@marcusbugs.bsky.social
Bug fan, book fan, especially bug book fan.
Usually looking at bugs while walking the Westies. Blurry photos a specialty 🙁.
#LitterPicker. Edinburgh, Scotland
Usually looking at bugs while walking the Westies. Blurry photos a specialty 🙁.
#LitterPicker. Edinburgh, Scotland
Good start to the day...
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Good start to the day...
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I haven’t been posting on here very much recently, but thought I’d post this photo of a Dicyrtoma fusca springtail. What a beauty…
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I haven’t been posting on here very much recently, but thought I’d post this photo of a Dicyrtoma fusca springtail. What a beauty…
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Lots of Earwig activity at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve today, with individuals burrowing into the sandy turf, leaving just the formidable pincers exposed. Common enough, but actually rather extraordinary things. @ynuorg.bsky.social #ukwildlife
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Lots of Earwig activity at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve today, with individuals burrowing into the sandy turf, leaving just the formidable pincers exposed. Common enough, but actually rather extraordinary things. @ynuorg.bsky.social #ukwildlife
Guttation on candlesnuff fungus.
Gorgeous!
Gorgeous!
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Guttation on candlesnuff fungus.
Gorgeous!
Gorgeous!
Super candlesnuff fungus, looking star-like
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Super candlesnuff fungus, looking star-like
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An extraordinary spider colony was found in a cave on the Albania-Greece border. Comprising over 100,000 spiders, the network spans a surface area of over 100 m².
This discovery was published in our journal Subterranean Biology: doi.org/10.3897/subt...
Video by @vrenozina.bsky.social
This discovery was published in our journal Subterranean Biology: doi.org/10.3897/subt...
Video by @vrenozina.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
An extraordinary spider colony was found in a cave on the Albania-Greece border. Comprising over 100,000 spiders, the network spans a surface area of over 100 m².
This discovery was published in our journal Subterranean Biology: doi.org/10.3897/subt...
Video by @vrenozina.bsky.social
This discovery was published in our journal Subterranean Biology: doi.org/10.3897/subt...
Video by @vrenozina.bsky.social
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"We spend so much time focused on distant birds that we don’t always see the birds closest to us.
Like the birds on our plates." -- @jyunker.bsky.social today on @therevelator.org #birding #birds #animalwelfare therevelator.org/birding-blin...
Like the birds on our plates." -- @jyunker.bsky.social today on @therevelator.org #birding #birds #animalwelfare therevelator.org/birding-blin...
Birding’s Tragic Blind Spot • The Revelator
Humans love to watch birds in nature. So why do we ignore the lives of the birds destined for our plates?
therevelator.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"We spend so much time focused on distant birds that we don’t always see the birds closest to us.
Like the birds on our plates." -- @jyunker.bsky.social today on @therevelator.org #birding #birds #animalwelfare therevelator.org/birding-blin...
Like the birds on our plates." -- @jyunker.bsky.social today on @therevelator.org #birding #birds #animalwelfare therevelator.org/birding-blin...
Helvella crispa looking autumnal.
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Helvella crispa looking autumnal.
Autumn is unusually colourful this year.
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Autumn is unusually colourful this year.
Cheery dandy pompom pompom
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Cheery dandy pompom pompom
More bug carnage in litter that traps insects and arachnids...so many bugs killed.
Litter picking saves lives!
Litter picking saves lives!
November 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
More bug carnage in litter that traps insects and arachnids...so many bugs killed.
Litter picking saves lives!
Litter picking saves lives!
Agaricarnage!
October 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Agaricarnage!
Tranquillity at Mavisbank, just jackdaws, no other sounds.
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Tranquillity at Mavisbank, just jackdaws, no other sounds.
Where's beech mast this year?
October 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Where's beech mast this year?
Two #SpiderInTheBath in two days. Thinking these are male Pardosa sp., which don't often venture indoors. Or the other one that looks like Pardosa!
[Fairly awful pics, phone camera cover has fallen off]
[Fairly awful pics, phone camera cover has fallen off]
October 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Two #SpiderInTheBath in two days. Thinking these are male Pardosa sp., which don't often venture indoors. Or the other one that looks like Pardosa!
[Fairly awful pics, phone camera cover has fallen off]
[Fairly awful pics, phone camera cover has fallen off]
Orb weaver web at head height on gateway!
I was on alert for it, as I had walked into it last week. Takes me back to childhood, & getting a faceful of garden spider... still freaks me out a little bit!
I was on alert for it, as I had walked into it last week. Takes me back to childhood, & getting a faceful of garden spider... still freaks me out a little bit!
October 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Orb weaver web at head height on gateway!
I was on alert for it, as I had walked into it last week. Takes me back to childhood, & getting a faceful of garden spider... still freaks me out a little bit!
I was on alert for it, as I had walked into it last week. Takes me back to childhood, & getting a faceful of garden spider... still freaks me out a little bit!
Perfect mushroom trio.
October 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Perfect mushroom trio.
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#MushroomMonday Scaly somethings I think. Looking very cosy.
October 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
#MushroomMonday Scaly somethings I think. Looking very cosy.
Bluesky asks "What's up?".
Today it's worm sex!
Today it's worm sex!
October 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Bluesky asks "What's up?".
Today it's worm sex!
Today it's worm sex!
Sarcophage sp. flesh fly, being unusually docile.
August 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Sarcophage sp. flesh fly, being unusually docile.