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https://mastodon.art/@jencmars/112344222964872128 jencmars@mastodon.art - I'm calling this finished.
Acrylic ink, watercolor, gouache and pencil on 12x18” hotpress paper. Border and hairs in gold ink.
I'll get it scanned, but I'll wait to go to the photolab to do it properly.
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https://ohai.social/@pogomcl/112107555583505275 pogomcl@ohai.social - Amanda's Blue, Polyommatus amandus Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/ 5 1/250 iso: 400 Milovice, Czech Republic 6/8/2010 @SaveButterflies #Lycaenidae #Butterflies #lepidoptera #Insects #invertebrates #Macro #grasslands
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#reptiles eat bugs not humans !
#PETITION: I Won’t Eat Bugs
Every day, we are bombarded with #propaganda attempting to normalize bug eating.
The World Economic Forum has been at the forefront of promoting the consumption of insects for years now, advocating that eating bugs is the way of the future, is sustainable and will help fight climate change, and will improve human health.
From Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeking expert help on establishing best practices for humans and animals to eat bugs in Canada to educating kids in the U.K. about “alternative proteins”, the push to encourage people to eat bugs is expanding on a global scale — this must be stopped!
Additionally, #insects may have #parasites, making them #dangerous to eat. But, of course, our globalist elites don’t want you to know that, and they don’t care because they won’t be eating them.
If you are equally repulsed by the idea of incorporating creepy crawlies into your diet, please sign our petition right here.
Sign here: http://www.rebelnews.com/petition_i_will_not_eat_bugs?recruiter_id=5964112
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https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/112059998547671324 plazi_species@mastodon.green - #NewSpecies
New many-plumed moth from #cameroon just landed:
Alucita sokolovi
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/3D9F4858-D646-4A23-9620-E3C883642BD0
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1193.111544
#ZooKeys
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #lepidoptera #butterflies #moths #mothsmatter #savebutterflies
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#insects from the pit
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9y1BwcP2tzo9/
A BURGER FRIES And a SNAKE ! I’M NOT KIDDING ! THE SERPENT RACE Is MANIFESTING BEYOND Human
https://ohai.social/@tangledwing/111974207703177495 tangledwing@ohai.social - The large emerald moth (Geometra papilionaria), native to the Palearctic region and the Near East. #moth #insects #nature #CC #naturephotography #biology #wildlife
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https://texasobserver.social/@oconnell/111880446480843787 oconnell@texasobserver.social - I've a fun, short piece out from the @TexasObserver magazine, about a crew of volunteers that have been going out every week, for about 15 years, to count all the crawling, flying critters they can find.
So far they've identified almost 3,000 species of insect including over 50 bees, 345 flies, and over 500 different beetles. https://www.texasobserver.org/insect-lbj-wildflower-valerie-bugh-austin?utm_campaign=mastodon
(Fab #photography by Paula Levihn-Coon)
#science #Austin #Texas #insects #nature #environment #ClimateChange
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Why flying insects gather at artificial light | Nature Communications
#science #biology #ethology #insects
Contrary to the expectation of attraction, insects do not steer directly toward the light. Instead, insects turn their dorsum toward the light, generating flight bouts perpendicular to the source. Under natural sky light, tilting the dorsum towards the brightest visual hemisphere helps maintain proper flight attitude and control. Near artificial sources, however, this highly conserved dorsal-light-response can produce continuous steering around the light and trap an insect. Our guidance model demonstrates that this dorsal tilting is sufficient to create the seemingly erratic flight paths of insects near lights and is the most plausible model for why flying insects gather at artificial lights.
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Bright-eyed Brown butterfly - what a delight to see!
"This small butterfly (from the Nymphalidae or ‘Brown’ family) is known to inhabit peat swamps in coastal and inland areas in the far south-east of South Australia and western Victoria – habitat that has been significantly reduced by wetland drainage and other factors since colonisation. "
Butterflies on the Brink
The local creek has been replanted (over many years) with many native species including Carex, the larval plant of these little gems, while garden/paddock plantings of Leptospermum and Melaleuca spp. help as food-plants.
Of course, this may be the only bright-eyed brown for kilomiles - hopefully not - but i'm classing it as small (and beautiful) success.
i'm wrapt to the gills :D
#photo #insects #species-revival #SWVic #Glenelg-Ark #Joy #butterflies #insects #Australia
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Pechlibelle auf Finger / Forktail on Finger
im Freizeitpark Moers zwischen Bettenkamper Meer und Solimare, Juli 2018
#Tiere #Pechlibellen #Niederrhein #FreizeitparkSolimare #Moers #Insekten #Libellen #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#animals #protostome #arthropod #insects #pterygota #odonata #damselflies #coenagrionidae #ischnura
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https://mastodonapp.uk/@BjornIdle/111705843766893976 BjornIdle@mastodonapp.uk - A Red Damselfly (Xanthocnemis zealandica) clings onto the tip of a reed shaft.
I'd love to say I deliberately chose a reed that had the same colours on it as the damselfly, but this is just where this one happened to land. And to be honest, I've only just noticed it myself... 🤔
#MacroPhotography #Insects #Damselfly #Dragonfly #Macro #Nature #NaturePhotography #InsectPhotography
Hummeln / Bumblebees
am Naturschutzgebiet Riethbenden in Traar (Krefeld), September 2023
#Hummeln #Krefeld #Niederrhein #Traar #Insekten #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#animals #protostome #arthropod #insects #pterygota #neoptera #hymenoptera #bees #bumblebees
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Fliegende Wespe / Flying Wasp
am Naturschutzgebiet Riethbenden in Traar (Krefeld), September 2023
#Wespen #Krefeld #Niederrhein #Traar #Insekten #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#animals #protostome #arthropod #insects #pterygota #neoptera #hymenoptera #wasps
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Tagpfauenauge auf Distel / Peacock Butterfly on Thistle
am Naturschutzgebiet Riethbenden in Traar (Krefeld), September 2023
#Tagpfauenaugen #Krefeld #Niederrhein #Traar #Insekten #Schmetterlinge #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#animals #protostome #arthropod #insects #pterygota #butterflies #nymphalidae #peacockbutterfly
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Waldbrettspiel / Speckled Wood
am Naturschutzgebiet Riethbenden in Traar (Krefeld), September 2023
#Waldbrettspiele #Krefeld #Niederrhein #Traar #Insekten #Schmetterlinge #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#animals #protostome #arthropod #insects #pterygota #butterflies #nymphalidae #speckledwood
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