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Vonn Roach
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🐞Entomologist & 📸 Macro Photographer on an #Edibleinsect mission. 🤯27,000+ photos & 1,900 videos in my camera roll. 🪲Arthropods total 80%. Get your nature/nerd & slight #Foodie fix here ⚠️

#iEatBugs #YourLocalEntomologist
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These words "The people of #MN will soon recognize the importance of agencies like the #USDA that serve behind the scenes roles benefiting all of us" will prove prophetic not just to MN but to all of the United States.
April 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
April 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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It’s #treehopperTuesday. Take a look at these punk nymphs in my hedge 🌿🌱

#macro #nature #bugsky #photography
April 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
www.npr.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
April 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Probably Calligrapha bidenticola: this calligrapher beetle #Chrysomelidae from my collection offers a close look at the face, just as a student of entomology might see through a scope. For now, here’s a glimpse into our world.
🌿 #entomology #bugsky #coleoptera #invertebrates #insects
April 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Been a while since I did a moth portrait. I think this little one is a Setaceous Hebrew character (Xestia c-nigrum) found resting in my parents' garden last week.

#macrophotography #teammoth #OMSysytem #OM-1 #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife
April 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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April 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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This Ontholestes sp. rove beetle is relatively large, ~15mm and often found near dung or carrion. Like predators at a watering hole, it uses prowls the swamp of poo, preying on insects drawn to the decay.
#Staphylinidae #coleoptera #macrophotography #bugsky #invertebrates 🌿
April 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Goodnight #BlueSky from 2024 Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Fest. #art #illumination #photography #illuminights #photographersofbluesky
April 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
April 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Brown lacewings. Neuroptera are wild. You get parasites, you get animals that just basically eat everything. This one, a Hemerobiidae, is a little rarer than the green lacewings you usually see at lights. They are solid predators and some are even raised for biocontrol. 🌿
#entomology #neuroptera
April 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
April 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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This weevil’s colors aren’t from pigment: they’re structural. Microscopic scales manipulate light through interference, diffraction, and scattering, creating vivid iridescence. From my personal collection.
🌿 #macrophotography #Curculionidae #coleoptera #entomology #bugsky #insects
April 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
It’s the highlighter yellow for me. Insects and their colors 🤤🤤🤤 I can’t ever see an insect and not think it’d be a sexy shoot

#macrophotography #photography #insect #caterpillar #naturephotography #scisky #bug #entomologist #photoshoot #insectart
April 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Can we add more than 4 photos @bsky.app ? I have some insect series I need to post. Enjoy these 4 species of tiger beetle.

#beetle #tigerbeetle #photography #naturephotography #insect #bug #coleoptera #entomology #scisky #macroinsect #macrophotography #insectart
April 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The break in artist (cuckoo bee)
Nikon Z9 and 105mm macro
April 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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One of those moths that screams don’t touch me absolutely stunning in an alien critter kind of way. The caterpillar of Orgyia leucostigma flaunts bold colors and urticating hairs as a warning. Nature’s way of saying “look, but no touch”
#Erebidae #macrophotography #entomology #insects #lepidoptera🌿
April 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
April 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This collage looks like #tuesday kinda boring, kinda interesting, can’t pass it up either way cuz you’re nosey too…

#insectphotography #photography #macroinsect #macrophotography #insects #bugs #insect #macroinsect #photography #naturephotography #arthropod #arthropodart #insectart #entomology
April 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
March 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
March 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Good morntiiing. it’s gloomy where I’m at, so here’s some green. #bagworm

#scisky #nature #photography #insect #moth #lepidoptera #green #macroinsects #macrophotography
March 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM