I post cool things that I find in the forest. 🌳 Unreliable identifier of mushrooms, plants and insects.
Photos by me. Posting from the Netherlands. She/her.
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Black-banded spider wasp. These wasps abduct spiders, and keep the paralyzed spider in their burrow as food for their larvae.
Here it is drinking nectar.
Anoplius viaticus.
#spiders #invertebrates #forest #naturephotography
Pedalled for miles today. The highlight was barely bigger than a postage stamp. #slimemold
My happy lil’ sandpiper is finished!! They’re my favorite birds to watch on the beach; possibly my favorite birds full-stop. Love them.
#birds #birdart
See how the beautiful beehive-like structure in this slime mold develops, from right to left here.
Ceratiomyxa porioides.
#slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends
I love watching ant nests! Seeing the ants interact, tidying up, and one of my favorite things: ants dragging huge things.
#ants #insects #invertebrates #naturephotography
In Dutch we call this a geisha moth. Arched marble, a tiny (1 cm) but beautiful orange leafroller with a silver pattern of dots, stripes and fringes.
Olethreutes arcuella.
#butterflies #moths #insects #invertebrates #naturephotography
This little lady wolf spider was running around through the moss, carrying her babies everywhere she goes in a protective egg sac.
Pardosa saltans.
#spiders #invertebrates #forest #moss #naturephotography
Cinnabar moth struggling against the wind.
Tyria jacobaeae.
#butterflies #lepidoptera #insects #naturephotography