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#Entomology
Fedimind: what has happened to this moth? Its abdomen is flexed sharply up so that it protrudes from beneath the wings and over the thorax; it has been motionless like this for many hours. We do not use any poisons in our house. I'm guessing it's a Silver Y moth?

Taeniaptera trivittata (Micropezidae) waving its white-tipped foreleg around like an ichneumonid wasp's banded antennae. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. #insects #mimicry #flies #diptera #nature #entomology

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Brass cast little sculpture of a wood cube showing tunnels carved by a woodworm. Of course the tree was already firewood when I found it, I only cut it into a rough cube. And the woodworm was long gone: Wherever you are, I hope you're OK, it was nice making this collab with you.
#MetalCasting #art #ContemporaryArt #sculpture #insect #beetle #abstract #organic #geometric #WoodWorm #carcoma #SciArt #wood #biology #entomology #casting #xylophague #collaboration

Last fall I stuffed several hundred eastern redbud seeds into pharmaceutical gel caps, then waited for parasitic wasps to emerge so that I could take photographs. #blog #wasps #insects #parasites #nature #redbud #beetles #hymenoptera #macro #macrophotography #entomology https://colinpurrington.com/2026/06/wasps-emerging-from-eastern-redbud-seeds/

Two-page PDF about smoke flies in Australia. #co2 #smoke #fire #diptera #microsania #flies #insects #entomology https://www.dbca.wa.gov.au/media/592/download