Casey Richart

#Conservation #CommunityScience #Biodiversity #TerrestrialGastropods #Millipedes #Arachnida #ShortRangeEndemics #Opiliones are mine (unless retweeted) He/Him

[Moore Foundation @MooreFound]

Congrats to Scott Loarie & Ken-ichi Ueda! 2024 #HeinzAward for Environment🍃@inaturalist is the world’s largest citizen science project. It connects millions of people to nature, crowdsourcing one of the most extensive biodiversity databases on the planet. https://t.co/cLXHLAEJh7

[Marshal Hedin @marshalhedin]

pretty Habronattus cf empyrus from southern Baja California

from a couple of years back

[Casey Richart @CaseyRichart]

It turns out, even with all of those little anty-bodies, they can still get virus infections 🐜

[Dr. Corrie Moreau @CorrieMoreau]

Excited to share this new publication led by the amazing @Peterflynnant on "Viral diversity and co-evolutionary dynamics across the ant phylogeny" which includes 3710 novel and unique ant-associated viral genomes! https://t.co/IlOYWAzvRT

[Marshal Hedin @marshalhedin]

a combination of adorable and slightly menacing

from far northern CA

[Marshal Hedin @marshalhedin]

the dementors are coming

Anza Borrego DSP, near Vallecitos

[Marshal Hedin @marshalhedin]

female #Habronattus jucundus from the Warner Mountains of far northeastern California

[Marshal Hedin @marshalhedin]

proud mama and her woodducklings

[iNaturalist @inaturalist]

Happy #MolluscMonday! Our Observation of the Day is this Red Giant #snail (Indrella ampulla), seen in #India by madhavan_a_p!

This species is endemic to the Western Ghats of India.

More details at: https://t.co/D0OtoLptez #biodiversity #malacology #nature

[Marshal Hedin @marshalhedin]

portrait of Paeromopus angusticeps from Shasta County CA

[Casey Richart @CaseyRichart]

@wildwallacepix Same genus as the Palouse Giant Earthworm. My understanding is that the species taxonomy is not well understood on the west slope of the PNW

[Marshal Hedin @marshalhedin]

I believe Amplaria, western Shasta County CA

under woody debris

[Marshal Hedin @marshalhedin]

check the pedipalps (out front) on this immature Hesperonemastoma harvester

what Wolff et al 2016 called "sticky whips". the sticky comes from plumose setae with glandular secretions which combine to capture small agile prey items

paper here:
https://t.co/Iotj0IIW0h

[Jeff Forgeron @WeatherJefe]

Double stack of lenticular clouds over the ridges of Mount St. Helens. Absolutely GORGEOUS! Thanks to Becky Hendrick for sharing this photo. #WAwx

[. @ThomasShahan]

Initially, I had NO idea what these tiny alien things were -distracted by the intricate flowery bits, I was even considering fungus!🙄

Once home, a bit of research reveals they're assassin bug eggs🥚The eggs of Sinea spp have fancy corollae -making them look like tiny flowers!🌻

[Tim Jonas @TimothyJonas]

So far, from my Brockadale walk this week we've had hairy cows, hairy flies, a hairy caterpillar, a hairy bee and now it's time for... a Hairy Snail (Trochulus hispidus)!

[Tim Jonas @TimothyJonas]

Dicyrtoma fusca tucking in to dinner. #collembola

[Oliver C Wright @OW_Photography]

Todays arctic chicken :)

I did another trip up the mountain today and saw many ptarmigan again!

In Abisko National Park

[American Arachnological Society @AAS_arachnology]

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[Tim Jonas @TimothyJonas]

A closer look at Slug mites 👀

[. @ThomasShahan]

...and here's a portrait of the beast. #staphylinidae #rovebeetles #Plochionocerus