@bug-facts.bsky.social
Budding naturalist sharing some of the cool things I learn along the way. Not *just* bugs, but bug/spider/snake content is all well within scope.
Profile and header photos are my own.
Profile and header photos are my own.
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FEATURING Eastern gray squirrel tails!
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August 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
FEATURING Eastern gray squirrel tails!
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August 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Every morning I see bees sleeping in the squash flowers, this one had 3 😃
August 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Every morning I see bees sleeping in the squash flowers, this one had 3 😃
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Just a little leaf (with grabby hands) 💚
jagged ambush bug nymph
jagged ambush bug nymph
August 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Just a little leaf (with grabby hands) 💚
jagged ambush bug nymph
jagged ambush bug nymph
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Here is your Sunday Spider, Sporting Socks. I think it's Ancylometes sp. (per iNat, A. bogotensis). As of 2025 it's in a brand new spider family, Ancylometidae. It was big (1.5"+ body length). I saw it by a stream; these spiders are semi-aquatic and can stay underwater for an hour. (Costa Rica) 🐙🌿🕷️
August 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Here is your Sunday Spider, Sporting Socks. I think it's Ancylometes sp. (per iNat, A. bogotensis). As of 2025 it's in a brand new spider family, Ancylometidae. It was big (1.5"+ body length). I saw it by a stream; these spiders are semi-aquatic and can stay underwater for an hour. (Costa Rica) 🐙🌿🕷️
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The larval stage of a spotfin #flounder dancing to the music in its funky headdress.
#spotfinflounder #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #benthic #scubadiving #underwater #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater #marinelife
#spotfinflounder #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #benthic #scubadiving #underwater #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater #marinelife
August 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The larval stage of a spotfin #flounder dancing to the music in its funky headdress.
#spotfinflounder #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #benthic #scubadiving #underwater #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater #marinelife
#spotfinflounder #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #benthic #scubadiving #underwater #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater #marinelife
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Dedicated to bumblebees, who've within the past few years been the first insects to demonstrate "play" behavior, including rolling a tiny wood ball into a goal.
August 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Dedicated to bumblebees, who've within the past few years been the first insects to demonstrate "play" behavior, including rolling a tiny wood ball into a goal.
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I make no promises on how well I'll be able to keep up with this, but what the hell: 1 like=1 creature/species I've only found once and would love to see again
July 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I make no promises on how well I'll be able to keep up with this, but what the hell: 1 like=1 creature/species I've only found once and would love to see again
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A snail in a strange landscape of Bird's Nest Fungi 🐌
11x14" oil painting.
Finished commission for @xiphosb4.bsky.social
I love this type of artistic freedom work :)
#oilpainting #inverts
11x14" oil painting.
Finished commission for @xiphosb4.bsky.social
I love this type of artistic freedom work :)
#oilpainting #inverts
July 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A snail in a strange landscape of Bird's Nest Fungi 🐌
11x14" oil painting.
Finished commission for @xiphosb4.bsky.social
I love this type of artistic freedom work :)
#oilpainting #inverts
11x14" oil painting.
Finished commission for @xiphosb4.bsky.social
I love this type of artistic freedom work :)
#oilpainting #inverts
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If you're a pollinator you should probably avoid this plant
July 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If you're a pollinator you should probably avoid this plant
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Xerces supported in part by our amazing members. However, many of them are also incredible forces for conservation in their own right.
Today, we are spotlighting Donna Miskend, who weaves her passion for nature and conservation into her work as an artist and educator!
xerces.org/blog/donna-m...
Today, we are spotlighting Donna Miskend, who weaves her passion for nature and conservation into her work as an artist and educator!
xerces.org/blog/donna-m...
Donna Miskend’s Artful Advocacy for Invertebrates
Donna Miskend, a Xerces member from Brooklyn, NY, is an artist and educator whose passion for nature and conservation is woven into her work.
xerces.org
July 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Xerces supported in part by our amazing members. However, many of them are also incredible forces for conservation in their own right.
Today, we are spotlighting Donna Miskend, who weaves her passion for nature and conservation into her work as an artist and educator!
xerces.org/blog/donna-m...
Today, we are spotlighting Donna Miskend, who weaves her passion for nature and conservation into her work as an artist and educator!
xerces.org/blog/donna-m...
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Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS
The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent
or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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The smallest known jumping spider species on earth—and a spiderling on top of that—a split second from jumping 🥹
I was trying to point her out to Bugfriend who is used to looking for extremely tiny things I'd find, with no luck. Sand grain with a nervous system
(Neonella camillae, of course) 🖤
I was trying to point her out to Bugfriend who is used to looking for extremely tiny things I'd find, with no luck. Sand grain with a nervous system
(Neonella camillae, of course) 🖤
July 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The smallest known jumping spider species on earth—and a spiderling on top of that—a split second from jumping 🥹
I was trying to point her out to Bugfriend who is used to looking for extremely tiny things I'd find, with no luck. Sand grain with a nervous system
(Neonella camillae, of course) 🖤
I was trying to point her out to Bugfriend who is used to looking for extremely tiny things I'd find, with no luck. Sand grain with a nervous system
(Neonella camillae, of course) 🖤
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![Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic4f56ywseq7bqc7zza3y76pxyzn5c5htebrior6jdbrfszhuiquy@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A weevil at Wildsumaco in Ecuador. Easily found by following the trail of glitter he leaves behind everywhere he goes.
But really- this glitter weevil is always amazing to see and a real wonder of the world. Endless forms most beautiful, indeed.
But really- this glitter weevil is always amazing to see and a real wonder of the world. Endless forms most beautiful, indeed.
May 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A weevil at Wildsumaco in Ecuador. Easily found by following the trail of glitter he leaves behind everywhere he goes.
But really- this glitter weevil is always amazing to see and a real wonder of the world. Endless forms most beautiful, indeed.
But really- this glitter weevil is always amazing to see and a real wonder of the world. Endless forms most beautiful, indeed.
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Milkweed is such a clever flower, how it forces bees into positions so the plant can attach little pollen packets to their legs.
The fuzzball is a chimney bee, Diadasia ochracea. Arizona.
The fuzzball is a chimney bee, Diadasia ochracea. Arizona.
July 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Milkweed is such a clever flower, how it forces bees into positions so the plant can attach little pollen packets to their legs.
The fuzzball is a chimney bee, Diadasia ochracea. Arizona.
The fuzzball is a chimney bee, Diadasia ochracea. Arizona.
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Wandering around the local wildflower meadow I was thinking I hadn't seen any ambush bugs yet this year. Snapped a shot of a stilt bug and lo-and-behold, an ambush bug was there doing some ambushing. Didn't see it until I got home! #inverts
(Neoneides sp.) Stilt Bug with Ambush Bug
(Neoneides sp.) Stilt Bug with Ambush Bug
July 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Wandering around the local wildflower meadow I was thinking I hadn't seen any ambush bugs yet this year. Snapped a shot of a stilt bug and lo-and-behold, an ambush bug was there doing some ambushing. Didn't see it until I got home! #inverts
(Neoneides sp.) Stilt Bug with Ambush Bug
(Neoneides sp.) Stilt Bug with Ambush Bug
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July 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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July 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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all living things are logically equally important, just not in the same quantifiable way. the modern world needs earwigs even though I can't pull up numbers on how much profit farmers get from caring for earwigs. any suggestions like "xyz are the MOST important bugs" is just capitalism talking
July 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
all living things are logically equally important, just not in the same quantifiable way. the modern world needs earwigs even though I can't pull up numbers on how much profit farmers get from caring for earwigs. any suggestions like "xyz are the MOST important bugs" is just capitalism talking
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Warty Leaf Beetle in all its glory. A focused stacked image to show all of the lumps and bumps and textures of this amazing little beetle.
(Neochlamisus sp.)
(Neochlamisus sp.)
July 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Warty Leaf Beetle in all its glory. A focused stacked image to show all of the lumps and bumps and textures of this amazing little beetle.
(Neochlamisus sp.)
(Neochlamisus sp.)
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Being fierce protective parent does not stop when your spiderlings hatch 🤎
Hamataliwa helia moms are the best, always. And the little green miniatures are adorable.
#InvertebrateParenthood #EmotionalSupportSpood
Hamataliwa helia moms are the best, always. And the little green miniatures are adorable.
#InvertebrateParenthood #EmotionalSupportSpood
July 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Being fierce protective parent does not stop when your spiderlings hatch 🤎
Hamataliwa helia moms are the best, always. And the little green miniatures are adorable.
#InvertebrateParenthood #EmotionalSupportSpood
Hamataliwa helia moms are the best, always. And the little green miniatures are adorable.
#InvertebrateParenthood #EmotionalSupportSpood
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Streeeeeeeetch 🥹
Silly Phidippus workmani lad, believing the stretch was more efficient than the jump
Silly Phidippus workmani lad, believing the stretch was more efficient than the jump
July 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Streeeeeeeetch 🥹
Silly Phidippus workmani lad, believing the stretch was more efficient than the jump
Silly Phidippus workmani lad, believing the stretch was more efficient than the jump