Sorry I haven't been posting much, all the bugs are dead outside. Here's a neat scorpion, though! Also dead, but you take what you can get. (Buthidae, from iNat's algorithm)
#entomology#arachnid#scorpion
A gynandromorph with a female half on the left and male half on the right found in our laboratory colony of Wasmannia auropunctata.
Photo by @hgdarras.
It's the most wonderful time of the year—the iNaturalist #YearInReview!
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the scorpion genus Superstitionia, named for the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix AZ
we found these to be fairly common under downed Yucca in high desert habitat of eastern San Diego county
A Nugget Gargoyle/Very Compact Thing 😍😍
There's a smattering of wasps I find emerging in the onset of colder temperatures, and I'm pleased. This tiny chalcid almost escaped my attention, thinking she was the remains of a dead fly. Nope!
11/20/22. N. Florida
A day which ends in a 1st-person reminder that I share the planet with ogres is never entirely bad. 👀🤎
She was just chilling under a railing; no net, no worries. Maybe the hunt will be on tomorrow night, if she likes. It's a good life.
Deinopis spinosa.
11/15/22. N. Florida
Here is a fresh photo of an unidentified Porcellio from Turkey, which have been in my collection since last year. Interestingly, all 60 individuals of this species collected in nature were females, as well as all the offspring of these individuals, which are now, are also females
The Observation of the Day is a... grasshopper! thilinahettiarachchi photographed & identified a pair of Phyllochoreia equa in Sri Lanka.
It's the first observation of this species on iNaturalist! Details: https://t.co/dw1M9lILCS
#insect#naturephotography#macro#biodiversity