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@suzannevtw.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 8:51 PM

Forest friend on #FlyDay #Fall #VT #ForestFriday #BugSky #Invertebrates #ECK #Photography

An insect with long orange and black wings clings to an orange and black rock.

@mstreefrog.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 8:37 PM

#FlyDay
I do believe this is a female so she would not be flying, the males are the ones I see on the wing.
European mantis (Mantis religiosa)
#Inverts #BugSky
📷🌿

Head and torso (thorax?) shot of a green European praying mantis with edgings of orange and yellow. She is clinging to the side of my house. I've also seen males on the wing who are probably looking for her. It isn't hard to get a head when you are this gorgeous. 🤭💀

@wendy-jayne.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 7:31 PM

We are having one last burst of warmth in New England before fall settles in for good. The bees are making the best of it! My asters are absolutely covered in these pure green sweat bees, Augochlora pura #bugsky #nativebees #savethebees #plantnative

@rickmartin.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:07 PM

The one that got away 🌱🦋

#FlyDay #Bloomscrolling #BugSky #FlowersOnFriday #EastCoastKin

A Painted Lady butterfly on a pink dahlia, she has a large notch missing from her left wing presumably from a close encounters with a bird or other aerial predator

@grays.art Oct 2, 2026, 5:36 PM

Hawaiian beet webworm moth
(Spoladea recurvalis)

on dried beggar tick wildflower
(Bidens alba)

Resting trailside by the lake.

CREW pen flint strand lake trails
Bonita Springs, Florida 10-2-26

#MothFaceFriday #teammoth #flyDay #eck #macro #nature #art #insects #macroPhotography #moths #bugsky

Macro of a Hawaiian beet webworm moth in a head-on portrait. Facing directly forward, she has large, prominent patterned compound eyes and a dark brown face with fine, pale scales lining her vertex. Her long, slender antennae extend upward and back out of the frame. Her folded wings show rich dark brown margins and a hint of a bold, bright white structural band cutting through the dark coloration. The subject focused against the rich texture of a dried brown Bidens alba seed head and soft background bokeh.

@journalsysevo.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 3:54 PM

🦗Getting a *jump* (literally) on #FossilFriday with a new paper featuring a #morphology-based #phylogeny of Gryllidae developed using analysis of a conspecific pair of mid-Cretaceous amber #crickets.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jse....
🏡
@wileyecology.bsky.social
#systematics #evolution #InvertFest #BugSky

@juliejam.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 3:03 PM

A Butterbutt Fly for #flyday, Belvosia borealis, a Tachinid that parasitizes Ceratomia hawk moths. #insects #diptera #gardening 🌱 #bugsky

A large bristly black fly with two prominent yellow bands on the end of its abdomen sits on a passiflora leaf.

Another view of the Butterbutt fly from the butt end. The yellow bands on the abdomen have a greenish iridescence and a row of black spiky bristles between them, also the fly has yellow feet which I think are kinda cute for some reason. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

@levondymond.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 2:44 PM

Not great on IDing bees and wasps, so after seeing lots of people posting pictures and videos of Ivy Bees I thought I'd have a look today. Was chuffed to find a few on the first big clump of ivy I checked! 😃

#ivybee #bees #pollinators #Flyday #bugsky #insects #nature

@bugeric.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 2:29 PM

Happy #arachtober everyone. Here is a running crab spider (Philodromidae), from yesterday at the visitor center in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA. #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids

Sprawling, cement-colored spider, facing up, on one of those binocular viewer things. Spider is mottled with darker markings.

@gabbylawless.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 1:34 PM

I love to host those Writing spiders in my yard. 🌱
#Arachtober #Bugsky #ECK #Spiders

Large striped yellow and black spider next to her prey wrapped up in webbing.

@keithlangdon.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:41 PM

Some "non-new" #Norwich garden moth highlights from September. #norfolkmoths #moths #mothsmatter #teammoth #bugsky

@keithlangdon.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 11:39 AM

A couple of nights (18th & 19th September) trapping on the North #Norfolk coast at Kelling provided some fabulous autumn species. Details in ALT #moths #mothsmatter #teammoth #bugsky #norfolkmoths

@keithlangdon.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 10:49 AM

New species for my #Norwich garden over the last few weeks. Garden list currently stands at 602 species recorded since April 2020. Details in ALT. #moths #mothsmatter #teammoth #bugsky #insects

@pkster101.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 10:10 AM

'Buzzing' or 'Ghost' spider - 'Anyphaena numida'

13th Sussex & 60th nationally confirmed on iRecord

#wildlife #Britishspiders #NaturePhotography #nature #naturephotographer #brighton #arachnids #spider #spiders #invertefest #ukwildlife #bugsky #sussex #naturalscience #wildlifephotography #arachnid

@rickmartin.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 9:48 AM

The 2nd of #Arachtober is also #FlyDay.

Sorry about that 🌱

#BugSky #EastCoastKin #Arachnids #Spiders

A cross orb weaver (European Garden Spider) which has snared a hoverfly of some kind in its web

@izzythedog.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 9:47 AM

Banded Demoiselle resting on a grass seed head.

#Macro
#ECK
#Photography
#NaturePhotography
#Insects
#FlyDay
#Bugsky

A male Banded Demoiselle, a large species of damselfly, is pictured perched on a cocks-foot grass seed head in bright, backlit, sunlight. The male of the species is vivid blue with black bands across its wings. The background is light green, out of focus, foliage.

@maireadd100.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 9:35 AM

#Photography
#ECK
#Flyday
#Macro
#Bugsky
#Lavender
#Bee

A close-up image of an Eastern Carpenter Bee drinking nectar while clinging to the small flowers of a Lavender sprig.

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 8:04 AM

Seven-spot Ladybird, sometimes shortened to C-7, which is certainly easier to remember than its scientific moniker - Coccinella septempunctata. My fat fingers for scale.
#FlyDay #Insects #BugSky
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#Nature #Wildlife

A Seven Spot Ladybird on the spindly thin green leaves of a large Garden Cosmos plant. To the left, my fingers provide scale. The insect's glossy red back and black spots shine in the sun.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.