Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A split-screen image showing (top) a face view of an elongated ant standing on a reflective surfave, facing us with toothy brown jaws held 180 degrees open, and (bottom), the same ant with jaws closed, the bluntly toothed tips held together.

A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position.

The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.

Such an adorable little gremlin 🥰

A small brown terrier puppy on my lap, looking imploringly at me. She’s hungry.

Morag would like to know if it’s time for breakfast yet?
#TinyPup #FarmLife #Spudlet

Front view of a tiny brown wolf spider.

Top view of same tiny brown wolf spider.

Found a friend enjoying the sun today.
(assumed Pardosa sp.)

#arachtober 🕷️🌿
#spiderSky #wolfspider

El pelo de una ortiga forzando los límites de mi equipo macro. La longitud del pelo podría ser de un par de milímetros.

Esa pequeña ampolla que se ve en la punta tiene la función de romperse por contacto y liberar las sustancias que dan tanto gusto cuando rozas una ortiga.

A photo of a very long silvery tan spider from above. The spider's two front pair of legs are long and slender and marked with black bands which are more closely spaced closer to the body. The front most pair is the longest and both are covered in many fine spine-like hairs. The spider's forebody is tanish yellow with a dark stripe along the center rear, its two rows of small shiny black eyes are clustered around the front. The abdomen is a bit thicker but also long, almost sausage shaped, and is silvery tan/creamy with reticulated black markings.,

Happy #TetragnathaTuesday!

This is possibly the Silver Long-jawed Orbweaver, Tetragnatha laboriosa. #LegsForDays.

#MacroPhotography
#Nature
#Photography
#Arachtober
#Spiders

Sky spood!

a big spider, I think an orb weaver, walking on an invisible web with a blue sky & a tree in the background.

saw a beautiful spider yesterday but I don't have the ability to photograph it well, so I just had to enjoy the moment
#arachtober #spiders #inverts

We’re off to the desert. I took this shot in the remote south end of Anza Borrego Desert State Park. The tall cactus is an endemic to eastern San Diego County called a Mason Valley Cholla and it can grow from 9 to 10 feet high. 🌿✌🏻

Full moon through an Astrophotography telescope

Obligatory Harvest Moon from this morning

~but on last evening‘s walk, it was gorgeous & glowing, abundantly Autumnal, and felt like Fall

Happy book birthday to the perfect spooky season MONSTER book!

Here's one of my favorite seasonally appropriate contributions

a man is standing in front of a red curtain with the words `` i get knocked down '' . Alt: An animated gif from the music video for the son Tubthumping by Chumbawumba with the words "I GET KNOCKED DOWN, BUT I GET UP AGAIN, YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN."

That was amazing.

h my goodness, that is spectacular 😻

A really pregnant daddy longlegs from the front

thank you ehehehe im gonna base her on this pregnant one i found the other day LOL

4x3 Bee sits atop lavender chips

Leaf cutter bee on purple sage
(Megachile)

Summer morning in a neighbor’s garden
in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood

#macro #photography #native #bees #plants #flowers #nature #art #gardens #gardening #bloomscrolling #pollinators #macroPhotography #eastcoastkin #animalarttues #chicago

That sounds awesome 🤘🕷️🤘

This is an accurate description of kittens😂

Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

"Why is antagonizing the existing bluesky userbase harmful to bluesky inc's goals?

It feels odd to even have to answer this question"
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Typhoon killed more tanks, Tempest killed more Messerschmitts. Both were awesome AF. Really wish we had one of each still flying.

Adorbs 😻

An anthropomorphic green cicada wearing a blue and white stripped shirt with tan pants and a brown bag slung around their shoulders. Sprouts are littered around her head.

get buggyd

#bugsona #cicada #bugfurry

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

Digital painting of a buff tip moth in two poses. One has wings spread to show the soft gray brown wings with buff colored "eye" spots at the tip while the other is the moth sitting on a tree branch. When its wings are closed, the moth resembles very much a twig as it is an expert in camouflage.

Happy #Invertober day 6!

Buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala)

Decided I better do two poses so you all wouldn't think I'd just drawn a twig 😂

#SciArt #art #Invertober2025

This was back in 2019 or so if i recall correctly (So much has happened since then...😐)

This is genuinely some bullshit on bsky's part. A reaction meme of charlie kirk gets a Black person a permanent suspension, but people who actively doxx and spread hate against marginalized people not only get to stay, but het followed by mods?

We see you, bsky, and it's pretty fucking disgusting.

😻. Love those sound effects¡

this continues to be one of my favorite spider vids i’ve made lol

I include the Sherman tank in that list in opposition to a lot of ignorant motherfuckers who consider it a "Death Trap" (that list included some "History Experts" on twitter who when confronted with actual data denied that the U.S. Archives ere a reliable source...)

I knew librarians like that 😂🤨