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Matt<p>Focus stacking is damn finnicky. This is a stack of 40 images out of my R6, and it mostly worked out ok, except I managed to miss one focal plane slice on the top bug, meaning it's a tiny bit blurry, and it is killing me to look at.</p><p>These hawthorn shieldbugs are absolutely *everywhere* on my cotoneaster. Every nymph stage represented somewhere, groups on all the leaves and berries.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MacroPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MacroPhotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/macro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/photos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/bugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bugs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/shieldbugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shieldbugs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/stinkbugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stinkbugs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>garden</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Finding the Ecological Balance While Countering Invasive Species <a href="https://www.rutgers.edu/news/finding-ecological-balance-while-countering-invasive-species" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rutgers.edu/news/finding-ecolo</span><span class="invisible">gical-balance-while-countering-invasive-species</span></a> </p><p>"In 2003, Anne Nielsen became the first doctoral student in the U.S. to study the brown marmorated <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/StinkBug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StinkBug</span></a>, which was beginning its ascendancy as an <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/InvasiveSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InvasiveSpecies</span></a>... Now an associate professor, Nielsen is also a specialist in tree fruit, with a focus on invasive species like <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/StinkBugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StinkBugs</span></a> and spotted <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/lanternflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lanternflies</span></a>. Her goal is to protect the natural world by developing sustainable management practices."</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/StinkBugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StinkBugs</span></a> grow a fungal garden on their legs to fight parasitic wasps <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2429711-stink-bugs-grow-a-fungal-garden-on-their-legs-to-fight-parasitic-wasps/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newscientist.com/article/24297</span><span class="invisible">11-stink-bugs-grow-a-fungal-garden-on-their-legs-to-fight-parasitic-wasps/</span></a></p><p>[<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/preprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preprint</span></a>] Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.25.586038v1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20</span><span class="invisible">24.03.25.586038v1</span></a> [<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/preprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preprint</span></a>]</p><p>"Within a few days, the eggs were completely covered in the hair-like hyphae. When the young nymphs hatched, they retained this fungal coating until they moulted.... the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/wasp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wasp</span></a> lays its eggs inside the stink bug eggs, but is thwarted when the hyphae are thick enough."</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fungi</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Parasites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parasites</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Symbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Symbiosis</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mutualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mutualism</span></a></p>
Willa :verifiedtrans: :verifiedbi: :verifiedsappho:<p>I wanted to post something green for St. Patrick's Day so here's a cute little green stink bug (𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴) spotted in August 2022:</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insects</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/StinkBugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StinkBugs</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/SaintPatricksDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaintPatricksDay</span></a></p>
Mary C Legg<p>Brassica Shieldbug, Eurydema oleracea Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/2.8 1/60 iso: 800 Prague, Czech Republic 8/10/2010 <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Hemiptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hemiptera</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/bugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bugs</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/shieldbugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shieldbugs</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/stinkbugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stinkbugs</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Insects</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Invertebrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Invertebrates</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/macro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macro</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/grasslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grasslands</span></a></p>
zoot<p>One might call my extreme disgust of stink bugs irrational, but the little bastards always sneak up on me inside the house and even worse, (aside from the smell) they fly. So I stand firm in my convictions.<br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Stinkbugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stinkbugs</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/disgusting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disgusting</span></a></p>