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#entomology

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Claire Motz Art
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✨ Hello there ! 😊
Aujourd'hui le Méloé printanier ! Un insecte de la famille des coléoptères, dont les larves se développent en parasitant les colonies d' hyménoptères...
✨ Ici il s'agit d'une femelle, avec l'abdomen plus gros que celui du mâle !
✨ Connaissez-vous cet insecte ? 🥸
✨ Vous pouvez retrouver toutes mes illustrations disponibles ici : clairemotzart.etsy.com
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#coleoptera #insects #insecte #coléoptère #macro #photonature #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #natureendeuil #EspècesMenacées #entomology #entomologie #sciencesnaturelles #sciart #MastoArt #smallartist #naturaliste #pnr #parcnaturel #reservenaturelle

Illustration d'une femelle de Méloé printanier sur une herbe
hastingsmothman
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First #moth box of 2025. Wasn't expecting anything, to be honest, so surprised to get three. Of course, I could have bet my mortgage on them being these three given how early it is in the season. Hardy souls from last night:

1) Hebrew Character (left)
2) Early Grey (top right)
3) Common Quaker (bottom right)

Overhead shot of triangular moth, about 2 cm long on a finger. It has a furry head and nape. It is largely different shades of brown but has two distinct cream-edged, black L shapes, one of each wing with the inner edge of the L being concave rounded which partly surrounds a cream bordered circular stigmata. The lower edge of each L is also slightly concave adjoining atop a cream bordered kidney-shaped stigmata. Below this, running wing edge to wing edge is a shallow W shaped light purple line.
A side on shot of a 1cm moth on a finger. It is light grey with black or dark grey flecks and flashes. It has a furry head with a small mohican. It has black and white stripey legs.
Overhead shot of a 1.5cm triangular moth on a finger. It faces downwards rather than upwards. It is a a mid-sandy brown with two stigmata on each wing, one circular, one kidney-shaped. Towards the bottom wing edge there is a brown orange and a cream line running left to right across both wings below which runs a series of faint black dots again running left to right wing edge to wing edge. The very bottom wing edge is fringed.
#mothing#lepidoptera#nature
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Russell Garwood
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This #FossilFriday meet Bojophlebia - this cool ~309 million year old fossil insect was found in the Czech Republic. The scale bar on the image is 4cm, so we can estimate this animal had a wingspan of over 40cm. What it actually *was* though, has been subject to discussion. When first described in the 1980s, it was originally thought to be an early-branching member of the lineage leading to today's mayflies.

A cool fossil insect - this is preserved in a large slab of yellow rock, and the insect comprises a body, in a dark brown colour, some long legs poking out from the body on both sides, and then in a lighter brown, there are two pairs of wings on which you can see the venation
A photograph of the hind wing of this specimen (top), with line drawings of the veins below it (middle, bottom).
#science#nature#Palaeontology
Frank Ashwood
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We're all on tenterhooks waiting for the results to be announced tomorrow for the NZ Bug of the Year competition!

Here's a few of my favourite contenders. Now voting is over I'll admit I have been quietly rooting for the velvet worm too - they're amazing animals, almost as great as giant springtails!

Whatever happens, thanks so much everyone for your support and patience with my endless vote soliciting on here.

Good luck tomorrow #TeamGiantSpringtail! Fingers crossed!

A photograph of a giant springtail on a decaying log. The springtail has soft blue skin, and is covered in soft, pointy yellow spines.
A photograph of a velvet worm on a decaying log. The velvet worm has many legs, soft blue skin, and is covered in beautiful orange dots scattered randomly over its body.
A photograph of a pair of leaf-veined slugs on a decaying log. One is orange and the other is green, and both have a leaf vein-like branching depression running down the midline of their bodies, giving them a leaf-like appearance.
A photograph of a manuka chafer beetle walking on a bright yellow sheet. The beetle is beautifully iridescent green with orange-brown legs.
#Entomology#BugoftheYear2025#SoilBiodiversity
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