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We've just uploaded a recording of our palaeoentomology-themed talks! If you're interested in what insect fossils and amber can tell us about species distribution, geography, and plant stress give it a watch!

https://youtu.be/buYbvmKUaq8

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #insects #alberta

When #InsectSaturday thinks it can hide behind #FernFriday and #TextureTuesday 🫥

#InsektenSamstag #Natur #nature #insect #insects #shieldBug #bug #Käfer #Wanze #Wanzen #shieldBugs #stinkBug #stinkBugs #bracken #brackens #Adlerfarn #Adlerfarne #ferns #fern #Farn #Farne #fernstodon #fernsOnFriday #FarnFreitag #FernsFriday #ferniverse #Farnsehen

This image features a close-up of a small, vibrant green insect—likely a type of shield bug or stink bug—perched on a cluster of dried, feathery plant stems. The plant stems are light brown with hints of purple, creating a delicate and intricate background. The insect is positioned centrally, partially hidden among the stems, adding a sense of natural camouflage. The background is softly blurred, drawing focus to the insect and the detailed texture of the plant.

Insect Ecological Center in Yangyang-gun, Gangwon-do, South Korea.
#places #southkorea #insects #bugs #architecture #uploads

A modern, light gray building with large, black beetle sculptures climbing the exterior wall, above a parking area containing a silver sedan. The building has the Korean characters for "Insect Ecology Center" displayed across the top.

Australian Camponotus sugar ants are a lot more variable than our North American species. Here's Camponotus suffusus, from Victoria. #Ants #Insects #Photography #Camponotus

Macro photograph in side view of a slender, silky black ant with blood red legs and a gleaming golden gaster walking on tan-colored soil.

Happy Valentine’s Day to you all!

Panorpa is a species of Scorpion Fly.

The heart shape at the end of their scorpion-like tail is only seen in males.

#photography #MacroPhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #insects #ValentinesDay

Top view of a scorpion fly with black wing markings and an orange heart-shaped sting.

zum #DailyBug hab ich heute eine

Westliche Honigbiene
Apis mellifera
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westliche_Honigbiene

mit bild von gestern (heute war ich nicht auf #AuwaldRunde, es regnet). sie saß da auf einem pflasterstein aus granit und schlug mit den flügeln, wohl um sich aufzuwärmen

#insekten #insects #bee #krabbeltierchen #pollinator #nature #biodiversity #entomology

nahaufnahme, makro. auf grau-weiß gesprenkeltem granit sitzt eine biene, wir blicken von senkrecht oben auf sie. sie ist eigentlich zu großen teilen schwarz, aber ihr brustteil ist blond behaart und erscheint dadurch besonders am rand gelb. das erste segment des hinterleibs ist braun, die anderen schwarz und jeweils durch einen saum blonder haare vom nächsten abgegrenzt, dadurch ergeben sich schwarz-gelbe streifen. die flügel sind nur schemenhaft zu sehen, da sie sich zu schnell bewegen

Is this woodworm dust? That's my best guess - dust made by the larvae of woodworm beetles - but it's hard to get clear photos that match it for comparison, search being useless these days.

It's in all the corners where the skirting board meets the bath. The first photo shows where I haven't tried to clean it up, the second where I have.

I'm guessing I need to tell my Landlord about this?

#bugs #woodworm #woodwork #insects #dust

Fine brown dust on the tip of a painted wood skirting board where it meets a plastic outside of a bath. Pipes are visible just above this, but I don't think they are connected.

A corner where a white-painted skirting board meets a wall and a bath. while the brown dust has mostly been wiped away here, it's still visible in the corner and along the edge.

#watercolours #watercolour #watercolor #art #painting #nature #butterflies #insects

Why is #JavaScript so popular? I hate everything about it.

I'm speaking at the #Canberra Field #Naturalists meeting at #ANU next month on #Malaise trapping and the #insects and other #invertebrates that surround us without our noticing them.

I expect most of my slides to be arrays of four or six #microscope images with a header (probably a family name in most cases) and captions for each image.

I don't want to lay out all these images in #LibreOffice (or any similar presentation tool) because I'm a perfectionist and getting it all tidy will take forever.

So, I decided to try out #Slidev, #Marp and other #Markdown-based presentation tools. The Markdown part is very appealing, but they all lean hard into JavaScript. That would be fine so long as I don't have to think about that side of things.

Slidev's AppleBasic theme seemed to be the best starting point, so I started hacking it to add som extra gridded image views. Plain image grids were not too challenging, but I really want captions for each image, so I started trying to understand how the templates use the forest of underlying JS libraries and CSS artefacts to produce the displayed slides.

Frankly, the whole thing is so opaque and would take me much longer to understand than preparing multiple presentations by hand would.

Then I realised I can use #montage on the command line to produce the kind of layouts I want, and I can script #exiftool to extract and prepare the captions which will save time.

So, my new plan is to write a #Python script that processes a #YAML file listing all the slides, titles and image paths. It can generate PNG images that are close to the target 1920*1080 size (give or take a little). I'll then use LibreOffice for a couple of more text-oriented or irregular slides, export those and combine all the images into a PDF.

I'm sure this will be way faster than battling Node.js. Not sure why I felt I had to write it up.

https://fieldnatsact.com/

Happy Saturday! Photo I took last summer

#photography #fotografie #macro #flowers #nature #natuur #insects #butterflies #vlinders #mariposas #fotografía #naturaleza #macrophotography #bloomscrolling #SonyAlpha

🇫🇷 Combat des titans!

🇬🇧 Battle of the titans!

#insects #insectsaturday #insectes #insectsOfTheFediverse #insektensamstag #fourmis #ants

Deux fourmis au corps rouge en plein combat en contre-jour offrant des ombres bien visibles. Photo en macro.
Two red-bodied ants fighting against the light offering clearly visible shadows. Macro photo.

Einen schönen Guten Morgen und einen entspannten Samstag! 😀 👋

Zum #Insektensamstag - quasi als aufmunternde Erinnerung an sommerliche Tage - heute eine Ackerhummel (Bombus pascuorum) bei ihrer Arbeit an einer Blüte des Hornschotenklees (Lotus corniculatus).

#hummel #bumblebee #bees #insekten #insects #tiere #animals #fotografie #photography #Photographie #foto #animalphotography #biology #natur #nature #naturephotography #blumen #flower #flowers #pflanzen #plants

Als aufmunternde Erinnerung an sommerliche Tage heute eine Ackerhummel (Bombus pascuorum) bei ihrer Arbeit an einer Blüte des Hornschotenklees (Lotus corniculatus).

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 262

It’s a good one…

Hold on to your hats…

Ready?

Plants ‘hear’ nearby bees.

I know…
I know…
🤯

#bees
#nature
#science
#education
#biodiversity
#environment
#worldbeesanctuary
#insects #wildlife #pollinators

An accumulation of over-wintering Birch catkin bugs, Kleidocerys resedae.
#Nature# #Bugs #insects

An accumulation of over-wintering Birch catkin bugs, Kleidocerys resedae, on a Holly twig. They are small bugs, about 5mm long.

Photo I took last summer. Enjoy your weekend!

#photography #fotografie #macro #flowers #nature #natuur #insects #butterflies #vlinders #mariposas #fotografía #naturaleza #macrophotography #bloomscrolling
#sonyalpha

"Numbers of Rare Butterfly Eggs are Best on Record After Hedges are Allowed to Grow Wild"

#Butterflies #Insects #Animals

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/numbers-of-rare-butterfly-eggs-are-best-on-record-after-hedges-allowed-to-grow-wild/

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) female, dark color form
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Baraboo, WI, USA
#butterfly #insects #lepidoptera #nature #naturephotography #extinction #wildlife #entomology #pesticides #geoengineering aerosols
2A7A9425aaaFeb2026

black and blue swallowtail butterfly with yellow marks

Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus)
Driftless Area, Dane County, WI, USA
#butterfly #insects #lepidoptera #nature #naturephotography #extinction #wildlife #entomology #pesticides #geoengineering aerosols
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gray butterfly with orange and black markings on yellow flower

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Baraboo, WI, USA
#butterfly #insects #lepidoptera #nature #naturephotography #extinction #wildlife #entomology #pesticides #geoengineering aerosols
_F2A9674aaaFeb2026

yellow and blue tiger swallowtail butterfly on green

I've been a bit quiet again, but back to share some art I completed 2025 for my patron's print rewards. This one is based on the Red Admiral butterfly - I want to make more butterfly characters when I have time :)

I'll add the leftover prints to my shop as soon as that's up and running again - they have a nice pearlecent sheen.

#butterflies #butterflyart #redadmiral #insects #originalart #art #originalcharacter #mastoart

#Insects

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