Cam Fox @dentalflossbay@qoto.org

For #FossilFriday check out this gorgeous #fossil #insect! This 49 million year old beauty is Pulchritudo attenboroughi, a #beetle found in the rocks of the Green River Formation, Colorado. what's particularly striking about this fossil is the pattern on its wing cases.

#palaeontology #paleoentology #entomology #arthropods #science

Apparently the great war that journalists of masto are getting ready to fight is quote tweets.

Honestly, I see both sides. Journos generally use them one way, and usually aren't in the right part of twitter to see how they get used for life-ruining/doxxing/swatting/pro-suicide pile-ons at gay teens, pro-ana, and shit like that.

I don't have an answer here, per se, though I think some friction is probably better for the overall ecosystem.

use the post's url, see if that works.

All right, which one of you asked the monkeys paw for a White Christmas?

Mudskipper sausage rolls, anyone?

They are awesome.

#food #animal #tasty #funny

Four brightly coloured festive moths. 1 Clelea yuennana Procridinae Zygaenidae (a day-flying species) 2 Eucyclodes gavissima Geometrinae Geometridae 3 Nacna malachitis Acronictinae Noctuidae 4 Sinna calospila Nolidae I found these around Chiang Mai in the rainy season, 3 attracted to lights. #moths #lepidoptera #insects #nature #naturePhotography

I find it hard to post things on Mastodon. This being a new account, it feels like posts should be more worthy. And nothing really makes the cut.

Mastodon please help me with something. I'm a #trans guy with practically no trans guy friends. I know nothing about trans guys. I only know about James.

I could really do with some transmasc and trans men friends so.... hi?

Boosts encouraged 💜

Lycaena phlaeas Small Copper #butterfly #butterfliesofmastodon #butterflypics #insects #naturephotography #Perthshire #Scotland

#Texas AG’s office sought state data on #transgender Texans

“Employees at the TX Dept of Public Safety in June received a sweeping request from #Republican AG Ken Paxton’s office: to compile a list of individuals who had changed their gender on their TX driver’s license & other dept recs during the past 2 yrs.

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske
#TXAG #discrimination #equality #lgbtqia #persecution #KenPaxton #GregAbbott
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/14/texas-transgender-data-paxton/

One of my favourites, the really aptly named Burnished Brass - Diachrysia chrysitis. Images not enhanced. It really does look as metallic as this.

I follow back, & am always really grateful for a boost.

#Moths #Mothing #Moth#BackGardenWildlife #Insect #Insects #lepidoptera #ukmoths #sussexwildlife #sussex #brighton #BrightonMoths #MothingMonday

A beautiful male chickweed geometer moth (Haematopis grataria). #moth #moths #Lepidoptera #Illinois #nature #photography #wildlifephotography

My first posting on mastodon but as I have no followers nobody is likely to see it.
I am a pencil artist based in the West Midlands and this is one I did recently just for a bit of fun and called it Emmy Emu..

Painted Lady #butterfly #butterflies #nature #naturephotography #insects #macro #Perthshire #Scotland

#HVO's geology field team reports they are finding Pele's hairs (small filaments of quenched lava) draped across older lava flows near Saddle Road, just past Pu‘u Huluhulu cinder cone. Hairs deposited many km (mi) from active vents by the windblown eruption plume. #MaunaLoaErupts

I don’t know why, but to me the common buckeye is often prettier in photos than in life.

3 planthoppers of the Pyrops genus (Fulgoridae) from Chiang Mai. Commonly known as "lanternflies," clearly a misnomer as they emit as much light as my big toe. And they're not flies, either. But they are handsome and always a delight to find, mostly on tree trunks. Candelaria, the commonest here, spinolae and viridirostris. #insects #bugs #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #entomology #MacroPhotography #Thailand

@Vergo @acegikmo Do you know what Dan Kalman calls the most marvelous theorem of mathematics?
Let the cubic polynomial P have as its three zeros the vertices of a triangle in the complex plane. Then the critical values of P are the foci of the unique ellipse inscribed in the triangle that is tangent at the midpoints of the sides of the triangle. http://www.dankalman.net/AUhome/pdffiles/mardenMH.pdf

The swollen stem of a Cordia nodosa plant houses a symbiotic colony of Azteca ants, including a massive queen. The ants protect the plant from herbivores in exchange for lodging. Jatun Sacha reserve, Napo, Ecuador.

#ants #rainforest #azteca #insects