#apsciencebydan

[rebloggingrexan]

i have random sound effects playing in the background and half a second after you started whispering "tap tap tap tap tap," a

vine BOOM

sound effect blasted out of my speaker

*taptaptaptaptaptaptap* 🥹

I didn't get to go on a walk this afternoon, but I did go in the back yard and find a Barely-Sentient Dot, Ms. Baeus. Enjoy a small video of her running across a page full of 12-pt periods. 🤎 Yep, that's a wasp.

[futurebird]

There is an ant right there!!

When looking at photos of bugs that aren't ants it's always funny to spot the ants in the background. Even more funny when the person who took the photo, very proud of the rare bug they found refuses to acknowledge that there is clearly an ant photobombing the special moment. This one is called:

"Tiny Purple Beetle, Chlamisus sp."

... aaaand Crematogaster too! They look like friends!

(Photo by Andreas Kay ) If you like this beetle check out this recent post from @apsciencebydan -- it's what got me researching the species.

[great-and-small]

hello tumblr's resident wildlife enthusiast great-and-small! any wildlife adjacent blogs you follow? looking for any variety, hit me with them :)

Honestly I love tumblr as a website for both art and information when it comes to biology. Here are some of the great zoology-related blogs I follow and enjoy! This is off the top of my head so I’m sure I’m missing some great blogs-hopefully my followers can fill in the gaps here!

Art

@feather-bone

@harkthorn

@claypigeonpottery

@fossilforager

@nuclearlemons

Information

@orcinus-veterinarius

@markscherz

@strangebiology

@apsciencebydan

@onenicebugperday

@uncharismatic-fauna

Birding

@birbmania

@occasionallybirds

@newbirder

@snailkites

[fandolion]

Good morning specifically to these cutie nugget wasps -

Images by Matt Edmonds and @apsciencebydan

[thespongelady99]

I don’t usually post art to this account but this one felt appropriate! A stained glass watercolor piece of Mula resonans, based on @apsciencebydan’s photography ❤️

I plan to make this into an art series, because it was super fun to paint! Reference on iNat linked below

[ririarts]

Bug travellers! Quite different from what I usually draw but I loved the silly photo I used as ref.

Reference photograph by @apsciencebydan

Sketch below

[crevicedwelling]

whats your favorite parasitoid wasp? i find them to be absolutely adorable

whatever the latest one @apsciencebydan has posted!

[oxventure-text-posts]

[Image Description: Merilwen smiling in front of a rising sun and animal pen. In the top right corner of the image, there is a Tumblr post by apsciencebydan that reads "You can whisper "I love you" to Bugs, it's not that weird". End Image Description.]

[bad-jew-jew]

Please look at this utterly superb and extremely tiny native passionflower!!!! I first spotted it at my job last summer. This is the Florida Pale Passionflower, I only noticed the delicate little vine because of the perfect miniature passionfruits. I have been watching it like a hawk and now almost a full year later... I got to see it’s eensy weensy teeny weeny flowers!

@nature-nerd-steve @apsciencebydan @headspace-hotel @floridensis @kelpforestdwellers @endlesslyunamusing @temporarychihuahua

[ankewehner]

@apsciencebydan joined recently and I'd like to recommend them

January 1st, 2023

do u have any recommendations for other good bug blogs on here?

🤔 off the top of my head… @bugkeeping @fimbry @nanonaturalist @six-legs-and-more @eurycantha @inspect-my-insect @bugparent i know theres more that i cant remember rn, i might just keep adding to this list as they come to me haha

[pleasespellchimerical]

Bug Lifers

@apsciencebydan <- their fault. Now I gotta make a list

Asian giant hornet (preferably in its native range and not in the US lol) (would also not mind seeing on an hors d'oeuvres plate)

Wētā (particularly the giant wētā! I wanna hold one and feed it a carrot)

Periodical cicada (I think the only ones in my area are brood II)

One of those absolutely massive cicadas that looks like a stuffy toy

Banana spider

Tarantula hawk (I have met one, but weather conditions were too bad to get a photo. Would like to see one in better times where I could really observe for a while)

Tarantula, but in the wild!

(so obvs my first thoughts are all the really huge ones lol. To be expanded, because really there are /so/ /many/ bugs I wanna see)

[fantasticwolfpenguin]

THESE ARE THE ORBS IM PONDERING 🤔 SO CUTE

[id tweet from @apsciencebydan on twitter:

LUMPY ORBS ❤️

I have no idea what these are and I love them. Undderly adorable

#1 ]

[spiralshells]

Take a hike, bub! Nobody sees da boss!

SMALL-HEADED FLY SMALL-HEADED FLY 👀

Maybe Pterodontia sp? I'd never seen any small-headed flies before, and there's only 3 Florida sightings in the family on iNaturalist. Absolutely bizarre chonky creature. Basically no head. Evolution can't keep getting away with this.

[rebloggingrexan]

called a wrap-around spider… i love them…

Floof Lump (and Floof Skirt) 🤍

(hamataliwa grisea)

4/19/23. N. Florida

[rebloggingrexan]

HOLY SHMOLEY WHAT A LOVABLE CHILDE

Pound for pound, this is the prettiest, shiniest, goofiest, happiest child one can find. One day you'll have a name, but for now you're just Mr Tutelina "Tufted" 💜

6/20/23. N. Florida

[futurebird]

[Image Descriptions: A series of 5 photos of the leaf beetle, resting on a human finger. The beetle is small and knobby looking like an extra craggy walnut, the plates of the exoskeleton are highly textured but groves for the head and legs allow the bug to make itself almost a perfect sphere with fine seams. It's smaller than a fingernail.] It shouldn't shock me that a beetle can fly, but these beetles can and do fly as shown in this video by Andreas Kay:

[Video Description: A related species to the one posted by @apsciencebydan this one is black and has flares on its legs. The beetle marches around a white surface for a bit, the we see what it looks like flipped over. Again, there are grooves for each leg and it packs itself away rather like a transformer. Fulcidacini sp. are amazing. The beetle then struggles to turn over and succeeds after a few tries. It then opens it's elytra and extends its wings flying away. ]

I've got to keep an eye out for these guys! Wonderful creature!

Warty leaf beetles are perfect creatures and I love them.

(this one is very much alive, I just caught it as it tumbled away from me, as they do)

8/13/23