Alyssa Fuller

We are not sure what type of Chrysopa this is but they sure are a cutie!! Aka the Green lacewing!🥰❤️ Stateofthestateparks.com
#insects #entomology #biology #science #research #wildlife #conservation #nature #photography #bugsky #stingsandwings

From: Grimm's Fairy Tales - The Golden Bird (1987), dir. Toshio Hirata, Toei Doga/Madhouse

Cartoon with the city of Dayton, Tennessee, where the Scopes trail was held, represented as an organ grinder. The organ is labeled “Scopes trial,” and the grinder’s monkey is collecting dollars labeled “publicity.”

OTD in 1925 John Scopes was found guilty of violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee statute that forbade the teaching of "any theory … that man has descended from a lower order of animals."

The trial was as much an effort to bring tourist money into Dayton TN as anything else.

🐋🌱🧠🗃️🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio

Oh ew

Absolutely legendary screen chemistry on this pair

post black and white film gifs / vids / images 🎥 🖤 #filmsky

Normalise this.

You ever just look at jumping spiders and be like "Yeah man." You cute little Tachikoma.

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

today in spiders

Reconstructions of Velociraptor running (top) and Shri rapax jumping (bottom)

The newly described (just a few days ago) Shri rapax (bottom) and its close relative the famous Velociraptor mongoliensis (top) 🪶

#paleoart #dinosaurs #art

A couple photos of my new favorite arachnid while she was renovating her enclosure. You get a nice view of her chompers (chelicera). #inverts
(Solifugid) Portal, AZ

Digital art illustration of two moths sitting with wings spread on top of two slightly ragged pieces of fabric. The topmost moth is pink with a zig-zag pattern on its wings, and its sitting on a white piece of fabric with black spots. The second moth is white with black spots, and it is sitting on a pink piece of fabric with white zig-zag stripes.

Repost with your moths! #Art

Opinion | When Covid hit Black Americans hard, too many white Americans shrugged The higher rates of infection and death weren’t the result of anything Black people had done to make ourselves sick; they were an example of how systemic racism plays out in our lives.

When Covid hit Black Americans hard, too many white Americans shrugged www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Could AI slow science? Confronting the production-progress paradox

Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications.

www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

New York Times headline: "Is it Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?" Above the headline a photo of the vampires from Sinners, asking to be let in. The photo has been modified with a downward-facing word balloon to create the effect that the vampires are speaking the headline.

Big data, changing taxonomy, and ghost records: permanent preservation of collected specimens is essential for insect monitoring Abstract. Successful long-term biodiversity monitoring requires consistent identification of all specimens, both those newly collected and those collected

New paper out on an important issue — monitoring insects requires preserving the specimens. We explored this issue using data from the Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, which has systematically destroyed most of their specimens for decades. A 🧵(1/10)

doi.org/10.1093/aesa...

Morning all. A Buster Keaton moment to start the day... 🎬
#filmsky #moviesky #cinema

If you're in range for Dolomedes scriptus, I'd bet money on that instead. They are very similar!

A small spider on the stem of a plant. I am holding the stem between pinched fingers and the spider looks absolutely tiny by comparison.

This is one of my favorite photos of an ant-mimicking jumping spider. You can see just how small they are and how much they look like ants!
Slender Ant-mimic Jumping Spider (Synemosyna formica)

Tops down view of the spider on a leaf. It is mostly shaped like an ant and has the same coloring except for a square head and literally clear legs, like glass.

View of the spider from the front. It is looking over the edge of a leaf with two large, forward facing eyes. It is tiny and has translucent legs.

Found my first ant-mimicking jumping spider of the year today. So, so, tiny, this one has some growing to do.
Slender Ant-mimic Jumping Spider (Synemosyna formica)

good night friends

Participants in the SWRS Spider Biology course, on a night with many tarantulas

Several hands gently hold a male Aphonopelma chalcodes tarantula, softly illuminated by headlamps during a nighttime encounter in the Arizona desert. The spider’s golden-tan abdomen and darker, hairy legs are clearly visible, highlighting a calm interaction.

A group of people gathers closely around the bright beam of a headlamp focused on the rocky desert ground, eagerly observing a male Aphonopelma chalcodes tarantula burrow. Some individuals document the discovery with their smartphones, capturing the group's excitement.

A peaceful nighttime landscape of the Arizona desert under a clear, star-filled sky. Silhouetted mountains frame the scene, and wispy clouds catch faint moonlight. A narrow dirt road, softly illuminated by vehicle headlights, curves gently through sparse vegetation, conveying tranquility of the desert night

Detailed side-view close-up of a male Aphonopelma chalcodes tarantula resting calmly on a person's hand and forearm. Illuminated by a headlamp beam, the spider's texture and coloration, dark legs and golden-tan abdomen, are sharply defined against the dark background.

On one of the many magical days in our spider course in Arizona, a local told us about a beautiful male A. chalcodes on a road to the nearby. We headed that way, not expecting much in the desert night. To our luck, the spider was exactly where she said.
#Theraphosidae #Invert #spidersky 🪲🪳🌿

It's been so good--and is returning to SWRS in 2027 ❤️

It's a funnel weaver and a male :)

North Carolina is an asshole of a state because despite always being close it has a reliable enough GOP vote that they usually win

but in the environment I expect next fall, especially if Roy Cooper runs, I would favor the Dems at this point

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return