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Third Silence Nature
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A nature/wildlife photographer from Australia and Germany. All 📷 are my own and all critters wild

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Parasitoids FTW!!! Illustration in homage to Eric Carle by Sloan Tomlinson
October 20, 2024 at 5:52 AM
A very pink moth from a few years ago near Melbourne, AU. Pararguda sp., I think. #lepidoptera #moths #invertebrates #macro #photography #nature 📷🦋🐝🐙🌲🌳🔬
November 26, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Finally! After a few years of trying to find the right spot & time things right. I've photographed adult California tiger salamanders (Ambystoma californiense) underwater as they return to vernal ponds to breed. I believe mine are the 1st UW images of wild CA tiger sals. 🦎🌎🐸
November 25, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Leaf Weevil

Schönbuch, DE, 2024. Phyllobius sp, I think

#weevil #coleoptera #entomology #invertebrates #nature 🔬🐞🪲📷🍃🐙🌳🌲🇩🇪🌿
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 AM
Iris Weevil

One of my favorite common inverts around here (well, common in spring at least) Schönbuch, 🇩🇪, 2024
#weevils #beetle #macro #nature #entomology #photography 🌲🦉🐛🕷️🪲📷🧪🔬
November 21, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires.

In this massive collaboration, >100 Australian ecologists put a novel spin on meta-analysis to discover how fire frequency, interval, unburnt area, pre-fire drought and protected areas modify fire impacts.🌏

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires - Nature
Data collected from more than 2,000 taxa provide an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how extreme wildfires affect biodiversity, revealing that the largest effects on plants and animals were in are...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Last weekend I got to see NZ velvet worms in their native forest habitat. These animals are so bizarre, taxonomists gave them their very own Phylum, next to tardigrades - that's insane!

This Ooperipatellus sp. is an egg-laying genus, but there's another here that gives live birth!

Mind. Blown. 🧪
November 20, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Pied Oystercatcher

Eden, NSW 🇦🇺 , 2020
#birds #wildlife #nature #photography 🐦🌳🦉🌊🪶
November 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Hey new followers! 🌞

Here's a sparkly blue eustyline weevil from the Colombian Andes near Pueblo Rico, Risaralda 💙💚

more pics on iNat: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
November 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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This is one of my all time favorite Wooly Sundews! Drosera Ordensis is an exceptionally beautiful carnivorous plant from Northern Australia. 🌱
November 17, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Robberfly eating a wasp

Bad Urach, 🇩🇪

🐛🐞🪲🕷️🕸️📷🦟🐜🐝🔬 #macro #photgraphy #nature #invertebrates #entomology
November 17, 2024 at 9:17 AM
A bank vole, emerging from its bank home

#mammals #vole #nature #photography 🌳🇩🇪📷🌲🔬🍃🐭🐁🐇
November 16, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Feuersalamander (Salamandra salamandra)

Schönbuch, DE, 2024

#salamander #amphibians #herpetofauna #herpetology #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #photography #herps #nature #naturfotografie 🌳🇩🇪📷🌲🐸🦎🔬🐍🍃
November 15, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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Memories of warmer days. A gallery of fireflies. 🧪🦗
Phenomenal Fireflies - Alex Wild
Fireflies are a family (Lampyridae) of about 2,000 beetle species known for their ability to produce light through chemical reactions.
www.alexanderwild.com
November 15, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Longhorn beetle

Liguria, IT, 2024

#nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #beetles #coleoptera 🕷️🪲🌲🔬🐛📷🐞 🌳
November 15, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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A couple of tonight's lovely Ogres, including a comically leggy stick boy and two magnificent lasses with stunning nets. 🤎
November 15, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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The wasp mantisfly, Climaciella brunnea, is not a wasp, a mantis, or a fly. It is instead a type of spider-eating lacewing that keeps itself safe by looking like it has a painful sting, which is does not.

Evolution continues to be marvelous. 🧪 #Entomology
November 10, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Eurasian Wren/Zaunkönig

Schönbuch, DE, 2024

#birds #vogel #birdphotography #vogelfotografie #nature #naturephotography #birdsky #ornithology 🦉🐦🇩🇪📷🌲🌳🪶
November 10, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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I know many people are mad at WaPo today, but this is the most amazing, heartwarming, and heartbreaking story I’ve ever read about a spider. #arachtober gift link

wapo.st/4fn64wN
The extraordinary life and death of the world’s oldest known spider
This is the story of a 43-year-old spider and the people who knew her.
wapo.st
October 26, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Maratus harrisii

Wonthaggi, VIC, AU, 2021. For #arachtober

#makro #macro #spiders #arachnids #peacockspider #jumpsingspider #australia #nature #naturephotography #invertebrates #salticid #salticidsaturday 🕷️🕸️📷🪲🐛🪲🧪 Photo mine.
October 26, 2024 at 5:36 AM
Strawberry Weevil!

for #weevilwednesday, which better bet a thing on bluesky.

#weevils #weevil #invertebrates #coleoptera #nature #macro #photography 🪲📷🐛🧪 🔬 🇩🇪
September 18, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Acorn weevil (Curculio sp.)

#tübingen 🇩🇪 #invertebrates #entomology #nature #macro #photography #weevil #coleoptera #beetle #insects #bugsky #bugs #ento 🪲 🕷️🐝🦋🐙📸📷🌿
September 14, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Hemidactylus turcicus (House Gecko)

Liguria, IT, 2024

#herpetology #photography #gecko #naturephotography #macrophotography #lizard
My 📷.
June 22, 2024 at 7:49 AM
June 15, 2024 at 6:55 AM