Young Phoroncidia americana lad appeared today and made my day, I hadn't seen one in a couple years. They're so silly and lumpy 🥹
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My tiny lumpy orb man made his "web" for us! It's just a single strand lined with tiny sticky balls of silk laced with moth pheromones - a method of prey attraction also shared by the more famous Bolas spiders, and Kaira orb weavers. I love them 🤍
Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️⚧️🕷️@apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 7d agoYoung Phoroncidia americana lad appeared today and made my day, I hadn't seen one in a couple years. They're so silly and lumpy 🥹
Missing her (Bolas spider) 🤎 I have a 4-minute video of her making her little silk bolas. 2022 was a god-awful year for me in pretty much every respect, except the bugs. The bugs were amazing. #Arachtober
Bristlepede 🤎 Polyxenus sp bristle millipede. Just a couple millimeters long.
Two year ago today 🌿 Gentiana affinis, our Pleated Gentian, blooming on the East Fork Arkansas River #nativeplants
A big part of the late summer soundtrack around here is the American Goldfinch. They have an amazing repertoire of sounds #birds 🌿
Silver spotted skipper, Epargyreus clarus on lilac flowers, Syringa vulgaris. This is possibly a hybrid plant bred for garden use. I'm not sure. It's planted for its lovely fragrant flowers. As a non-native plant it is mostly inoffensive, providing for pollinators a bit. #Bugsky
Feather-legged orb-weaver, Uloborus glomosus. A very fascinating spider and one of the few of its genus in North America. They have no venom glands, and use special cribillate webbing that tangles their prey up, after which they wrap it up. This one has an eggsac. #Bugsky
Carrot wasp, Gasteruption sp. on wild carrot flowers. Named for their preference for feeding on umbelliferous flowers, which carrots are. There are 5 species in Eastern North America, but this may also be a non-native species. All are generalist parasites of other bees and wasps. #Bugsky
Shaved horse fly, Stonemyia rasa on wild carrot flowers. New native pollinator for my yard. Unlike most horseflies, members of the genus Stonemyia only feed on nectar. #Bugsky
Polytrichum piliferum. Kicin/Czerwonak, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #mosses #mchy #bryophytes #mszaki #bryology
Peltigera canina, P. rufescens and P. extenuata. Kicin/Czerwonak, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #lichens #porosty #fungi #grzyby #mycology #lichenology #fungifriends #lichenfriends
Furrow bees, Halictus sp. on daisy fleabane flowers. I love the long antennae of these bees. They are so cute. Very hard to photograph though, as they are very skittish. They nest in the ground, with many species being eusocial like honeybees. #Bugsky #nativeplants
Twenty-spotted lady beetle, Psyllobora vigintimaculata on pagoda dogwood, Cornus alternifolia. A small native lady beetle that actually feeds on powdery mildew, as seen infecting the leaves of this small tree. They are being studied as a biological control for fungal pathogens. #Bugsky #nativeplants
Various pictures of my evening primrose flowers, Oenothera biennis. I kept trying to see them fully open at night but never seemed to be able to. Even closed they are stunning though. I'm glad that there is a developing seedpod, so that I can enjoy more. #nativeplants
Wild mint, Mentha canadensis. America's only native true mint species, it was previously classified as a variety of field mint, Mentha arvensis var. canadensis, among many other now defunct names. It has since been recognized as its own separate species. It mostly grows in wet areas. #nativeplants
European woolcarder bee, Anthidium manicatum on Sempervivum flowers. A strange non-native bee, they collect the hairs from leaves to make their nests. They show a preference for plants of European origin, such as my hens and chicks this one is feeding on. Males are highly territorial. #Bugsky
Young Skudder's bush katydid, Skudderia sp. on evening primrose, Oenothera biennis. Saw this guy on this plant for about a week. Seemed to be their base of operations. It's gone now, hopefully just moved on, but possibly eaten. #Bugsky #nativeplants
Monarch perched on wild carrot. Resting after the egg laying, apparently none of my other native plants appealed to her. After this picture she flew away to the neighbor's yard. #Bugsky
Monarch, Danaus plexippus laying eggs on swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata. Honestly the highlight of last month. I'm hoping for caterpillars, but at the very least I know I'm on their radar. #Bugsky #nativeplants
Aster treehopper larvae, Publilia concava being tended to by ants on panicle aster, Symphyotrichum lanceolatum. A fascinating symbiotic relationship, the ants feed on honeydew produced as waste by the treehoppers and in turn defend the the treehoppers from predators. #Bugsky #nativeplants
Joschua Knüppe's Lemuria spec project is back for its final phase and here's my first 7 entries.
Batch 2 of my entries, just two weeks left to submitt vertebrates for the challenge and I'm already working on a few more.
Armin Reindl@arminreindl.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoschua Knüppe's Lemuria spec project is back for its final phase and here's my first 7 entries.
Batch 3, mostly contributing to the Avifauna of Lemuria with the newly arriving cathartids
Armin Reindl@arminreindl.bsky.social · last mo.Batch 2 of my entries, just two weeks left to submitt vertebrates for the challenge and I'm already working on a few more.
Coneheaded planthopper, Acanalonia sp. on wild carrot. Probably the most stereotypical planthopper I've ever seen. I often see their nymphs but never knew this was the adult form. Most species are polyphagous, feeding on a diverse array of plants. #Bugsky
