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“El Diablito” Poison Frog (Oophaga sylvatica), family Dendrobatidae, NW Ecuador

Photograph by Davy Noelmans

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his hat

observation of wasp resting on the head of a red-spotted Newt (notophthalmus viridescens ssp. viridescens) by cholmesphoto

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Eudryas brevipennis

another lucky find with only 21 observations worldwide on iNaturalist

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last couple months' worth of bee identifications. every orange tag denotes a separate species. my coleopterist grad advisor is spinning in his grave

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DID YOU KNOW: these are the five guys. you know from classic hit restaurant five guys burgers and fries. they opened the restaurant. they cook the burgers. and the fries too

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Precious Wentletrap aka Staircase Shell (Epitonium scalare), family Epitoniidae, Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia

Marine snail.

photo by Aqua Research & Monitoring Services

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I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

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cephalopodssss

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GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

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Painted a tiny Grackle!

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Inaturalist is a beautiful thing. Sometimes a person with a specific kind of insect as their profile photo and name will id a member of that kind of insect for you and everytime I'm like thank you Mr. Sawfly, you'd know them best

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Some days you just need to appreciate the cotton ball with legs that is a baby Killdeer. Today feels like one of those days.

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Uncaring

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tbh i never really considered seals. until i finally saw one irl and was like omg. the creature

this is my artistic representation of what they looked like on the beach from where i was standing in the distance

it was the most magical day of my life

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some recent pulls from playing nature's gacha(turning over rocks)

Pseudoscorpion (Order Pseudoscorpiones), Genus Ortholasma,

Allacrotelsa spinulata, Genus Oncocephalus

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Nut and Acorn Weevils (Genus Curculio)

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Mecaphesa schlingeri with prey