Mastodawn

My first Orange Tip #butterfly of the year on Garlic Mustard for the #WildflowerHour #HedgerowChallenge. #invertebrates #UKWildlife #Somerset #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

Blue Appaloosa 1h ago

I actually submitted something to this InverteFest Art Book! Other people submitted much better work, so you should definitely look through the whole book.

You can find a pdf of the book here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RJ5mmdWo_vWfqvPaIHgnYaCn5BOavY6c/view?usp=drive_link

You can get this design on stickers, t-shirts, mugs, and other things on my Threadless!

https://blueappaloosa.threadless.com/

#InverteFest #ArtShop #FediGiftShop #Invertebrates

Public Domain Image Archive 2d ago

Hard Carbonate of Lime (*Calx carbonata dura*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ba1debec-9077-455b-a71c-0750e1d8736e

#minerals #marine #geology #biology #rocks #invertebrates #mineralogy #art #publicdomain

Plazi Species 2d ago

#NewSpecies!
New damselfly from #india just landed:

Coeliccia magna

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/04718783-BC7B-FFF3-FF43-FC3BFBF4FD4C
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5760.4.1
#Zootaxa #CoelicciaMagna

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #entomology #insects #odonata #damselfly

John Dal 2d ago

A bit of AI jiggery pokery. This is the nymph of an Olive Dun Mayfly, Naetis rhodani. I photographed it in shallow water in a plastic box, but the artificial background was distracting and naff. Lightrooms AI selection tools allowed me to accurately select the mayfly and smooth the background. It would have taken hours to do the same manually. #Photography #AI #Lightroom #Nature #Invertebrates #Mayfly