Frosch Bfrühling! (symbolbild)
Graue Sandbiene
Andrena cineraria
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graue_Sandbiene
#insekten #insects #wildbienen #bees #krabbeltierchen #BugOfTheDay #AuwaldRunde #sex #nature #biodiversity #entomology
auch schick: dieser wie klavierlack-lackierte käfer mit dem schmucken namen
Zweifleckiger Schmuckläufer
Anisodactylus binotatus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisodactylus_binotatus
die namensgebenden flecken sind wohl ganz vorne zwischen den augen, hier also nicht zu sehen.
#insekten #insects #beetle #kaefer #krabbeltierchen #AuwaldRunde #BugOfTheDay #nature #biodiversity #entomology
Flipboard Science Desk"The first time Marcela Cosarinsky saw a nest of Atta vollenweideri leaf-cutter ants, ... local children showed her a mound of earth nearly broad enough to park a Jeep on, crowned with chimney-like tubes. She was shocked that insects could build something so huge."
From @KnowableMag: "These ants farm, but they are also master builders."
Plazi Species#NewSpecies!
New butterfly from #china just fluttered by:
Dodona yehuii
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0385879B-A043-9C71-FF44-22CEFD71FE46
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5777.3.6
#Zootaxa #DodonaYehuii
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #entomology #insects #lepidoptera #butterfly
Colin PurringtonFemale Georgia mason bee (Osmia georgica) with remnants of processed pollen on her mandibles. There are varying estimates of how many foraging trips they make to complete a pollen ball, but maybe 20-40. This species tends to focus on flowers in the Asteraceae and Rosaceae. #bees #insects #hymenoptera #entomology #nature #pollinator #pollen
#NewSpecies!
New grasshopper from #mexico just hopped in:
Oaxaca tecuani
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/034287C1-FF9E-FFD4-FF61-FDE06D255375
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5760.3.1
#Zootaxa #OaxacaTecuani
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #entomology #insects #orthoptera #grasshopper
#BugOfTheDay - bug macht den spiderman :D
Grüne Stinkwanze
Palomena prasina
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCne_Stinkwanze
#insekten #insects #bugstodon #macro #krabbeltierchen #AuwaldRunde #nature #biodiversity #entomology
ShyamalSuch a clean and neat diagram! Ammophila tamping down on nest entrance with a small pebble - an example of tool-use by insects ... from J. W. Folsom (see earlier post)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ammophila_urnaria_tool_using.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Henry_Frison
American bumble-bee specialist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Skinner_(entomologist)
American entomologist who hated "sloppydoptera"
