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Thunberga nossibeensis and Thunberga sp. from #Madagascar. This new genus is named after Greta Thunberg for her courageous fight for a better planet. Madagascar is still a biodiversity hotspot, but on a rapid decline due to human activity and global warming.

I've posted a similar spider some time ago. Let's see if anyone can figure this one out!

Here's the spider that I posted yesterday -- an orb weaver with pseudo-eyes on the posterior of its abdomen. Its ocular quad is also slightly elevated. Most of you got it right.... I need to find weirder stuff to post.

Aphids might be alien robots, video evidence 👇

This might *look* like a stonefly, but it’s a dragon. 100%, a flying dragon

Look what just hatched out of this box from Harvard University Press. My monograph “Army Ants” is finally here. 384 pages packed with 133 color photos and over 300 years worth of knowledge about the wickedest insects ever to roam the planet. #armyants #ants #insects #entomology

A strange looking planthopper (Flataloides sp.). Looked more like a moth than a hopper to me, at first glance.

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I'm translating (or rather creating) #spiritants for Central/Northern Europe! - German speakers, stay tuned! Soon you'll be able to find out which local #ant species is just like you!! 😁✨🐜 #yourspiritant yourspiritant.com

Haven't been out to the field for 3 months due to the wet weather, but it seems to be drying up! Here are some shots of a Calyptomyrmex, which some of you may call the strawberry ant, or sesame seed ant.

#taxonomy of #Polyrhachis from Hong Kong & Macau by Daniel Tsz Long Wong & Benoit Guénard Asian Myrmecology #ants #distribution #ecology + 4 #newspecies, 1 dedicated to Christian Peeters & 1 to Dr. John Fellowes asian-myrmecology.org/doi/10.20362/a…

Aeonix Hayn @Bertonemyia Arilab Doug Booher Cong Liu Brian Fisher Andrew Suarez milan janda Sasha (Alexander) Mikheyev bug Also for general size reference, this picture by Dr Magdalena Sorger shows a species of Strumigenys (S. elongata, one of the ones filmed in our study) sitting on my pinky finger!

My day is better now: I just learned that there is an ant named Crematogaster bingo. Thank you, Forel (1908)! Image from AntWeb.

Ah, the beautiful butts of the sea. A few weeks ago, some twitter folks saw the news about a new marine worm that had 100 or more butts. We decided to collaborate on this comic. My co-conspirators here are Dr Maureen Berg and @americanbeetles. #invertebuttweek

For #InverteButtWeek, here's an older comic about an incredible butt mimic, named in honor of ant scientist Daniel Kronauer.

Just found out it's #InverteButtWeek hehe, I'm a fan already 😁 Here's a ♥️-shaped #Meranoplus #ant butt 🐜

Diving beetles can breathe underwater because of an air bubble on their butt! #invertebuttweek , with Dr Maureen Berg

#InverteButtWeek Booty Face is ANGY (spintharus flavidus)

Hey #myrmecologists! 🐜 Anyone know of any studies on #ant colony replenishment times after disturbance/worker removal? @Pogonokwap @mareklborowiec Josh Gibson, Ph.D. B. E. Boudinot @lovetheants Dr. Corrie Moreau EMPERADOR HORMIGA GAMER

Es gibt sie viel länger als uns, und sie haben viel besser begriffen als wir, dass man nur gemeinsam Erfolg hat. Dr Magdalena Sorger lädt ein zu einer faszinierenden Expedition in die Welt der Ameisen. Eine Rezension spektrum.de/rezension/buch…