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Rockwolf 🇪🇺
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Love photography, wildlife, Entomology (especially Pentatomoidea, Coreoidea and Coccinellidae!) ...nature in general! 333.19 PPM
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Some epic weevils in Costa Rica. Huge with bold colors. These were almost an inch long. I love how weird these are with antennae at the very end of the long snout. Cute and alien at the same time. They are harmless to humans generally; some species will chomp on your garden veggies. #invertebrates
January 8, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Please welcome to the world: Metopiellus palamaku and M. chasqui, new species of neotropical Pselaphinae, written with friends/coauthors from INABIO. These are the 8th and 9th species of Metopiellus known, and the first ones from Ecuador.

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January 8, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Do love a droplet (or two!). Bulrush seed head at lunchtime today in Shropshire. #Droplets #Shropshire
January 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Portrait of the two sexes of the very rare & elusive Giant or Tawny Earwig which once occurred regularly in the Bournemouth area until its coastal habitat was lost to development in the first half of the 20th C. From William Lucas, Monograph of the British Orthoptera, Ray Society, 1920.
January 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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The British species of earwigs, as depicted in Grasshoppers & Allied Insects of Great Britain & Ireland, Judith Marshall & Chris Haes, 1988
January 7, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Portrait of a 'macrolabic' (extra large forceps) Common Earwig in flight, from John Curtis's British Entomology. These forms are well-known on Scilly.
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Does anyone else think Common Earwig is declining? It used to be something that turned up on any site you visited, but it seems a long time since I've seen one.
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
January 7, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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⚠️ La tempête #Goretti se met en place dès l’après-midi de jeudi. Dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, elle balaye une large partie du pays.

De très fortes rafales de vent sont attendues, ainsi qu'un risque important de vagues submersions.

👉 Nos infos détaillées : meteofrance.com/actualites-e...
January 7, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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🟡 #VigilanceJaune #NeigeVerglas ce soir sur le Vaucluse, les Bouches-du-Rhône et le Var

➡️Des précipitations arrivent depuis l'ouest. L'air est pour l'instant encore trop sec et trop chaud, mais en soirée des flocons sont possibles pouvant donner un saupoudrage et localement 1 à 2 cm
January 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Mysterious Origins of Insects
A journey into the eye-opening realm of insects to explore how scientists are using traditional and cutting-edge techniques to search for a single, common insect ancestor.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
#insects #entomology
Mysterious Origins of Insects
A journey into the eye-opening realm of insects to explore how scientists are using traditional and cutting-edge techniques to search for a single, common insect ancestor.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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Up Close and Personal: Macrophotography Methods - Alan Cann
Online via Zoom at 7.30pm on Thursday 22.01.2026
Register here: www.naturespot.org/node/262955

#Insects #entomology #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem #photography
Up Close and Personal: Macrophotography Methods - Alan Cann | NatureSpot
The wildlife and wild places of Leicestershire and Rutland
www.naturespot.org
January 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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>3... but otherwise perfectly ok & the package inside undamaged. So of course had to turn round & schlepp back to post office (by now snow flurries had become a blizzard) ...which is all by way of showing my dedication to customer service for my lovely buyers at Etsy.com/uk/shop/StillDisgusted
January 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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"Aren't Ravens brilliant". But it's true!
Fun, fascinating behaviour by the Ravens this morning. Not great photos but I've never seen this behaviour before so I wanted to share! Hope you're not bored of ravens; I'm a little obsessed! Here Chips is having a snow bath and one of them is hanging upside down from a tree! #ukbirding
January 5, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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08.14am, 4.1.2026.
January 5, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Whither goest thou Mr.Fox?
January 4, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Cracking Larid flock at Battlefield late pm thanks to @saloplarus.bsky.social for the heads up. A fine 3w Caspian Gull the best I could see with nice flight views thanks to Maitre renard. At least 2 YLG too. #shopshirebirding #larid 🪶
January 4, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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L'aventure a commencé lorsqu'un membre de la communauté a partagé des photos sur iNaturalist qui ont attiré l'attention car il s'agissait d'une espèce non décrite. Cette observation initiale a donné lieu à une collaboration qui a finalement abouti à la description formelle de l'espèce.
Une fois de plus, la science citoyenne contribue à la découverte d'une nouvelle espèce sur iNaturalist
Community science leads to yet another scientific discovery! A new species of wasp-mimicking flower fly, Monoceromyia ndidiae, has been identified in the Dominican Republic through iNaturalist.   From observation to publication: A new species of wasp-mimicking flower fly Publié le 30 Jui 2025, 16 h 32 min par seastarya   image : Observation by @franklinhowley   ------ traduction   « L'aventure a commencé lorsque @franklinhowley, membre de la communauté, a partagé des photos sur iNaturalist qui ont attiré l'attention du naturaliste Aaron Schusteff (@arbonius), qui a reconnu qu'il s'agissait d'une espèce non décrite. Cette observation initiale a donné lieu à une collaboration qui a finalement abouti à la description formelle de l'espèce. Jiri Hodecek (@jiri_hodecek), entomologiste légiste chez SHIFT à Lausanne, en Suisse, a collecté le spécimen holotype. Ximo Mengual (@ximo_mengual), chef de la section Diptera au musée Koenig -LIB de Bonn (Allemagne), explique comment cela s'est déroulé : « L'observation dont Aaron parlait est celle partagée par @franklinhowley, mais il a pu trouver d'autres observations de la même espèce. Ce n'est que lorsque nous avons su que nous avions un spécimen physique que nous avons pu confirmer l'espèce. »   Traduit avec DeepL.com (version gratuite)   A New Species of the Wasp Mimic Flower Fly Genus Monoceromyia Shannon, 1922 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the Dominican Republic, 16.07.2025 https://bioone.org/journals/proceedings-of-the-entomological-society-of-washington/volume-127/issue-1/0013-8797.127.1.70/A-New-Species-of-the-Wasp-Mimic-Flower-Fly-Genus/10.4289/0013-8797.127.1.70.short   Les photographies du nouveau taxon ont d'abord été partagées sur iNaturalist, où il est resté sans nom pendant des années jusqu'à ce qu'un spécimen soit collecté à l'aide d'un piège lumineux dans le parc national Valle Nuevo en République dominicaine.   via Monoceromyia ndidiae de Jardin Botanico, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic le 22 Jan 2023 à 11:55 par Franklin Howley-Dumit Serulle · iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147287717  
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January 3, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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It never ceases to amaze me that a species with these colors is native to the Southeast US (this is from North Carolina).

Florida predatory stink bug nymph #Pentatomidae: #Euthyrhynchus floridanus
January 2, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Also from under bark today was this Dermestidae larva, which I think could be Megatoma undata 🤔 Happy to be corrected! 😁 #Coleoptera #Dermestidae
January 2, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Nice to see an Ant Beetle (Thanasimus formicarius) from under bark today (and put back carefully) #Coleoptera #Cleridae
January 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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Tapped an attractive micro-moth out of ivy in my Waltham Abbey garden today, I think it is a Fig-leaf Skeletoniser (Choreutis nemorana), although no Fig trees in the immediate vicinity. #EssexWildlife #UKMoths
January 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Starting 2026 by adding a couple of Bedfordshire shieldbug slides. Southern Green Shieldbug was new to the county in 2025, and Vernal had its first record since 1993. See all the slides here www.flickr.com/photos/runne...
January 1, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Highlight of today's new year walk was an unexpected Corizus hyoscyami (Cinnamon Bug), 'basking' on a leaf in a rather cold and damp woodland. Nice to see Eyed Ladybird and a few other inverts hiding in the conifers.
January 1, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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My second invertebrate record of the new year at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve this am. Once very scarce, Corizus hyoscyami is now a regular find in East Yorkshire throughout the year. @ynuorg.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM