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💚 🌱🌿 #nativeplants #invertebrates 🦀⛵ #Maryland 🌎 #ecoregion65

#NewSpecies!
New spider from #ecuador just jumped in:

Taczanowskia waska

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E0648788-FFA5-1B2E-B296-6732F0FBFE54
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5760.5.4
#Zootaxa #TaczanowskiaWaska

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Plazi Species 2d ago

#NewSpecies!
New planthopper from #australia just hopped in:

Gelastopsis croydonensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F55278-FFA3-FFB9-F329-7E1BFBF6F9FE
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1039.3177
#EuropeanJournalOfTaxonomy #GelastopsisCroydonensis

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Guerric Haché 3d ago

A fascinating and weird beetle I encountered recently during the global City Nature Challenge: Enoclerus sphegeus. There's not much else like it around here!

#invertebrates #insect #beetle #enoclerus #macro #nature #inaturalist

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨3d ago

🦗🔬 University of #Sydney researchers found that house #crickets perform "flexible self-protection" by nursing specific injuries, suggesting they experience pain-like states rather than simple reflexes.

The directed behavior indicates a level of conscious experience previously underestimated in #invertebrates. The findings could challenge our approach toward #insects, supporting a growing scientific consensus on their complex cognitive capabilities.

👉 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/13/insects-feel-pain-research

#insects #biology #science #entomology #nature #research #evolution #neuroscience #discovery #ethics #fruitflies

Don’t reach for the bug spray: crickets stroke a sore antenna, as cues suggest insects feel pain

The behavioural cue of ‘flexible self-protection’ is a way to establish whether an animal feels pain, scientists say

The Guardian

Wanderin' Weeta 🍁3d ago

Compost bin spider. Eratigena sp. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/05/homebody.html #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Arañas #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

Susannah 🍁3d ago

Compost bin spider. Eratigena sp. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/05/homebody.htmlhtml #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Arañas #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

[BITES YOU]🎨📷🔞3d ago

Hobonichi art 19.
Wolfie the wolf spider. I found it about a year ago and kept it because winter was coming. Poor thing was missing two legs and a half but it got by just fine 🤎

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