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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli
@scibugs.bsky.social
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🦋 A crazy entomologist of sorts who will lead you around Ecuador🇪🇨 to look at bugs and stuff.

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scibugs.bsky.social
Im so happy you guys were with us ❤️ 🪲
lastgenxer.bsky.social The Last GenXer @lastgenxer.bsky.social · 2d
My son & I just completed the incredible Evolution Tour 2025 hosted and led by the amazing @scibugs.bsky.social and @statedclearly.bsky.social. We experienced and learned a ton, met some awesome new friends, and got to play a small part in protecting our precious Amazon rainforest. #EvoTour2025 🪲🐜🐛
A black butterfly with faint iridescent blue near the wing edges and small red-orange spots rests on a green plant bud, its wings partially open against a softly blurred forest background. A small beetle with a shiny black body marked by pale yellow spots and a yellow-orange thorax stands on the edge of a bright green leaf, with fine antennae extending forward. A white, fuzzy, oval-shaped caterpillar hangs vertically from a thin green stem, surrounded by large green leaves and dark forest ground beneath. A peacock katydid (Pterochroza ocellata) with wings spread wide displays large, eye-like patterns in pink, black, and turquoise tones, standing on leaf litter on the forest floor, the rear of its body facing the camera.
January 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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derekhennen.bsky.social
I've been asked recently about my microscope & photography set up, so I finally wrote it up! Learn more here, or just enjoy some nice photos of animals I've found in the leaf litter of Appalachia: www.derekhennen.com/blog/2025/12/31/photography-of-millipedes-centipedes-and-other-leaf-litter-critters
Photography of millipedes, centipedes, and other leaf litter critters — Derek Hennen
I get questions about my microscope and photography setup every so often, and it’s about time I centralize this information. It took me a while to figure out a system that works for me, and now I have...
www.derekhennen.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:15 AM
scibugs.bsky.social
Justice and the locust swarm.
And with that I managed to finish the major arcana by the end of the year! #Stoked

Maybe I'll put them all in order in a long thread. Let me know if you'd be interested in that.
a tarot card. The plaque says "11. Justice" In a stylized gouache painting, many yellow desert locusts swarm the sky and the grass.
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
scibugs.bsky.social
Death and the golden chrysalis.
A time of change, transformation, and reflection
A tarot card. The plaque reads '13. Death" A golden chrysalus is painted on a black background
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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derekhennen.bsky.social
Cold weather brings out the weirdos in the leaf litter, so it's time to get out there!
britishspiders.bsky.social British Arachnological Society @britishspiders.bsky.social · 20d
Some genera of Money #spiders Linyphyiidae are present as adults throughout the year, often with peak male activity in the #winter months (see chart for Walckenaeria acuminata). Whatever the weather, it's a good time to be out looking for them and their wonderfully distinctive headgear! #Christmas
Male Walckenaeria acuminata: Image thanks to Richard Gallon Male Oedothorax apicatus: Image thanks to Richard Gallon Male Oedothorax gibbosus: image thanks to Richard Gallon
December 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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lucidillusions.in
For day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar is the derpy blue borb, which for some reason is my bestseller sticker on inprnt.com

so if you like the blue borb, you can get a print or sticker: www.inprnt.com/gallery/luci...

#TraditionalArt #Art #ArtForSale #MastoArt #waterColor #sticker #BirdArt
Watercolor painting of a derpy looking blue bird with black beak and big eyes. It has black legs.
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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stoutheartstudio.com
For day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar I thought I’d show off my most Christmassy feeling #plant painting- Echevaria Ruby Slippers. It turns this fantastic crimson in full sun.

Mine was unfortunately eaten to nubs by my pet lionhead rabbit BunBun and is still recovering. 😅
🌱 🌵 🪴 🐡 #art #HumanMadeArt
A digital painting hand done using Procreate on an iPad, this ruby slippers Echevaria has a trio of fuzzy rosettes that turn from green at new growth to a deep crimson on the edges and older outermost leaves. It seems to glow, and has been accented with gold leaf to highlight the long, fleshy, drop shaped leaves and their geometric arrangement against the dark background.
December 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
scibugs.bsky.social
When you get the entomologists together at the Monteverde Butterfly Garden
Three women on a large wooden Hercules beetle. Two people have butterfly wings
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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igepnecuador.bsky.social
#ComunidadIG Trabajos de monitoreo interinstitucional en el volcán El Reventador, provincias de Napo y Sucumbíos.

Más información en el siguiente enlace:
👉 igepn.short.gy/Ux0HKH
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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doctorzen.net
If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.

#AcademicChatter
Slop graphics in academic journals
Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...
docs.google.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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davidsasaki.bsky.social
18th Century illustration of Cotacachi. The town was founded in 1544 by Friar Pedro de la Peña. He was a Dominican priest who later became a Bishop of Quito.

So what does Cotacachi mean? According to some, it's a reference to the town's once-thriving salt market.
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
scibugs.bsky.social
Working on finishing up the major arcana by the end of the year! Only two left after this one =D The Hanged Man - and the spider that regrows its retinas back each night 0.o
A tarot card. The text reads "12. hanged Man" A large tan spider with big blue eyes and spindly legs holds a rectangular cluster of web pointed at the viewer.
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
scibugs.bsky.social
Here's the explainer video about this half male half female insect

youtube.com/shorts/IMKix...
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
scibugs.bsky.social
Working on a presentation for my upcoming tour focused on butterflies.
a creame colored slide with dark teal outlines of butterflies and moths on the top and bottom. the text reads "justice for moths. de-influencing butterflies" The second slide with the same framing and background as the first. The poem reads "A riddle to guess if you can. What makes a Butterfly? What makes a moth? Can you separate them by clan"
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
scibugs.bsky.social
I'm excited with how Temperance came out! Traditionally depicted as an androgynous angel - here I have a gynandromorph Malaysian Jungle Nymph. That means it's split down the middle - half male half female. I exaggerated its features for the card - but you can find these in real life occasionally.
A tarot card reading 14 temperance. The background is a rainbow gradient starting with rid on the left and a teal color on the left. paint splashes of yellow red and teal are on it, In the middle is a spiny leaf insect called the Malaysian jungle nymph. the right side has the brown coloration and wings of the male, the right side has the green coloration and vestigial wings of the female.
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
scibugs.bsky.social
Today on the equator
A hand holding a ball of hail with a whole patio covered white in hail
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
scibugs.bsky.social
Went to a presentation today showcasing insect iconography in Ecuador's precolombian and preincan cultures!

Presented by Sebasian Padron a great entomologist in Cuenca
A picture of an artifact. Its a solid gold butterfly. The text reads "Mariposa [butterfly] La Tolita [an Ecuadorian preincan culture]
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
scibugs.bsky.social
Here's the Process Video and me spittin' Scorpion facts.
youtube.com/shorts/Pdr8I...
October 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
scibugs.bsky.social
this emerald jewel wasp wearing its prey's dead husk of a body like a hat as it newly emerges is the most disparagingly cute thing I think I've ever seen

Photo by Emanuele Biggi
Emerald Cockroach Wasp (Ampulex compressa) adult female, emerging from dead body of American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana) after it fed upon it as larva and pupated inside, South Asia, Africa and Pacific Islands (controlled conditions) Photographer Emanuele Biggi Species Emerald Cockroach Wasp Ampulex compressa
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
scibugs.bsky.social
Painted again after like a month.
Here's the strategic emperor - Scorpions can choose to inject pre venom that just causes pain or deliver the whole cocktail
A dynamic painting of a scorpion. Half is blue - glowing under uv light with a black background. Half is the yellow color of the true scorpion on a red background
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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tapani-hopkins.bsky.social
Now writing up a genus with about 70ish wasps ever caught. That's the total for planet Earth during 200 years of collecting. Every single one of them a female.

I guess the males likely exist? Somewhere?
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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tshahan.bsky.social
Beautiful, spooky wings of the "Halloween Pennant" dragonfly (Celithemis eponina) 🎃

seen near water - June, July - NE OK
October 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
scibugs.bsky.social
Time is money as they say
thebeeguy.bsky.social The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · Oct 7
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 185

Results of a recent study indicate that the ‘nectar guides’ on #flowers actually reduce the time a #bumblebee takes to forage a flower - from flight approach through nectar location to final take-off - by up to 30%!
#bees
#nature
#science
#wild
October 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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inkgrid.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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erujayy.bsky.social
The last of the giant flower beetle saga...

Mecynorrhina Ugandesis

The very first one I ever reared, although they were a black-orange variant. I think the blue-pink is so iconic on them though

#inverts #SciArt 💜🪲
A blue-pink giant flower beetle mecynorrhina ugandesis with cream stripes. It sits atop orange and red flowers.
October 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM