been posting too much critter monk art and not enough bugs lately. the entomologists are starving. here's some fun wasps from my beetle trap by-catch. Arachnophaga sp. (I think), Pseudochalcura gibbosa, Eusandalum cyaneum, and Balcha indica
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An enigmatic rarely collected South African species and an undescribed mystery species from South America turn out to belong to a new Lepidoptera family in the superfamily Geometroidea! Museomics solves the mystery! doi.org/10.1111/syen...
Two Southern Hemisphere species on two continents, one rarely collected, one undescribed, form a moth family without hearing organs (Lepidoptera, Geometroidea, Apoprogonidae stat. rev.)
The systematic placement of the South African Apoprogones hesperistis Hampson and southern South American Ona australis gen. et sp. n. has been controversial. Based on mitogenomes, phylogenomic data...
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L'AFP vient d’annoncer la mort de Marjane Satrapi, l’autrice de "Persepolis". Elle avait 56 ans
Been seeing some really interesting egg-laying behaviour from female Rannoch Brindled Beauties away from the usual fenceposts in the last few days. So far seen eggs laid in cracks in crustose lichen, other lichens, sphagnum and Cross-leaved Heath! #teammoth
A couple more film pics from my little hike. 📷 : Nikon AF600 🎞️ : Fuji 400 📍 : Rhinog Fawr, Cymru
Did 3 covers this week so I'm rewarding myself by sketching some Xena/Callisto smooching before bed. Yes, I'm drawing as a treat for all the drawing I've been doing! 😀
Happy 58th birthday to Lucy Lawless, who has always understood the assignment.
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Siembra NC ICE Watch Verifier & Dispatcher Training #Raleigh #RalPol @wakedems.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/events/ice-w...
I’m glad that local residents are having the opportunity to voice their anger about reported plans of an ICE office opening in Cary. ICE has no place in our community—period. www.wral.com/news/local/c...
Cary leaders meeting Thursday as residents seek answers about ICE office, several investigations
People who live in Cary will have another chance to get new insight from town leaders Thursday after reports of an ICE office opening in the area and issues with the former town manager.
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Megan Thee Stallion stuns as Zidler for ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical.’
Added a background to this Xena/Callisto piece so I could make some nice prints and I think it turned out PEACHY
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I’m very excited to say that my book DESTINATION KILL is coming out in May from @oni-press.bsky.social! Here’s the cover and preview pages. Issue 1 (of 4) is on sale May 13th 📕
I've never seen abdominal sculpting this extreme on such a tiny (3mm) ichneumonid before. No luck getting it IDed to even subfamily so far
