Search

Items tagged with: Insects

Hey, Fedi. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)

I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.

If there's a cool bug fact that you genuinely love, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time. 1/n

#Bugs #CoolBugFacts #Insects

#insects #bugs #coolbugfacts

If any of you nature photographers ever capture images of insects with badly damaged wings, email them to Andrew Mountcastle at Bates College. He studies how insects crash into things and has made a public request (on Bluesky) for pics. He wants them for presentations and promises to add credits. Email via link. #insects #wings #photography #macrophotography #biomechanics
bates.edu/faculty/profile/andr…
Dragonfly with a red abdomen and two pairs of outstretched, tattered wings.

Andrew M. Mountcastle

Ph.D. in Zoology University of Washington, Seattle I am broadly interested in…
amountca (Faculty)
#photography #insects #macrophotography #wings #biomechanics

A few years back I got this photo of a honey bee in flight, returning to her hive.

Had to shoot a few hundred photos just to land this one.

#bees #insects #nature

photo of a bee in mid-air, lit slightly from above and behind so it appears to glow, its translucent wings spread and antennae raised. The background is unfocused, smooth gray fading to deep green.
#nature #insects #bees

I found this girl standing on the edge of the cat food bowl. At first I thought she was eating cat food, but she was really eating the *butterflies* who came to eat cat food. She caught two of them, and tried unsuccessfully to catch several flies and a yellow jacket.

#insects #mantis #arthropods #photography

A large green praying mantis leans into the image from the right, her triangular head tilted toward us and her arms raised and folded. A stripe of white and reddish brown, like a strip of bacon, begins at the tip of her pointy mouthparts and runs up across her cheek, then across her eye without interruption. Her eyes are otherwise the plastic-textured grass green of the rest of her body, except for one fuzzy black speck like a contracted pupil, staring at us. She seems to be asking "Is this seat taken?" in a way that makes us wish we could say no, while knowing that we can't. Her antennae are elegantly attached to her head by joints that look like they might hold the screw-on antennae of a home wifi router. Their ribbed arcs stand above her head like expressive cartoon eyebrows. If we look closely at her folded arms we can see that their spiky inner surfaces are covered with a brown dust of butterfly scales.
Two fallen butterfly wings lying on a concrete wall. The closer one is dark burnt-orange with a pair of parallel squiggly brown stripes along its outer margin, and a row of brown polka dots just inside this. The side of the wing formerly near the butterfly's body is covered with long downy fur. Farther away, out of focus, we see another wing with lighter colors and brown and white polka dots.
#photography #mantis #insects #arthropods

I am sharing this here because of the title of the article but also everything else in it I guess:

"Scientists studied how cicadas pee. Their insights could shed light on fluid dynamics"

npr.org/2024/03/20/1239529315/…
#insects #science #urine (for your tag filter purposes)

#science #insects #urine

Howdy! New to this whole Mastodon thing (I'm not even sure what instance I should be on) but eager. Name's Bug — I'm a queer master's student in an entomology lab, passionate about scientific outreach.

When I’m not staring at insects, I spend my time creating zines, comics, other art, and playing D&D. I want to learn how to make video games. Let’s connect if you think little critters are cool!

#introductions #pixelart #zines #entomology #academia #comics #queer #insects

Pixel art of a humanoid insect wearing a brown western shirt. He is waving and saying hi.
#introductions #pixelart #comics #queer #academia #insects #zines #entomology

i wouldn't say this is my most exciting picture in the world, no cute birds or anything, but i really like it as a desktop wallpaper. i mean its what my current wallpaper is lol. i put it up on ko-fi as a pay-what-you-want download. it's yours to have for whatever price you want! i'm currently unemployed so would love to make a little money from my photographs but only if you have the means, you downloading it at all would mean a lot to me

#monarch #bugs #insects #butterflies #photography #flowers

ko-fi.com/s/d21b849afc

a monarch butterfly with wings spread wide open on a clump of very yellow flowers against a very blue sky

Monarch Wallpaper - loren's Ko-fi Shop

a hi resolution download of my image of a monarch butterfly on a yellow flower against a blue sky. this is currently my desktop background
Ko-fi
#photography #flowers #insects #bugs #monarch #butterflies

⇧