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Agnes Kreiling

@agneskreiling.bsky.social

Entomologist at Faroe Islands National Museum. Diptera. Coleoptera. And everything else that comes crawling my way.

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Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.

Macro photograph, in top view, of two insects standing on a cluster of small, 4-petalled white flowers. Both insects have a red head and thorax and black at their back ends. The beetle on the right is slightly broader, and has a narrow white line separating the red and black parts of its body, as to suggest a narrow ant waist.
Agnes Kreiling@agneskreiling.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The shiny metallic blue beetle Necrobia rufipes was one of the many new insect records for the Faroes in 2025. #BlueBugs #Tjóðsavnið #Coleoptera

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Ash Whiffin@ashwhiffin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Every year I try to repurpose #BlueMonday (which we all know is a load of 💩) and advocate for #insects by showcasing some beautiful BLUE BUGS! Please join me by sharing your photos or artwork with the hashtag #BlueBugs 🦋🩵 📷 Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)

A male Common Blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) rests on a flower.
Agnes Kreiling@agneskreiling.bsky.social · last yr.

We choose the worst possible day to start #fieldwork for lake #monitoring - cold wind, sleet, snow and rain... but nevertheless plenty of #Chironomidae pupal exuviae around! #Tjóðsavnið @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social

Janus Hansen@leivurjanushansen.bsky.social · last yr.

I joined @agneskreiling.bsky.social in some freshwater fieldwork today. Well, I took care of the kid and dog, while she and a colleague did the fieldwork. It was way colder than expected (3°C) and snowing a bit. But seeing a mallard with ducklings definitely brought some feelings of spring.

Merops Field Centre@meropsfieldcentre.bsky.social · last yr.

Day 2 with Neuchâtel and we’ve been exploring the garrigue. This is a Mediterranean scrubland habitat based on limestone soils. We found specialist plants, including orchids. Although small, one of our highlights was finding the dung beetle 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪 rolling its balls of dung.

Fabrizio holding out a plant so that listening students can understand its features. Three students stand to the side, listening.The top of a limestone platform in the garrigue. The oak trees are bare of leaves, and mosses and low-lying plants cover the limestone with green foliage.Students leaning down to take photos of orchids. The orchids are not yet open, but have pointed, dark flower buds. A dung beetle, 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪, rolling a ball of dung.
Rhett Ayers Butler@rhettayersbutler.bsky.social · 2y ago

The concept of the “extinction of experience” has been used to describe the dwindling human connection with nature, often applied to the general public. But ecologists themselves are not immune. Across universities and research institutions, field-based studies are in retreat. mongabay.cc/w0Tc9L

Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem.

Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem. There was a time when an ecologist’s education was not complete without the mud of a marsh on their boots or the scent of damp ...

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