Enlightened Bugs

Moments with mostly Oregonian bees and other insects. Fled to California after 2020 wildfire (hmm…) On something of a hiatus. Photos by Elise Fog of @savebees

[invertebrate @crevicedwelling]

her favorite treat! cookie

[Thorben Danke @sagaOptics]

@georgecmcgavin Here is the Video i filmed before i took some photos.

[Thorben Danke @sagaOptics]

Chalcid wasp, Leucospis dorsigera laying eggs. She drives the ovipositor with her powerful rear legs directly into the vicinity of an mason bee larva, which lies behind the color-coded brood tube closure.

[Tim Jonas @TimothyJonas]

This tiny snail has a translucent shell allowing us to peer inside and see the gut 👀

[Enlightened Bugs @enlightenedbugs]

@WorkCabin That’s what @bluesky’s “AT protocol” (almost in beta) hopes to do, basically like open web we’d own our own profile/connections/data and be able to move/view anywhere… this stuff really should be independent of any one company!

[Save Bees @savebees]

Fridays are for burrowing one’s head into flowers 🌸🐝 How many more things can go wrong at Twitter HQ today?!

[Dandroid's Aperture Science 💛🤍💜🖤🕷️🐜 @apsciencebydan]

Sometimes you're walking along and the most perfect thing is just there, out in the open, peering up at you, unafraid, and gorgeous: an adult female phidippus cardinalis. 🧡🧡

11/6/22. N. Florida

[Caitlin Henderson (She's got Legs) @gotlegsmacro]

My latest video for @ausgeo is up now and it stars an INSECT THAT HAS CANNONS that SHOOT PEPPERMINT wow wow wow nature. Revenge isn't sweet, it's minty fresh 🔫🔫

https://t.co/dR7vPCahmT

[Thorben Danke @sagaOptics]

3D-Stacking, Polistes dominula. Thousands of single photos from different angles combined. Each frame is a stack of photos.

[Enlightened Bugs @enlightenedbugs]

@OW_Photography They usually start not flying, then take off sometimes… though flying looks difficult, with the female doing the work there! Bumble males also create a “plug” after mating, so he’ll be the only one who’ll father offspring (though I’ve read other males can defeat that at times :)

[Enlightened Bugs @enlightenedbugs]

@SJBKnott And that’s an incredible green fly on your profile banner, what species is that? 💚🪰

[Enlightened Bugs @enlightenedbugs]

@SJBKnott @Sterling101s @insectweek @OlympusUK @OMSYSTEMcameras @BumblebeeTrust @t_beardsall1 Wow that is a super-cute hover fly and excellent bee mimic!

[Enlightened Bugs @enlightenedbugs]

I’ll try some focus stacking tomorrow—as I have such a cooperative and wingless subject in my tiny new greenish friend! whom I daily find on this plant—today was practice, first time I’ve picked up a macro lens since the wildfire 🔥

[Enlightened Bugs @enlightenedbugs]

So I don’t know what this little creature is on the Buddleja (I’m new to the buglife in my current locale)… but just look at that bum! Those wispy antennas too, they’re like 4 times as long as its body, such cuteness 💚

[Enlightened Bugs @enlightenedbugs]

@isabetabug If you use an iPhone and swipe up on a photo (either one you’ve just taken or in the Photos app) there’s a spot just below it to add a caption (which will show up in that spot the next time you swipe up on the photo)

[Enlightened Bugs @enlightenedbugs]

@apsciencebydan 🐌💤

[Enlightened Bugs @enlightenedbugs]

@FlMacro Aww that’s super cute, I’m trying out macro video a bit these days and it’s… challenging!

[Enlightened Bugs @enlightenedbugs]

This sawfly though… I was entranced when I first met one ✨💚✨ #InverteFest

[Enlightened Bugs @enlightenedbugs]

Bee flies were my first insect love, so fuzzy, such hover #InverteFest