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Heha wao. - - - #bug #insect #insects #bugs #insectphotography #lepidoptera #butterfly #swallowtail #tiger #papilionidae #papilio #nature #wildlife

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Incredible!

🐝 🌷🌷🌷 🐝 Latest piece I made for MAKE

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Hear him roar - - - #bug #insect #insects #bugs #insectphotography #macro #macrophotography #beetle #coleoptera #nature #wildlife #tigerbeetle #cicindela #purple #purpurea

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Oh yeah, this account exists. - - - #bug #insect #insects #bugs #insectphotography #macro #macrophotography #beetle #coleoptera #nature #wildlife #arrowleafbalsamroot #spring

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A very chilly bristletail - - - #bug #insect #hexapod #bristletail #entognath #insectphotography #machilidae #arthropod #arthropoda #macro #macrophotography #snow #nature #wildlife

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No spectacular photography here, but I'm gonna get up on my soapbox for a second. A lot of sightseers consider Winter to be somewhat devoid of interesting wildlife. Not so! These, along with two other species, are the fruits of just a 15 minute walk between classes. Spring and summer will always be peak seasons, but there are still bugs to be found, even in the snow! (still haven't found a snow scorpionfly though) - - - #bug #insect #insects #bugs #insectphotography #macro #macrophotography #beetle #coleoptera #nitidulidae #sapfeedingbeetle #arachnid #arachnida #spider #fly #diptera #brachycera #hemiptera #hopper #cicadomorpha #nature #snow #winter #ice #wildlife

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Hey look, photos I've already posted but again, because these were people's favourites apparently - - - #bug #insect #insects #bugs #insectphotography #macro #macrophotography #beetle #coleoptera #curculio #curculionidae #lepidoptera #butterfly #crescent #spider #arachnida #jumpingspider #mantis #mantid #bee #hymenoptera

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Long-haired microbes named after Canadian band Rush

Three new species of microbe found in the guts of termites have been named after members of the Canadian prog-rock band Rush, owing to the microbes’ long hair and rhythmic wriggling under the microscope.

“A Spanish postdoc, Javier del Campo, asked me to recommend some good Canadian music, and I suggested he listen to Rush,” says Patrick Keeling, a University of British Columbia microbiologist and senior author on the paper describing the new species. “He came back to me and said ‘Those microbes we’re finding have long hair like the guys on the album 2112!’”

The microbes in question are covered with flagella, which are long threads that cells use to move around. Many cells have a few flagella, but these little rockers have more than ten thousand very long flagella, giving them flowing hair that even Farrah Fawcett might envy.

And while Rush may not be famous for their dance moves, the tiny creatures also have rhythm. They bob their heads and sway their bodies in microscopic dances, prompting the researchers to baptize the new Pseudotrichonympha species P. leei, P. lifesoni, and P. pearti after musicians Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart.

Javier del Campo, Erick R. James, Yoshihisa Hirakawa, Rebecca Fiorito, Martin Kolisko, Nicholas A. T. Irwin, Varsha Mathur, Vittorio Boscaro, Elisabeth Hehenberger, Anna Karnkowska, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Patrick J. Keeling. Pseudotrichonympha leei, Pseudotrichonympha lifesoni, and Pseudotrichonympha pearti, new species of parabasalian flagellates and the description of a rotating subcellular structure. Scientific Reports, 2017; 7 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16259-8

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An Extraordinary Glimpse into the First 21 Days of a Bee’s Life in 60 Seconds

So. Badass.

“In an attempt to better understand exactly what happens as a bee grows from an egg into an adult insect, photographer Anand Varma teamed up with the bee lab at UC Davis to film the first three weeks of a bee’s life in unprecedented detail, all condensed into a 60-second clip.” 

Edit: Since some of you are awesomely observant, yes there are mites crawling on the bee’s in the 2nd gif. :D

“The primary goal in photographing the bees was to learn how they interact with an invasive parasitic mite that has quickly become the greatest threat to bee colonies. Scientists have learned to breed mite-resistant bees which they are now trying to introduce into the wild.“

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- - - #bug #insect #insects #bugs#insectphotography #beetle #coleoptera #ladybug #ladybirdbeetle #coccinelle #nature #wildlife

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Boy he cheesin' - - #bug #insect #insects #bugs #insectphotography #macro #macrophotography #mantis #prayingmantis #mantid #nature #wildlife

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One from back in May I forgot I took. - - - #spider #araneae #arachnid #arachnida #phiddipus #jumpingspider #macro #audax #macrophotography #nature #wildlife 21/05/17

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California root borer, doing his thing - - - #bug #insect #insects #bugs #insectphotography #beetle #rootborer #cerambycidae #longhorn #californiarootborer

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Saw an unfortunately named sweat bee today - - - #bug #insect #insects #bugs #insectphotography #macro #bee #bees #sweatbee #apoidea #garden #wildlife

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13/06/17 - - - #bug #insect #insects #bugs #insectphotography #macro #macrophotography #beetle #coleoptera #weevil #curculio #curculionidae

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Two alpines wilin' out - - - #bug #insect #insects #bugs #insectphotography #macro #macrophotography #lepidoptera #butterfly #alpine #nymphalidae #erebia