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Third Silence Nature
@thirdsilence.com
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A nature/wildlife photographer from Australia and Germany. All 📷 are my own and all critters wild

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Parasitoids FTW!!! Illustration in homage to Eric Carle by Sloan Tomlinson
October 20, 2024 at 5:52 AM
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A very pink moth from a few years ago near Melbourne, AU. Pararguda sp., I think. #lepidoptera #moths #invertebrates #macro #photography #nature 📷🦋🐝🐙🌲🌳🔬
A very fluffy pink moth with long feathery antennae
November 26, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Finally! After a few years of trying to find the right spot & time things right. I've photographed adult California tiger salamanders (Ambystoma californiense) underwater as they return to vernal ponds to breed. I believe mine are the 1st UW images of wild CA tiger sals. 🦎🌎🐸
November 25, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Leaf Weevil

Schönbuch, DE, 2024. Phyllobius sp, I think

#weevil #coleoptera #entomology #invertebrates #nature 🔬🐞🪲📷🍃🐙🌳🌲🇩🇪🌿
A green and black weevil on a reddish leaf, against a green background
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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Iris Weevil

One of my favorite common inverts around here (well, common in spring at least) Schönbuch, 🇩🇪, 2024
#weevils #beetle #macro #nature #entomology #photography 🌲🦉🐛🕷️🪲📷🧪🔬
A black and brown iris weevil on a green iris leaf
November 21, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires.

In this massive collaboration, >100 Australian ecologists put a novel spin on meta-analysis to discover how fire frequency, interval, unburnt area, pre-fire drought and protected areas modify fire impacts.🌏

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires - Nature
Data collected from more than 2,000 taxa provide an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how extreme wildfires affect biodiversity, revealing that the largest effects on plants and animals were in are...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Last weekend I got to see NZ velvet worms in their native forest habitat. These animals are so bizarre, taxonomists gave them their very own Phylum, next to tardigrades - that's insane!

This Ooperipatellus sp. is an egg-laying genus, but there's another here that gives live birth!

Mind. Blown. 🧪
A photograph of the head end of a velvet worm, a soft-bodied invertebrate covered in beautiful orange and blue patterns.
November 20, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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Pied Oystercatcher

Eden, NSW 🇦🇺 , 2020
#birds #wildlife #nature #photography 🐦🌳🦉🌊🪶
A pied oystercatcher sits on a submerged rock, as small waves break around.
November 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Hey new followers! 🌞

Here's a sparkly blue eustyline weevil from the Colombian Andes near Pueblo Rico, Risaralda 💙💚

more pics on iNat: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
November 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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This is one of my all time favorite Wooly Sundews! Drosera Ordensis is an exceptionally beautiful carnivorous plant from Northern Australia. 🌱
Four Drosera Ordensis plants in a pot. They have white fuzz on their leaves and orange pads at the ends of the leaves.
November 17, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Robberfly eating a wasp

Bad Urach, 🇩🇪

🐛🐞🪲🕷️🕸️📷🦟🐜🐝🔬 #macro #photgraphy #nature #invertebrates #entomology
November 17, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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A bank vole, emerging from its bank home

#mammals #vole #nature #photography 🌳🇩🇪📷🌲🔬🍃🐭🐁🐇
A bank vole (very cute mouse) emerging from a gap between rocks in a stone wall
November 16, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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Feuersalamander (Salamandra salamandra)

Schönbuch, DE, 2024

#salamander #amphibians #herpetofauna #herpetology #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #photography #herps #nature #naturfotografie 🌳🇩🇪📷🌲🐸🦎🔬🐍🍃
A Fire salamander between the stones of a rock wall.
November 15, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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Memories of warmer days. A gallery of fireflies. 🧪🦗
Phenomenal Fireflies - Alex Wild
Fireflies are a family (Lampyridae) of about 2,000 beetle species known for their ability to produce light through chemical reactions.
www.alexanderwild.com
November 15, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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Longhorn beetle

Liguria, IT, 2024

#nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #beetles #coleoptera 🕷️🪲🌲🔬🐛📷🐞 🌳
A close-up portrait of the head of a longhorn beetle
November 15, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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A couple of tonight's lovely Ogres, including a comically leggy stick boy and two magnificent lasses with stunning nets. 🤎
Pale brown leggy ogre spider clutching a perfect little square net with fuzzy silk which almost looks like it's made of lightning Extremely leggy slender male Ogre, like a caricature of Ogres but in a good way The male in stick mode on a palmetto frond, next to my finger. He's nearly as long as my finger A handsome lass with her net, waiting patiently over the plains of a palmetto frond for snacks
November 15, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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The wasp mantisfly, Climaciella brunnea, is not a wasp, a mantis, or a fly. It is instead a type of spider-eating lacewing that keeps itself safe by looking like it has a painful sting, which is does not.

Evolution continues to be marvelous. 🧪 #Entomology
Side view photograph of an oddly proportioned reddish brown insect with yellow stripes standing alert on the end of a stick against a blurred natural background.
November 10, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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Eurasian Wren/Zaunkönig

Schönbuch, DE, 2024

#birds #vogel #birdphotography #vogelfotografie #nature #naturephotography #birdsky #ornithology 🦉🐦🇩🇪📷🌲🌳🪶
A eurasian wren sitting on a dead branch, against a dark green and brown background
November 10, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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I know many people are mad at WaPo today, but this is the most amazing, heartwarming, and heartbreaking story I’ve ever read about a spider. #arachtober gift link

wapo.st/4fn64wN
The extraordinary life and death of the world’s oldest known spider
This is the story of a 43-year-old spider and the people who knew her.
wapo.st
October 26, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Maratus harrisii

Wonthaggi, VIC, AU, 2021. For #arachtober

#makro #macro #spiders #arachnids #peacockspider #jumpsingspider #australia #nature #naturephotography #invertebrates #salticid #salticidsaturday 🕷️🕸️📷🪲🐛🪲🧪 Photo mine.
A red and blue peacock spider sitting on a small eucalypt branch
October 26, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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Strawberry Weevil!

for #weevilwednesday, which better bet a thing on bluesky.

#weevils #weevil #invertebrates #coleoptera #nature #macro #photography 🪲📷🐛🧪 🔬 🇩🇪
September 18, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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Acorn weevil (Curculio sp.)

#tübingen 🇩🇪 #invertebrates #entomology #nature #macro #photography #weevil #coleoptera #beetle #insects #bugsky #bugs #ento 🪲 🕷️🐝🦋🐙📸📷🌿
An acorn weevil on a leaf.
September 14, 2024 at 7:14 AM
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Hemidactylus turcicus (House Gecko)

Liguria, IT, 2024

#herpetology #photography #gecko #naturephotography #macrophotography #lizard
My 📷.
June 22, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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Tessellated Weevil (Liophloeus tessulatus)

#wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography
#photography #macro #coleoptera #beetles #weevils #insects #invertebrates
Tübingen 🇩🇪, 2024
June 15, 2024 at 6:55 AM