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Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals Study of Met Office data one of first to show how nocturnal insects affected by factors such as light pollution

Delighted to announce a new paper, led by Mansi Mungee, which studies insect populations over the UK using weather radar and is covered by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability

Been looking for a fresh specimen of Leucauge sarawakensis for a long time! Each time we found one, someone walked into its web. Hence, the ex situ shots.

color block art of a pearly green lacewing on a swirling background vaguely resembling plants. it is sitting on green swirls backed with purples and pinks

#invertober 28, pearly green lacewing

#invertober2025

photo of a pumpkin with a carving of a large insect head with massive spiny jaws

photo of the same pumpkin at night but lit up from inside with a phone flashlight held by someone

sleep tight don't let the lacewings bite
#invertebrates #sciart

Drawing of a rooster stepping away with one leg in the air while looking back at you. He is made of quick black ink strokes with colours underneath ranging from red, yellow, blue to green. There's a twig or a feather in its beak.

Rooster 🪶

I kinda pressed down around her and she started throwing it back waving her stinger around. Never seen that kinda behavior before. Defo on her way out

Excuse me ma’am

New account on BlueSky called Massimo who is known to rip off other people’s content and make money from it. The first pinned posts says that if someone owns the original content to get in touch with him as he has clearly ripped it off. The handle to block is @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social

Yeah, that’s a big NOPE for me.

This account is that content scraper from Twitter that built a massive following by ripping off other people’s work and just posting without attribution.

He says it right there in his first post. These people never learn.

This is not the BlueSky way.

BLOCK HIM.

No way

rally competition with a bunch of fellas

www.twitch.tv/johannvonvorst

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

A close-up image of a yellow insect with textured, bumpy skin perched on a bright yellow flower. The background is blurred, highlighting the details of the insect and petals.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 22, 2025
Jagged ambush bug
Phymata sp.
Hemiptera: Reduviidae
By Tom Astle (@tjalamont.bsky.social), Montana, USA
#arthropodPOTW

Hot wings coming up! - i.e., brown rats hunt bats IN FLIGHT.
🐀🦇🍴

While this has serious conservation implications for urban bats, I can't help but be amazed by the rats' dexterity and adaptability.

Full paper by @berlinbatlab.bsky.social here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌍🦊

color block art of a flame skimmer dragonfly perched on withered and burning greenery. there are stylized flame patterns on its body. its front legs are pulled above its head, while the latter two pairs grasp a plant stalk. the background is a saturated yellow gradient

#invertober 21, flame skimmer dragonfly 🔥

#invertober2025

RIP Daniel Naroditsky. That guy was the single greatest resource for any new player trying to learn chess

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

geometric color block drawing of a black and yellow mud dauber wasp on a bright red background with black striping

#invertober 18, black n yellow mud dauber!! i love love love a wasp

#invertober2025

A macro photo, vertical orientation, of a jumping spider clinging head down to a smooth green leaf. The spider is boldly marked with black and white bands and stripes.

Here is your Sunday Spider, I think a Psecas chapoda jumping spider. From what I've read, they have a mutualistic relationship with a bromeliad, Bromelia balansae. The spiders live exclusively among the plant's spiny rosettes; in turn their debris/droppings feed the plant. #Arachtober #Bugsky 🌿🐙

YouTube video by Ant Lab Why Are Caterpillars SO AWESOME!?!

New video today: CATERPILLARS!!! youtu.be/aJNaDyHARNw

My livery for the next Sim Rally Masters endurance rally. Out here celebrating right hand drive-versity

a pair of fraternal potter wasps on a common boneset #b3d

As the leaves change color it’s time for everyone’s yearly reminder NOT to rake up the leaves!!!! Leaf litter is important for soil nutrition, healthier plants once spring comes, and biodiversity! Nature developed this yearly ritual for a reason 💖

symmetrical blocky art of a dark fishing spider with stylized patterning, colored like black on red greek pottery. there is a black border on the image with a greek-esque choppy line pattern

#invertober 11, dark fishing spider 🎣

#invertober2025

A brown pseudoscopion hanging on to the antenna of a wasp. The wasp is yellow with black stripes and transparent wings.

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

nascar executives pop open a bottle of champagne every time their points system convinces a driver to pull some irresponsible nonsense like this

drawing of a thick lined black and red weevil on a yellow background decorated with faint asterix-esque stars and palmetto leaves. "PALMETTO" is written in block letters above it, fitted around the shape of the body

#invertober day 4, palmetto weevil 🌴

#invertober2025

YouTube video by mapleboy Two Nights in East St. Louis

new video youtu.be/FRxzHC8wyag?...

Comic with two chickens and an egg One of the two chicken says "it's about to hatch!". The second panel shows an egg with cross hatching.

Comic

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants