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This is amazing - I looked for this 30 yrs ago as a student in Yorkshire but never found it, obviously. I had this feeling to go north, but not north enough! Incredible what's out there waiting to be found! @BritishBugs
A new insect for Scotland?! 🪳
A visiting ecologist to Tireragan, Mull, recently found a rare type of juniper shield bug, thought extinct in the UK in 1925. This is believed to be the first record in the UK since then, and the first ever in Scotland.
Bug📸 Sam Newton
#Northwoods
ALT juniper shield bug (Chlorochroa juniperina) - a flat green beetle-like bug with a yellow band around its body
ALT A view from Tireragan on the Isle of Mull, looking out to sea and small archipelagos
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One of my favourite species seen in Greece in the summer was these trapdoor spiders - a relative of tarantulas. If lifted, the spiders assume you’re a predator so come rushing out, grab the door and yank it back down - they then hold it in place so it’s impossible to lift again!
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Another query for @BritishBugs - does this look OK for female Eurygaster maura? Out of range in the Suffolk Brecks? But no gap to the side of the genital plate?
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Overview of the subgenus Ventocoris s. str. (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) with a revised key to species of Turkey dx.doi.org/10.11646%2Fzootax…
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Swarming Scarabs. Thyreocoris scarabaeiodes en masse in our Yorkshire garden. The dry, sandy soil with Field Pansy, and Violets in the shadier areas, is obviously ideal habitat. A tiny species which can be difficult to spot but much easier in numbers. @BritishBugs #shieldbug
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So many Shieldbugs and Squashbugs in the garden today. Amazing what a bit of warm sunshine can do. Arenocoris fallenii, Podops inuncta, Coriomerus denticulatus, 4 Zicrona caerulea, (usually something I see singly), and many, many more.
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Syromastus rhombeus on Wood Spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides) today in Bengeo garden. @BritishBugs @hertsbna #RhombicLeatherbug
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I pretend to only like obscure and difficult insect groups, but who can resist shieldbugs?
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This is super cool. Saddle Bush-cricket Ephippiger sp. drawing from Cocharelli Codex, XIVth century manuscript, 1330s. Thank you to @strandlined for sharing this medieval gem! There are also Saga pedo, Acrida ungarica & many more bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.asp… #medievalOrthoptera
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Toddler shieldbugs from #SouthAmerica. #shieldbugs #ento #entomology #bugs #insects #TwitterNatureCommunity #InsectTwitter
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Water scorpion, Nepa cinerea. Because of the form of his front legs and the breathing tube on the back, he got this confusing trivial name. The „scorpion“ is actually a bug. The portrait reminds of extraterrestrial life from far galaxies. ⠀
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#bug #waterscorpion
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Anyhow here's a useful webpage to check the spiders of the Iberian Peninsula and their distribution according to published data. sea-entomologia.org/gia/map/
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The Observation of the Day is a species of bumble bee scarab beetle (Pygopleurus koniae) found in Turkey by ozgurkocak!
More details: inaturalist.org/observations…
#entomology #macro #nature #wildlifephotography #biodiversity
ALT Reddish, very fluffy-looking beetle perched on a yellow flower
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Besouro-girafa. 🤏
O Trachelophorus giraffa é um lindo e simpático besouro das florestas de Madagascar. Os machos têm pescoço longo, que pode ser usado para competir pelas fêmeas, enquanto as fêmeas têm pescoço curto, necessário para a nidificação.
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Fiona pinnata ( I think ) a very rare pelagic sea slug that feeds on Goose barnacles
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Victorian entomologists like Charles Barrett often enliven their monographs with vivid descriptions of their expeditions so you feel you're right there with them on some long ago day. Here he describes an encounter with Oak Eggars in a gale
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When you get REALLY into the #Crustmas spirit 😂
This hermit-crab-in-a-crab-claw was one of my favourite beach finds this year 🦀
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Beauty and beast~ swipe to see the wild looking larvae of those delicate lacewings! #insect #insects #Entomology #sciart #scienceillustration #nature #lacewing #DigitalArtist #illustration #ArtistOnTwitter
