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Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed”.⁠
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#printmaking #sciart #histsci

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Sep 29, 2025

Seven #Ticks Hitched Very Long Rides to #Connecticut
Nonnative species from #Europe, #LatinAmerica and Eastern #Africa reached the #US by latching on to travelers, offering clues about how ticks spread in a warming world.
"Main finding is that we are facing an increasing risk of invasive ticks in the United States,” said Goudarz Molaei, author and #entomologist. He added rate of unintentional introductions of nonnative species appears to be rising
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/science/ticks-invasive-species-connecticut.html
https://archive.ph/mu97W

Seven Ticks Hitched Very Long Rides to Connecticut

The nonnative species from Europe, Latin America and Eastern Africa reached the United States by latching on to travelers, a study by researchers in the state shows, offering clues about how ticks spread in a warming world.

The New York Times

JamesKinghamPhotography Aug 26, 2025

The common garden spider, Uk.

Garden spiders are the most common orb web spider in the UK often found in gardens, giving them their name!

They are greyish-brown with a white cross on their back and spin their famous spiral webs! They sit in the middle of the web waiting to feel the vibrations of a struggling insect in the sticky threads of its web. They then rush out and wrap their prey tightly in silk to stop them from moving – finishing the job with a venomous bite!

This may sound scary – but they are completely harmless to humans!

#gardenspider #spiders #spider #orb #venomous #araneusdiadematus #insect #arachnophobia #arachnid #web #webs #photo #photographer #wildlife #wildlifephotography #entomology #entomologist

NatureMatchCuts Podcast May 21, 2025

With #entomologist and #ecologist Mike Williams, illustrator Marian Hill explored local native #insects and explained the effects of #noMowMay and #gardening for #nature: posters showed #pestControls, #pollinators. People began to understand #invertebrates. www.marianhill.co.uk #biodiversity

MARIAN HILL

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Ele Willoughby, PhD May 16, 2025

Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

Her posthumous books featured her “wild and fearless life,” but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimens 🧵

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histsci #mastoArt

NaomiH.art May 13, 2025

Could an #entomologist tell me what this is, and what's going on on its head, please? Rescued from a rockpool at the beach in #Devon #UK The third pic is even more out of focus, sorry, but seems to have something else attached, too... 🤔🧪

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Ele Willoughby, PhD Apr 2, 2025

Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed”.⁠ 🧵
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#printmaking #linocut #sciart #MastoArt

History_of_Geology Feb 8, 2025

February 8, 1825, birthday of #entomologist 🦋 Henry Walter Bates, he explored together with A.R. Wallace the Amazonas region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Walter_Bates

Sometimes insects 🦋 and minerals💎 share surprising similarities:

Henry Walter Bates - Wikipedia

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In "The Raid on the Termites" (Paul Ernst, 1932), an #entomologist daydreams about being shrunk to ant-size and exploring a #termite mound. His friend finds the notion of being “suddenly confronted by a thing as big as a horse, with fifteen-foot jaws of steely horn that could slice [him] in two” exciting. Jim imagines writing a book:

“What a book of travel it would make! ‘The Raid on the Termites. Exploring an Insect Hell. Death in an Ant-hill…’”
“Termitary! Termitary!” corrected Denny irritably.

Doing a long press on the word, what sayeth Wiktionary in #koReader?

_Termitary: an anthill built and occupied by termites._

#words #vocabulary #termites #insects