🦗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.
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@wileyecology.bsky.social
#systematics #evolution #InvertFest #BugSky

The European firebugs are out in force! I've heard they cluster like this to ward off birds! #bugs #invertfest #bugsky #photo

Minute Monster! Tiny propellers move forward the rotifer Synchaeta in the water. Nearly half of the S. species are truly marine, whereas most rotifers live in freshwater. Northern Adriatic #plankton, #Invertfest