My family asked me to stop posting bear pictures. Blood may be thicker than water but its not thicker than that bear

Five arthropod friends who can roll into a ball! Sadly we’ve lost one of them during Permian mass extinction🥺

What looks like a bee but is actually a fly? A bee-fly of course :) Just caught this one in flight in my back garden after coming back from unsuccessful insect hunt ironically 1st macro of the year from being back in the UK...

I love when bees are the size of small aircraft

Stunning arrangement of diatoms by Emiliano Bellotti 🔬DIC 📷 by me

This is a 115 year old picture book. Apparently they would let you publish anything in the 1900s.

During fieldwork in Tasmania earlier this year, found this velvet worm, Tasmanipatus barretti, in one of the best woodpiles I've ever looked through. Seems a little shy. A rare species, listed as vulnerable. With permit. What a pleasure seeing this. Northeastern Tasmania

my 6 year old brabanter hen decided to shed all of her hen feathers this year and grow rooster plumage instead

Pyralidae moth. I just found out, that some lepidoptera had ocelli, too. (The small black dot behind the compound eye) I didn’t know that 🤯 This is why i love macrophotography. #Pyralidae #moth #zünsler #motte #lepidoptera #nachtfalter #entomology

oh look our spotify wrapped is here

左が今まで見た中で最長のロクロクビオトシブミ (19.8mm)

If you’re interested in #bees and making lawns insect friendly, and want to be part of an exciting follow-on project, look below!

Weevil Wednesday! Swipe to see the species list 💕🪲

Meet Australia's most recently named and described longhorn beetle: Excastra albopilosa! I was lucky enough to discover this remarkable species while camping binnaburra in 2021. Have a read of the UQ News article for more detail and a link to the paper. #entomology #newspecies

見てください！このヤスデとは思えないスムーズで滑らかな走りを。

Neorice's Ocean #pixelart

Observing a few moths. Documented almost 600 species over 4 nights, excluding other invertebrates that I spent time with. Meshed jacket was to prevent the moths from getting into my eyes, nose and ears.

The Ohio Mushroom DNA Lab is offering free DNA barcoding for any wild collected fungus, found anywhere in the world. They need to be dried and packaged in ziplock snack sized bags, labeled with the iNaturalist observation # docs.google.com/document/d/1Kz…