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geosesarma.bsky.social
@geosesarma.bsky.social
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huge fan of creatures
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suyasuyabi.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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playing w/ my ditch pickle today
September 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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a swamp eel (Monopterus sp.) taking a gulp of air. Insanely adaptable and probably Florida's single highest impact invasive fish, but I can't lie they're also extremely cute
August 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Acronicta fallax at the sheet last night. Aptly named the green marvel cause I sure was marveling at that green
August 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A pretty little cockroach (iNat suggests Euphyllodromia sp.) in Costa Rica. Only around 30 of the 4,600 or so species of cockroaches enter homes. Most are detritivores, important members of nature's cleanup crew. This one had cool chevron patterns and compound eyes like polished glass. 🐙🌿 #insects
A macro photo of a strikingly-patterned cockroach on a lined, pale green leaf. The insect is brown and orange, with white spots against black on the upper thorax, and angled chevron-like lines on the wings. Its head is orange and the large compound eyes are beautifully shiny.
August 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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A comparison image of three similar juvenile boxfish species 🐡🐡🐡
August 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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sharing my peach with them
August 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, Weather Loach, introduced to and quite widespread in much of the US. This small tributary-of-a-tributary creek of the Hackensack River had probably hundreds of <1" young-of-year loaches in the muck and weeds
August 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Schooling Sacramento pikeminnow, despite being minnows they reach impressive size (4+ft) and are top predators in the ecosystems they inhabit. Really bold fish too which is always welcome for photography.
July 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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toxicoradica.bsky.social
🌸 thicket bean 🌿
Phaseolus polystachios

only native Phaseolus in eastern north america 🫘

#nativeplants #flowerreport
#bloomscrolling #bloomsky
two bean flowers and a bud on a long, loose raceme, difficult to get into good focus due to the lighting conditions within the deeply shaded forest holler where these beans live. the flower in the middle looks best though. its pale purple banner petal is held over the other petals like a hood. the two wing petals hang below and appear almost clublike because of how they curl along their length; their pink-purple coloration is darker than on the banner petal. the keels also have some of that pink-purple color, as well as a pale green patch at the tip; they are tightly coiled up on themselves. a bean vine growing in a deeply shaded woods, with many pink-purple flowers in various stages of development growing on long, loose, sometimes-branching axillary racemes. the fully developed flower in the center has a pale pink banner petal hooding the rest of the flower; two pink-purple wing petals turned over facing the ground; and a twisted pair of pink-purple keel petals that turn pale green at the tip. the plant's dark green trifoliate leaves are blurry in the background. a thicket bean vine twining its way through various forest floor foliage. the bean's dark green trifoliate leaves have broad, pointed leaflets on long leaf-stems. long, loose racemes of pink-purple bean flowers grow from the leaf axils; each one with a dozen or more flowers in various stages of development (many having already faded & fallen off).
July 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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bertonemyia.bsky.social
New fave weevil just dropped - an NC native! 🤗
This stunning insect is a sesbania clown weevil. Numerous were feeding on the leguminous host in a field; grower was happy they were eating the weed 😆

Thanks to Dominic Reisig for collecting them!
#Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Eudiagogus maryae #weevil
A cylindrical weevil sits on a white background. It has gray legs, and a granular black surface made up of scales. There are reddish orange scales on the back of the head and on the thorax, the thorax pattern marking the edges and a plus sign on the center. The wing covers have three yellow orange scale stripes running the length. A cylindrical weevil sits on green leaflets on a white background. It has gray legs, and a granular black surface made up of scales. There are reddish orange scales on the back of the head and on the thorax, the thorax pattern marking the edges and a plus sign on the center. The wing covers have three yellow orange scale stripes running the length. A cylindrical weevil sits on green leaflets on a white background. It has gray legs, and a granular black surface made up of scales. There are reddish orange scales on the back of the head and on the thorax, the thorax pattern marking the edges and a plus sign on the center. The wing covers have three yellow orange scale stripes running the length. Side view of a cylindrical weevil sits on green leaflets on a white background. It has gray legs, and a granular black surface made up of scales. There are reddish orange scales on the back of the head and on the thorax, the thorax pattern marking the edges and a plus sign on the center. The wing covers have three yellow orange scale stripes running the length.
July 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
Forbidden strawberry...

A Giant Velvet Mite found during #BugShot Arizona #inverts
(Dinothrombium sp.) Portal, AZ
A red and white mite as as seen from the front, on a white background.
July 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Hotel had a complimentary Gibbium aequinoctiale in the bathtub
July 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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This spectacular little fish, Rasbora jacobsoni, is endemic to central Sumatra — and right now, there are only a few iNaturalist observations of it!

📷 fishtse on iNaturalist
📍 Indonesia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
Two small narrow fish with beige-brown bodies and single black stripes down their middles swim amongst twigs and roots.
July 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
geosesarma.bsky.social
Hemaris thysbe and diffinis
July 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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going off in the garden right now (Lobelia inflata, Clinopodium vulgare, Monarda fistulosa, Ratibida pinnata)
July 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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male florida flagfish (Jordanella floridae) on a nest in my outdoor tub. This species seems to shift between active nest guarding and egg scattering based on environmental factors. This guy has clearly been successful so far though as theres several age classes of fry flitting around the tub
July 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
New favorite arachnid just dropped. We set up a Wind Scorpion in a habitat and she went to town digging. These animals dig burrows to get out of the desert heat, maintain humidity, and hide from predators. I think she's adorable.
(Solifugid) Southwestern Research Station, Portal, AZ
July 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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ciclasoman.bsky.social
It’s been a warm summer and setting new mops may help kick the breeding season in high gear for Pachypanchax patriciae
July 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Aplocheilus panchax looking good outside, he's currently paired with a female in a tub
June 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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mint collection, Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, incanum, virginianum, muticum
June 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Whatever. Triple scarab death barrage.
June 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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the lovely baby animal
Papilio polyxenes caterpillar munching away at unripe Zizia aurea fruits
June 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
LOOK at this stunner of an Orangespotted Sunfish!

Caught and released from a floodplain lake off the Minnesota River. Yes, freshwater fishes can be quite colorful too!
Brightly colored fish held above a net by a fish scientist.
June 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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dirtydog.bsky.social
Gratuitous #nongame pics taken on our study lake this week. #buffalo #gar
A black buffalo with its intermediate mouth orientation (approx halfway between terminal like bigmouth buffalo and sub-terminal like smallmouth buffalo). Correctly differentiating BKB from SMB in OK has proven difficult, according to genetic results. Hybridization complicates the similar morphology. This is a large spotted gar collected from a small reservoir population with only the single gar species present (four species are native to OK).
June 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM