#insects Timeline

143d

#SilentSunday #macro #bees #insects #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

Macro photograph of a bee perched upside down beneath a very pale mauve crocus flower, amidst a clump of similar crocuses. The bee is completely covered in yellow pollen grains, except for its wings, eyes, and antennae. The crocus flowers are visible from the side, their petals pointing upwards, only partially revealing their bright orange-yellow central parts. The bee is resting after feeding on the flowers.

Photographie macro d'une abeille posée à l'envers sous une fleur de crocus mauve très pâle, au milieu d'une talle de crocus semblables. L'abeille est complètement couverte de grains de pollen jaunes, sauf ses ailes, ses yeux et ses antennes. Les fleurs de crocus sont visibles de côté et leurs pétales sont dressés vers le haut, ne montrant qu'en partie leurs parties centrales, d'un jaune orangé vif. L'abeille est au repos, après s'être nourrie dans les fleurs.

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Resting

#nature #naturephotography #dragonfly #insects #closeup

a smallish dragonfly, brown with red abdomen and red points at the base of the wings, resting on a gravel path

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354d

Insects are disappearing from the last places we thought were safe https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250922074956.htm

#environment #insects

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64d

Ant colony under a rock; winged adults, so many pupae. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/my-turn-to-drop-in-for-visit.html #Insects #Ants #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

A pile of ant pupae, each like a round, creamy capsule with a black plug at one end. There are two much larger pupae, probably future queens. Black worker ants are busy hauling pupae down two holes into shelter in the centre.

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Under the same rock, a group of black ants with long, white wings. There is also one pale cream-coloured ant, without wings, in the centre. It looks to be bigger than the black ones; maybe she's a queen. The winged ones will be males or females ready to swarm. On the underside of a grey rock.

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1y

Five second video of a parasitic cuckoo wasp at one of my insect hotels. I love how their antennae are always in motion. And their huge eyes. And their metallic color. But huge pain to ID. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #CuckooWasp #chrysididae #insects #bees #wasps

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1y

en trente ans entre 60 et 80 % des insectes et oiseaux des champs auraient disparu

Ulrike Bolenz, les créatures ailées

tags : extinction de masse des anges, #insects #birds #ecology #photography

femme libellule nue en voie d’effacement

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1y

Leafhopper

#Insects #Nature #Photography

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1y

"Flying to the Light" is a recent work. I'm trying to keep it as a philosophy...

ART - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/flying-to-the-light-peggy-collins.html

#butterfly #butterflies #insects #sun #colorful #art #arte #buyintoart #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart

Colorful artwork of butterflies flying towards the sun, by artist Peggy Collins.

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1y

A violet carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea), spotted in #Goettingen, Germany.

#photography #nature #wildlife #insects #bees #CarpenterBees #Göttingen #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT2 #Fujinon #XF90mm

(photos: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Photo of a large black bee covered in in yellow pollen, flying close to the opening of a violet bell-shaped flower.

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Photo of a large black bee covered in in yellow pollen, sitting on the edge of a violet bell-shaped flower.

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Photo of a large black bee covered in in yellow pollen, sitting inside a violet bell-shaped flower.

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1y

It feels like it's time for a new #introduction

I'm Daniel! He / him.

I'm a husband and Master #Naturalist from Louisiana and living in northeast #Oregon.

I post about #birds, #birding, #insects, #NativePlants, #iNaturalist, and everything else that I find in our travels around this beautiful Earth of ours.

I am a practitioner of #Soto #Zen #Buddhism, a #photographer, web developer, wood carver, and burgeoning gardener.

Website: https://daniel.observer

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1y

Yarrow and fly

#bloomscrolling #wildflowers #flowers #macro #insects #photography

Photograph of a brown domestic fly on a cluster of white flowers of yarrow (Achillea millefolium). Each flower has five round and white petals and a yellowish centre. The use of a macro lens and the incessant wind create a blurry and dreamy effect. Behind the flowers the background is green.

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1y

I never worked up this 2016 photo from the Peruvian Amazon because I was running into trouble identifying the wasp, in spite of its distinct markings.

But taxonomic resources are more accessible a decade on, and I'm happy to announce that she's the rarely photographed Polistes torresae.

#WaspLove #Polistes #Insects #Wasps

Wide angle macro photograph in a tropical forest, in the foreground, suspeneded from a palm spine, is a dark brown paper wasp nest and a stately black wasp with yellow thoracic markings and white stripes on the abdomen.

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1y

"You will believe a lobster can fly!"

A Hummingbird Moth supping on Butterfly Bush flowers at Mass Audubon's Stony Brook sanctuary.

#photography #insects #wildlife #nature #norfolk #massachusetts #wildmassachusetts #massachusettswildlife

A photograph of a Hummingbird Moth, a variety of sphinx moth that looks a bit like a miniature lobster and feeds much like a hummingbird, feeding on nectar from Butterfly Bush flowers.

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1y

Macro surprise

#FotoVorschlag 'Verrückte Natur' #monochrome #blackandwhite #macro #macrophotography #insects #grasshopper #photography

Macro photograph in black and white of the face of a grasshopper, looking a little surprise to have its picture taken. The insect seems to have crooked eyes with long antennas between them, and an open "mouth" with mandibles on each side. What looks like a mouth is in fact the junction between two of its face parts, the real mouth being below the mandibles. The rest of its body and six legs are blurred behind.

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1y

Hoverfly and chamomile

#silentsunday #macro #macrophotography #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening #hoverfly #insects

Macro photograph of a hoverfly on the yellow centre of a white chamomile flower. The was has a striped orange and black body, a yellow and black thorax, two bid red "eyes" on each side of its head with a blue metallic dot between them, and two open iridescent wings.

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233d

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. 1/3

#Bugs #CoolBugFacts #Insects

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58d

#SilentSunday #flowers #macro #insects #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

A black and white macro photograph of a small beetle hanging upside down on a tiny flower in the middle of a spike of anise hyssop. Each tiny flower is bell-shaped with pointed petals. Some are open with long pistils and stamens coming out, while others are closed. In the center of the image, the beetle has shiny black legs with a few hairs.

Photographie macro en noir et blanc d'un petit coléoptère se tenant la tête en bas sur une toute petite fleur au milieu d'un épi d'agastache fenouil. Chaque petite fleur a la forme d'une clochette avec des pétales pointus. Certaines sont ouvertes avec de longs pistils et étamines qui en sortent, d'autres sont fermées. Au centre de l'image, le coléoptère a les pattes noires brillantes avec quelques poils.

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52d

#SilentSunday #macro #flowers #bloomscrolling #insects #photography

Macro photograph of two raspberry-colored cosmos flowers, one opening at the top of the photo, the other open in the foreground at the bottom left, with a bumblebee resting in the sun, its wings folded on its back.

Photographie macro de deux fleurs de cosmos de couleur framboise, l'une en train d'ouvrir et dans le haut de la photo, l'autre ouverte en avant plan en bas à gauche, avec un bourdon en train de se reposer au soleil, les ailes repliées sur le dos.

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47d

Had a lovely visitor to the garden the other day👇.

Haven't posted much lately. Been really busy, my big lens in on the fritz, & I'm getting ready for back surgery this fall so my posts/replies will be sporadic.

#insects #butterflies #wildlife #nature #MacroPhotography #photography #AltText

Closeup photograph of a yellow eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly grasping a pink bee balm floret with out of focus bee balm flowers and green foliage in the background. The butterfly takes up most of the right center frame. It is grasping a floret with its legs, its body is hanging downward, and its proboscis is inserted into the same floret down while facing the flower with its wings open leaving its back, the back of its head, and the back of its wings visible. Eastern tiger swallowtail butterflies have yellow wings with black edging, short black vertical stripes near the wing top, yellow and black veining, black edges along the sides and bottom of their wings with yellow scallop-shaped spotting and small metallic-blue and orange spots near the bottom-center of the wings, black bodies and heads covered in fine hairs, yellow stripes along either side of the back and head, large black compound eyes, two long, black antennae, and six black, segmented legs, and a long black proboscis used for probing the interiors of flower for nectar.

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241d

If it fits I sits 🐝

#InsektenSamstag #bumblebee #Hummel #insect #Insekt #insects #Insekten #Plüschmors #nature #Natur #pollinators #InsectSaturday

A close-up photograph of a bumblebee with distinctive black and yellow stripes and fuzzy body perched on the closed bud of a marigold flower. The background is softly blurred, highlighting the delicate interaction between the bumblebee and the marigold bud.

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118d

#macrophotography #macro #makromittwoch #ladybug #insects #flowers #photography

Macro photograph of a red ladybug with black dots on its back and a black and white head, resting on the outside and bottom of the bud of a bright yellow crocus flower, in the middle of its green, thread-like leaves.

Photographie macro d'une coccinelle rouge avec des points noirs sur son dos et une tête noire et blanche, posée à l'extérieur et sur le bas du bouton d'une fleur de crocus jaune vif, au milieu de ses feuilles vertes et filiformes.

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116d

#NewSpecies!
New moth from #china just fluttered in:

Stauropus motuoensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/99A25E1D-9623-56EF-ABD5-5D6C869FEC33
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e195460
#BiodiversityDataJournal #StauropusMotuoensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #entomology #insects #lepidoptera #butterfly #moths

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103d

Top reasons to NOT buy a bug zapper.

1. Kills a minuscule number of mosquitoes
2. Fries pounds of innocent insects per week (and thus starves local birds)
3. Confuses lightning bugs (probably)
4. Wastes electricity
5. Generates light pollution
6. Generates sound pollution
7. Creates germ risk when insects explode (if near table w/ food)
8. Can catch fire and burn your house down

#mosquitoes #insects #nature