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Brittanie 🦋
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laurenwhitenack.bsky.social
Do you like baby birds? Fun photos and stories about chickadees in my latest guest post at Wing Beat, the blog of the @amornith.bsky.social. This post accompanies our recent paper on postnatal dispersal and recruitment in mountain chickadees 🪶

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Hatch early and eat well: Patterns of juvenile dispersal and recruitment in Mountain Chickadees from a long-term study - American Ornithological Society
Being a fledgling is difficult—and dangerous. The vast majority (~80 percent) of young birds do not survive this stage, succumbing to predation or starvation. What might give a vulnerable fledgling a ...
americanornithology.org
September 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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above96th.bsky.social
🎉🎉🎉 Just when I headed home as the rain got heavier, I spotted this beautiful Black-throated Blue warbler flitting through the underbrush. And it was kind enough to pose for just a moment! 💙🖤💙 #Warblers #CentralPark #birding
September 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
Marine Spiders (Desis marina) weave their silk homes in seashells & kelp along New Zealand and New Caledonia's rocky shores. 🧵⤵️

📷 ltimmo on iNaturalist
📍 New Zealand
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
A reddish-brown spider with a large body clings to the rocky intertidal.
May 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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paw2061.bsky.social
昨日のフィールド観察
ツマキホソハマキモドキ
ホソハマキモドキ科最大の美麗種といわれるが見たことがなかった。出現の報を受けおっとり刀で駆けつけるとそこには多数の個体が。
May 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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paw2061.bsky.social
@andybugguy.bsky.social

It's been a long time.
I came from X to tell you my recent experience.
I found a awesome Luna moth last friday.
This must be Actias aliena,
and I think this is bilateral gynandromorph.
How about it ?
April 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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crevicedwelling.bsky.social
while flipping rotten logs for Bimastos earthworms, I found another wood-eating “worm”: Scolecocampa liburna, the deadwood borer! this is an erebid moth and unlike the leaf-munching larvae you might associate with Lepidoptera these caterpillars eat rotten wood
a large pale gray grub with sparse bristles and a black head
May 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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tjalamont.bsky.social
Glover's silk moth (Hyalophora gloveri), Pryor Mountains, Montana. This is a male, told by the large, feathery antennae. These moths don't feed as adults, and only live about a week, just long enough to reproduce. Phone pic from last weekend. 🐙🌿
A photo, vertical orientation, of a large, vibrant moth perched on green sagebrush in the lower part of the frame, with rugged hoodoo rock formations, junipers, and blue sky in the background. The moth has its wings open, showing a red body with white banding, and wings that are patterned with red, browns, yellows, and tans, and eyespots on the outer tips of the forewings.
May 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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bertonemyia.bsky.social
Monkey slug? Hag moth caterpillar? Both phenomenal names.

But I ❤️ the genus name most: Phobetron. Sounds like a malevolent transformer or a giant alien space television.

These caterpillars have fleshy deciduous appendages (this one lost a few) & stinging hairs. Watch out! ☣️☠️

North Carolina, USA
A light brown caterpillar with a few random large, fuzzy, fleshy, tentacle-like projections coming out of the body, sits on a green leaf on a black background. A light brown caterpillar with a few random large, fuzzy, fleshy, tentacle-like projections coming out of the body, sits on a green leaf. A light brown caterpillar with a few random large, fuzzy, fleshy, tentacle-like projections coming out of the body, sits on a green leaf. This is a side view showing spiny tubercles containing stinging hairs. A shot of this slug moth caterpillar showing the slug-like underside. The large brown fleshy protuberances can be seen above, but the underside is bright yellow and slimy looking. You can also see the amber colored head at one end.
April 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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cicadamania.bsky.social
Allen Sanborn has a new paper that assigns the Lesser Antilles Cicada to the same Tribe as Magicicada periodical cicadas and Chrysolasia guatemalena. www.mapress.com/jib/article/...
Redescription, illustration and higher taxonomy of the Lesser Antilles cicada Chalumalna martinesis Boulard, 2001 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae) | Journal of Insect Biodiversity ...
www.mapress.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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nickybay.bsky.social
All of them are Dundubia vaginata.
April 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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carlbovisnature.bsky.social
Have you ever seen a very rare Curlew Starling? 😮
I have.... last week at St Ives in Cornwall! 😉😁😍🐦
#birds 🪶
A Starling with a long down curved deformed beak
April 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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xercessociety.bsky.social
On this #BugBanterPodcast, @flygirlnhm.bsky.social is our guide to the incredible world of flies! With their many shapes, colors, & weird superpowers, flies do it all, from pest control to pollination!
Video w/ captions🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbjT...
Audio & transcript⤵️
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For the Love of Flies: The Unsung Heroes of the Insect World | Bug Banter Podcast
Flies are amazing insects that play critical roles in our environment, including pollination, waste disposal, pest control, and as a link in the food web. Flies are greatly diverse in colors, shape, s...
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April 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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hipogrito.bsky.social
Eastern Bluebird
Long Island, NY

#birds #birding #birdwatching #wildlifephotography
March 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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cicadamania.bsky.social
A newly described cicada from Brazil. "Ariasa iporaensis n. sp. (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Fidicinini): An Uncommon Brazilian Dry Season Cicada"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ariasa iporaensis n. sp. (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Fidicinini): An Uncommon Brazilian Dry Season Cicada - Neotropical Entomology
The cicada Ariasa iporaensis n. sp. is described. This new species of cicada stands out from others in the Brazilian Cerrado because the adults are present throughout the dry season. Notes on the acou...
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February 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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wtf-r-species.bsky.social
@heliconians @mel_rosina Chih-Hsuan, C., Chia-Hsuan, H., Kent, A.H., Wenbe, H., Szu-Lung, C., & Yuan-Mou, C. 2024. Cool season communal roosting of Cratilla lineata in a Taiwanese submontane forest (Odonata: Libellulidae). Odonatologica 53:385-408. doi.org/10.60024/odo...
Gregariously roosting dragonflies by day (left) and after dark (right).
December 17, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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xercessociety.bsky.social
Last year, when 200 monarchs died, testing confirmed pesticide poisoning by multiple chemicals. The pesticides were likely used by a local resident or business. We all need to work together to reduce the use of harmful pesticides and protect monarchs and other wildlife.
xerces.org/blog/how-urb...
How Urban Pesticides Can Harm Monarch Butterflies: A Cautionary Tale from California
In January 2024, volunteers stumbled upon a devastating scene: scores of dead and dying monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary overwintering grove.
xerces.org
January 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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patrickbohlen.bsky.social
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of 200 affilliates of the Xerces Society's @xercessociety.bsky.social Bee Campus USA program. These campuses are leading the way toward more sustainable landscapes, building habitat, and reducing pesticides and fertilizers! 🌎 beecityusa.org/affiliate-sp...
Affiliate Spotlight: Collaboration Leads to Healthier Ecosystems at Bee Campus USA - UW–Madison - Bee City USA
University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) was recertified by the Xerces Society as a Bee Campus in June 2024, extending the university’s status as one of eight colleges in Wisconsin and one […]
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January 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
The Rufous-tailed Hummingbird is one of the most common Costa Rican hummers, and they're frustrating because they're hyper-aggressive and bully just about every other hummingbird That can be challenging when you're trying to get a nice view of a smaller species. But they're still beautiful!

#birds
A small bird perched on a thin branch, displaying vibrant green iridescent plumage on its head and chest. Its wings are tucked close to its body, while its tail is fanned out, revealing bright orange feathers edged with dark tips. The bird's beak is slender and slightly curved, with a reddish hue near the base. The background is softly blurred with muted green tones, creating a natural, forest-like setting.
December 13, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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alexries.com
Beautiful cicadas. Was swarmed by them whenever I turned my headlamp on.
December 1, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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ianbeavis.bsky.social
When George Buckton published his Monograph of the British Cicadae (which term included the whole leafhopper group) in 1890, the debate whether the New Forest Cicada could sing was resolved. His plate, showing adult & larva, is embellished with images of ancient Athenian coins depicting cicadas
December 4, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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kildall.bsky.social

Curious about cicadas in New Zealand, and the sounds they make?

Well, there is a link for that

tepapa.govt.nz/discover-col...
Cicadas of Aotearoa New Zealand and their sounds | Te Papa
Once the cicadas have become adults, the males soon start their chorus to attract females. Listen to the different types of cicada songs.
tepapa.govt.nz
December 11, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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barnesandnoble.com
Libraries are absolutely the best places on earth.
December 1, 2024 at 1:13 PM
wapogipo88.bsky.social
Okay so the only honest critique I can give so far is that they don't allow full profile banners.....they're always cropped....and horribly. I suggest they fix that. Ugh
October 18, 2024 at 3:28 AM
wapogipo88.bsky.social
I've been on here for all of 10 seconds and I already like it more then Twitter. 😂🤣

I like:
Insects
Birds
All the critters really
Music (Kpop Taylor Swift Britney BSB etc etc everything)
Linguistics 😝
October 18, 2024 at 3:21 AM