Nicholas Cook
@nicholascook.bsky.social
Writer, science nerd, anarchist.
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I did another big beetle embroidery!
go check him out in my shop if you’d like to give him a new home 🪲🥀
#artsky #art #bugsky #bugs #insects #embroidery #scienceart #entomology #nature #shopsmall
go check him out in my shop if you’d like to give him a new home 🪲🥀
#artsky #art #bugsky #bugs #insects #embroidery #scienceart #entomology #nature #shopsmall
March 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I did another big beetle embroidery!
go check him out in my shop if you’d like to give him a new home 🪲🥀
#artsky #art #bugsky #bugs #insects #embroidery #scienceart #entomology #nature #shopsmall
go check him out in my shop if you’d like to give him a new home 🪲🥀
#artsky #art #bugsky #bugs #insects #embroidery #scienceart #entomology #nature #shopsmall
Weevils are inexplicably adorable.
Here is a grape seed sized nugget of a weevil for #WeevilWednesday. This tiny friend was found on the underside of a large banana leaf. #inverts
(Subfamily Conoderinae)
Tatama National Park Colombia
(Subfamily Conoderinae)
Tatama National Park Colombia
February 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Weevils are inexplicably adorable.
I've been curious for the longest time what the deepest level of parasitism possible is. I know there are #virophages and parasitoid #wasps that parasitize other parasitoid wasps... but what's the longest chain you could find? I'm betting at least 10.
@hankgreen.bsky.social perhaps a scishow idea?
@hankgreen.bsky.social perhaps a scishow idea?
January 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I've been curious for the longest time what the deepest level of parasitism possible is. I know there are #virophages and parasitoid #wasps that parasitize other parasitoid wasps... but what's the longest chain you could find? I'm betting at least 10.
@hankgreen.bsky.social perhaps a scishow idea?
@hankgreen.bsky.social perhaps a scishow idea?
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A female Xorides wasp has sensed a beetle grub deep in this redbud tree, and she drills through the wood to deposit an egg on it. Illinois.
January 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A female Xorides wasp has sensed a beetle grub deep in this redbud tree, and she drills through the wood to deposit an egg on it. Illinois.
There's almost nothing more irritating than someone being loudly, confidently wrong about something you know a lot about. Particularly when it comes to science stuff.
December 20, 2024 at 12:23 PM
There's almost nothing more irritating than someone being loudly, confidently wrong about something you know a lot about. Particularly when it comes to science stuff.
The occasional #bird or #nature photo on here, interspersed between the ever-depressing political and climate news, has been doing wonders for my mental health.
It's like:
- awful thing
- awful thing
- "ooh that's a nice picture, nature is so beautiful"
- more awful things
Post more birds!
It's like:
- awful thing
- awful thing
- "ooh that's a nice picture, nature is so beautiful"
- more awful things
Post more birds!
November 30, 2024 at 12:44 PM