Kathleen

A man's hand with a Luna moth cocoon in it. It it capsule shaped with dead leaves wrapped around it.

Found a Luna #moth pupa while out walking today. #lepidoptera #insects #nature

I guess your photo was taken in the late afternoon that shadow sure has long legs? ❤️🕊🕸

I like the #Stunday theme as it's wide open. I think this Luna moth is stunning. As I photographed fungi one morning I noticed it just sitting there. It was a cold morning late in the year. 105mm macro lens. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #insects #moths #macrophotography

Here's another #insect for #Stunday. This is a spicebush swallowtail larvae. I uncurled the leaf ever so briefly so that I could make its portrait. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #butterfly #entomology #insectphotography

A rather anticlimactic 22 of 16 in SW Hants last night, with NFY Brick the highlight.
Singles of Rush Veneer, Rusty-dot Pearl & White-point the only hints at migration.

#teammoth

A Palpita vitrealis (Olive-tree Pearl) rests on the pale wooden wall of a moth trap.

A single Palpita vitrealis amongst a paltry 15/3 in the Upton garden trap this morning was the sole migrant, alongside a handful of LBAMs & Black Rustic. Fingers crossed for the Canary airflow later this week! #TeamMoth @dorsetmoths.bsky.social

A Giant House spider, Eratigena duellica, can achieve a leg span of 10 cm. (4 inches). This little one measures, as seen by the edge of a frame at bottom left, with a 2mm. border marked, about 3 cm, stretched out. She's a dull brown, with black markings on the body; the legs are just plain brown. In this photo, two of her six spinnerets, the silk-producing glands, are visible; two small projections angled outwards from the rear of her abdomen. All true spiders produce silk, even the wandering hunters, like this one. She makes a web hidden away, not to catch prey, but to serve as a dining room, and later, a place to guard her eggs.

Just a baby. Really. A Giant House spider, not quite a giant yet. Out hunting on a wall; maybe she'll find a moth. Arachtober 2025, Day 29. Two days left! www.flickr.com/photos/wande... #VancouverIsland #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates #Wildlife #NaturePhotography

Small gentle stingless bee vs big clumsy honey bee

🪲ID Guess: European honey bee, stingless bees
#bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

I really like your display. This is really cool.!❤️🕊

Colour illustration of the dorsal view of Tenellia foliata

Colour illustration of the dorsal view of Pelagella castanea

Colour illustration of the dorsal view of Hermaea bifida

It's #SeaSlugDay! To celebrate we have selected these beautiful illustrations from 'A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca' volume 1, published by @raysocietybooks.bsky.social. You can find two copies in the rare books room @thembauk.bsky.social 📖 BL.48/A

semi-realistic drawing of a red sea urchin, imagine a red pincushion full of purple red and pink spikes coming out, on a black background

semi-realistic drawing of a red sea urchin, imagine a red pincushion full of purple red and pink spikes coming out, on a white background

Day 29 #Invertober2025 - Red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus)

#SciArt #invertebrates

A small wooden A-frame structure with round wooden plaques depicting various insects and a hand-painted wooden sign that reads, Hotel a insectes.

Insect Hotel
La REcyclerie, Paris

I tend not to get close enough to actual #CreepyCrawly things to photograph them, but I have it on good authority that this is where they gather for conferences and such.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #Spooktober #31DaysOfHalloween
#Woodensday #insects

YouTube video by M. Evripidou 24-10-2025 bee drinking water

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDaW... bee drinking water #Cyprus #insect #pixel7pro

Closeup photograph of an orange sulphur butterfly (Colias eurytheme seems likely) on the ground on a sunny day amid brown leaves and grasses with a blade of green grass extending along the bottom of the frame. The butterfly has its wings closed and is facing right in profile. Orange sulphur butterflies have yellow-orange wing backs with a thick black edge with orange-yellow markings. The upper back wing has a black spot in the upper middle portion of the wing and an orange spot in the center of the lower back wing. The wing fronts are plainer with black spots opposite the black edge of the back wing and white spots with a black outline opposite each black and orange spot on the black wing. The butterfly's abdomen and lower thorax are covered in fine yellow-green hairs that transition to fine burnt orange hairs on the upper thorax and head. They have two lime green compound eyes with dark spots, six orange segmented legs, and two long burnt orange antennae that end in brown tips.

Orange sulphur foolin' like a fallen fall leaf.

Surprising to see one after 1st frost but it was a banner yr for orange sulphurs hereabouts. Seems a bit poetic that this is likely my last insect macro of the yr.

#PhotoHour #insects #butterflies #MacroPhotography #nature #Photography #AltText

I wonder if this qualifies for #Arachtober

A damselfly with a black body. The wings are clear with black wings. At the base of the wings are large bright red spots.

American Rubyspot, Central Kentucky

#insects #damselfly

This little voyeur is Jonah✨👁️✨
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#cicada #evileye #insect #softsculpture 

Female Wasp Spider on her web. Image taken from below, looking up.

Female Wasp Spider on her web. Image taken from above, looking down.

Female Wasp Spider with prey, wrapped in silk in her web.

Female Wasp Spider with egg sac.

A throwback to a warm summer's day at RSPB Titchwell Marsh and some lovely female Wasp Spiders for my first #arachtober entry of the year.

@britishspiders.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social #bugsky #spidersky

Abalone in the touch tank at Newport Aquarium (Kentucky, not the one in Newport Oregon). It stands semi-erect, which is hard when your foot is your stomach and also you're hanging from the side of the tank by the power of mucus. Its mantle is black, with a ruffled white margin delineated between it and the foot. It's anterior margin is raised as if prepared to pounce. The mantle is fringed with dark tentacles around the margin of the shell. It's big, perhaps 20cm long.

Abalone in the touch tank at Newport Aquarium (Kentucky, not the one in Newport Oregon). This one is glommed onto the side with only the tentacles protruding, providing a good view of the flat, spiral shell. Its mantle is black, fringed with dark tentacles around the margin of the shell. It's big, perhaps 20cm long.

Do you think you can stop the inevitable #MolluskMonday?

Ah, balogna.

Yes, it's abalone again, but seriously ... with a pose like that, how could it not be? 🧪🐚

Day 27: American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis)

[ #invertober #invertober2025 ]

A huge close up of a small spider with two pink stripes on a cream background on the abdomen, hence the common name. It is resting on a bluish sac of eggs ans the background is the brown bin lid.

We have a brown bin for garden waste. Regularly I have to check the lid for accidentally binned insects and spiders and relocate them. This is a candy striped spider, Enoplognatha ovata or latimana, the two are very similar, with an egg sac. #Arachtober

Digital painting of a pale cream slug-like creature with tiny purple spikes all over, a frilly tail, and feathery antennae structures that resemble bunny ears.

Happy #Invertober day 26!

Sea bunny (Jorunna parva)

I always get really excited when I see the invert of the day has a simple shape until I realize it's really hard to make a simple shape look like anything 🙃😂

#SciArt #Invertober2025

a variegated brown butterfly; Speckled Wood, sits in the sunshine on a Beech leaf.

Speckled Wood. October 2025

#speckledwood #butterfly #britishbutterflies #insect #macro #nature #wildlife #Stunday #sonyalpha #photography

Metellina merianae female

Metellina merianae.

#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #Arachtober

She’s really pretty! 🕊❤️

Fuzzy yellow hair sprouting from a yellow cup on a brown stalk. Multiple of such myxomycete fruiting bodies are in the photo.

Fuzzy hair coming from the cup of a myxomycete fruiting body helps to disperse the spores.

This is only a few millimetres tall.
Hemitrichia clavata.
#slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends

Tall lone brown mushroom in the middle of the photo, blurred red leaf litter surrounds.

Lone mushroom with nice crinkly gills showing sits above three leaf ends.

Brown-capped mushroom sits in brown leaf litter.

A tiny pointy white mushroom sits in leaf litter, surrounded by blurred brown fallen leaves.

Some lone mushrooms. Can't believe how they just keep on coming, never seen so many.

#Hockeridge #Mushrooms #Fungi #mycology

A fungus photo a day: Peeling oysterlings/Crepidotus mollis.
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

A small mushroom stands among a thick bed of vibrant light green moss. Its stipe is a deep blue color. Its gills, which reach down onto the top of the stipe, are white. Its cap is a light grayish-purple color and is slightly roughly textured.

I'm unsure of the species, but this beautiful little mushroom is definitely a Leptonia / Enteloma. The navy blue stems are so nice!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/6, ISO 400
Stack of 39 images
10/19/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

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i’m not sure they have lines in them and the ones I eat do not.