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diplopodracer.bsky.social
One Hundred and Sixty-One Wasps
@diplopodracer.bsky.social
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Amateur wildlife photographer & invert keeper (millipedes, but also some beetles, tarantula, isopods, and Gryllus crickets)

Iterested in most invertebrate orders, but especially Diplopoda, Isopoda, and Hymenoptera.

My OC photography is CC0 public domain
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crabspromenade.bsky.social
New Youtube video available now! This features, Helice tridens, a common crab species found in Japan.
youtu.be/Mm-AK5nnp3Q?...
YouTubeの横長動画の更新です💡今回はアシハラガニ。短いですが、大群で登場します。ご笑覧下さい。
#crab #カニ #invertebrate
🦀🦑🧪
#5 ”Helice tridens アシハラガニ”　[Crabs' Promenade in Japan カニの散歩道日本編]
YouTube video by カニの散歩道 Crabs' Promenade
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November 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
diplopodracer.bsky.social
A little baby Chicobolus spinigerus "Tamarack, FL"

#invertebrates #m43 #bugsky
A young juvenile cream colored millipede with single black stripes down its sides and horizontal orange stripes on its segments eats some dried river shrimp.
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
diplopodracer.bsky.social
The coloration of the legs/feet of this millipede is mesmerizing (Chicobolus spinigerus "Brooksville, FL")

#invertebrates #invertefest #diplopoda #m43
a macro photo cropped to the feet of a millipede. They are purple with clear tips and some clear hairs running down the undersides of the legs. The body segments are white and black, but only the white part is shown in this photo.
November 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
florence pew: thread
Florence Pugh wearing an olive green dress with brown hair. Pews of the same color.
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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jfcudennec.bsky.social
Be ungovernable
November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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scribbleznbitzart.bsky.social
Some more fun with the acrylic markers #sciart #bugsky #acrylicmarker #sketchbook
beatle in acrylic markers acrylic marker art
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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pom137.bsky.social
A very interesting looking katydid nymph perched on a bee balm. 🐛 #bugsky #insect #nature #Wildlife #macrofriday #katydid #invertebrates
A mostly green katydid nymph is shown on a green bee balm leaf. The thorax is mostly red intermingled with green and the long antennae are black with white bands
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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alexwild.bsky.social
Putting final touches on a 400 species list for a book I'm writing about ants, for the general public, worldwide coverage.

I welcome suggestions for species I should include. Whittling 15,000 species down to only a few hundred is harder than it looks, because of course it should have ALL THE ANTS.
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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margueriteturl2.bsky.social
Fancy little dark eyed junco looking good in some fall colors!! #birds
Dark eyed junco on a branch with red leaves in the background
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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self.agency
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
not found, account has been suspended
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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gregpak.net
I finally wrote up my experiences about migrating to a Blacksky server. Hope it's helpful! And big high fives to @rude1.blacksky.team @sharpiepls.com @aliafonzy.blacksky.app @bisprout.writes.fyi and @bradwenner.photo, whose resources & info helped me so much! gregpak.net/2025/11/13/h...
How and why I moved from a Bluesky server to a Blacksky server - gregpak.net
Since Twitter turned into a fascist hellhole under Elon Musk, Bluesky has become my favorite social media site. But Bluesky has its own issues, primarily centered around a series of … Continue reading...
gregpak.net
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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jeremysell.bsky.social
Most Ichneumonid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) are parasitoids that lay their eggs inside other insects. The larvae hatch and slowly eat their hosts alive. Eventually the larvae burst out of their hosts, killing them. Many species are very useful for pest control. Palmyra Michigan, 13 May 2016.
Most Ichneumonid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) are parasitoids that lay their eggs inside other insects. The larvae hatch and slowly eat their hosts alive. Eventually the larvae burst out of their hosts, killing them. Many species are very useful for pest control. Palmyra Michigan, 13 May 2016.
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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entsocontario.bsky.social
What looks like a simple piggyback ride is actually a purposeful mating ritual in the greenhouse millipede 🐛💕

The male climbs onto the female and uses his specialized gonopod legs to clasp her securely in place 🔐🦵This helps him stay steady and make sure the sperm transfer is right on target 🎯
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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grays.art
Bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)
/ pulling hyssop flower

#agapostemon #beePhoto #bees #SweatBee #BeesAndFlowers #beePhotography
November 13, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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ichnologist.bsky.social
For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
Cartoon depicting the black silhouette of a brachiosaur (long-necked dinosaur) vomiting from 14 meters (45 feet) above, and two small theropod dinosaurs fleeing from its impact; the deadly result of the impact velocity is shown in the upper right as a partial theropod skeleton with a splatter pattern around it. The cartoon has the following text: Brachiosaurus projectile vomiting: forces generated and resulting traces "Assuming 50 kg (110 lbs) of regurgitant, impact velocity from 14 m (45 ft) height, and hard-packed sand as impact site," and "Impact velocity = V = V 2gh = 16.6 m/s; kinetic energy before impact = 6,860 J Average impact force = 68,600 N." An original figure by me (Anthony J. Martin) in my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014, Pegasus Books).
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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neoresistant.bsky.social
En hiver, le rouge-gorge, ami du jardinier et de l'amoureux de la nature, gonfle son plumage pour se protéger du froid...
#photographie #photography
D’autres photos ici sur mon site :
www.superbe-nature.fr/oiseaux/roug...
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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plazi-species.bsky.social
#NewSpecies!
New parasitoid wasp from #china just flew in:

Diglyphus albifemur

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/CB3B0E65-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #DiglyphusAlbifemur

#FAIRdata
#OA #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #animals #entomology #insects #hymenoptera #wasps #parasite
Diglyphus albifemur, female, holotype, habitus, dorsal view.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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andreapeterson.bsky.social
A stunning tree encountered while wandering along the Hall of Mosses in the Hoh Rainforest, Washington state peninsula

#ForestFriday #Trees #Forests #PNW #WestCoast #Scape #Photography #Lichen #Moss #Rainforest #Nature
A large tree covered and dripping with lichen and moss, surrounded by other green plants, ferns, and trees in a rainforest. Sunlight can be seen illuminating some areas of the scene.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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sbug.games
3 and a half years of isopod rolling down big hills!
Isopod is finally coming out tomorrow!
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October 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Q: Why are Bugs so silly?

A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body

*loud booing*

Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper
Pinkish red planthopper with large wings like a maple seed, and a pointy triangular snoot topped with wavy white lines
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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simonhco.bsky.social
I picked up my camera bag after taking some photos of mushrooms and discovered that an ensatina (a kind of lungless salamander) had crawled under the bag!

It's the opposite of "the one that got away".

Woodhaven Swamp, Belcarra, BC.

#herps #salamander 🌿 #naturephotography
An ensatina is crawling among the twigs on the forest floor. It has turned back to look at the camera. Canon R5+RF100, 1/80, f20, ISO 6400. Flash.
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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tjalamont.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing in particular, here is a very small weevil posing majestically. (Brazil)
#Bugsky 🐙🌿
A macro photo of a weevil, in profile, upper left in the frame atop a fuzzy gray-green leaf. The weevil is orange with a coating of sparse yellow hairs, some of which are dense enough to form spots.
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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diplopodracer.bsky.social
Here is a better photo that I took of the Brooksville, FL locality of Chicobolus spinigerus.

#invertebrates #invertefest #millipedes #diplopoda
An female adult Ivory Millipede forages for freeze dried peas on flake soil. It has the Ivory piano key style morphology, however in a departure from the normal appearance of mostly black on the top, the white portion goes all the way around as a stripe.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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lespreuh.bsky.social
Old compilation 🖊
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM