Jai 🪲📷🏴 (VC59)
@jaiiiiiii1.bsky.social
Entomology, Photography, Postcards
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Collembola 🌱 - Coccinellidae 🐞
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📌 Greater Manchester
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Collembola 🌱 - Coccinellidae 🐞
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📌 Greater Manchester
Amazing things happening on TikTok
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Amazing things happening on TikTok
I was thinking about the guy from Jamiroquai, but I hear ya
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I was thinking about the guy from Jamiroquai, but I hear ya
Nice surprise today with the northernmost English record for Monobella grassei (approx location = Green dot)
Hopkin Checklist places it as 'MODERATELY COMMON IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND', though since then, many more records have populated the map across the midlands.
#collembola #entomology #springtail 🧪🪲
Hopkin Checklist places it as 'MODERATELY COMMON IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND', though since then, many more records have populated the map across the midlands.
#collembola #entomology #springtail 🧪🪲
October 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Nice surprise today with the northernmost English record for Monobella grassei (approx location = Green dot)
Hopkin Checklist places it as 'MODERATELY COMMON IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND', though since then, many more records have populated the map across the midlands.
#collembola #entomology #springtail 🧪🪲
Hopkin Checklist places it as 'MODERATELY COMMON IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND', though since then, many more records have populated the map across the midlands.
#collembola #entomology #springtail 🧪🪲
Truly evil map, how dare those guys insinuate I'm from Yorkshire 🤣
October 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Truly evil map, how dare those guys insinuate I'm from Yorkshire 🤣
Anyone know what causes this appearance of multiple pseudopupils in some butterflies?
#entomology #bugsky #lepidoptera #invertebrates
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#entomology #bugsky #lepidoptera #invertebrates
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October 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Anyone know what causes this appearance of multiple pseudopupils in some butterflies?
#entomology #bugsky #lepidoptera #invertebrates
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#entomology #bugsky #lepidoptera #invertebrates
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+ Entomobrya (c.f. lanuginosa)!
September 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
+ Entomobrya (c.f. lanuginosa)!
Hey @writerpaula.bsky.social! I gather you'll recognise this one? Trying to see if I can put a name to the artist behind the illustrations, and you seem to be the one name I can actually get a hold of looking online. Any tips or contact info to start off the paper trail? :)
September 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Hey @writerpaula.bsky.social! I gather you'll recognise this one? Trying to see if I can put a name to the artist behind the illustrations, and you seem to be the one name I can actually get a hold of looking online. Any tips or contact info to start off the paper trail? :)
Note at the bottom this sheet of 3, from the DPRK! A little morally iffy since stamp issues are one of few ways the regime can pull together funds around sanctions by selling them on to Chinese vendors to then be distributed to collectors. These are from 1993, so I think I'm sort of clear?
September 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Note at the bottom this sheet of 3, from the DPRK! A little morally iffy since stamp issues are one of few ways the regime can pull together funds around sanctions by selling them on to Chinese vendors to then be distributed to collectors. These are from 1993, so I think I'm sort of clear?
Random art tip #2, commemorative stamps from the late 20th century can go for super cheap (especially in big lots). I probably won't be art-ing too much with them, too attached and I haven't even collected these yet.
September 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Random art tip #2, commemorative stamps from the late 20th century can go for super cheap (especially in big lots). I probably won't be art-ing too much with them, too attached and I haven't even collected these yet.
Random art tip #001, fancy wine and drink can labels can be digitised pretty accurately by just rolling the container along the scanning unit of a flatbed printer as it moves
September 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Random art tip #001, fancy wine and drink can labels can be digitised pretty accurately by just rolling the container along the scanning unit of a flatbed printer as it moves
@britishspiders.bsky.social And who might be the culprit here? Yellow Iris, folded by pondside in Lancashire. A thin layer of silk covered both ends of the fold, with almost no silk, excrement, or indeed spider in the middle.
August 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
@britishspiders.bsky.social And who might be the culprit here? Yellow Iris, folded by pondside in Lancashire. A thin layer of silk covered both ends of the fold, with almost no silk, excrement, or indeed spider in the middle.
Never knew that, mine was a clay plantpot too! Need to start reading more of the descriptions + notes in the Hopkin key, lo and behold...
August 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Never knew that, mine was a clay plantpot too! Need to start reading more of the descriptions + notes in the Hopkin key, lo and behold...
My latest purchase, print dated 1884. 🪲🧪
12. Entomobrya nivalis
13. Entomobrya intermedia
14. Entomobrya intermedia
15. Entomobrya intermedia juvenile
16. Entomobrya muscorum (Listed at the time E. intermedia var. elongata)
17. Entomobrya albocincta
12. Entomobrya nivalis
13. Entomobrya intermedia
14. Entomobrya intermedia
15. Entomobrya intermedia juvenile
16. Entomobrya muscorum (Listed at the time E. intermedia var. elongata)
17. Entomobrya albocincta
August 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
My latest purchase, print dated 1884. 🪲🧪
12. Entomobrya nivalis
13. Entomobrya intermedia
14. Entomobrya intermedia
15. Entomobrya intermedia juvenile
16. Entomobrya muscorum (Listed at the time E. intermedia var. elongata)
17. Entomobrya albocincta
12. Entomobrya nivalis
13. Entomobrya intermedia
14. Entomobrya intermedia
15. Entomobrya intermedia juvenile
16. Entomobrya muscorum (Listed at the time E. intermedia var. elongata)
17. Entomobrya albocincta
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
NOTICE TO AIRMEN
Cessna November-Four-Three-Zero-One-Romeo is currently active at KBIS via ADSB tracking info. All flights are instructed to avoid North Dakotan airspace. Arrivals beyond 100nm should divert where possible to the nearest available airfield.
Cessna November-Four-Three-Zero-One-Romeo is currently active at KBIS via ADSB tracking info. All flights are instructed to avoid North Dakotan airspace. Arrivals beyond 100nm should divert where possible to the nearest available airfield.
July 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
NOTICE TO AIRMEN
Cessna November-Four-Three-Zero-One-Romeo is currently active at KBIS via ADSB tracking info. All flights are instructed to avoid North Dakotan airspace. Arrivals beyond 100nm should divert where possible to the nearest available airfield.
Cessna November-Four-Three-Zero-One-Romeo is currently active at KBIS via ADSB tracking info. All flights are instructed to avoid North Dakotan airspace. Arrivals beyond 100nm should divert where possible to the nearest available airfield.
Today is a good day because I saw a tiny rove beetle wearing a tiny mite as a hat
#entomology #bugsky #coleoptera 🧪🪲
#entomology #bugsky #coleoptera 🧪🪲
June 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Today is a good day because I saw a tiny rove beetle wearing a tiny mite as a hat
#entomology #bugsky #coleoptera 🧪🪲
#entomology #bugsky #coleoptera 🧪🪲
@bitheolaidhe.bsky.social Thoughts on this, on Ilex aquifolium?
Many leaves showing these green rings across the surface. Fungal?
Many leaves showing these green rings across the surface. Fungal?
June 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
@bitheolaidhe.bsky.social Thoughts on this, on Ilex aquifolium?
Many leaves showing these green rings across the surface. Fungal?
Many leaves showing these green rings across the surface. Fungal?
Also fun fact, in the original novel of The Silence of the Lambs, the pupae of the Black Witch were used in lieu of the Deaths Head Hawkmoth of the film version.
Images in respective order
Images in respective order
May 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Also fun fact, in the original novel of The Silence of the Lambs, the pupae of the Black Witch were used in lieu of the Deaths Head Hawkmoth of the film version.
Images in respective order
Images in respective order
Lots of this folklore surrounds death and destruction, one interpretation from South Texas based on an earlier Mexican myth, being that if the moth traverses all *four corners* of the room of a sick person, they will die — reminiscent of the opening to Wesley's Theory?
![[Intro: Josef Leimberg]
Hit me!
When the four corners of this cocoon collide
You'll slip through the cracks hoping that you'll survive
Gather your wit, take a deep look inside
Are you really who they idolise?
/To Pimp a Butterfly/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eguqa573bdmi36xhr3f3lbqk/bafkreib2ymbrktnc7lsmsyedg4jeurjebm627af6gkiecbv73zohnrn67y@jpeg)
May 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Lots of this folklore surrounds death and destruction, one interpretation from South Texas based on an earlier Mexican myth, being that if the moth traverses all *four corners* of the room of a sick person, they will die — reminiscent of the opening to Wesley's Theory?
First thing's first, it's not a butterfly — it's a Black Witch moth, which is what first caught my attention to the fact that this was likely an intentional choice. These are surrounded by some heavy folklore across the Americas (If you won't mind me referencing Wikipedia for a minute...)
May 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
First thing's first, it's not a butterfly — it's a Black Witch moth, which is what first caught my attention to the fact that this was likely an intentional choice. These are surrounded by some heavy folklore across the Americas (If you won't mind me referencing Wikipedia for a minute...)
Just seen the new TPAB 10th Anniversary alternate cover, and I think I have an interesting idea about it.
May 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Just seen the new TPAB 10th Anniversary alternate cover, and I think I have an interesting idea about it.
Any dipterists know what the hell these Empis sp. are up to? There was a swarm of about a dozen of them on these plants, and these two were properly shadowboxing each other, absolutely killing me watching it back
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Any dipterists know what the hell these Empis sp. are up to? There was a swarm of about a dozen of them on these plants, and these two were properly shadowboxing each other, absolutely killing me watching it back
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
Worst feeling, no loupe,clip on phone lens, or camera on hand :')
(Jordanathrix nr. superba)
(Jordanathrix nr. superba)
April 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Worst feeling, no loupe,clip on phone lens, or camera on hand :')
(Jordanathrix nr. superba)
(Jordanathrix nr. superba)