Forget #BlueMonday and make today all about the beauty of INSECTS! Let’s spread some joy & share our snaps of #BlueBugs 🦋
Here’s one of my favourites: a Blue Ground beetle (Carabus intricatus) 💙
Ash Whiffin
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Entomologist & museum nerd. 🔬🪲 Beetles 💚 #CommunityScience | #CarrionBeetles NRS Co-organiser Silphidae Recording Scheme. She/Her. 🐞 Views my own.
Looking forward to sharing one of my favourite spots for urban nature in #Edinburgh…
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/winterwatch-2023 #Winterwatch
Alex WildI was sure this was a leaf beetle (Chrysomelidae) when I photographed it in Panama.
But no. It's actually a darkling beetle (Tenebrionidae) in the genus Nilio. Beetles never cease to... they just never cease. There are far too many of them.
Visited by a very seasonally appropriate moth this week…
A December Moth (Poecilocampa populi) #InvertFest
Brent Toderian
Gino BrignoliYour Christmas baubles have got nothing on these STUNNERS! 🪲✨
📷 Jewel beetles from the collection at National Museums Scotland (Sternocera spp.)
Based on specimen collection estimates from GBIF (about 1M/year), for every one insect collected and deposited in a research institution, about 200,000,000 are killed on roads.
This is to say that, in the midst of a massive biodiversity crisis, focusing on scientific overcollecting is fine but more of a distraction.
Julia Mlynarek 🪰🐝🐛🦋🌼One of my favourite display cases in the new #Insectarium of #Montréal . The #beetles are so beautiful!
It took countless hours by the #entomology technicians to pin the specimens and to create this masterpiece. The other display cases are just as impressive :)
#biodiversity
(I work with a fantastic team)
It took countless hours by the #entomology technicians to pin the specimens and to create this masterpiece. The other display cases are just as impressive :)
#biodiversity
(I work with a fantastic team)
