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The Venezuelan poodle moth is a beautiful animal. There was an article back in 2012 in #TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/culture/archiv… that traced the story and found out that it was real and not an internet fake.
The source of the photo for the Venezuelan poodle moth: flickr.com/photos/artour_a/420…
That album by Arthur Anker contains many more photos of extraordinary neotropical moths flickr.com/photos/artour_a/alb… plus a few other insects.
The photos are simply out of this world. Here are a couple of my favourites:
Amastus epicostosia - aposematic tiger moth flickr.com/photos/artour_a/257…
"Bolognese caterpillar" of a moth (Megalopyge sp.) from Ecuador flickr.com/photos/artour_a/504…
Photos by Arthur Anker.
#moths #Lepidoptera #insects #entomology #PoodleMoth #ArthurAnker #caterpillar
"Bolognese caterpillar" of a moth (Megalopyge sp) from Ecuador
a caterpillar of a megalopygid moth, Megalopyge spFlickr
The enigmatic Acanthoponera minor, an ant that is occasionally seen patrolling the low vegatation of wet neotropical forests, about which little is known. I photographed this one in Ecuador.
The life cycle of an ant (Camponotus festinatus) laid out in a single photograph: eggs, larvae of various ages, a silk-covered pupa, and an adult worker. At #UTAustin's Brackenridge Field Laboratory, in Texas.
#Ants #Metamorphosis #Insects #Camponotus #LifeCycles
Entomology never fails to surprise. We found this metallic Phanolinus rove beetle in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.
#Beetles #Insects #Staphylinidae
An Anoplius blue/black spider wasp carries away a spider she has paralyzed. Tennessee.
New study in Ecology Letters shows how moths are crucial yet underappreciated nocturnal pollinators; check out short summary at popsci.com:
popsci.com/environment/moth-po…
Moths need protections too, just like bees | Popular Science
Better understanding how crucial moths are to pollinating plants has implications for urban planning, policy, and wildlife.Laura Baisas (Popular Science)
Incoming!
A male beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) landing on his perch.
#photography #photo #nature #naturephotography #mft #microfourthirds #darktable #macrophotography #macro #nature #naturephotography #animals #wildlife #insects #odonata #calopterygidae #calopteryx #calopteryxvirgo #libellen #blauflügelprachtlibelle
Quite specific, but a very interesting article about #ants and their early evolution. The authors propose a 3 step scenario based on fossils and their interpretation. Really fascinating !
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…
#insects #nature #ecology #fossil #paleontology #entomology
Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea: †@@@idae fam. nov., Formicidae)
Fossils provide unique opportunity to understand the tempo and mode of evolution and are essential for modeling the history of lineage diversification.bioRxiv
Never done a proper #introduction since opening my #Mastodon account in early October so here we go
I'm an ecologist based in Berlin and I currently work on #lightpollution & its effects on #insects. I have also worked on a range of other topics in #ecology like #foodwebs & #invasivespecies
I'm also an editorial board member at the journal Oikos & a working group speaker for science communication at the Leibniz Postdoc Network
Looking forward to expand my #Mastodon community in 2023
Turns out that day-calling #crickets (as opposed to night-calling species) tune their #chirps to avoid the same #bandwidth as other nosy #insects (like #cicadas). We know #birds do this type of thing ("#acoustic #niche partitioning"). Interesting to see it in insects.
Title: The #circadian calling activity of a lebinthine cricket with high-frequency calls is unaffected by cicada choruses in the day
Link: peerj.com/articles/14641/
The circadian calling activity of a lebinthine cricket with high-frequency calls is unaffected by cicada choruses in the day
Background Many factors can influence circadian rhythms in animals. For acoustically communicating species, both abiotic cues (such as light and temperature) and biotic cues (such as the activity of other animals), can influence the timing of signall…PeerJ
This is a mosaic gynandromorph. I think bilateral gynandromorph images are shared more frequently—maybe because bilateral gynandromorphs are more obvious? Anyway, females of this species of velvet-ant are almost entirely orange-ish. The black head on this specimen looks like the males of the species. Also, in this family of insects, only males have ocelli (simple eyes) on the top of the head.
