Taylor Semeniuk
@taylorsinverts.bsky.social
Entomologist | Taylor | she/her | 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇳🇱 |
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Lover of all things creepy and crawly
• conservation, community & restoration ecology, biocontrol, invasive pest education and management •
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Lover of all things creepy and crawly
• conservation, community & restoration ecology, biocontrol, invasive pest education and management •
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An ant mimic so good they got sorted into a Hymenoptera sample I was sent XD
December 17, 2024 at 9:27 PM
An ant mimic so good they got sorted into a Hymenoptera sample I was sent XD
You ever just stop in the middle of your work and go. Wow that's a gorgeous bug.
January 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
You ever just stop in the middle of your work and go. Wow that's a gorgeous bug.
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The glass amphipod Cystisoma is transparent because in the open ocean there is nowhere to hide, and its round head is completely covered in giant eyes. So when you're swimming far from shore just remember: you can't see them, but they can see you.
📽️ Dr. Alejandro Damian-Serrano 🧪🌊🌿🦑🐙
📽️ Dr. Alejandro Damian-Serrano 🧪🌊🌿🦑🐙
December 17, 2024 at 11:27 PM
The glass amphipod Cystisoma is transparent because in the open ocean there is nowhere to hide, and its round head is completely covered in giant eyes. So when you're swimming far from shore just remember: you can't see them, but they can see you.
📽️ Dr. Alejandro Damian-Serrano 🧪🌊🌿🦑🐙
📽️ Dr. Alejandro Damian-Serrano 🧪🌊🌿🦑🐙
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can I help you sir
December 18, 2024 at 1:25 AM
can I help you sir
An ant mimic so good they got sorted into a Hymenoptera sample I was sent XD
December 17, 2024 at 9:27 PM
An ant mimic so good they got sorted into a Hymenoptera sample I was sent XD
Here's some Tuesday snouts to lighten your morning 🐽
December 17, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Here's some Tuesday snouts to lighten your morning 🐽
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Still SOI dive 752. Starting off with a spoonworm (really cool, I don’t usually get to see the body of them), a really neat glass sponge that I’m not positive the family or genus of, and then a heteropathes/hexapathes with closeup (ID by Jeremy Horowitz) #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
December 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Still SOI dive 752. Starting off with a spoonworm (really cool, I don’t usually get to see the body of them), a really neat glass sponge that I’m not positive the family or genus of, and then a heteropathes/hexapathes with closeup (ID by Jeremy Horowitz) #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
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Day 8 #ArtAdventCalendar: an adorable, caterpillar-like blue velvet worm from NZ or Aotearoa I made for #InsertAnInvert2024! 🐡🧪
Velvet worms (phylum: Onychophora) are named for their velvet-like texture & somewhat wormlike appearance. They are elongate, soft-bodied, many-legged, nocturnal animals 🧵
Velvet worms (phylum: Onychophora) are named for their velvet-like texture & somewhat wormlike appearance. They are elongate, soft-bodied, many-legged, nocturnal animals 🧵
December 8, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Day 8 #ArtAdventCalendar: an adorable, caterpillar-like blue velvet worm from NZ or Aotearoa I made for #InsertAnInvert2024! 🐡🧪
Velvet worms (phylum: Onychophora) are named for their velvet-like texture & somewhat wormlike appearance. They are elongate, soft-bodied, many-legged, nocturnal animals 🧵
Velvet worms (phylum: Onychophora) are named for their velvet-like texture & somewhat wormlike appearance. They are elongate, soft-bodied, many-legged, nocturnal animals 🧵
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have I posted about my beetle project on here? I'm designing little dudes out of real life weird beetles in the style of the original tamagotchi. termite butt guy Coatonachthodes is here now
December 8, 2024 at 5:45 AM
have I posted about my beetle project on here? I'm designing little dudes out of real life weird beetles in the style of the original tamagotchi. termite butt guy Coatonachthodes is here now
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If you see this, post a dinosaur!
...Sure, I can continue the compsognathid theme too hehe. And the trans flag theme!
...Sure, I can continue the compsognathid theme too hehe. And the trans flag theme!
December 8, 2024 at 6:41 PM
If you see this, post a dinosaur!
...Sure, I can continue the compsognathid theme too hehe. And the trans flag theme!
...Sure, I can continue the compsognathid theme too hehe. And the trans flag theme!
Absolutely horrible trend I've been seeing at conferences and summits this year. Adding ai images to your presentation instantly makes us lose respect. Do better.
Seeing far too many AI garbage images out in the real world. Here's your reminder that there are no ethical uses of this crap whatsoever. I don't care how you try to justify it to yourself, or how you think it's "just okay this once". There is no good in it, and a whole lot of bad.
December 8, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Absolutely horrible trend I've been seeing at conferences and summits this year. Adding ai images to your presentation instantly makes us lose respect. Do better.
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I was obsessed with grasshoppers as a kid and made my first pinned display when I was 8. It was SO badly done.
My poor mum is scared of bugs but decided she didn't want to discourage me so she'd smile and bare it lol She'd get me pinned bugs for presents
Now she never let's me tell her about my job
My poor mum is scared of bugs but decided she didn't want to discourage me so she'd smile and bare it lol She'd get me pinned bugs for presents
Now she never let's me tell her about my job
I was five when I first visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The giant squid, the blue whale, the Sonoran jaguars, the wolves under the aurora, the “Brontosaurus,” AMNH 5027, all immediately became touchstones for parts of myself and frequently reappear in my writing.
Are there any positive* events from your childhood that explain a lot about you as an adult?
For example: kid-me converted the kitchen playhouse my parents built me into an educational nature center, and my mom took me to meet Dr. Jane Goodall when I was in elementary school
I’m a biologist now
For example: kid-me converted the kitchen playhouse my parents built me into an educational nature center, and my mom took me to meet Dr. Jane Goodall when I was in elementary school
I’m a biologist now
December 6, 2024 at 9:57 PM
I was obsessed with grasshoppers as a kid and made my first pinned display when I was 8. It was SO badly done.
My poor mum is scared of bugs but decided she didn't want to discourage me so she'd smile and bare it lol She'd get me pinned bugs for presents
Now she never let's me tell her about my job
My poor mum is scared of bugs but decided she didn't want to discourage me so she'd smile and bare it lol She'd get me pinned bugs for presents
Now she never let's me tell her about my job
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My computer froze up so here's an aesthetic photo of what I'm up to rn as I wait
December 6, 2024 at 7:37 PM
My computer froze up so here's an aesthetic photo of what I'm up to rn as I wait
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A coughing kingfisher
Several times a day a kingfisher will cough up a pellet of indigestible fish bones and scales.
Filmed at #Walthamstow Wetlands this morning.
#LondonBirds #ukbirds #eastlondonkingfishers #kingfisher #kingfishers #ornithology #birds #eastlondon
Several times a day a kingfisher will cough up a pellet of indigestible fish bones and scales.
Filmed at #Walthamstow Wetlands this morning.
#LondonBirds #ukbirds #eastlondonkingfishers #kingfisher #kingfishers #ornithology #birds #eastlondon
December 6, 2024 at 7:43 PM
A coughing kingfisher
Several times a day a kingfisher will cough up a pellet of indigestible fish bones and scales.
Filmed at #Walthamstow Wetlands this morning.
#LondonBirds #ukbirds #eastlondonkingfishers #kingfisher #kingfishers #ornithology #birds #eastlondon
Several times a day a kingfisher will cough up a pellet of indigestible fish bones and scales.
Filmed at #Walthamstow Wetlands this morning.
#LondonBirds #ukbirds #eastlondonkingfishers #kingfisher #kingfishers #ornithology #birds #eastlondon
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This striking, fuzzy fly (Eudasys ophrys Whittington [Platystomatidae]) caught my attention when sorting a box of (largely unidentified) Diptera from Nigeria—never know what you'll in a collection! #PERCBugs #FlyFriday
December 6, 2024 at 7:20 PM
This striking, fuzzy fly (Eudasys ophrys Whittington [Platystomatidae]) caught my attention when sorting a box of (largely unidentified) Diptera from Nigeria—never know what you'll in a collection! #PERCBugs #FlyFriday
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PhD Opportunity:
'Eocene sea-floor ecosystem structure in response to environmental change'.
Student will be based at British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), with Bristol University.
Project and contact details: www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Deadline 13th January
www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply
'Eocene sea-floor ecosystem structure in response to environmental change'.
Student will be based at British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), with Bristol University.
Project and contact details: www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Deadline 13th January
www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply
December 6, 2024 at 5:17 PM
PhD Opportunity:
'Eocene sea-floor ecosystem structure in response to environmental change'.
Student will be based at British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), with Bristol University.
Project and contact details: www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Deadline 13th January
www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply
'Eocene sea-floor ecosystem structure in response to environmental change'.
Student will be based at British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), with Bristol University.
Project and contact details: www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Deadline 13th January
www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply
One thing I've discovered in my lepidoptera journey this week is the UK sure loves its moths huh
December 6, 2024 at 7:43 PM
One thing I've discovered in my lepidoptera journey this week is the UK sure loves its moths huh
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Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023!
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
November 18, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023!
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
My computer froze up so here's an aesthetic photo of what I'm up to rn as I wait
December 6, 2024 at 7:37 PM
My computer froze up so here's an aesthetic photo of what I'm up to rn as I wait
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weevil covered with green, yellow, and blue sparkles
#WeevilWednesday
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#WeevilWednesday
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
December 4, 2024 at 6:31 PM
weevil covered with green, yellow, and blue sparkles
#WeevilWednesday
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#WeevilWednesday
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Does anyone else doing ID work have a personal vendetta against micromoths?
December 4, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Does anyone else doing ID work have a personal vendetta against micromoths?
On my 4th vial of caddisflies labeled as lepidoptera sent in. Argh
December 4, 2024 at 7:50 PM
On my 4th vial of caddisflies labeled as lepidoptera sent in. Argh
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Ring-legged Earwig (Euborellia annulipes) being consumed by Zoophthora forficulae. Kalāwahine Trail, Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve.
November 22, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Ring-legged Earwig (Euborellia annulipes) being consumed by Zoophthora forficulae. Kalāwahine Trail, Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve.
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Most beloved child
November 18, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Most beloved child