🎄 Today's #InsectAdvent spotlight: #Embioptera 🕸️

Mostly found in warmer regions, #Webspinners illustrate how even small, secretive insects can carve out highly specialised lifestyles.

#FunFact: These are the only insects with silk glands in their front legs 🕸️

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Irs Embioptera Season

Webspinners (order Embioptera) spin the finest silk fibers known in nature, which they use to build shelters that, when wet, form a strong, protective film. A new study explores silk-water interactions in four webspinner species, w/ lessons that could be applied in human-made, bioinspired materials.

@evojlinnsoc.bsky.social vol.4
A Jurassic Gondwanan origin with a Mesozoic vicariance and Cenozoic dispersals explains the biogeographic history of crown webspinners (Insecta: Embioptera)
@cocomacro.bsky.social .,Condamine, F.L. & @fredlegendre.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Ever heard of a webspinner? No, not that superhero...we're talking about tiny insects whose evolutionary history is poorly known! Here, divergence time is estimated for extant lineages of webspinner, revealing the first possible scenario of Embioptera origins! 🌍🧪👇
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

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#insects #bugs #webspinner #embioptera #insectsAtoZ #doodle

EMBIOPTERA (webspinners): sometimes winged insect with obvious swellings in forelegs that emit silk. often live in gregarious colonies inside rotting wood.

Es similar a una hembra o ninfa de Tejedor (Embióptera)

New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: An overview of the fauna of Embioptera (Insecta) in Brazil (10 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/932be190-f58c-4b8d-bd08-fcb10fd95e73

How am I only just now learning about webspinners (Embioptera?) I feel ashamed as an animal lover to not have heard of them before. They’re SO cute!!!

Embioptera is a fascinating insect order, they are social, weave silk galleries, and take care of their young. Rarely reported, but several species live in Europe:

#insects #bugs #science #entomology

(FR)
www.myrmecofourmis.fr/Les-Embiopte...

Embioptera in Burmese amber.

#Fossil #Macro #Amber
#Burmese #Burmite
#Cretaceous
#Paleoentomology
#Invertebrate

Embioptera (also known as Webspinners) actually create webs with their forelegs, making them much more similar to Sam Raimi's Spiderman than an actual Spider is

I literally have Embioptera running across my kitchen countertop.
I grew up thinking it was a rare & elusive insect group. This particular one is a non-native species but still!

Hey, you! You are neither Blattodea, nor Coleoptera, nor Dermaptera, nor Diptera, nor Hemiptera, nor Hymenoptera, nor Mantodea, nor Mecoptera, nor Megaloptera, nor Neuroptera, nor Plecoptera, nor Trichoptera, nor... You're Embioptera! Webspinner. Hadn't shot one before.

Embioptera tem uns bracinhos de popeye de onde sai seda

Hoje tava conversando com o entomologo do depto e achamos que melhor que homem-aranha seria homem-embioptera