Sean McCann

First detection of mosquito Uranotaenia sapphirina (Diptera: Culicidae) in New Brunswick, Canada
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Two very round and stubby black and orange bees, on a dried stalk, mating bee-style (like doggy-style but Bee). They're facing you, big soft compound eyes peering

Side view of the pair on the stalk

Sexy resin bees!
They're so cute and stubby. The boy's little feets on her back 🥹
#BugSex

A small male mygalomorph spider, black with a purplish abdomen, on sand, covered in dirt and debris. He is missing his front right leg.

Got visited by a dirty little male Antrodiaetus pacificus last night!

Did it not used to sit by the lake on a plinth?

A pale blue and black striped horizontal stripped beetle with long blue and black banded antenna, on a blue and black camp chair.

A pale blue and black striped horizontal stripped beetle with long blue and black banded antenna, on a blue and black camp chair, looking head on into the camera.

Look who visited us at the farmer's market: the Banded Longhorn Beetle 🪲

Three cuckoo bees clustered on a dead flower, gripping on with their mandibles. They’re black and white and have green eyes

A cluster of Coelioxys on their nighttime sleeping perch

Photograph of a young Grey Huntsman Spider (Isopeda villosa) eating a Harlequin Red Bug (Harlequin Red Bug). The spider is mottled shades of brown. The bug is on its back, exposing the bright colours of its belly: red, green, yellow, orange, and blue.

As before but a close-up of the spider's face.

Taste the rainbow.
#spiders #bugs

Closeup of a dead plant at sunset with thread waisted wasps and cuckoo bees resting

Some Ammophila and Coelioxys hanging out on a dead gumweed

two pages from our been book, lots of of images and a bit of text for each bee genera

cover of our Bees of Pennsylvania book with photo of green sweat bee

Our guide to bees of Pennsylvania is available for free now, you can order print copy (just have to pay shipping) and/or download PDF from Penn State Extension page: extension.psu.edu/bees-of-penn...

For every one of the 47 bee genera we have beautiful photo(s) and natural history facts

Nice!

I almost never see bees holding onto plant stems with their mandibles to sleep because I go looking for them when they’re most active. But here is a Nomada bee holding onto a Grindelia petal when the afternoon turned windier and chillier than expected. [Alameda, CA 7-20-25] #bees #nativebees

Yep, but auto aperture!

A couple thread waisted wasps, black with orange abdomens, on a dead flowers stalk. One is grasping the stalk with its mandibles, the other is grasping the other ones neck!

A couple Ammophila snuggling up for the night

A close and wide shot of a Coelioxys cuckoo bee on a dead flower with the sunset in the background. The bee is near the centre of the frame, and is black and white with green eyes.

This Coelioxys shot with the new Laowa 15 mm 1:2 macro. No lie, it is a tough to use lens and I need more practice for sure.

Thanks!

A pair of small, black and white aerodynamic bees resting on a dead plant with their jaws clamped to the stem.

Coelioxys cuckoo leafcutter bees sleeping on a dead gumweed

A closeup of a lizard's head, speckled black and cream with a nice orange eye.

European wall lizard closeup from Victoria BC

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a little late for pride month, but we'll forgive that for a gynandromorph spider! 🕷️🌈🥰

Leggy black spider with white stripes on her legs and a bright orange patch on top of her abdomen. She's stretched out on a palmetto frond

Castianeira are usually ground-dwelling creatures but this magnificent C. floridana lass decided to speed around a palmetto for a bit and then chill on a frond for a photoshoot and that made me very happy. 🧡

Winnipeg entomologist shares benefits and beauty of bugs on planet King’s Park in Carman basks in the golden glow of early afternoon sunlight. The towering oak trees cast shifting shadows as birdsong, the chirping of crickets and the fluttering of countless insect wi...

Great outline of how to do a bug talk/walk with kids. 🪲🪳

The main takeaway: just give them nets and see what they find! There's always more than enough to talk about in any ecosystem. 🌎

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A close up of hands using pinning forceps to transfer an Emperor moth specimen to the main drawer which can be seen in the background.

Very excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲

For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website:
➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783

#Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs

A yellowish brown dung fly on a tiny pink flower

Side view of the same dung fly, what a nice looking fly!

A nice dung fly on the blossom of Kalmia procumbens

A bronzy syrphid fly on a bakeapple flower, which is white/

A dark house fly, visiting a bakeapple flower.

Some sort of small midge on the edge of a petal. Not sure if this counts as a flower visit or not.

A big house fly type of fly (a big house fly the size of a small house fly) on a bakeapple flower

Few bakeapple blooms up and ready as of yet in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut; we are still early in the season. But some of the male flowers are seeing visition by flies :)

A large gray and white hare sits up on its haunches and looks at the camera.

A snowshoe hare in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut. This guy was pretty unafraid of me.

Digitally illustrated research figure depicting a two-phase experiment where (1) spotted wing Drosophila oviposit eggs into blueberry hosts. (2) Then blueberries are placed in a modified petri dish enclosure with one female Ganaspis kimorum for parasitization and experimental observation.

✨New Science Illustration:
Lab assay to observe the behavior of parasitoid, Ganaspis kimorum, when exposed to blueberries infested with spotted-wing Drosophila.

For Rutgers entomologist, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona.

🪳🪲🎨🧪🐡
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Plume moths are very special.
Here is the Yarrow plume moth, Gillmeria pallidactyla.

#röllekfjädermott #Gillmeriapallidactyla #yarrowplumemoth #plumemoth #fjädermott #Pterophoridae #insectphotography #naturephotography #macrophotography #biodiversity #bjärebiodiversity #PL45/2.8

'Is this the year of another caterpillargeddon?' People in northern B.C. are spotting more tent caterpillars | CBC News People in northern B.C. have been noticing more and more tent caterpillars and a local bug expert says the next outbreak could be on the way in the next few years.

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A Ranier's patterned jumping spider sits atop a rock and looks curiously past the camera with his stripey face and black palps. Pentax K-5ii, Pentax DFA 100mm Macro WR with Raynox DCR250, Promaster 7500EDF flash, homebuilt diffuser (courtesy of Sean McCann)

This jumper was a new one on me. Sittisax ranieri, Ranier's Patterned Jumping Spider. Thanks to @cataranea.bsky.social and @ibycter.bsky.social for getting me there, and for helping me figure out how to get the most out of my equipment.

Cape Spear, Newfoundland
#Pentax K-5ii, see alt for more

Strange stubby dark red and black hunchbacked wasp with black wings, at rest on a dead flower stalk of some kind

Leucospis chalcid wasp, a parasitoid of the egg cases of another favorite of mine, resin bees. Weird chonky thing. 🖤