Wasn't joshin' about the swimming!
Though this was the *first* time I captured it! Good eatin' on this twig. In addition to dining on plant roots, they love mosses, fungi, algae and organic muck.
Submerged twig is a buffet! #inverts #becurious
The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors.
Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.
Looked up more pictures of Bird of Paradise fly (Callipappus sp) as I couldn't really get my head around the dimorphism here.
www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_sof...
In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital” would ever be followed by the phrase: “But here’s the thing.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
#TrilobiteTuesday Ampyx from the Ordovician of Asker, Norway. On display in the Geologisk Museum, Oslo.
Elephants belong to a taxonomic clade we call 'Tethytheria', with members all having forward looking eye sockets, similar teeth, ear structures & internal testes rather than a scrotum.
But what elephant relative has a FOOT that looks like THIS?
Found this great little predatory fly in my garden when I was back in the UK the other week. Not a common sighting as they normally spend their time in tree canopies. Xanthostigma xanthostigma (Small Snakefly)
Cuttlefish have rounded W-shaped pupils because they live in a world of high light contrast (bright above, dim below) & this arrangement acts like a cross-shaped sun visor, normalizing brightness.
In darker environments, they become fully rounded.
(📷: Steve McNicholas, Flickr)
Another awesome find yesterday!
Not a scorpion, not a fly - but a Scorpionfly!
Brachypanorpa Short-faced Scropionfly - have only seen a few and haven't seen one since 2016!
Short-faced found only in OR, WA, CA, ID, MT - then waaay over in TN, VA, NC
Nature never runs out of creativity! #inverts
People often ask me about how to get into entomology. I really have no idea.
I am pretty sure I graduated after the industry was already firmly in its death spiral. You will minimally need a biology degree. My school had entomology, but you can learn the specifics yourself later.