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Avec son pronotum aux extrémités en pointe, elle ne passe pas inaperçue!
Et pourtant elle reste bien discrète dans les forêts fraîches et humides qu'elle affectionne. Sur chèvrefeuilles (Lonicera sp), bouleau, charme...
Elasmucha ferrugata

#punaises #nature #biodiversite #animals #insects #insectes #macro #macrophotgraphy #environnement #entomology #inventairenaturaliste #biology

It's the fall season where I live, and I'm a bit sad that most of the house plants have finished blooming. #houseplants #houseplant #houseplantsofmastodon #photography #photo #macro #macrophotgraphy #omsystem #pixelfed #pxlmo #tuesday
Schmalbiene #macrophotgraphy
Bluesky

Bluesky Social

This Calvatomina superba is one of New Zealand's many crazily-coloured globular springtails, most of which are still undescribed to science.

Springtails like this are capable of instantaneously leaping to heights of up to 100 times their body length - equivalent to a human jumping over the Eiffel tower!

#Macrophotgraphy #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Entomology #Collembola

We've had some nice low tides along Puget Sound. July 5th was about a minus 3.9. Some creatures:
1) Mottled Star (Evasterias troschelii)
2) Ochre Sea Star (Pisaster ochraceus) and Painted Anemone (Urticina grebelnyi)
3) Orange Sea Cucumber (Cucumaria miniata)
4) Northern Kelp Crab (Pugettia producta)
#PNW #marinelife #tidepool #PugetSound #seastar #anemone #crab #sealife #nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotgraphy #shore #washingtonstate
And to finish, a video of this hardworking ant carrying a huge caterpillar !
#insects #nature #macrophotgraphy #predation