Witalis värld

Here in sweden we have atleast two types of digital IDs used in the latest election. The one i personally have is originally made for my bank i believe?

That said, if my government started asking me to scan it everytime i go online id go scorched earth so maybe i dont really have a balanced view 😅

Discord has already had terrabytes of ID data hacked because of the new verification laws, including pics of actual IDs. But the government wont take the blame because they bought a third party to handle the verification.

And discord is mostly used by the younger generation. 🫤

Is that common? I know i have atleast one specimen (some Apoidea, i dont remember exactly) in my collection with different veination on either side.

Sometimes nature makes... variations. You dont see 3 eyed marchflies everyday 🤨

Not the first baby pushed in the pram either appearently! Very specific 😅

Out with friends looking for some nice places to visit next summer. Only a few bugs out and about, but alot of other interesting stuff!

It is me!

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species

go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

Cant imagen the mess i would have made if i was working with just a single family of lookalikes 😱

Oh, and ofcourse i deleted a column when i upgraded the layout yesterday so now im missing every 12th specimens lable 😂

Luckily i startedwith the latest specimens an realised "471, 470, 469... 467" wasnt quite right. And t shieldbug next in line definately wasnt a hoverfly like the label said!

Only 1500 labels to go, and then finding a better way to sort it all than date of catch 😅

Ca 450 specimen caught at 3 of the local cemeteries on the behalf of the parish as a first step to evaluating their work with biodiversity.

My fav find when visiting the US a few years ago! Never expected four eyed beetles 😅

I were supposed to be sending some wolfspiders to the US, for a DNA study. No return required. I were the only one from northern europe to who would be contributing. We made plans to send them through the museum last week, today i was told theyve suspended all shipping 🫤

Seeing a Tetraopes was the highlight of my US visit a few years ago! 🙂

Caught my first Perilampidae the other day! Not many reported in sweden but i have no clue what species it might be.

The swedish name "Gropglanssteklar" means "pitted gloss-wasps" (if "wasp" is the common name for all hymenoptera). And i mean, it isnt *wrong"... but it is kinda weird 😅

Tho im not used to see it as saturated as here 😅

Its such a cool hue of orange assell 🙂

I think i heard something bout naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm is going back to Papua new guinea later this year again. My supervisor went last winter to collect insects. I doubt anyone's even had time to sort the samples...

Du kan kolla med Svensk botanisk tidskrift kanske? Populärvetenskaplig dock, men utgiven sen 1907. Har inte läst den själv så vet inte vad det är för typ av publikation, men dom kontaktade mig i våras för en bildförfrågan 🤷

De publiceras gratis på DIVA efter två år men är prenumeration annars.

Sweden seem to have the highest concentration of reports of Sinarachna pallipes according to GBIF, possibly after Canada (but we're a waaay smaller country).

According to the national recording efforts we only have 14 reports though, including this one, 21 with their extended database.

Araniella sp. With a sneaky passanger.

Almost exactly a month after capture i was greeted with this wasp cocoon.

Sinarachna pallipes, male.

So this year i have my first real "bug job" (doing an inventory of local cemeteries) and i came across this lil spider with a passanger earlier this spring.

After having fed it aphids for a month it was finally time for the parasite to take over and i found this cocoon instead.

#insectweek

When will the apps-with-a-green-bird-logo stop shooting themselves in the foot with AI?

Anyway, im off to uninstall the app now ig 🤷

So the next green bird app decided itd rather do AI than the core idea it was built on?

WELP. Good luck with that. Worked SO great for the other green bird. Time to uninstall apps ig! (You only get to keep my old pics cause they connect to the state owned reporting site in my country).

Female common yellow-face bee (Hylaeus cummunis).

The typical markings, tho in males the species we have around here tend to be almost fully whitecor yellow.

First "lemon bee" of the year! #Hylaeus 😃
While the english speaking world named the group after the markings on their faces, sweeds named them after the scent they release when disturbed (tho it seems it might be used in social interactions aswell). First time i get to experience the smell too 😯

A very early Ceratina cyanea male on Tussilago farfara. Emerged about 3 weeks before the next earliest report this year and (and that was waaay south where theyre supposed to wake up before here). Photo taken on the 12th of april.

Saturnia pavonia. Not supposed to be out and about during the day but this guy didnt even noticed i kept moving him around to get a good angle 😅

Synageles venator, my first time seeing one of the ant mimicing jumping spiders we have here in Sweden. This one found a lamppost in the middle of a lawn where they had been mowing for an hour or so before i found it.

Cercidia prominens, on a wall. Found during my part time project of doing an invertebrate inventory of the local cemeteries.

Took a few days to build a good net, but it finally got a snack!

Its warm weather again. Lots of new bugs i havnt seen before! I've also become a babysitter to a parasitized Araniella spider. Hopefully i can learn what wasp is going cheap on the childcare!

Been there, done that! Saw a very common beetle a few meters away and scared (and got scared by) a snake hidden in the tall grass between us. Good thing we dont have any lethal ones here in Scandinavia 😅

Translating from the greek name is also pretty accurate; hidden head beetles!

Yeah, whenever i "translate" the name from swedish i start to think of those fainting goats - which weirdly enough is kinda fitting now that i think about it 😂

Is that a cryptocephalus? In swedish theyre called "falling beetles" and its sush a cute lil name imo 🙂

(tho we name a lot of beetles after farm animals for some reason, so really theyre called "falling rams" 😅)