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there'll be lots of bugs here 🐛🕷
23, disabled, UK
23, disabled, UK
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I wonder if there's a biologist somewhere who studies Wolf spiders and the Sephora thing was just the break they needed in their research.
December 31, 2023 at 5:55 AM
I wonder if there's a biologist somewhere who studies Wolf spiders and the Sephora thing was just the break they needed in their research.
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3/3 I would give you more details, but it would be a shame for you to miss the incredible video abstract they have prepared in the style of Wes Anderson's films.
In English (with better editing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMt...
In Spanish www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9A...
In English (with better editing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMt...
In Spanish www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9A...
Pickier Dogs Have Pickier Brains
Dogs’ food preferences are mirrored in their brain activity, particularly within their caudate nuclei -a brain region associated with reward processing, a ne...
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December 2, 2023 at 7:15 PM
3/3 I would give you more details, but it would be a shame for you to miss the incredible video abstract they have prepared in the style of Wes Anderson's films.
In English (with better editing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMt...
In Spanish www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9A...
In English (with better editing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMt...
In Spanish www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9A...
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There were so many flatback millipedes out after dark this evening (like, hard to avoid stepping on them) and I'm slowly getting better at shooting fluorescent creatures 🖤🩵 🌿🧪
November 29, 2023 at 3:03 AM
There were so many flatback millipedes out after dark this evening (like, hard to avoid stepping on them) and I'm slowly getting better at shooting fluorescent creatures 🖤🩵 🌿🧪
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This one was selected by Olympus on one of their best of week photos on their Instagram account , and I was really happy with it 😊
#ento #invertebrates 🦋
#ento #invertebrates 🦋
November 30, 2023 at 6:25 AM
This one was selected by Olympus on one of their best of week photos on their Instagram account , and I was really happy with it 😊
#ento #invertebrates 🦋
#ento #invertebrates 🦋
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Pelican sunset. 🌅 🌿🪶
November 15, 2023 at 2:32 PM
Pelican sunset. 🌅 🌿🪶
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1/2 Ants use aphids as medicine.
Aphids have a relatively high concentration of hydrogen peroxide. When ants are infected with fungi, they feed on aphids (and stop feeding when they are healed).
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Aphids have a relatively high concentration of hydrogen peroxide. When ants are infected with fungi, they feed on aphids (and stop feeding when they are healed).
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 16, 2023 at 4:43 PM
1/2 Ants use aphids as medicine.
Aphids have a relatively high concentration of hydrogen peroxide. When ants are infected with fungi, they feed on aphids (and stop feeding when they are healed).
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Aphids have a relatively high concentration of hydrogen peroxide. When ants are infected with fungi, they feed on aphids (and stop feeding when they are healed).
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Antenna of an Oil beetle, Meloidae. Great colors are visible here at 20:1.
#oilbeetle #meloidae #ölkäfer #coleoptera #insects # macrophotography #käfer #beetle
#oilbeetle #meloidae #ölkäfer #coleoptera #insects # macrophotography #käfer #beetle
November 3, 2023 at 9:14 PM
Antenna of an Oil beetle, Meloidae. Great colors are visible here at 20:1.
#oilbeetle #meloidae #ölkäfer #coleoptera #insects # macrophotography #käfer #beetle
#oilbeetle #meloidae #ölkäfer #coleoptera #insects # macrophotography #käfer #beetle
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Sometimes I don't post pictures because I have trouble thinking of captions for them. Maybe I should just start captioning them like drama YouTuber titles to make things easier
I've had enough. | My response to the Hemiptera controversy (42:16)
I've had enough. | My response to the Hemiptera controversy (42:16)
October 28, 2023 at 6:36 PM
Sometimes I don't post pictures because I have trouble thinking of captions for them. Maybe I should just start captioning them like drama YouTuber titles to make things easier
I've had enough. | My response to the Hemiptera controversy (42:16)
I've had enough. | My response to the Hemiptera controversy (42:16)
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oh man this rules actually. good feature and a very funny way to describe it. "sorry, they're fighting. probably best to just ignore it"
October 23, 2023 at 6:19 PM
oh man this rules actually. good feature and a very funny way to describe it. "sorry, they're fighting. probably best to just ignore it"
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For day 1 of #VirtualArtOfNeuro here is my most brainlike piece, she was tributaries (2016). The neurons are based on a drawing by Ramón y Cajal, and the piece evokes the electricity I feel when I have brain fog. #MECFS #SciArt #symptomatology #embroidery 🐡🧪🩺🧶
October 22, 2023 at 9:49 PM
For day 1 of #VirtualArtOfNeuro here is my most brainlike piece, she was tributaries (2016). The neurons are based on a drawing by Ramón y Cajal, and the piece evokes the electricity I feel when I have brain fog. #MECFS #SciArt #symptomatology #embroidery 🐡🧪🩺🧶
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Out with a friend today and got to introduce her to a wild Orange Crush, Ms Plumpkin 🥹🎃
Central Florida phidippus regius females tend to be bright orange, and should be an official mascot for spooky season.
#Arachtober 🌿🕷️
Central Florida phidippus regius females tend to be bright orange, and should be an official mascot for spooky season.
#Arachtober 🌿🕷️
October 23, 2023 at 2:15 AM
Out with a friend today and got to introduce her to a wild Orange Crush, Ms Plumpkin 🥹🎃
Central Florida phidippus regius females tend to be bright orange, and should be an official mascot for spooky season.
#Arachtober 🌿🕷️
Central Florida phidippus regius females tend to be bright orange, and should be an official mascot for spooky season.
#Arachtober 🌿🕷️
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1/2 The striped face of male jumping spiders (P. paykulli) allows them to have greater success with females.
Females avoid striped prey, but curiously this does not prevent males from being eaten less by the cannibalistic females.
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Females avoid striped prey, but curiously this does not prevent males from being eaten less by the cannibalistic females.
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 21, 2023 at 10:04 AM
1/2 The striped face of male jumping spiders (P. paykulli) allows them to have greater success with females.
Females avoid striped prey, but curiously this does not prevent males from being eaten less by the cannibalistic females.
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Females avoid striped prey, but curiously this does not prevent males from being eaten less by the cannibalistic females.
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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These moth mugs took me like two days to underglaze (& I still need to slap some glaze on the inside), but also I love them so much 😍
October 21, 2023 at 1:53 AM
These moth mugs took me like two days to underglaze (& I still need to slap some glaze on the inside), but also I love them so much 😍
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Three angles of yellowy coloured mushrooms growing in grass 🍄📷 with a pair of some other dark mushrooms behind
October 21, 2023 at 5:28 AM
Three angles of yellowy coloured mushrooms growing in grass 🍄📷 with a pair of some other dark mushrooms behind
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1/6 It seems that African elephants use names like we humans do.
This is the first evidence of such a thing in a species other than our own.
(Preprint) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This is the first evidence of such a thing in a species other than our own.
(Preprint) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
October 20, 2023 at 4:13 PM
1/6 It seems that African elephants use names like we humans do.
This is the first evidence of such a thing in a species other than our own.
(Preprint) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This is the first evidence of such a thing in a species other than our own.
(Preprint) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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every time i see this species this is all i can picture
October 19, 2023 at 3:05 AM
every time i see this species this is all i can picture
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Oh hi - here's a friendly little male wasp who couldn't sting you if he wanted to. Only female wasps, bees & ants can sting, because the stinger is a modified ovipositor, or egg-laying structure. Males of many vespid wasps, like paper wasps and yellowjackets, have these jaunty curled antennae.
October 17, 2023 at 3:07 PM
Oh hi - here's a friendly little male wasp who couldn't sting you if he wanted to. Only female wasps, bees & ants can sting, because the stinger is a modified ovipositor, or egg-laying structure. Males of many vespid wasps, like paper wasps and yellowjackets, have these jaunty curled antennae.
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The fun thing about being disabled is that the treatments cause new disabilities and so does not getting the treatments and so do the alternative treatments.
October 17, 2023 at 5:24 PM
The fun thing about being disabled is that the treatments cause new disabilities and so does not getting the treatments and so do the alternative treatments.
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crochet spider sculpture I made for John Fluevog Shoes last year, her name is Abigail and she is 10 feet wide
October 17, 2023 at 12:23 AM
crochet spider sculpture I made for John Fluevog Shoes last year, her name is Abigail and she is 10 feet wide
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Two habronattus boys being sweet lumps 🥹
Brunneus and georgiensis, both seen this afternoon like 30 yds apart. Multiple species in the same genus coexisting in the same microhabitat. I love it.
#EmotionalSupportSpood 🌿🕷️#Arachtober
Brunneus and georgiensis, both seen this afternoon like 30 yds apart. Multiple species in the same genus coexisting in the same microhabitat. I love it.
#EmotionalSupportSpood 🌿🕷️#Arachtober
October 16, 2023 at 12:02 AM
Two habronattus boys being sweet lumps 🥹
Brunneus and georgiensis, both seen this afternoon like 30 yds apart. Multiple species in the same genus coexisting in the same microhabitat. I love it.
#EmotionalSupportSpood 🌿🕷️#Arachtober
Brunneus and georgiensis, both seen this afternoon like 30 yds apart. Multiple species in the same genus coexisting in the same microhabitat. I love it.
#EmotionalSupportSpood 🌿🕷️#Arachtober
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This Hairstreak butterfly thoroughly fooled my camera. Those fringes at the back of its wings? And the round black dots? That's to fool predators into thinking the back is the front. Well, the Animal Eye Autofocus on my camera was certain those were the eyes. Well done, evolution!
#invertebrates 🌿
#invertebrates 🌿
October 17, 2023 at 12:04 AM
This Hairstreak butterfly thoroughly fooled my camera. Those fringes at the back of its wings? And the round black dots? That's to fool predators into thinking the back is the front. Well, the Animal Eye Autofocus on my camera was certain those were the eyes. Well done, evolution!
#invertebrates 🌿
#invertebrates 🌿
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Check out this stunning lettered peacock spider (Maratus literatus)!
Did you know: Peacock spiders are so-named due to the males' colourful iridescent patterns on their abdomens, which they display during courtship.
This particular species of jumping spider wasn’t described until 2014! 🧪 🕷️
Did you know: Peacock spiders are so-named due to the males' colourful iridescent patterns on their abdomens, which they display during courtship.
This particular species of jumping spider wasn’t described until 2014! 🧪 🕷️
October 14, 2023 at 5:18 AM
Check out this stunning lettered peacock spider (Maratus literatus)!
Did you know: Peacock spiders are so-named due to the males' colourful iridescent patterns on their abdomens, which they display during courtship.
This particular species of jumping spider wasn’t described until 2014! 🧪 🕷️
Did you know: Peacock spiders are so-named due to the males' colourful iridescent patterns on their abdomens, which they display during courtship.
This particular species of jumping spider wasn’t described until 2014! 🧪 🕷️
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For #FossilFriday and #Arachtober here are some ~100 million year old spiders from South Korea. These animals were probably preserved when rivers washed their remains into large lakes/basins associated with the plate tectonic movements of the time.
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October 13, 2023 at 1:54 PM
For #FossilFriday and #Arachtober here are some ~100 million year old spiders from South Korea. These animals were probably preserved when rivers washed their remains into large lakes/basins associated with the plate tectonic movements of the time.
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