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Eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus, 2024-04-25

#animals #mammals #sciuridae #Tamias striatus #eastern chipmunk #my photo #nature photography

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Orchid mantises from the Montréal Insectarium.

#montréal insectarium #animals #insects #bugs #entomology #mantodea #Hymenopus coronatus #orchid mantis #my photo

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12/8/22: decomposing vertebrae harboring algal growth.

#bones #aes

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we just keep naming bugs like this

#funny posts #insects #so mean to that poor treehopper and sweat bee #Lasioglossum versans I would be your friend

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I might be a little biased but I’m honestly starting to believe that there’s no purer form of love than the defensive spite you see from biologists that have devoted their life to the study of a maligned or misunderstood species. For example:

The hyena biologist that arranged for Disney animators to come sketch captive  hyenas for The Lion King film (Laurence Frank) was so incensed when the animals were depicted as villains in the movie that he later included boycotting the film on a list of ways the average person could help hyena conservation.

Though it’s commonly known that Charles Darwin’s distaste for parasitic wasps played a role in his development of evolution theory (since he felt no loving God would create animals with such a disturbing life cycle), the biologists who study these wasps find it an unfair characterization. When they were tasked with coming up with a common name for the family of parasitic wasps (Ichneumonidae) that old Charles so disliked, they proposed the name “Darwin Wasps” to spite the famous naturalist who had insulted their beloved family of insects.

Parasitologist Tommy Leung was so frustrated with the way people write about parasites to evoke horror and gore that he started writing a Parasite of the Day blog, that specifically avoids inflammatory or unsettling language to describe them. He also illustrates different species in colorful anime art on Twitter in a series called Parasite Monster Girls—which he calls his “love letter to parasites.”

I guess I’m just saying that if you’re a biologist studying an unpopular species and you have a little bit of a chip on your shoulder about it you can always count on me to be in your corner if you want to get a little petty with the public!

#:')

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Drawing Birds. Written and illustrated by Maurice Wilson. Published in 1965.

Internet Archive

#art #animals #insp #birds #passeriformes #corvidae

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can't stop thinking about this... everyone say thank you citizen science i love you citizen science

TRANSCRIPTION: an iNaturalist post reading "Species Discoveries. Here are three of the most amazing species discoveries on iNaturalist from this month:

A. In New Zealand, @pav_johnsson hung a mothlight from his hotel balcony while on a birding trip and became the only living person known to have seen the holy grail of New Zealand moths, the Frosted Phoenix moth

B. In California, @lcollingsparker posted an observation that, with the help of scientists @easmeds, @bugsoundsjc, and @willc-t, turned out to be the rediscovery of Western Red Cicada, which was thought to be extinct.

C. In Brazil, @birdernaturalist played an important role in the rediscovery of the Tananà, a katydid used as an example in Darwin's writings on sexual selection that hasn't been seen for 150 years"

#inaturalist #citizen science beloved we love you citizen science #I need to start bringing my blacklight and a white sheet everywhere I go #I'm gonna try light trapping during the eclipse monday... not gonna find new species #but might record interesting behaviors

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Some of my favorite displays from the Montréal Insectarium. While the insectarium's chromatic displays are famous for good reason, when it comes to display specimens, I'm a huge fan of displays that show off the animal's lifecycle, an adaptation or a behavior/intra or inter species interaction. Love the various camouflage displays and little things like the bird cutout in the wing extensions display that showcases one of the functions of said hindwing extensions.

#montréal insectarium #museums #pinned insects #insects #invertebrates #animals #fossils #my photo

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POV you made a popular post about insects

#funny posts #real unfortunately.

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Atta sp. (leafcutter) ants at the Montréal insectarium, 2023

#montréal insectarium #invertebrates #hymenoptera #ants #Atta #formicidae #animals #insects #my video #bugs

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time 2 to assess the delightful beast - Homeomastax sp.

#animals #insects #orthoptera

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Virginia Wildlife; vol. 17, no. 2. February, 1956.

Internet Archive

#art #animals #mammals #canidae #insp

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Dark the puma photographed by Victor Vega. He is one of the oldest male pumas in Torres del Paine at about fifteen years old.

#animals #mammals #felidae

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shirt that says “THIS WAS WETLAND ONCE AND IT WILL BE WETLAND AGAIN”

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very cool but also kind of a dick move

#animals #birds #falconiformes #this is def a behavior I could see being used in xenofiction

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Blue net-spinning caddisfly, Polymorphanisus elisabethae, Hydropsychidae, Trichoptera

Found in Sub-Saharan Africa

Photo 1 by stefaneakame and 2 by thijsvalkenburg

#animals #insects #trichoptera

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gorgeous leucistic fisher (Pekania pennanti) from iNaturalist

#animals #mammals #mustelidae