Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli
@scibugs.bsky.social
🦋 A crazy entomologist of sorts who will lead you around Ecuador🇪🇨 to look at bugs and stuff.
www.SciBugs.info/links
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Went to a presentation today showcasing insect iconography in Ecuador's precolombian and preincan cultures!
Presented by Sebasian Padron a great entomologist in Cuenca
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]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3psfvxjxxlmvng2bqw4mgqaz/bafkreiamxucr5iibo24qpo4qofouuzkyyenetjmzavz2no62zwyhvq5xdi@jpeg)
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Went to a presentation today showcasing insect iconography in Ecuador's precolombian and preincan cultures!
Presented by Sebasian Padron a great entomologist in Cuenca
Presented by Sebasian Padron a great entomologist in Cuenca
Here's the Process Video and me spittin' Scorpion facts.
youtube.com/shorts/Pdr8I...
youtube.com/shorts/Pdr8I...
October 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Here's the Process Video and me spittin' Scorpion facts.
youtube.com/shorts/Pdr8I...
youtube.com/shorts/Pdr8I...
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
Photo by Emanuele Biggi
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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
Photo by Emanuele Biggi
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
Here's the strategic emperor - Scorpions can choose to inject pre venom that just causes pain or deliver the whole cocktail
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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
Here's the strategic emperor - Scorpions can choose to inject pre venom that just causes pain or deliver the whole cocktail
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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?
I guess the males likely exist? Somewhere?
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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?
I guess the males likely exist? Somewhere?
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Beautiful, spooky wings of the "Halloween Pennant" dragonfly (Celithemis eponina) 🎃
seen near water - June, July - NE OK
seen near water - June, July - NE OK
October 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Beautiful, spooky wings of the "Halloween Pennant" dragonfly (Celithemis eponina) 🎃
seen near water - June, July - NE OK
seen near water - June, July - NE OK
Time is money as they say
#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
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
Time is money as they say
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli
Millipede fans rejoice: we published our revision of Apheloria! This is the most common cherry millipede genus, but its taxonomy has been riddled with nebulous subspecies names. No longer! We clarify species limits and provide a distribution map. mapress.com/zt/article/v... @apheloria.bsky.social
Revision of the millipede genus Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921 (Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae, Apheloriini)
| Zootaxa
mapress.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Millipede fans rejoice: we published our revision of Apheloria! This is the most common cherry millipede genus, but its taxonomy has been riddled with nebulous subspecies names. No longer! We clarify species limits and provide a distribution map. mapress.com/zt/article/v... @apheloria.bsky.social
Pigeon love!! ^.^
No, I'm not above photographing pigeons! Like our own Rock Doves, Brazil's Picazuro Pigeon has some subtle-but-cool plumage that makes it quite pretty. Definitely an underrated subject!
#birds
#birds
September 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Pigeon love!! ^.^
She's here! The process video for the Empress and the Tailless Whip Scorpion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqb7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqb7...
September 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
She's here! The process video for the Empress and the Tailless Whip Scorpion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqb7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqb7...
Feast your eyes on this beautiful bug book from the Edo Period in Japan!
share.google/1cuuOHp0S4Dy...
share.google/1cuuOHp0S4Dy...
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 - Picture Book of Selected Insects (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰 - Japan - Edo period (1615–1868) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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September 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Feast your eyes on this beautiful bug book from the Edo Period in Japan!
share.google/1cuuOHp0S4Dy...
share.google/1cuuOHp0S4Dy...
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli
@gbif.org is amazing. And so is Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), for photographing and putting online so many of their African wasps.
I can sit at home in Finland, and get a first impression of how well my Ugandan wasps fit a Madagascar species whose type specimen is in France. 🧪
I can sit at home in Finland, and get a first impression of how well my Ugandan wasps fit a Madagascar species whose type specimen is in France. 🧪
Occurrence Detail 1019732979
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data.
www.gbif.org
September 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
@gbif.org is amazing. And so is Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), for photographing and putting online so many of their African wasps.
I can sit at home in Finland, and get a first impression of how well my Ugandan wasps fit a Madagascar species whose type specimen is in France. 🧪
I can sit at home in Finland, and get a first impression of how well my Ugandan wasps fit a Madagascar species whose type specimen is in France. 🧪
The Empress!! I was so worried when I started because like ... all the spindly eggs - but where we have a whip scorpion with her noodly babies.
September 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Empress!! I was so worried when I started because like ... all the spindly eggs - but where we have a whip scorpion with her noodly babies.
Octopus favor their front arms over their back ones for daily tasks at a ration of 61% to 39%
Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find | Marine life | The Guardian share.google/NFEYCGsj3bWR...
Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find | Marine life | The Guardian share.google/NFEYCGsj3bWR...
Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find
Creatures favour front arms for most tasks, study suggests, despite fact all eight arms are capable of all actions
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September 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Octopus favor their front arms over their back ones for daily tasks at a ration of 61% to 39%
Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find | Marine life | The Guardian share.google/NFEYCGsj3bWR...
Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find | Marine life | The Guardian share.google/NFEYCGsj3bWR...
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli
Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
typical news article about bugs.
"Hey we walked around the rainforest for like 10 minutes and here are 12 new species of this weird-ass flightless beetle"
Okay slight exaggeration ... but really. 12 new beetles were described from a cloud forest here in EC.
www.eluniverso.com/noticias/inf...
"Hey we walked around the rainforest for like 10 minutes and here are 12 new species of this weird-ass flightless beetle"
Okay slight exaggeration ... but really. 12 new beetles were described from a cloud forest here in EC.
www.eluniverso.com/noticias/inf...
Escarabajos que no vuelan: así son las especies que fueron descritas en un volcán y bosque nuboso de Ecuador
Estas descripciones ocurrieron en la provincia de Napo.
www.eluniverso.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
typical news article about bugs.
"Hey we walked around the rainforest for like 10 minutes and here are 12 new species of this weird-ass flightless beetle"
Okay slight exaggeration ... but really. 12 new beetles were described from a cloud forest here in EC.
www.eluniverso.com/noticias/inf...
"Hey we walked around the rainforest for like 10 minutes and here are 12 new species of this weird-ass flightless beetle"
Okay slight exaggeration ... but really. 12 new beetles were described from a cloud forest here in EC.
www.eluniverso.com/noticias/inf...
Reposted by Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli
I turned 31 today!
I've been an artist all of my life, and I'm so happy with how far I have progressed in my own career. It's been a long journey, but I look forward to another 10 years of creating.
I'd love a share if you're feeling generous to boost my reach for a day! ❤️
I've been an artist all of my life, and I'm so happy with how far I have progressed in my own career. It's been a long journey, but I look forward to another 10 years of creating.
I'd love a share if you're feeling generous to boost my reach for a day! ❤️
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I turned 31 today!
I've been an artist all of my life, and I'm so happy with how far I have progressed in my own career. It's been a long journey, but I look forward to another 10 years of creating.
I'd love a share if you're feeling generous to boost my reach for a day! ❤️
I've been an artist all of my life, and I'm so happy with how far I have progressed in my own career. It's been a long journey, but I look forward to another 10 years of creating.
I'd love a share if you're feeling generous to boost my reach for a day! ❤️
Me in Ecuador with bugs.
I never know. But sometimes a new species is described and Im like, "oh yea ... I saw that"
I never know. But sometimes a new species is described and Im like, "oh yea ... I saw that"
Someone asked about how I know if I have a new species. I don't, ever. The most very basic ecology of fairy shrimp and friends has never been done for Florida, so we don't even know how many DESCRIBED species are there. I just document everything. Maybe someone in the future will do that part.
September 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Me in Ecuador with bugs.
I never know. But sometimes a new species is described and Im like, "oh yea ... I saw that"
I never know. But sometimes a new species is described and Im like, "oh yea ... I saw that"
Omg! I love his spiky eye mount
The Hidden World of Harvestmen – A Talk by Alan Cann – 25th September 2025 7.30pm:
knightonwild.org.uk/2025/09/08/t...
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #Opiliones
knightonwild.org.uk/2025/09/08/t...
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #Opiliones
September 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Omg! I love his spiky eye mount
Yaaasss the way I really want to communicate//bzzzbzzz//
September 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Yaaasss the way I really want to communicate//bzzzbzzz//
Me: ima a try and learn japanese
Google news suggestions: we heard you! Here's an article about Japanese researchers using Ai to distinguish between 5 cicada species in Tokyo.
The image is in Japanese ... you can practice!!!
💪💪💪
share.google/P9w3oNrfFUk4...
Google news suggestions: we heard you! Here's an article about Japanese researchers using Ai to distinguish between 5 cicada species in Tokyo.
The image is in Japanese ... you can practice!!!
💪💪💪
share.google/P9w3oNrfFUk4...
Researchers in Japan develop AI to identify songs of different cicada species | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
A research team at Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies says it has developed technology that allows automatic detection of cicada songs in complex
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September 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Me: ima a try and learn japanese
Google news suggestions: we heard you! Here's an article about Japanese researchers using Ai to distinguish between 5 cicada species in Tokyo.
The image is in Japanese ... you can practice!!!
💪💪💪
share.google/P9w3oNrfFUk4...
Google news suggestions: we heard you! Here's an article about Japanese researchers using Ai to distinguish between 5 cicada species in Tokyo.
The image is in Japanese ... you can practice!!!
💪💪💪
share.google/P9w3oNrfFUk4...
Ima teach myself Japanese.
Wish me luck
Wish me luck
September 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Ima teach myself Japanese.
Wish me luck
Wish me luck
I mean ... maybe humans also have "cooperation among mutually tolerant individuals"
August 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I mean ... maybe humans also have "cooperation among mutually tolerant individuals"