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@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-08-08 13:00:16

"Climate-fuelled El Niño events are devastating butterflies, beetles and other tropical insect"
#Insects #Butterflies #Climate

Climate-fuelled El Niño events are devastating butterflies, beetles and other tropical insects
The research suggests the life-support system underpinning the tropics is at serious risk in a warmer world.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-08-08 17:00:15

"Gardeners urged to collaborate to help moths and hover flies thrive in cities"
#Insects #Moths #Gardens

Gardeners urged to collaborate to help moths and hover flies thrive in cities
Researchers found moths and hover flies are more negatively affected by urbanisation than bees

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-30 14:56:54

Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death
#insects

Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death - Energy Vanguard
The Mosquito Bucket of Death is a safe and environmentally sound way to rid your yard of mosquitoes. Here's how you make them.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-09 13:00:12

"Butterflywatch: British populations thrive thanks to record sunny spring"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

Butterflywatch: British populations thrive thanks to record sunny spring
Dry weather helps insects get out early and survive longer but bigger picture still one of concern

@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-06-26 10:53:49

Spotted this tiny praying mantis peeping in our window. I think just under 2 centimeters long. I tried to get my index finger in for scale.
#prayingmantis #Insects #WildLife

A small, green praying mantis is doing a wobbly walk on the edge of a window screen. My fingertip looks huge in comparison and causes the insect to hasten away, climbing further up the screen.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-15 16:20:12

And ... some more #insects from the eastern #Sauerland, this time from the Blütengarten - #Bruchhausen Sunday. A paradise for insect photographers, even if you have only a simple smartphone at hand.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-19 19:00:37

"Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them"
#Insects #Gardning

Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them
From turning out the lights to letting leaves rot, these small steps can create big changes at home or in the wild

@yrlaNor@social.tchncs.de
2025-05-19 17:30:40

wunderschöne schnake <3 #insekten #insects

eine leuchtend rot-schwarze schnake in grünem gras
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-07 02:35:33

Bug crawls on the disc of a daisy family flower
#photo #photography #flowers #insects

Oblique angle image of a flower with yellow ray flowers and a circle of anthers in the middle of a disk with a long bug crawling on it and a blurry background
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-12 22:46:46

More #insects from that crowded common #hogweed (I think) in the German #Sauerland. IDing all the bugs will take time (and a larger screen, am on travel with just a cellphone).

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-23 04:19:59

🐛 What a bumble bee chooses to eat may not match its ideal diet
#insects

What a bumble bee chooses to eat may not match its ideal diet
Humans may not be the only species that struggles to eat the right amounts of the ideal foods. A new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that what bumble bees choose to eat may not line up with their ideal nutritional needs.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-12 20:28:16

More #insects, this time with just a smartphone while hiking in the eastern #Hochsauerlandkreis in the #Sauerland near the small Silbersee - enormous traffic on just one plant.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-24 12:00:50

"Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future"
#Bees #Insects

Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future
WILLIAMSPORT, Ohio (AP) — As global temperatures rise under climate change, the bees responsible for pollinating many crops are under increasing stress and scientists are trying to understand how they are affected. It’s an important question because the bees are critical to the fruit, vegetables, nuts and other foods that humans need. Scientists have found […]

@playinprogress@assemblag.es
2025-05-28 08:08:11

my flowers bring all the bugs to the yard
#photography #bloomScrolling #insects #bugs

closeup of an orange oriental poppy flower in bright sunshine with a bright green grasshopper sitting on one of its petals
closeup of two red oriental poppy flowers with black inner markings, one unfolding a bit on top of the other, each of them being visited by bees
a view down unto a garden bed filled with red oriental poppies and orange flowering hawk weed
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-12 00:26:09

Want more #insectsofmastodon? Some more pictures of #insects on our balcony in #Bochum, Germany, seen yesterday during further experiments with macro gear.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-11 23:40:41

Early experiments in catching #hoverflies in flight ... dunno why the wings are completely blurred in one picture but very sharp in the other, both were at 1/500 second with the flash fired. Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ300 with macro lens. #insectsofmastodon #insects

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-12 17:00:38

"Violinist composes music from moth flight data to highlight insect decline"
#Music #Insects #Animals

Violinist composes music from moth flight data to highlight insect decline
Music and science collide in Moth x Human, a new composition by violinist Ellie Wilson that transforms moth flight data into a haunting tribute to these overlooked pollinators

@playinprogress@assemblag.es
2025-06-26 06:08:23

grasshopper chilling in the sun
#photography #insects #grasshopper #bloomScrolling

closeup of a bright green grasshopper sitting on a Iris bud right besides an open blue and yellow iris flower
a horizontal format view of a green garden bed with a bright red poppy flower in the upper left corner of the image and a blue iris flower in the lower right corner. a bright green grasshopper is sitting on the iris
closeup of a bright green grasshopper sitting on a Iris bud right besides an open blue iris flower, this time zoomed out a bit more, with some dark shadowy background surrounding the Iris
@playinprogress@assemblag.es
2025-06-23 07:08:34

more green grasshopper
#photography #bloomScrolling #insects #grasshopper

closeup of a bright green grasshopper sitting on a Iris bud right besides an open blue and yellow iris flower, with a background of green foliage and dark shadows
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-05-27 10:00:15

"Scientists embark on crucial study to save Britain's bees"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Bees #Insects

Scientists embark on crucial study to save Britain's bees

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-25 19:00:50

"‘Magical’: butterfly sightings across the UK this summer"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

‘Magical’: butterfly sightings across the UK this summer
Britain is expecting a butterfly bounceback after last summer’s dramatic decline. Here are some of your sightings so far this year

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-20 14:00:52

"Why the UK’s butterflies are booming in 2025"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

Why the UK’s butterflies are booming in 2025
Following on from ‘the year without a butterfly’, 2025 has seen sightings soar in the UK and across Europe.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-21 18:00:51

"Britons urged to count butterfly numbers amid hopes of ‘outstanding’ summers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

Britons urged to count butterfly numbers amid hopes of ‘outstanding’ summer
Big Butterfly Count asks volunteers to spend 15 minutes in local green space with big recovery expected after 2024’s dramatic decline