coming through the fog, lighting up this bear on the rocks just outside of town. #mammals 🌿 #BearSeason2025
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
One of my favourite polar bear photos I've taken to date. It was a weird, misty evening with just a sliver of sunlight coming through the fog, lighting up this bear on the rocks just outside of town. #mammals 🌿 #BearSeason2025
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! 🎃👻
Is that a pumpkin or a spider butt? The marbled #orbweaver is all decked out for fall and the spooky season (though, really, this lovely lady was very shy and harmless)!
#Araneidae: #Araneus marmoreus
#Arachtober
Is that a pumpkin or a spider butt? The marbled #orbweaver is all decked out for fall and the spooky season (though, really, this lovely lady was very shy and harmless)!
#Araneidae: #Araneus marmoreus
#Arachtober
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! 🎃👻
Is that a pumpkin or a spider butt? The marbled #orbweaver is all decked out for fall and the spooky season (though, really, this lovely lady was very shy and harmless)!
#Araneidae: #Araneus marmoreus
#Arachtober
Is that a pumpkin or a spider butt? The marbled #orbweaver is all decked out for fall and the spooky season (though, really, this lovely lady was very shy and harmless)!
#Araneidae: #Araneus marmoreus
#Arachtober
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October 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
And here is my new favorite arachnid. She's a Solifugid, or wind scorpion, and is busy working on making a burrow for herself. When hunting, these animals move rapidly and tap their pedipalps on the ground to sense prey. #Arachtober
(Subfamily Ammotrechinae) Portal, AZ
(Subfamily Ammotrechinae) Portal, AZ
November 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
And here is my new favorite arachnid. She's a Solifugid, or wind scorpion, and is busy working on making a burrow for herself. When hunting, these animals move rapidly and tap their pedipalps on the ground to sense prey. #Arachtober
(Subfamily Ammotrechinae) Portal, AZ
(Subfamily Ammotrechinae) Portal, AZ
Pseudoscorpions are small arachnids that are often overlooked. They prey on clothes moth larvae, carpet beetle larvae, booklice, ants, mites, and small flies. Pseudoscorpions will sometimes hitch rides to new locations on other insects. #Arachtober
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Pseudoscorpions are small arachnids that are often overlooked. They prey on clothes moth larvae, carpet beetle larvae, booklice, ants, mites, and small flies. Pseudoscorpions will sometimes hitch rides to new locations on other insects. #Arachtober
Vinegaroons are arachnids that are not spiders. They have a large pair of pedipalps that are used to catching and crushing prey. They get the name Vinegaroon because they can discharge foul smelling liquid to deter predators. #Arachtober
(Mastigoproctus sp.) Portal, AZ
(Mastigoproctus sp.) Portal, AZ
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Vinegaroons are arachnids that are not spiders. They have a large pair of pedipalps that are used to catching and crushing prey. They get the name Vinegaroon because they can discharge foul smelling liquid to deter predators. #Arachtober
(Mastigoproctus sp.) Portal, AZ
(Mastigoproctus sp.) Portal, AZ
Huntsman spiders are leggy arachnids that hunt by chasing their prey. I really like this one, it looks like it's made of glass.
Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador, 2022 #Arachtober
Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador, 2022 #Arachtober
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Huntsman spiders are leggy arachnids that hunt by chasing their prey. I really like this one, it looks like it's made of glass.
Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador, 2022 #Arachtober
Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador, 2022 #Arachtober
We found this handsome blue tarantula just wandering down a trail in the Andes Mountains of Colombia. This genus of tarantula is popular in the pet trade, which may put pressure on wild populations. #Arachtober
(Pamphobeteus sp.)Tatama National Park, Colombia, 2023
(Pamphobeteus sp.)Tatama National Park, Colombia, 2023
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
We found this handsome blue tarantula just wandering down a trail in the Andes Mountains of Colombia. This genus of tarantula is popular in the pet trade, which may put pressure on wild populations. #Arachtober
(Pamphobeteus sp.)Tatama National Park, Colombia, 2023
(Pamphobeteus sp.)Tatama National Park, Colombia, 2023