Charla Replogle 🪲🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A linocut print in hot pink ink, featuring a stylized cockroach, with pink triangle “eye”, surmounted by text: “UNKILLABLE”.

By one of my favorite artists @skrulls.bsky.social (I’m his mom).
#printpromptmonday #text #art #linocut #printartist #cockroach #LGBTQ+art #LGBTQ+

IT’S THE BEST Season!

Beefly season is upon us folks #BeeflyWatch

Yesterday they were spotted at @kneppwilding.bsky.social Tomorrow, my garden 🤓

Please go spotting these little beauties & add your records to either dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch or #IRecord

@dipteristsforum.bsky.social

A very spiky caterpillar, mostly black. It has three bands of yellow studded with orange dots, one near the tail, one in the middle, one near the head. It has smaller yellow markings along the body and lines of very small blue dots. Its head is very shiny black with a yellow dot on the forehead. It is about 2.5cm long.

I don’t have a cat so I post caterpillars on #caturday and this one is stunning. Look at the tiny blue dots, y’all! 🌱🌿

#insect #macro #nature #photograhy

Wheel of privilege- super interesting and thought-provoking #education

This is the first oil beetle I’ve seen this spring - out amongst the vines here on St Martin’s alongside the early spring bees whose life history they’re intertwined with

adult darkling beetle on white background, pitchy black with dark reddish highlights. Ulomoides dermestoides, or the Peanut Beetle or Cancer Beetle.

An adult Peanut Beetle on the inside of a peanut shell looking out at the world with its antennae outstretched.

a late instar beetle larva that is banded in darker and lighter colors of orangey-yellow with the tip of the abdomen coming to a point

An early instar Peanut Beetle larva that is creamy white with orangish bands and only slightly hardened mouthparts. It is sitting amongs pieces of peanut debris

This is the Peanut Beetle (Ulomoides dermestoides) that is a cosmopolitan stored product pest. It isn't reported as established in the US, but you can buy colonies as pet food from multiple places online. These things reproduce like crazy in a neglected mason jar with some peanuts!

If I hadn't strayed off the path to have a good view of a rookery on Critchell estate just before I got back to my car, I wouldn't have seen what I have been looking for all day. A black oil beetle, Meloe proscarabaeus, and this one has the strongly kinked antennae of the male

‘All eyes are on Glasgow’: UK’s first legal drug consumption room ready to open The Thistle will be available 365 days a year and provide a supervised space where drugs can be injected safely

Fantastic to see the UK’s first drug consumption room finally open its doors in Glasgow. Congratulations to all those who made this happen. As the experience from more than 200 drug consumption rooms around the world shows, The Thistle will save many lives: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Bright orange and yellow hogfish with a red eye sitting on a blue table

Same fish as in other photo, but with its mouth wide open

One my favorite fish species!
Lachnolaimus maximus, the Caribbean Hogfish.
*the crowd roars maximus, maximus!”

An orange beetle, pretty flat and oval-shaped. The wing covers are covered in a texture that looks almost like graph paper, little raised lines and darker colored square pots. The legs are black, and so are the antennae. The antennae are comb-like, very spiky.

One of the coolest aspects of insect photography is the realization that colors and textures are CRAZY up close. What may seem like a solid color or a plain matte surface becomes something astounding up close. This net-winged beetle in the family Lycidae is one of my favorite pix of 2024 #bugsky 🌿

Not only did @jilloberski.bsky.social correctly guess mutillid, she provided a link to an image of the species!

Here's an image of my specimen. It is a male of the aptly named Psammotherma flabellata, collected in South Africa.

#NaturalHistoryCollections
#FocusStacking
#MutillidMonday

If you let a zoonotic virus outbreak unfold unchecked for months in livestock, with sporadic human cases, you basically give the virus an elite training course to win gold in the epidemic/pandemic Olympics.
This is not a good trend.
This could have been avoided!
The US needs to do more to ✋️ birdflu.

Cats in the U.S. Are Contracting Bird Flu: What Pet Parents Need to Know Cases in domesticated cats have risen dramatically over the past year.

PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it:

-keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice.

-do not feed them raw dairy

-do not feed them raw meat

Mapa da Palestina com luzes de Natal coloridas e a mensagem em inglês: “All I want for Christmas is a free Palestine”

Palestina livre
Free Palestine

hanukkah sameach & free palestine

protect trans kids

#Crustmas ?

The sacred halls of beetle scholarship are open to EVERYONE.

Our two sacred rules:
1. There’s a beetle for everyone
2. You will never know everything, you just keep being pleasantly surprised by strange new beetles and beetle facts for the rest of your life

Happy #caturday. Y’all have a good one!

Admitting you don't know something is like a superpower. That's how you learn. Most of the problems in the world are caused by people pretending to know things they don't

Screenshot of an exchange between crevicedwelling, cageyratfish, and myself. Crevice says "gubby", ratfish says "wubby", and I say "snibby". We are talking about a freshwater leech

scientists are a cold and unfeeling people by custom

Amoth with round edges that holdss its wings together rests on a blade of grass. It's a hieroglyphic moth in the family Nolidae. It is a beautiful orange and pale base with darks spots in lines at the edge of the wings. In the middle and near the head are large patches of metallic cobalt scales.

A long ermine moth in the family Yponomeutidae resting on a leaf. It is pure white except the black polka dots, making it look like a Dalmatian.

The Spanish moth, a species in the family Noctuidae. It has fluffy black fur on its thorax, that's tipped with white. The wings are longitudinally half pink and the other half is black and orange patterned.

A pink-shaded fern moth in the family Noctuidae. It is thick and tufted with a beautiful pattern of browns and pink, with a few white circles.

It's been a rough week 😞 I need some soft pretty #moths.

Maybe you do too?

A saucer-shaped, reddish brown sap beetle in the family Nitidulidae, walking among slimy ooze from a rotting tree. It's covered in small translucent mites.

Two saucer-shaped, reddish brown sap beetles in the family Nitidulidae, mating among slimy ooze from a rotting tree. They are covered in small translucent mites.

A saucer-shaped, brown sap beetle in the family Nitidulidae, on a white background. It's covered in fine hairs, with a small triangle made of spiky hairs on the top of each wing covering. These triangles look like tiny racing fins.

Sap #beetles covered in mites, getting down & dirty in their putrid oozing love spa ❤️ 😘 #Nitidulidae: #Amphicrossus [Costa Rica]

They do clean up nice, though! I love the male's fins 😍 [US species]

A brown insect with two large keels along the centerline of its body. It is standing on the edge of a leaf.

It’s winter and cold and I miss bugs.
Keeled Treehopper
(Entails carinata)

A picture of a black and white cat with his tongue sticking out

Happy #Caturday from Kodak! His bleps are iconic ✨

I hate these kinds of comments, because they demonstrate a lack of understanding of a fundamental fact--if billionaires were the type of people who thought about helping others, they would never be billionaires in the first place.

A stick is held upright at an angle to show its underside is covered in Splitgill mushrooms, one stacked above the next, each of them radiating gills from their center, above a leaf covered forest floor Photo by me #mushroomsky #fungifriends

Here are some nice mushrooms

A jumping spider on a rock looking at the camera. It has yellow legs, a gray beard and black spiky hair tufts on its head. It's chelicerae or jaws bearing the fangs, are metallic blue-green.

A jumping spider on a rock viewed from above. It has yellow legs, a gray beard and black spiky hair tufts on its head. It also has three red patches on the top of the head and a gray abdomen.

Top tier jumping #spider 🏆

#Salticidae: #Phidippus mystaceus
Asheville, NC, USA

Oxytrigona tataira: Neotropical stingless bee known as "fire bee" or "caga-fogo". Defensive behavior using caustic chemicals from head glands. Builds nests in tree cavities 10-25m high. Collects honeydew from treehoppers. Widely distributed across Brazil, especially in Caatinga.🧪