Toxins, fights, astonishing navigation skills, elaborate parental care, crazy gen & phenot diversity, stunning colours, worrying diseases... Our Evolutionary Ecology SI on #poisonfrogs (broad sense) is finally in the making! Follow this 🧶 to see the published studies as they come out 🔽

Golden-breasted Starling (Lamprotornis regius)🐦🕊️ 🦜🎵❤️

There are much more #bioluminescent sea cucumbers than we have ever expected. This is only a beginning of study for bioluminescent. Luminous sea cumbers live in #Deepsea. stevehaddock.bsky newscientist.com/article/239716…

Bean Biodiversity. Cultivars, mostly from the genus Phaseolus.

Common brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni. One of the most famous butterflies in Europe. Even children recognize it immediately because of its unique coloring. If you take a closer look, you will see this beautiful shade of green on the male. #gonepteryxrhamni #brimstone

Dating is hard. Just ask the flying peacock spider (Maratus volans)! To enchant a mate, a male displays a flap-like body part (called a fan) and shakes his legs. It’s a lot of work, but the stakes are high. If a female spider doesn’t like his dance moves… she might just eat him.

Poetry Comics Month, Day 22: Wonder From my book The Art of Living: Reflections on Mindfulness and the Overexamined Life #poetrycomicsmonth

Hanging around in your pajamas? Takes notes from the tiger-striped tree frog. Unlike many frogs, this nocturnal amphibian doesn’t hop: Instead, it crawls through the trees like a monkey! It can be spotted in parts of South America.

Compound eye of a fruit fly of the tephritidae family. 50x magnification. Camera: Sony A7rIII Sony Lens: Aurogon 50x Laowa - Venus Optics Macrorail: Castel Micro NOVOFLEX Präzisionstechnik GmbH Stepsize: 0,0004mm, 549 shots Exposure: Flash, 1/200s, ISO100 #microscopy #macrophotography #insects

The dogbane beetle (𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘺𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴) stands out as one of the most captivating beetle species, personally admired by me. The morning dews further enhance its beauty, creating a doubly enchanting sight. Enjoy the marvel!

Fantastic talk from KaiTheFishGuy on exceptional biodiversity of mesophotic coral reef fish 🐠 #Biosystematics2023

Wrap-around Spider - Dolophones species Woy Woy Bay NSW Australia

This is a Vulturine Guineafowl, résident breeder in East Africa, from southern Ethiopia through to Kenya and just into northern Tanzania. This species is terrestrial and would rather run than fly when alarmed. 📸 Rainer Summers in Tanzania

Bird lovers, behold the dazzling colors of the Eastern Rosella! Growing ~11.7 in (30 cm) long, it inhabits lightly wooded and open landscapes in parts of Australia & New Zealand. Seeds make up the majority of its diet, but it also snacks on fruit, plants, & nectar.

Calling out: Scarlet-rumped trogon (Harpactes duvaucelii) at Bukit Patoi Forest Recreation Park, Temburong District, #Brunei. Photo: Joremy Tony. #Borneo #wildlife #birds #birding #BirdsSeenIn2023 #wildlifephotography

The courtship dance of the the greater lophorina (Lophorina superba),

#diainternacionaldeljaguar #dataPoster

I am thankful for Chinese Mangshen Vipers (Protobothrops mangshanensis).

Selaginella intermedia fluoresces under a black light

Color collage. The black beauties. 🖤 This is the last collage of my little series. I just added the previous ones to have them all together in one tweet. #black #insects #entomology