People have no idea how diverse spiders truly are.
The picture below shows this diversity by displaying the distribution of their eyes. Eyes are actually a quite helpful pointer to help you identify the potential family of a spider.
#spidersky #invertebrates
#spiders π·οΈπΏ
Tune in to my radio show at 5pm BST today to hear the fascinating Rosa Dyer from @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social telling us all about her research into the usage of bird feathers by indigenous people of South America!
I'm so excited!
Listen live or catch up here: www.thesourcefm.co.uk/listen-again
No, Iβm not on Desert Island Discs! Recording session for BBC RADIO 4 Rare Earth on animal #migration with @willleohawkes.bsky.social @tomheap.bsky.social and @helenczerski.bsky.social Airs on Friday 19 September at 1200 GMT
Haha a great revelation!
Lots of moths talked about! Especially the great silver y migration to the Euro 2016 final!
Very happy to be asked on Radio 4's Rare Earth today to talk all about animal (especially insect) migration alongside such great people.
The episode airs 19th September!
@tomheap.bsky.social @helenczerski.bsky.social @cuttlefisher.bsky.social
White moth looking at the camera with huge antennae
A moth that looks like a dead leaf on a dock flower
An orange and brown moth on some dead grass
Close up of the scarce bordered straw moth's green eye
Some beautiful moths from our moth trap on the Roseland Cornwall last week
1) a male Black Arches, he uses his antennae to sniff out females
2) Dusky thorn
3) Frosted orange
4) the eye of a scarce bordered straw
You're very welcome!
Thanks!
Went to my local park to check red bartsia (bottom right) for its associate bee. No joy but plenty of other treasure about - common blue, small copper, green veined white, gatekeeper, small bath and speckled wood butterflies, emperor and common darter dragonflies + more. @willleohawkes.bsky.social
This will be amazing. Hope they make it back soon!
Small grey and white red bartsia bee feeding from a pink red bartsia flower
Small red bartsia bee standing on top of a pink red bartsia flower
A yellow and black Blunthorn nomad bee being held v gently in my fingers
White zoned furrow bee, small and dark, feeding on knapweed
Last week I found 3 bee species I'd never seen before!
1) v rare Red Bartsia Bee, Melitta tricincta which has returned to sites in North Cornwall due to the work Buglife have been doing. πΈ1,2
2) Blunthorn nomad, Nomad flavopicta πΈ3
3) white zoned furrow bee, Lasioglossum leucozonium πΈ4
Some dreamy insects (and a spider) from home in the Ceiriog Valley, North Wales last weekend.
1) Chrysotoxum arcuatum hoverfly
2) male red tailed bumblebee
3) marmalade hoverfly
4) a beautiful Garden cross spider
Thanks Jordan!
A mating pair of golden orange and black/white rove beetles on a brown fern
A golden orange and black/white rove beetle on a brown fern
A top down view of a golden orange and black/white rove beetle on a brown fern
Perhaps the most beautiful rove beetle I have ever seen, Rhyncocheilus aureus, from the jungles of Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.
Ah I so love how much you're speaking out! Way way more academics should be doing this!
Of course
A small pink and gold moth on an egg carton
A very beautiful Onocera semirubella in our moth trap near Falmouth, Cornwall yesterday.
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A painted lady butterfly on a pink thistle.
The text reads: Mr. G. E. Bodkin allows me to record that there was a very large flight of V. cardui on 16th April, 1926, and several following days along the seashore between H a f a a n d Acca. All were flying low from a northerly direction. A strong easterly wind was blowing at the time (sirocco). so numerous that a number were caught in the front of the radiator of a car going along the shore. He received reports a few days later that cars pro- ceeding from Palestine to Syria on the same d a y and on the following had to stop a t intervals and remove large numbers of the b u t t e r t i e s from the radiators. In some cases the entire front of the radiator was covered. On the second day Mr. Bodkin observed large numbers of these butterflies settled round pools of water, apparently drinking.
In April 1926 there were so many painted lady butterflies migrating through Palestine that cars had to stop to remove them from their radiators to prevent overheating.
From C. B. Williams' records.
Free Palestine always. What Israel is doing is truly evil.
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A fluffy bumblebee on purple knapweed flower. The image has a dreamlike quality
A very fluffy buff tailed bumblebee on knapweed. The Roseland, Cornwall
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
Thanks, Rob!
A green eyed bee on a pink/purple knapweed
A green eyed bee on a pink/purple knapweed
A green eyed bee on a pink/purple knapweed
A green eyed bee on a pink/purple knapweed
A green eyed flower bee female - Anthophora bimaculata - found on the Roseland, Cornwall, this week.
Look at those green eyes!!
These bees also have a much higher pitched buzz than other species.
A bee with blue fur
A bee with blue fur
A blue bee! This is the blue carpenter bee, Xylocopa tumida.
I was SO excited to find this animal just before dawn at Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.
So full of beauty.
Thanks, Hickey!
A meadow scene with pink knapweed flowers and a brown meadowbrown butterfly in the centre
A meadow brown butterfly amongst the knapweeds on Roseland, Cornwall yesterday.
The beautiful moth diversity from Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.
Look at those Malaysian moon moths!
A screenshot of a message saying 'my manager asked me to hoover up the spiders in work today and I told her I did but I didn't
As an insect conservationist, these are my absolute favourite messages to receive!
