Michael Palmer
@cosmopterix.bsky.social
Retired botanist but doing #entomology on a wildfire impacted landscape in Oregon.
INaturalist Ambassador.
INaturalist handle @cosmopterix
INaturalist Ambassador.
INaturalist handle @cosmopterix
Stigmella says nom nom inside a cottonwood leaf
August 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Stigmella says nom nom inside a cottonwood leaf
A little floscularid rotifer doing rotifer things
July 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A little floscularid rotifer doing rotifer things
a little clip of a freshwater bryozoan feeding
June 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
a little clip of a freshwater bryozoan feeding
Phyllocnistis sp. feeding in a subcuticular mine on a Populus trichocarpa leaf. They have a liquid diet, and I think their mandibles are somewhat like canopeners to pry the top off of parenchyma cells.
#bugsky #moths #lepidoptera #insects
#bugsky #moths #lepidoptera #insects
May 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Phyllocnistis sp. feeding in a subcuticular mine on a Populus trichocarpa leaf. They have a liquid diet, and I think their mandibles are somewhat like canopeners to pry the top off of parenchyma cells.
#bugsky #moths #lepidoptera #insects
#bugsky #moths #lepidoptera #insects
A little (probable) Limnophyes viribus feeding inside a leaf mine made by (probable) Metriocnemus erythranthae, in Erythanthe in Oregon.. The frass of the Metriocnemus seems to be obstacles for little Limno.
#chironomids are so cool!
#diptera #insects #bugsky.
#chironomids are so cool!
#diptera #insects #bugsky.
March 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A little (probable) Limnophyes viribus feeding inside a leaf mine made by (probable) Metriocnemus erythranthae, in Erythanthe in Oregon.. The frass of the Metriocnemus seems to be obstacles for little Limno.
#chironomids are so cool!
#diptera #insects #bugsky.
#chironomids are so cool!
#diptera #insects #bugsky.