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So cool! What was your collection method for the blepharicerids?

26.02.2026 20:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

a large scarab beetle being placed on the back of an old pug for a joyride. the pug is wearing a blue and pink shirt with an orange bandana, and is sticking it's tongue out.

can confirm

16.12.2025 16:26 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Excerpt of a scientific article by Patil and Patil (2017) showing a leaf with mounting solution applied, dried, and then added to a microscope slide for viewing epiphytic fungi

Especially curious if anyone has tried this or similar methods. Were your leaves damaged? Sample image quality and slide longevity?

09.12.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anyone have mounting media recommendations for permanent slides of fungi?

09.12.2025 16:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

photo labeled: "Adult pseudoscorpion (Parawithius sp.: Pseudoscorpiones: Withiidae) clasping a platypodine beetle (Cenocephalus rhinoceroides: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) with one chela in Dominican amber. Arrows show phoretic nematodes that became detached from the beetle."

a small cylindrical orange beetle on a white sheet with a pseudo scorpion grasping it's leg

it is SO cool and weird seeing them on the same insects they've been found on in amber. i see them riding in on ambrosia beetles at light traps occasionally, especially on platypodines.

08.10.2025 18:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a light violet colored butterwort flower with thin, deeply lobed corolla and fuzzy yellow palate in the middle

in love with them

17.12.2024 23:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Small black beetle with pointy cuticular growth on one lateral side of it's thorax. Photographed on a petri dish using a microscope.

Any guesses how this growth/tumor formed? A fun Caplothorax lugubris sap beetle specimen.

04.12.2024 02:12 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0