Max, overwintering bug

I went on a nice bike trip on Sunday and saw plenty of insects! Here are two highlights, Chaetopteroplia segetum and Coenonympha glycerion. Cute!
#insects #nature #beetle #butterfly

Another entry for #insektenSamstag : Molorchus minor. One of the most stylish longhorn beetles
#insects #nature #cityWildlife

A cute lady #beetle for #insektenSamstag !
It's a genus I had not seen/known before, Henosepilachna. Species in this genus are phytophagous, unlike the most commonly seen lady beetles. I think they're also a bit cuter.
#cityWildlife #insects #nature

The Insect Insights are back!

A first episode of a second season, going back to ants after a long break 😁

I hope you enjoy, and I'll see you soon for more in a few days!

http://strepsipzerg.com/podcast/ep_pages/lycaenidae1.html

#insectInsights #scicomm #podcast

Spring is here for sure, critters are more active, and so am I!
Euplagia quadripunctaria, Hyla arborea, Myopa sp, and Staphylinus caesareus
#insects #frog #nature

Going flower picking for some kitchen projects today, and natürlich I saw a few bugs while doing so
#cityWildlife #insects #beetles

cool paper looking at moth diversity in New York!
The results are far from surprising (more trees and less light makes more moths), but I like how they used @inaturalist@tweet.pasture.moe while being critical of the dataset.
#insects #science #biodiversity #urbanism #urbanization #cityWildlife
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0342856

RE: @StrepsipZerg@scicomm.xyz

I think this second season of the insect insights will be 6 or maybe 8 episodes, but not much more than this!
And then, maybe the project will be over for good, I'm not sure.
But in any case it has been great making this, and I can't be thankful enough for all the support I got through the fediverse.
Special thanks to @radiofreefedi@musician.social for broadcasting me, and to all the people who reached out or recommended me to their friends!
I'm really impressed my little project reached so many people. I didn't really keep a proper count, but I would estimate my insect stories were listened to between 20 and 30 thousand times in total! Which is insane, and mostly thanks to you :)

NHM Vienna is co-organizing an #inaturalist project in two weeks, to record as many amphibians and reptiles as possible!
I think I will try to get at least one little field for it.
#herpetorace26 #nature
https://www.herpetozoa.at/aktivitaeten/herpetorace

Environmental DNA studies have always fascinated me with how smartly they use pre-existing "sampling efforts" in nature.
This is another great example of that!

#eDNA #DNA #ecology #environmentalDNA #bees #science

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347485

bon c'est pas tout ça mais je suis censé lire un article aujourd'hui