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Peak Male Performance (Obeza floridana - silly gargoyle of a wasp lad)

The mint chocolate chip flavor of flies [I imagine] 😋 #Stratiomyidae: #Promeranisa #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica

found your next vacation destination

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

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x-ray #ceramics drop on aug 8, 2pm CT

I love finding old tree wounds, the leaking sap ferments into a yeasty mush that persists for years and is full of weird bugs. Here's a flat clown beetle, Hololepta sp, pulling a fly larva out of the muck. Western New York, last month.

Gold star for this silver soldier #fly 🌟 Diptera are seriously amazing 🤩 🥰 #Stratiomyidae: #Artemita argentea Soltis Center, Costa Rica @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @dipteracourse.bsky.social @riccardi-p.bsky.social

Bask in the #glory that is... #CATURDAY #It'sSoFluffy #MaineCoon #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky

Also check out these GORGEOUS watercolors by Rice biology/art student Caroline Pollan!

Here are 4 different species of recluse spiders (Loxosceles spp). In order, Loxosceles reclusa, Loxosceles rufescens, Loxosceles laeta, and Loxosceles mahan.

Those long legs are just itching to make this gorgeous Castianeira lass disappear in 0.2 seconds ❤️

Belinurus horseshoe crab locked in stone during the Carboniferous, but back in the light of day again now, and on display in the Fundy Geoscience Museum in Parrsboro. #FossilFriday ⚒️

Plenty of ethical uses for this that people aren't seeing. For instance: telling your boss you will be late to work because you exploded

a really awesome orb weaver found by Catherine, in the genus Spilasma (contains only three species). The beautifuuly structured retreat can be closed by the spider when it is threatened!

shh everybody shut up

"there are only two species? huh, I wonder what the other one is called"

I haven’t been keeping up with the #ArtRepostJuly hashtag but I figured I’d share something late rather than not at all. These are all hand-drawn on 18” by 24” paper. bsky.app/profile/whis...

Be a dipterist. Be in Costa Rica for #FlySchool2026. See a muscoid #fly perching on a leaf. Tell student so they can collect it. Success!! Wait a minute 🤔 That's not a fly, but weevil mimicking one! This was so convincing, even rapidly moving & poking its wings out 🥰 #Curculionidae: cf. #Mnemynurus