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Carson Hill

Not all #butterflies start out as caterpillars.

Never let anyone tell you where your limitations lie.

#awalkaday #nature #mindfulness #insects

A photograph of a split piece of wood encountered beside a trail. Narrow channels in the wood have created the shape of a butterfly, likely the work of ants or termites.

Edit- ...or the work of bark beetles! — A photograph of a split piece of wood encountered beside a trail. Narrow channels in the wood have created the shape of a butterfly, likely the work of ants or termites. Edit- ...or the work of bark beetles!

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Alex Wild

@alexwild@mastodon.online · 3 days ago

Life continues for the majority of the planet that did not invest in Bitcoin, including these Tetramorium lucayanum ants.

#Ants #Insects #Tetramorium

macro photo in side view of two small shiny black ants facing each other, standing on a tan stone substrate. The ant's surface texture is ridged in rough parallel lines, and they are covered in fine upright hairs.

Alex Wild

@alexwild@mastodon.online · 3 days ago

Life continues for the majority of the planet that did not invest in Bitcoin, including these Tetramorium lucayanum ants.

#Ants #Insects #Tetramorium

Jon Sullivan

@joncounts@mastodon.nz · 4 days ago

Each season I do four nights of moth lighting in my garden in suburban Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. My summer moth lighting this year started on Saturday. I photograph every moth that settles at my light and today I've been uploading my photos to #iNaturalist.

I've been doing this consistently each autumn since 2015 and every season each year since (at least) 2021. You might think I would have found all the moth species that visit my garden, but no.

So far I've finished uploading Saturday's moth photos and have found six new species to our garden. Here are four of them.

There's the endemic moth *Gymnobathra hamatella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337290749

There's the "nationally vulnerable" endemic species *Gadira leucophthalma*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337263605

There's the endemic Clematis triangle *Deana hybreasalis*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285888

Also, less ideal, there's the introduced Case-bearing Clothes Moth *Tinea pellionella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285916

#mothodon #moths #Lepidoptera #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ #insects #EcologicalMonitoring

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A photo of the NZ endemic moth Gymnobathra hamatella. It's triangular and light brown with elegant darker brown and pale brown patterns on its wings.

A photo of the NZ endemic moth Gadira leucophthalma. It's a long thin pale brown moth with some dark diagonal stripes.

A photo of the NZ endemic Clematis triangle moth Deana hybreasalis. It's a triangular shape and yellow with a couple of silver-white blotches on each wing. It's got a long snout at the front of its head.

A photo of a small pale brown moth with an orange tufted head. There's a small brown spot on each wing. This is what I've identified as the Case-bearing Clothes Moth Tinea pellionella.

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Abhijit Menon-Sen

@amenonsen@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

An oak gall I found in a Banj oak tree near home. Once it "hatched", I sent some specimens to ICAR-NBAIR (National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources), who told me that the specimens were Torymus sp. and Cynipoidea.

I didn't even know you could get two kinds of wasps out of a single gall.

#insects #entomology #himalayas

Photo of a glass bottle containing a lumpy green oak gall with some typically oak-looking green leaves (with a pale underside). There are some tiny red wasps inside the bottle, having emerged from the gall.

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earthling

@appassionato@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

Rainbow Leaf Beetle (Spilopyra sumptuosa), family Chrysomelidae, SE QLD, Australia

photograph by Hongming Kan

via herpsandbirds

#photography
#insects
#beetles

A close up photograph of a Rainbow Leaf beetle. The beetle is perched on the edge of a dark green leaf with light green veins. The background is blurred, but appears as a solid color, the same hue as the veins of the leaf. The beetle's exoskeleton is astoundingly iridescent. Like anodized aluminum, or an oil slick on a shallow puddle of water. It seems more robot than insect. Truly a wonder.

Abhijit Menon-Sen

@amenonsen@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

I didn't even know you could get two kinds of wasps out of a single gall.

#insects #entomology #himalayas

earthling

@appassionato@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

Rainbow Leaf Beetle (Spilopyra sumptuosa), family Chrysomelidae, SE QLD, Australia

photograph by Hongming Kan

via herpsandbirds

#photography
#insects
#beetles

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Jon Sullivan

@joncounts@mastodon.nz · last week

Check out this big gum emperor moth that visited my moth light at home last night, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ.

I first thought there was a bird flapping in the bushes, before it appeared. This one was pinker than most I've seen, and it happily clambered about on its big fluffy feet.

They're more like Pokémon than real moths.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/336921630

#moths #mothodon #Christchurch #NZ #Ōtautahi #insects #entomology

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A photo of a pink pink fluffy moth with a big black-rimmed orange eye spot on each rear wing. It's got big feathery antennae, which means it's a male.

A photo of a big fluffy moth on a hand, with my moth light blazing white on the top right.

A photo of a big fluffy pink moth on a hand,

A closer photo of the head and antennae of this big fluffy pink moth. Even its legs are fluffy, making it look like it's wearing leg warmers.

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Jon Sullivan

@joncounts@mastodon.nz · last week

Check out this big gum emperor moth that visited my moth light at home last night, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ.

I first thought there was a bird flapping in the bushes, before it appeared. This one was pinker than most I've seen, and it happily clambered about on its big fluffy feet.

They're more like Pokémon than real moths.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/336921630

#moths #mothodon #Christchurch #NZ #Ōtautahi #insects #entomology

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https://mastodon.nz/tags/%C5%8Ctautahi

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Abhijit Menon-Sen

@amenonsen@mastodon.social · last week

A leaf katydid or bush cricket from Sabah. This extraordinary fellow was sitting on the chair next to me at lunch. When it tired of me moving the chair to take photographs, it crawled over the edge and hung from the underside with its legs folded, looking like just a pair of leaves. 10/10 camouflage, 0/10 location.

#insects #entomology #nature

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Photo of a large extraordinary insect whose wings look like two delicate pale green oblong leaves, complete with pale branching veins and other markings. It has a small brown face with round eyes and long straight thin antennae, and thick pink-and-brown grasshopper-like legs with barbs.

Photo of the same insect with an extremely large meaty human hand placed next to it on a woven-rattan chair for size comparison. The insect's wings are roughly 125mm long.

Abhijit Menon-Sen

@amenonsen@mastodon.social · last week

#insects #entomology #nature

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D C Fitzgerald

@tangledwing@ohai.social · 2 weeks ago

Macro of a Julia Butterfly family (Dryas iulia). They engage in lachryphagy, where they drink the tears of caimans and turtles. The tears contain minerals they need and can't get from flowers. #butterfly #insects #biology #nature #photography #wildlife

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The Wee Owl Studio, Art

@TheWeeOwl@mastodon.art · last week

⭐️JANUARY SALE⭐️
Original art sale - Last 2 days, sale ends on Saturday!
Monarch butterflies in flight now only £15.
https://folksy.com/find/item/8530260

#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
#Butterflies #insects #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #Sale #Bargain #Clearance

A small drawing of a group of orange and black monarch butterflies in flight with a green background with abstract flowers. The drawing is on white paper.
The name monarch is believed to have been given in honour of King William III of England, as the butterfly's main colour is that of the king's secondary title, Prince of Orange.
An original art work, please note that the frame is not included.
Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper
5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm). — A small drawing of a group of orange and black monarch butterflies in flight with a green background with abstract flowers. The drawing is on white paper. The name monarch is believed to have been given in honour of King William III of England, as the butterfly's main colour is that of the king's secondary title, Prince of Orange. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper 5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).

https://folksy.com/find/item/8530260

The Wee Owl Studio, Art

@TheWeeOwl@mastodon.art · last week

⭐️JANUARY SALE⭐️
Original art sale - Last 2 days, sale ends on Saturday!
Monarch butterflies in flight now only £15.
https://folksy.com/find/item/8530260

https://folksy.com/find/item/8530260

D C Fitzgerald

@tangledwing@ohai.social · 2 weeks ago