Melanie and the Pot of Jam, page 4 illustration

Page 4 illustration from my latest story that I work with the illustrator Nicola B @NicolaButterfli, https://twitter.com/NicolaButterfli to create. It’s called Melanie and the Pot of Jam.

Nicola has worked on a number of books with her two daughters. This is an example of one of them, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosie-Red-Admiral-Beccas-Butterflies/dp/B08WZCV8PR/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=red+admiral+butterfly+rebecca&qid=1624740974&sr=8-1.

Meanwhile I have 8 published books on Amazon for children of different ages so why not take a look at my author page and look them up.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Our Etsy shop https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

#NewSpecies!
New wormlion fly from #china just landed:

Vermitigris tsangyanggyatso

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6F437EBF-A2E8-5400-BC02-9B5734F6A9BE
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1276.184675
#ZooKeys #VermitigrisTsangyanggyatso

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #entomology #insects #diptera #fly #wormlionflies

#NewSpecies!
New fruit fly from #india just landed:

Rhabdochaeta octomaculata

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AA1987FE-FFD7-C049-28AA-035CC7F8FF6E
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
#Zootaxa #RhabdochaetaOctomaculata

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #entomology #insects #diptera #fly #fruitflies

遠い高み　　далеких висот
目指せ、空高く光輝く星を、
Цілься в сяючу зірку високо в небі,

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/nca5e61f3ace8

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#star #shine #sky #never #able #beautiful #you #fly #away #Chase #light #catch #run

There's a new fly in town.

While out for a run yesterday, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, I noticed this unusual orange-headed black fly. I uploaded my photos to #iNaturalist when I got home and learned that it's the Australian Soldier Fly, *Inopus rubriceps*. This looks to be the first record of it anywhere in the South Island south of Nelson.

The species is a minor pasture pest and is well-established in NZ's North Island, where it was first seen in 1944.

As the world warms, NZ continues to fill with Australian insects. They first establish in the North Island then spread southwards. The pattern is repeating over and over. In this case, the two Australian parasitoid wasps (Neurogalesus spp.) that feed on *Inopus rubriceps* have also already established in the North Island.

*Inopus rubriceps* is a distinctive fly, especially the female which has the orange head (the male is all black). Keep an eye out and you might find some more of them.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/347771177

#Diptera #entomology #iNaturalistNZ #invasionBiology #insects #nz #Christchurch #fly