Groß Pechlibelle, Männchen
Ischnura elegans
Marais du Verdier, #Camargue, #France
#damselfly #damselflies #nature #naturephotography #natur #naturfotografie #insects #invertebrates #entomology #wildlife #wildlifephotography
A couple of #December #moths and a few #Winter moths in and around the #trap at #WWTCastleEspie this morning
#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #invertebrates #insects #lepidoptera #moth #mothtrap #mothtrapping #wwt #countydown #NorthernIreland @savebutterflies
#NewSpecies!
New stag beetle from #china just came in:
Lucanus qizhihaoi
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0395879A-FFF8-3469-FF42-E195FDA0B133
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5541.2.4
#Zootaxa #LucanusQizhihaoi
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #stagbeetle
#NewSpecies!
New shrimp from #japan just pinched us:
Eiconaxius kaimei
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487BE-3278-227D-FF5C-FA210F12672A
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5537.3.4
#Zootaxa #EiconaxiusKaimei
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #shrimps
#NewSpecies!
New parasitoid wasp from #canada just flew in:
Perilampus neodiprioni
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/51043FC0-89D1-519D-B170-B91312C22CFA
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.97.133255
#HymenopteraJour #PerilampusNeodiprioni
#FAIRdata
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Day 10 of the 2024 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. Red-eyed #Damselfly is a bit larger than most damsels. Usually seen sitting on floating vegetation on a pond or slow river but this one was more cooperative. #LowerMoorFarm #Wiltshire #WildlifeTrust reserve in May. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates #ukwildlife #photography
Day 9 of the 2024 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. Scarce Emerald Damselfly is restricted to the east here but commoner on the continent. It looks like the Common Emerald but is chunkier and has brighter blue eyes. This one in #CanveyIsland in July. The manky ditch I was searching when I found this will feature in this calendar a couple more times as it's a very good spot despite not being in a nature reserve. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #Essex #invertebrates #ukwildlife #photography
Day 8 of the 2024 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. Ruddy Darter is the second-commonest of the red species in the UK, very widespread. This one was at the wonderful #RSPB #StrumpshawFen, #Norfolk, in early August. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates #ukwildlife #photography
Day 7 of the 2024 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. Southern Damselfly is a rare species, one of the few that are protected by UK law. It looks very like the other blue damselfly species - pay attention to the markings at the front end of the abdomen if you're in one of the few parts of the country these occur. This one was in the #NewForest in early July. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates #ukwildlife #photography #Hampshire
A throwback for Ctenophore Day! If you ever wondered how to pronounce Ctenophore, today is October 4, the 10th month, fourth day and it sounds like ten oh four.
They are a phylum of marine invertebrates, like this comb jelly which look a bit like jellyfish, but instead of stinging tentacles they have comb-like cilia (hairs). 1/2
For the #SciArtSeptember prompt: illuminated and a bonus mesopelagic #invertebrate for #InsertAnInvert2024 it’s my #linocut of the #bioluminescent firefly squid! The firefly squid (Watasenia scintillans), also called sparkling enope squid or hotaru-ika in Japan, live at depth (200 to 400 m) and are bioluminescent and emit blue light from photophores. 1/
For the #SciArtSeptember prompt claws: A porcelain crab! Looks like a crab, has crab in its name…is it a crab? Nope. False crab. Porcelain crabs, Neopetrolisthes maculatus are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which resemble true crabs but are in fact closer related to squat lobsters. They have flattened bodies as an adaptation for living in rock crevices. 1/2
Getting ready for deep sea month for #InverteFest. Needs more vampire squid I think! Hence, a new vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis, literally ‘vampire squid from hell’) block. These guys are much less threatening than they appear - they are only 30 cm long and feed on falling detritus or marine snow, not blood.
This week #InsertAnInvert2024 is about troglofauna: the cave dwellers. I’m veering from the suggested species to illustrate some #invertebrates I travelled to see, in the glowworm cave of Waitomo. I love #bioluminescence and being a bit claustrophobic I was proud that I ventured into caves, even where it was a squeeze.
On the North Island of New Zealand (that is, Aotearoa) there are caves near Waitomo with large populations of Arachnocampa luminosa, a 1/n
#linocut #sciart #printmaking
The 2nd week of #InsertAnInvert2024 subterranean month is about how some #invertebrates that live underground lose traits like vision. This is a #linocut of the Paroster macrosturtensis beetle, a blind predatory subterranean diving water beetle from the calcrete aquifers of the Western Australian desert. Trapped underground for million of years as the calcrete caves formed these beetles have evolved to no longer have eyes.
Making some new antipodean invertebrates for July, the subterranean month for #InsertAnInvert2024
You may not know the velvet worms if you live outside the tropics and in the northern hemisphere. There are 2 families of them: one in the tropics and the other, like my Lino block depicts, from the southern hemisphere (and countries once part of Gondwana). 1/n
It is also #CephalopodWeek! Enjoy some of my cephalopods: the adorable bobtail squid (actually, not a squid, but a cephalopod of order Sepiolida, closer to cuttlefish), the octopus, nautilus and bioluminescent firefly squid linocuts.
I made a pattern of my linocut porcelain crab for #InsertAnInvert2024! Porcelain crabs, Neopetrolisthes maculatus are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which resemble true crabs but are in fact closer related to squat lobsters. These are 1 of at least 5 groups of decapod crustaceans which have evolved to be more crab-shaped in a process known as carsinisation. Find this on Spoonflower minouette shop
A porcelain crab for #InsertAnInvert2024! Looks like a crab, has crab in its name…is it a crab? Nope. False crab. Porcelain crabs, Neopetrolisthes maculatus are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which resemble true crabs but are in fact closer related to squat lobsters. They have flattened bodies as an adaptation for living in rock crevices. 1/2
For #InsertAnInvert2024 worm prompt “not long, limbless” an animal that is fuchsia, indigo and yellow (that I used for the #printerSolstice split complimentary colour scheme prompt). 1/2