There is a change in the air, and pollinators are tirelessly collecting pollen.

https://www.pictorem.com/2436710/common-eastern-bumble-bee-on-flower/

#bee #insect #macro #art #artist #IrisRichadsonArt #wallart #artgifts #artprints #fallforart #buyintoart #ayearforart #entomophile #Entomologists #gardening #GardeningMastodon #beneficialinsect #pollinators

Those cute little skipper are tough to catch

https://www.pictorem.com/2436663/huron-sachem-on-purple-flower/

#insect #skipper #art #artist #IrisRichardsonArt #macro #photography #smallbusiness #ayearforart #buyintoart #fallforart #Wallart #artprints #entomophile #Entomologists
#SouthJersey #NewJerseyArtist

Absolutely delighted that my #nasturtium is getting decimated by #caterpillars. Enough left for my salads and feeding the next generation of #wildlife. I think these are #large white as there's one often around. Any #entomologists out there? 🧪 #bloomscrolling #garden #flowers #nature

@glyph

Repost your post with the second paragraph turned into #hashtags

#biophilia #biology #biologyGeek #Botanists #entomologists #mycologists #whereAreYou

no algorthms on mastodon except hashtags, nothing is steered to your eyes, nothing takes your posts to biologists, except hashtags.

and boosts.

boost a lot, be the algorthm, hashtag a lot, its the #mastodon system

‘Half the tree of life’: #ecologists’ horror as #nature reserves are emptied of #insects
A new point in history has been reached, #entomologists say, as #climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of #pesticides
The declines witnessed by Janzen and others around world – are part of what some ecologists call “new era” of #ecologicalcollapse, rapid #extinctions occur in regions that have little direct contact with people.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe

#postdoc #career opportunity in #florida for forest #entomologists: https://pitchtube.org/job-opportunity-entomology-and-biosecurity-synthesis-postdoc/

Who says #entomologists can't be a bundle of laughs?

It's #cicada season here so the press are running a few articles on the noisy critters. From one of these I discovered that our local bug watchers have adopted some rather interesting common names for different species, including:

Whiskey Drinker
Cherry Nose
Yellow Monday
Red Eye
Greengrocer
Brown Baker
Black Prince
Double Drummer
and
Razor

I'm sure Gary Larson would approve.

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Ever since, come September, we have many praying mantises in our yard. Egg sacs appear every fall, hidden around the yard, and the next year we see the mantises again. The pictures are from the last few years; the one of mating mantises is of Rosie and one of her friends.

I read that they probably hatch in June, but we’ve never seen any babies until now.

I’m just surprised to have gone my entire life seeing one or two mantises, and now we see maybe a dozen in our yard every year. We feel privileged; they’re such beautiful and interesting creatures.

We live on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, in a dry prairie region. My question for any #entomologists out there: is something going on? Is this related to the changing climate? Or is it just a result of random migrations?

#insects #bugs #entomology #entomologists #prayingmantises #mantises

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In September 2020, for probably only the second or third time in my entire life, we saw an adult praying mantis in our back yard. For a month or so we watched her hunt, feed, mate with several different males, and grow a bulging abdomen. We called her Rosie.

Finally, she was gone, and later we found an egg sac attached to our wooden fence.

#insects #bugs #entomology #entomologists #prayingmantises #mantises

I couldn't quite get it in focus but I spotted this baby #prayingmantis in our back yard yesterday. The flower is about 1.5 in./3.8 cm across.

Edit: if it's hard to spot, it's just under the flower on the right, reaching up toward the flower.

I'll post another photo with more info and a question for any #entomologists out there.

#insects #bugs #entomology #mantis

Excastra albopilosa: A remarkable #NewGenus and #NewSpecies of Lamiinae (Coleoptera) from southeastern #Queensland, #Australia
http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2024/07/excastra.html #Beetles #Insects #Animals

"The fact that this striking species has avoided the attention of #entomologists for so long is something of a mystery but serves to emphasise how much may be left to discover about the Australian Lamiinae fauna."

Hey #entomologists, can someone identify this lovely creature resting with spread wings on a rusty leg of a tomato cage?

#insects #garden #gardening

A re-introduction as we have migrated to a different server: ESA is the world's largest org. serving professional/scientific needs of #entomologists and people in related disciplines. Follow along for news and updates from the world of #entomology, links to new blog posts and resources from ESA, and info about ESA events, programs, and engagement opportunities. #insects #arthropods #science Learn more about ESA at https://entsoc.org/

Hallo #entomologists, is this Aproceros leucopoda? @buddepiept hast du da nicht mal drüber geschrieben?

🪲🪲🪲 Citation alert from a #dung #beettle #paper 🤔🤔🤔

With Antonio Vallecillo, we already defended the idea of #modeling being a #interdisciplinary discipline (see https://lnkd.in/etjUgMr6) but I never expected to see my work influencing #entomologists doing research on #dung #beetles. 😁😁

(btw, the image is not fake but the citation is indeed a mistake, yet another example of the drawbacks of relying too much on #citation metrics for researchers' #evaluation)

Petite question pour les entomologistes du coin.
Qui pourrait identifier cette chenille ?
Elle mesure environ 15 cm et a été filmée ce mois-ci en Colombie (San Agustin)

(Vous pouvez RT sans complexe)

#entomology #entomologists #insectes #butterfly #papillon #entomologie #columbia

#entomologists of the world. can insects move the finger looking things in their legs? are they articulated?

@masukomi yeah, that seems a bit small -- now I'm SUPER curious. No mastodon #entomologists yet?! We need to know! Anyone into northern hemisphere #entomology?

New Yorker: What Insects Go Through Is Even Weirder Than We Thought https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/what-insects-go-through-is-even-weirder-than-we-thought #NewYorker #Science/Elements #Entomologists #Metamorphosis #Entomology #Evolution #Science #Insects

Any #entomologists or #entomology folks can help me pseudo-ID a bug?
I saw it come into the bathroom from under the baseboards, there's a small gap area.
Dark colour, possibly 1cm size, small "but a large small", moved fast. It came in, stopped, and went RIGHT back into the same hole.

Now I'm fearing it's bedbugs but that seems unlikely, I've been in this place a few months now... But what could it have been?? Didn't seem like a cockroach ...
Thanks!
#bug #bugs #bugid #entomologist #insect