Mastodawn

Crazy! After yesterday's insane winds, there are still cicada shells high in this tree.

~meoralis~Jun 17, 2025

#FotoVorschlag: #Insekten // #Insects

Keiner mehr zu Hause // #Abandoned places – #cicada edition

#exoskeleton #exuviae #exuvia #cicadas #Zikade #Zikaden #Exuvie #Häutungshemd #Exoskelett

kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮ 🖖Jun 2, 2025

#Exuviae of a #dragonfly (Aeshna cyanea or Aeshna grandis perhaps?)

#photography #nature #wildlife #insects #dragonflies
(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

NIOO-KNAW Sep 13, 2024

New publication: Microbial community dynamics during decomposition of insect #exuviae and #frass in #soil. #diseasemanagement #fungalbiomass
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109426

Microbial community dynamics during decomposition of insect exuviae and frass in soil

With the expected growth of insect mass rearing industry, residual streams are set to become increasingly available. However, before these residues ca…

gerg Nov 4, 2023

The leftover exoskeleton (or "exuviae", as I just learned) of a moulted insect, possibly a leafhopper (Cicadellidae sp.).

#macro #nature #insect #exoskeleton #exuviae

Ricós has moved Apr 27, 2023

A photo and a confession for InverteFest:
Whenever I see a cicada exuvia hanging from a tree, I think biology, metamorphosis, survival strategies built around prime numbers, the beauty of shape, ancient lifeforms adapting to our artificial environments... elevated, intellectual things, mind you. But that other part of my brain just plays this loud: https://youtu.be/xJZF-skCY-M

#InverteFest
#Cicada #Insect #UrbanNature #PhonePhotography #Exuviae #Valencia

Andrew S. Flies @WildImmunity Dec 25, 2022

#Cicada #exuviae #NewZealand

sean f smith / he him Jun 21, 2022

It's the forties. You live in a bayside city that's secretly under the control of an insect cult, and tonight you're going to prove it.
#EXUVIAE #trpg #horror #CallOfCthulhu
https://tinyurl.com/EXUVIAE

EXUVIAE | Relics of House Dragonfly - Sean Smith | DriveThruRPG.com

EXUVIAE | Relics of House Dragonfly - Imagine if David Cronenberg directed The Maltese Falcon "One of the few truly functional investigative RPGs I've read.

Sean Smith May 11, 2018

Just had confirmation from the printers that #exuviae is being shipped! #clicksend

Sean Smith Jan 28, 2018

I'll be running #EXUVIAE in the morning at Spaghetti ConJunction on February Tenth all up in Brum. Do come along.
https://spaghetticonjunction.wordpress.com/games-for-2a/

Games for 2A

Morning Games Atomic Butterflies and Feral Buddleia Watching the swarm of butterflies flowing between the Buddleia at the ‘meadow’ where you play is peaceful in the sunshine and the sil…