#animal nets

[onenicebugperday]

Trilobite beetle, Platerodrilus ruficollis, Lycidae

Photographed in Singapore by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Look at this girl go! What a champ huh?

Finally, it has begun!! The rainbow trout are all grown and it’s time to give them a little spin in the swimming respirometer. This girl was understandably pretty shocked about being measured and weighed but she quickly recovered once in the respirometer — the fish is swimming against a certain water flow (here it’s about half a body length per second) and she seemed to immediately realise what to do. My supervisor explained that in earlier experiments with brown trout, the brown trout were more prone to not swimming at all and laying on the net in the back, but rainbow trout are more cooperative and raring to go!

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Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun Volume 21 Promotional Illustrations

[cheezitofthevalley]

actually rare blinkies

over a month after the original post, I thought I'd share my select favorites after getting more acquainted with the blinkies side of the internet.

Comment how many you've seen before!

puzzle blinkie by arman's dimension on neocities.

cure blinkie by @6666boobie

sleeping with sirens blinkie by @copprtone

junji ito blinkie by @xxfizzy-bloodxx

madness combat blinkie by @newgroundsblog

sparks blinkie by @murdocism

the breeders blinkie by @makemeamoderngirl

british food blinkie by @loleah

Hole and care bears blinkies by sydsblinkies on neocities

if I missed any let me know lol

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[herpsandbirds]

Ogre Spider aka Net-casting Spider (Asianopis sp.), family Deinopidae, Cebu, Philippines

photograph by Bald Guy With a Camera

[yamuiro]

Arcana

[xylo-art]

Wanted to doodle a bunch of Hornets that I like.. a trio of em..

Designs belong to -

@raddest-laddest

@dooblebugss

@featherlouise

[jax0n]

[protosymphonette]

fallout: new leaf

inspired by @beentobeetle :333333

[onenicebugperday]

Trilobite beetle, Platerodrilus ruficollis?, Lycidae

Photographed in Malaysia by nadjabaum

[typhlonectes]

BIG DISCOVERY IN ENTOMOLOGY!

An extraordinary case of elytra loss in Coleoptera (Elateroidea: Lycidae): discovery and placement of the first anelytrous adult male beetle

Vinicius S Ferreira, Felipe Francisco Barbosa, Milada Bocakova, Alexey Solodovnikov

Insects are one of the few groups of animals that developed the ability of active flight. Such mobility allowed the group to successfully explore and thrive in nearly all kinds of ecological niches. At the same time, during the evolutionary history of insects, due to high costs of wing development, flight was lost independently in many groups. In beetles, the reduction or complete loss of hind wings has been reported in multiple lineages, especially in several extreme paedomorphic and larviform females, mainly in Elateroidea, in which not only the hind wings but also the elytra are lost. However, the complete absence of elytra in adult males was hitherto unknown, despite nearly half a million described species in Coleoptera. In this study, we report the discovery of Xenomorphon baranowskii gen. et sp. nov., the first completely anelytrous and wingless adult male beetle, belonging to the family Lycidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Xenomorphon baranowskii is illustrated, described, and provisionally placed in Calopterini, based on our morphology-based phylogenetic analyses. We discuss the possible scenarios that could lead to such a rare event, when a beetle loses its elytra, and its evolutionary consequences.

Read the paper here:

extraordinary case of elytra loss in Coleoptera (Elateroidea: Lycidae): discovery and placement of the first anelytrous adult male beetle | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

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[cazionfhey]

boy dinner ♡

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