PriaFeb 11
Any #entomologists out there who might be able to identify this #butterfly There's evidence from the photo history that it's a Red Admiral but I keep thinking it looks far more like a heliconius melpomene, the Postman butterfly.
Iris Richardson Fine Art 🇩🇪🇺🇸📷Aug 24, 2025

There is a change in the air, and pollinators are tirelessly collecting pollen.

https://www.pictorem.com/2436710/common-eastern-bumble-bee-on-flower/

#bee #insect #macro #art #artist #IrisRichadsonArt #wallart #artgifts #artprints #fallforart #buyintoart #ayearforart #entomophile #Entomologists #gardening #GardeningMastodon #beneficialinsect #pollinators

Iris Richardson Fine Art 🇩🇪🇺🇸📷Aug 24, 2025

Those cute little skipper are tough to catch

https://www.pictorem.com/2436663/huron-sachem-on-purple-flower/

#insect #skipper #art #artist #IrisRichardsonArt #macro #photography #smallbusiness #ayearforart #buyintoart #fallforart #Wallart #artprints #entomophile #Entomologists
#SouthJersey #NewJerseyArtist

NaomiH.artJul 16, 2025
Absolutely delighted that my #nasturtium is getting decimated by #caterpillars. Enough left for my salads and feeding the next generation of #wildlife. I think these are #large white as there's one often around. Any #entomologists out there? 🧪 #bloomscrolling #garden #flowers #nature
Show threadKevin RussellJul 12, 2025

@glyph

Repost your post with the second paragraph turned into #hashtags

#biophilia #biology #biologyGeek #Botanists #entomologists #mycologists #whereAreYou

no algorthms on mastodon except hashtags, nothing is steered to your eyes, nothing takes your posts to biologists, except hashtags.

and boosts.

boost a lot, be the algorthm, hashtag a lot, its the #mastodon system

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jun 4, 2025
‘Half the tree of life’: #ecologists’ horror as #nature reserves are emptied of #insects
A new point in history has been reached, #entomologists say, as #climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of #pesticides
The declines witnessed by Janzen and others around world – are part of what some ecologists call “new era” of #ecologicalcollapse, rapid #extinctions occur in regions that have little direct contact with people.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

The Guardian
S ZhangJan 21, 2025
#postdoc #career opportunity in #florida for forest #entomologists: https://pitchtube.org/job-opportunity-entomology-and-biosecurity-synthesis-postdoc/
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MarkDDec 9, 2024

Who says #entomologists can't be a bundle of laughs?

It's #cicada season here so the press are running a few articles on the noisy critters. From one of these I discovered that our local bug watchers have adopted some rather interesting common names for different species, including:

Whiskey Drinker
Cherry Nose
Yellow Monday
Red Eye
Greengrocer
Brown Baker
Black Prince
Double Drummer
and
Razor

I'm sure Gary Larson would approve.

David MeissnerJul 27, 2024

2/2

Ever since, come September, we have many praying mantises in our yard. Egg sacs appear every fall, hidden around the yard, and the next year we see the mantises again. The pictures are from the last few years; the one of mating mantises is of Rosie and one of her friends.

I read that they probably hatch in June, but we’ve never seen any babies until now.

I’m just surprised to have gone my entire life seeing one or two mantises, and now we see maybe a dozen in our yard every year. We feel privileged; they’re such beautiful and interesting creatures.

We live on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, in a dry prairie region. My question for any #entomologists out there: is something going on? Is this related to the changing climate? Or is it just a result of random migrations?

#insects #bugs #entomology #entomologists #prayingmantises #mantises

David MeissnerJul 27, 2024

1/2

In September 2020, for probably only the second or third time in my entire life, we saw an adult praying mantis in our back yard. For a month or so we watched her hunt, feed, mate with several different males, and grow a bulging abdomen. We called her Rosie.

Finally, she was gone, and later we found an egg sac attached to our wooden fence.

#insects #bugs #entomology #entomologists #prayingmantises #mantises